Faith Kindred

What? Is that German?

Yeah really, it sounds so much like its meaning, doesn’t it? And it just rolls off your tongue so nicely. I love words like that.

One word I love just for the sound but rarely use is discombobulated. I would feel such satisfaction if I actually ever wrote it.

Which Hammond? 😉
No, I know what you mean. His accent is actually so strong it can be annoying. Especially when you’re used to everyone else calling Horatio ‘Mr. Honblowuh’, pretty much, Hammond’s concise ‘Hornbloor‘ can grate on my nerves. 😛
It’s funny, but I don’t really have to consciously think about writing dialogue beforehand, or rehearse…[Read more]

Yes! Definitely agree with you there.

@Hope— one of my very favorite words is gloaming too! In fact I can really tend to overuse that one…
Actually I have so many favorites I can never list them all, but I like words like limpid and lucid and citadel (oh yeah citadel is probably a top five on the list) and causeway and bastion and foundation and twisted and winced and mist and…[Read more]

There’s a lot of words I like, but I can never really think of them unless I’m writing a sentence where they would fit. Even then though, I often don’t think of them.

There’s this book though I’d suggest. It’s called The Words You Should Know by David Olsen. It has 1200 words in it that you could actually use. I’ve never really used this book,…[Read more]

Hmm, ‘melded’ is a word I really like. I also like the word ‘gloaming’ (I’ve made the time work so I can use that word) and ‘turf’.

Very true Kate. We often overlook the everyday little things that are SO important for us to be faithful in. Like honoring our parents, volunteering for a menial task, or giving a stranger a smile… 🙂 That’s a great concept that I’d love to see in books!
I’d also love to see being utterly satisfied in the Lord as a main theme. Or gratefulness.…[Read more]

Not only Orrock. Hammond does it too. It’s funny, since I’d never really heard much of an Irish accent before Hornblower. I’m not sure how one would write down an Irish accent, other than to mention how they accent the letter R.
This was actually pretty interesting on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English
In a series I read…[Read more]

Yes… I do say the conversation out loud. Well, actually, define loud. Most of the time I mutter it under my breath while I’m in the shower.

What do I think of the different spellings for people’s accents in dialogue?

Hm. Whal now, I ain’t ‘zactly givin that noo proper thought. I ‘spect it’d have a laht ta do with yer nationalitee, if ye take…[Read more]

Sorry, I don’t think I can be the one who doesn’t like writing dialog. It’s one of my favorite parts and one of my only strong points in my first book. 😛 But I can ask some questions.
Ever say the conversation out loud?
What do you think of different spellings for people’s accents in dialog?

Yay! A fresh perspective! Mine was about strangled…

Good thoughts, Rolena. I like the point you made about a believing audience needing more than the truth of the gospel by itself. That’s funny, because I never really picked a target audience when I wrote a book. The question was always ‘How do I present this theme that I’ve chosen in as fresh…[Read more]

Third party joining here!

I loved, loved, LOVED reading through this topic discussion, very intriguing and some of your thoughts were fantastic! I agree that I particularly like a bitter-sweet ending, but as Daeus said, only preferably if the sweet outweighs the bitter. So that when I set a book down, firstly I sigh and then I smile, because the…[Read more]

Actually it may also have to do with the impossible deadlines I set for myself— right now, I am angling to finish an eleven book series before I turn twenty, which is four years from now. Who knows if I’ll make it, but for now I’ll try for all I’m worth.

Whoa, yikes… I don’t know if I have any tips. I don’t think I’m ever not in the mood to write. Give me five minutes between when the dryer timer goes off and the dishes need washing, and I’ll sit down and type, type, type as fast as I can until I have to go do something else. There’s never a time when I feel like I need to get in the mood to…[Read more]

I cannot make myself procrastinate to save my life.

Wait a minute. You’re the one who needs to be sharing the secrets. I love to write, but I always feel a hesitation to unless I have a solid stretch of time. I feel like I need a while to get in the writing mood before I get serious. I wish I could just sit down at my computer and start typing.