Faith Kindred

BRILLIANT! Thank you Sarah, you saved our imaginary story from the doom of a nightmare ending… literally. Karen’s sister can be named… Kimberly. Or Kim.
This is a little corny, but what if Karen sneaks aboard the submarine and discovers that all the people are imprisoned here as a giant government project. (No, I am not a conspiracy…[Read more]

All good points.
And Ezra, what you said about emotion… sniff… sniff… well, let’s just say suggestion has a lot of power. And I’ll have you know the end of the RotK makes me bawl. I can’t just sit there and cry sedately like any normal, civilized person… I have to bawl. With both the movie and the book. But you’re right— it’s fulfilling.…[Read more]

All three of your books sound very intriguing! I’m particularly drawn to the princess one, cause Princess Academy had been one of my favorite books for quite awhile! If you do finish it, I want to know!
Well… Right now I am working on a renaissance novel that is about doing what is right when you are unjustly accused and unjustly treated. It…[Read more]

Why hello Shaina! So glad to have you on the forum!
Wow we have a lot in common! Only the big difference is that I don’t live in a desert in Colorado although I completely agree that it is georgeous there and the fact that we start mentioning the humitiy level around here when it hits about 80%. 🙂
Do you ever climb those mountains that you can see? 🙂

Wow… I knew you could do it. I knew it was somewhere in you. All that wisdom… how can you bear to hide it?
No, seriously, that was a great post.
Love this point: ‘The point is for the reader to feel fulfilled in reading the story, but also to take away what the author was trying to say.’
That is true for every theme and sub-theme and…[Read more]

He’s still thinking.

Maybe I can help. I’ve got a new take on this. What about female villains? What about them, hm? Why are the rules different for these gals than for male villains? Are the rules different? Does it matter? How will female villains act differently than male villains? Are they stronger? Weaker? Craftier? More stupid? More…[Read more]

This is the independent girl who lived on a farm… you know, the one you said turned into a witch and lived happily ever after? She’s looking for her sister, who went missing ten years back, and she finally had to resort to taking the same cruiser that her sister took just before her sister disappeared. She found a ledger in the captain’s cabin…[Read more]

You know, Sarah… I have no idea. I guess I probably should have ascertained the genre of this tangled novel before I started adding all sorts of weird, freaky things to it, but it was pretty late when I did my last post and I don’t think I was thinking straight. I’ve backed myself into a corner. If one of y’all can’t get me out, I’m stuck for…[Read more]

Uh… thanks. Yeah. Thanks. I appreciate that… I think.

We must have been posting at the same time. Nd yes, feel free to jump in, anyone! The more the merrier. I’m starting to get the impression that I’m going to end up making a mess of this. ;P
I think I see what you’re saying, though. She has to decided whether she’s willing to risk everything she ever wanted for her life for someone she loves. Is…[Read more]

I wish I could say it was original… *gulp* but I will be a very good little girl and dutifully admit that it is not of my own invention.

OW! N-n-no! Bad plot twist, bad plot twist! *starts hyperventilating, biting fingernails with chattering teeth*
NOOOO! HELP!

I suppose I asked for that. So much for theme. So much for good triumphing over evil. So much for everything the hero went through to defeat the villain. SO MUCH FOR ALL THAT!
Okay, I’m done being upset now. The idea is…[Read more]

That’s what I figured you meant. 😉
And… I have absolutely no idea where this going. I’m clueless. Absolutely clueless. I think I went into way too much detail on my last post, and therefore added some very vexing and unneeded little things that need resolving. So… ummm… the cruiser wrecks in the middle of the night just as Karen was about…[Read more]

I don’t think I’d like being normal. By either definition. I like being strange. I like making people laugh insanely and stare at me with that odd look in their eyes that tells me they’re trying to figure out whether I was serious or joking, and all without letting me know that they didn’t get my joke and don’t understand me.

If you can’t be…[Read more]

That would be good suspense and a good way to keep the pages flipping! But I would only do it if I were certain I was going to be writing a sequel, otherwise it’s just like ‘what? I mean, come on! I wanted that to be resolved!’
I like happy endings as well as sad endings, provided both are well done. I myself believe a bit of tragedy and trauma…[Read more]

A witch? I promised myself I’d never write about a witch. Don’t be ridiculous.
Oooh… shivers, Hannah!
At this point our reader is very locked up in the plot and the suspense, but not necessarily connected to Karen emotionally. Besides, in leaving the farm, Karen surmounted and did away with what she was afraid of. So we need emotional struggles…[Read more]

Hmmm… Maybe I can be of some assistance Tatiana, in the understanding of certain dialogue from a certain Mr. Ezra Wilkinson. Take another look at his profile picture. You see those antlers? They hail from a certain Canadian tale in which there lived moose men, apparently of which some still survive today. (Perhaps Mr. Ezra is of their d…[Read more]

Thanks. I appreciate it. Just for future reference, though.

To the rescue! *Glares* Order in the Court!
Ahem. Now.
Our independent farm girl is afraid of leaving the farm because her older sister did the same thing a long time ago, and our independent farm girl (Karen) doesn’t know what happened to her. She’s afraid it was something awful, because it is only ever discussed in whispers. So she clings to the…[Read more]