Braden Russell

@christi-eaton The badges may or may not have been something I planned with @theliterarycrusader as a way of surprising the rest of the team with the launch. 😉

@bethanysinkyroses Haha, yes. So much beautiful wit in Austen. ^_^ Death of Ivan Ilyich is pretty good. It’s about, well, the death of Ivan Ilyich, but does a really good job of looking at death from a Christian perspective (as well as a Russian Realist perspective, which complicates things at times).

@corissa-maiden-of-praise Correct. And if someone tags me in one of their posts on this thread, I get 2 emails–one for the tag and one for the post. xD My email’s been crazy tonight!

@mariposa Yes–we couldn’t get that in time for the launch, but being able to directly upload images is in the pipeline and should be up within the next month (hopefully the next couple weeks).

@josiahdeboer The limit of 10 tags is still in existence. But we do make exceptions for announcements like this that are relevant to all members of the site. Most of them originate with the moderator team, but we do consider requests for specific posts on a case-by-case basis.

@northerner Good idea. I don’t know if we can do that outside of the…[Read more]

@ethryndal Quite. Daeus alone is responsible for 12% of the posts here.

@jess-penrose Welcome back. 😀 Haven’t read Knight yet (she’s on my reading list), but that sounds like Method #2 to me!

@ethryndal

Accurate.

Daeus has close to 4000 posts in this forum. O.o

@bethanysinkyroses That’s great. 100% with you about books that make you think instead of doing the thinking for you.

Haha–we do need to remedy that. 😉 Have you ever read Death of Ivan Ilyich or Pride and Prejudice?

@jess-penrose So first off, let me just say that the mess you’re facing is the mess I face nearly every time I write a novel. Plotting out the theme in your head is great to start with, but whenever story ideas meet the actual page, chaos is going to happen. xD

I wouldn’t recommend re-starting it. Instead, what you want to do is take your current…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper We actually have three Chosen Ones on this forum, once the other two bother to show up to the party. 😉

@bethanysinkyroses That’s awesome–are there any specific books that come in mind that changed you that you’re open to sharing?

@bethanysinkyroses Fantastic. As much as I do love hitting people with peppermint sticks, an alternate approach seems wiser. 😉

@kate-flournoy If getting a good mentor is possible, I’d definitely seize on the opportunity. Like @his-instrument, I downplayed the importance for a while. Then I found one. And while I currently only have one on the publishing/marketing/business end of things, it’s insanely helpful and is going to help me avoid a lot of pitfalls. If I could find…[Read more]

@emily-d “The Emotion Thesaurus” by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi (sp?). Really excellent book that gives you all the shortcuts you need to portray emotions effectively through body language and dialogue.

Hey @eleganceismyarrow!

Just so you know, if you can tag me when posting (@aratrea), that will make sure I catch the post. 95% of the time I’ll get notifications w/o it in this forum, but that just makes sure I get the 5% as well. 🙂

Anyways, onto your homework: this is a pretty good starting point for your theme. The Focusing Question is a good…[Read more]

@daeus Yes–I forget if I’m using that plugin or a similar one, but I’ll be using something like that on Saturday while I’m working on the changes. 🙂

Update: Web changes have now been finalized for this Saturday, barring any unforeseen difficulties. We’ll be sending out an email later this week, but we’ll be taking the site down Saturday morning and hopefully have the site back up that evening with the new implemented web design.