Braden Russell

@jess-penrose It could… Drawing from your first answer, what about adjusting the focusing question to something like, “When can you lose your right to freedom?” and tweaking the alternate answers slightly. Approaching it from that angle doesn’t make the right answer seem quite as obvious (since you have criminals who break the law and…[Read more]

@rochellaine Wow. That is amazing. The level of dedication it took to find all those screenshots is honestly impressive.

@jess-penrose Hmm… I like the idea, but my concern is that the message is too obvious. When I first read the focusing question, the answer of “everyone” is the first answer that sprung to my mind, and generally speaking you want to avoid focusing questions that have obvious answers. I think there’s the potential with some alternate answers,…[Read more]

@rochellaine Wow. So true. We’re actually going to do that again in the next video. xD

You all mind if I share some of these on my social media? @dekreel @epicaddie2 @daughter-of-the-king

Wow; this is amazing. I want to install a “like” button on the forum just so I can “like” all these images. xD But the “I can’t believe someone bought a KaPeeFer shirt,” the “you know when someone’s lying to you,” and the “spoiler” memes are so good in addition to that “when someone reads your old book” one (and pretty much all the others). That…[Read more]

Oh wow. This may just be my new favorite thing.

Hey @amily-huddleston! Welcome to the site. 🙂 We love the work that Brett & Jaquelle are doing over at Y-Dubs! How many words are you into your current WIP?

@jenwriter17 Shoot me an email (josiahdegraaf@kingdompen.org) and I can do that manually for you. 🙂

@dekreel I love the Canterbury Tales. I studied a number of the tales in college and have taught different stories from it in my English classes. I do need to second @sleepwalkingmk, though, and say that you need to be careful about which you read since some are pretty raunchy. I’d be happy to give you recommendations on which to read or which to…[Read more]

@valtmy Ah; nice. Now that you mention it, I did see the first two(?) seasons of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Not familiar with the others but may need to check them out when I have time!

Hey @valtmy! Welcome to the forum. 🙂 What animes do you watch? I haven’t watched much, but really like Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood & Death Note (the original, not the Netflix travesty).

@kaya-young Nice list! Austen is one of my all-time favorites.

Welcome to the forum @kaya-young! I was homeschooled myself from Kindergarten through high school. Afraid I’m not familiar with Jeff Bridges. :/ What other authors do you enjoy?

Hey @aviantrail–welcome to the site! Love that Wodehouse quote in your signature! Are those short stories fan-fictions for Homer’s Odyssey, or something different?

@jenwriter17 Ha. I actually have a KP Cinema video about cliches in dystopian novels coming out sometime this month. xD So a lot of my “advice” would be in there. I wouldn’t say oppressive governments are cliched because they’re required for that genre, but I would recommend studying classic dystopias like Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New…[Read more]

@pickupyourpenandwrite That makes sense; I’ve been there as well in the past. Do you have a clear idea on what parts of your story you need to improve on?

@sleepwalkingmk Huh. I’m not seeing anything in spam, so I’m not sure what happened on that front. :/

Either way, I like the tension between the character’s plot and thematic goals there. I’m a bit unsure, however, from what you’ve said if your plot goal is really the plot goal of your story. It seems like the protagonist stops trying to achieve…[Read more]

Welcome to the forum, @pickupyourpenandwrite! Glad you joined us. 🙂 Great work in passing the 50,000 word mark with your latest novel! Do you have a revision plan in place yet for the work?

@dekreel @jadamae Hmm… So I can see in the “Character Name Exchange” thread that the edited post was marked as spam. What happens if you try to edit the first post of the thread? Does the whole thread disappear?

@dekreel That sounds frustrating–sorry you’ve been running into that! Is there a recent forum thread you can point us to where you’ve had this issue? I’m wondering if for some reason the forum software thinks your comments are spam and is trying to remove them from public view.