Grace H.

@gh24682468999 Thank you for this! And it’s okay, I like long posts 😉

@gh24682468999 Yes! Those books are awesome! 😀 Thanks for following!

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I made another post! 😀 I won’t tell you guys every time I make one, but this one may or may not be about dragons.

And it may or may not mention a melted chair. 😉

Just sayin’.

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Yay! *claps* *throws confetti*

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Something I find helpful when setting goals is to make sure the goal is realistic. If I set a goal that I know isn’t going to happen I find that I don’t put much effort into it. So if I set a smaller goal that is realistic I find that I get more done then if I set a bigger goal that I don’t think I can tackle.

Also it’s…[Read more]

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I set an amount of words that I need to write each day. Usually, that’s 1000 words, which can be anywhere from 15 mins of writing to an hour.

To keep from getting distracted, I close out of internet explorers and google, although sometimes that doesn’t work. Just so long as I reach 1000 words a day. (it doesn’t have to be that…[Read more]

@gh24682468999 I like to commit myself to write till I reach a certain goal. Either for  30min-1hr or till I write 500 words. Nothing too big, or I won’t be able to handle it. Try to write at your peak energy level too. I don’t always get the chance, but I like to write in the morning, and I always write in the afternoon. The evening is when my…[Read more]

@abby1  Welcome to the Bestest Place in Cyberspace!!! 😀 😀

New Zealand?! WOW, I don’t think we’ve ever had a New Zealander on KP before. Special welcome! (I’m from America, BTW, but there are also a few Australians, a couple Canadians, and at least one English person.)

What is your novel about? 🙂

Just what Grace said, MBTI is a…[Read more]

@gh24682468999  Yeah… Every short story of mine turns into a novel. It’s annoying. I’m thinking it will be around ten chapters, each about three pages long. I’m not sure though.

@inkling-for-christ  Aww, thanks! @dragon-snapper used the term “Kingdom of Pen” in her LOKD stories, so I just went from there.

So yeah, sorry this is taking so long, guys!

@princessfoo  Thank you! And squeal all you want! 😉 *LIGHTBULB*  Oh, I need to make a note of this for the KPA…

@gh24682468999  Thanks! Ermmmm…. I don’t know. At least a month. I’m slow *shrug*

@gh24682468999  🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 😉

@gh24682468999  I just have to say, it’s GREAT to see another INFJ!!!!  *high five*

@gh24682468999 Love this topic.

First of all, I’m a bit on the bolder side of this issue. While I don’t claim to write specifically for a Christian audience, I still think it’s totally possible to share the gospel in your story in an artistic way that, if it offends people, will only do so because of the message, not because of the forum it is…[Read more]

@gh24682468999 The way I see it, in fantasy you can do basically ANYTHING with the story. Create new worlds, new societies, new creatures and new people. Alter the things that already exist. Make story structures that wouldn’t work in the real world, but fit together perfectly in a fantasy one (like LOTR)

So, because of that, you have a lot of…[Read more]

@gh24682468999 Great question! I think there’s a ton of ways you can point to the truth of the Gospel without bringing it explicitly into your story. In my opinion, though, while creativity can help if you want to have a focus on just the Gospel, I think there’s also a valuable place for using fiction to show the truth of the Christian worldview…[Read more]

@gh24682468999 12 is pretty good, but the 9th is my favorite. I’m hoping that _____ is still alive, they never did find the body. But mostly, I want the author to just write more because WHY’D YOU HAVE TO LEAVE SO MANY LOOSE ENDS?!?! The 11th book finished everything up perfectly, and I’m glad he wrote more, but he hath opened pandora’s box, and I…[Read more]

@epicaddie2 Gasp! Only the first five. Those aren’t even the best ones!

@gh24682468999 Ranger’s Apprentice! Have you read all the books? What did you think of 12?

@gh24682468999 Woah…nice long tag. 😛

Well…I’m not quite sure how to help you here–dialogue has usually been natural for me. I learned mostly by observation in reading. Some books have some really good dialogue, and somehow, when I was ten, managed to soak that up.

So I guess what I’m saying here is that definitely observing what other…[Read more]

@gh24682468999 I don’t use it very often, usually only with specific characters, since it can be kind of annoying for the reader

@gh24682468999 what they said. 😉

@gh24682468999 I support what @perfectfifths said. It sounds though like your main problem is not that you aren’t showing reactions, but that you feel like you have too many and it’s cluttering your prose.

I assume you’re using action tags (i.e. Sam put on his glasses. “Don’t I look cool in these?”)

Action tags are extremely helpful to a story.…[Read more]