Aww, your story sounds absolutely incredible!!! I love the metaphors you’re using, it makes it so interesting and unique:) And especially how the Bible is portrayed–that’s just so amazing and it makes me want to delve deeper into your story!! Thank you for your reply and for sharing that–it was very helpful and very much…[Read more]

I…don’t know yet if I’m doing NaNo. My school’s finals week is in November (technically anyway), so I’m a bit…crunched for time at the moment. BUT I know I’ll definitely keep writing during November, even if I don’t hit the 50k. 😛 Best of luck with your novel-ing…[Read more]

No, but sorta yes? Since I’ve never done NaNoWriMo before, I decided that this year I’d do a Half-NaNoWriMo, (sorta like a half marathon), and write 25k in November. And next year I’ll aim to write 50k for NaNoWriMo.

At the moment, I’m not a super fast writer, so I don’t think I can commit the amount of time necessary to write 50k…[Read more]

Though I might want to take my time with that. Also I don’t have a Nano…[Read more]

(The edit button only seems to appear a few minutes after posting, so I can’t find it…)

It’s one of those big crew-of-characters adventure stories! I’ve been working on it for a few months now.

All right, that makes sense. I guess it’s because I don’t technically fit under the official definition of being raised in a different country? It’s…[Read more]

Yeah, the forbidden love type is a cliche for a reason! It feels a lot more romantic than other relationships.

And you’re right about it being relatable to a lot of people. Rarely can you stay with everyone you dearly love. Seeing it happen in stories makes you connect to the characters more.

@seekjustice Some of my other hobbies are photography, knitting, dressing up (is that a hobby?) binge watching tv series and sleeping. (sleeping is def a favourite hobby lol)!

@leon-fleming Thank you. I hope so too.

@kathleenramm yes!!! Effie is a great character. 🙂 Who is your favourite character from the…[Read more]

@selah-chelyah Haha sure XD. But I will be critical.

@gh24682468999 Ooh, that sounds cool. So is the beast still going to be turned into a beast? Or something else?

Okay, that’s cool!

I am completely fluent in Chinese, but not the most comfortable with it, so I would say second. Maybe if I lived in a…[Read more]

Oo, that still sounds really cool! XD

@gh24682468999

Hiya! I feel like I recognize your profile pic from somwhere…SE?

I think the age-limit is 30? Not sure, but I do know there are some young twenties on here.

Good luck on your test!

My Chinese WIPs are very loosely related to my Magic User world. Essentially the ones I have a clearer idea around focus on some of my Chinese Magic Users and their life in Beijing or other parts of China. Essentially I want to write a bit of urban fantasy for them. I also had this idea of writing a series about…[Read more]

I just put up another blog post today! Don’t worry, I won’t tag you every time I post, I just wanted to let y’all know. For some reason the email sent out that was supposed to notify of new posts only sent out one and not…[Read more]

Thanks guys 🙂 All the best for you too!

@gh24682468999 sorry, yeah there were some problems on my end. glad it’s working now, and thank you! 😀

can you just try typing http://www.jennaterese.com into your search engine? not sure why it’s saying that…

I think I’m most like Josiah’s face in the middle.

@sarah-anson *high fives* *dodges thrown cake* Thank you! How did you manage to get hot chocolate from Smaug without dying? That’s impressive.

@gh24682468999 Thank you. I was a bit concerned actually because if I had to describe my book in once sentence it would go something like “girl gets…[Read more]

@gh24682468999 Hi!  I have not seen you for a while.  Glad you popped in, even if I missed it.

@jenwriter17 BTW, the reason I have not finished reading your book is bec…[Read more]

😀 I think I’ve mostly got the hang of it now!

And left a six off….

That tag tho…

You live in….*thinks for a moment* Singapore, am I right?

I’m actually in Australia, so I think our timezones are pretty similar. But yeah, posting when everyone is asleep is really annoying!

Awesome 🙂 I’m currently in the middle of edits for my NaNo novel from last year (so much to work on…) and trying to keep up with…[Read more]

@gh24682468999 *double checks the tag is right*

My personal opinion is that they are spam followers, since they don’t usually come up on the lists of your followers, as you noticed. Basically, I think they’re robots and i usually just ignore them. 🙂

I haven’t seen you in a while. How’s things?

@rochellaine goodnight 😉

@sam-kowal  First of all, thank you, and I think that might sound like a good idea, but I would ask @rochellaine because she is wise about such things. 🙂

@gh24682468999 I write structured poetry.  Daeus did too, but he’s not here anymore.  (He’s one of those traitors that snuck off to join the enemy at Story Embers. 😛 )  I’m horrible at giving advice, but I would guess reading a lot of good poetry would help.  I write mostly comic poems, so I don’…[Read more]

Thanks! I’ll definitely be taking your guy’s advice. Kirin is… weird. He’s my MC, but he’s hard for me to write because I usually write anti-hero MCs and he’s not really an anti-hero. He’s entertaining sometimes, but I’m just not quite as attached to him as my other characters. *sighs* At least I have…[Read more]

Yay for describing everyday life! I love doing that.

Characters can be super tough. After all, it’s like trying to create your own little person, and make them seem real, with nothing but letters. I’ve had a lot of trouble with characters at times, too, and often mine would come off as dry or boring.

But yes, despite that, I do still get excited about characters! Characters can…[Read more]

Actually, the newly launched website storyembers.org has a downloadable character questionnaire. K. M. Weiland also has a more extensive character form she fills out. You can get that on her website,…[Read more]

My rule of thumb is that main characters should be both bright and deep. “Bright” as in they have some qualities that you (and hopefully your readers) find interesting (note: this is not the same as likable or attractive). “Deep” means that these traits come from a source (the characters’ past or background) that should at least be…[Read more]

Disclaimer, I doubt I know as much as I think I know about characters, and i’m pretty bad at explaining the stuff I do understand.

Okay so I think with character development t…[Read more]

Well, I read in the front page of every book where the author has the disclaimer which says something like “any resemblance to any persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental,” and I w…[Read more]

Is it your characters per…[Read more]

@valtmy ~ some of my favorite books are Les Miserables (Victor Hugo), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Emma Orczy), and actually, War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) was really good. But also anything by Agatha Christie (but especially the Tommy and Tuppence series), Wayne Thomas Batson (especially The Door Within trilogy), and just other…[Read more]

If any of you guys are interested, I made a “Kapeefer Cabin”. If you’re already in a cabin and don’t want to move, that’s fine, but if you want to, let me know your NaNo name and I’ll invite you to join me (I’m all alone at the moment 😀 )

@gh24682468999 No, you don’t. But it’s helpful because it keeps track of your progress. And no, I’ve never done this before.

@dragon-snapper Aww okay!

@skredder Nice! We really need to make a KP cabin, although it might be a little bit too late, seeing as it…[Read more]