Darik Swisher

*blinks* *decides to ignore this*

@Dekreel I don’t really have problems in this quarter because I’m very good at just ignoring all my horrible mistakes in a first draft. And I also enjoy rewriting the full novel because it’s fun seeing the massive improvement in it. xD But still, I have friends who struggle with this. Three things you can try:

1: (as Kate said) write in…[Read more]

@Kballen so exciting that you’re doing NaNo!! (I am too.) Like the others have said, having an outline is very helpful, and so is having a group of encouraging buddies who can spur you on in writing. That was one of the things that helped me most. 🙂
K.M. Weiland has a bunch of great advice on NaNo (here’s a link if you want to check it out).

Ah. Nice. @catwing

…listening to it? Like, the soundtrack? @catwing

*sighs* I’m staring at a blank screen, trying to start a chapter. I forget who asked me that question…

@emily @winter-rose @catwing I’ve come to join the party.

@kballen

Yes I’m on a hiatus right now but I thought I’d just throw this link at you. It might help.
*throws link at you*
NANO OUTLINING by Brandon Miller

@ingridrd Ooh very nice. I love the colour theme you’ve used.

Out of Time trilogy – Nadine Brandes
Songkeeper Chronicles – Gillian Bronte Adams
The Tales of Goldstone Wood – Anne Elisabeth Stengl
The Mission League – Jill Williamson
Ashtown Burials – N.D. Wilson
Storming – K.M. Weiland

And that’s just scraping the surface of my favourites list. 😛

Zikers, I have a love/hate relationship with questions like these. Um, okay. Here goes.

I have favorite book series, and then I have favorite books within that series.

–Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief (book one, series one) and the Son of Neptune (book two, series two)

–Harry Potter: The Goblet of Fire and The Deathly Hallows. I also…[Read more]

@Dekreel to tone it down from being so dark, you could change the aspects of fear and horror/dismay that the tree feels, to a sense of confusion and curiosity. That would shift the mood from ‘scary’ to a much lighter feel.

A way to avoid so much of the human terminology you can use similes instead. Saying “I feel a great, pulsing joy in my heart”…[Read more]

@ingridrd I’m back…but if anyone comes along claiming I must return to the gold from whence I came, I don’t know what I’ll do. Especially is someone says:

that.
@salome01w4g *lights your sword* Go forth and conquer!

@ingridrd I can’t hug all of them!! I had like 120 stuffed animals…now I have guilt.

*sigh*

My only critique is that I though the dog was real so I was confused when you said the button nose was falling off…but otherwise it is really cute. 😀

*gasps* *runs to tackle-hug the dozen or so Webkinz in her closet*

Anyway. Enough of my antics. @ingridrd The story does, as @kate-flournoy mentioned, give off a sort of Toy Story vibe, but there’s a sort of open-ended thrill to it that almost begs for more. And I love, love the way you wrote “Pubby”. The childlike, wondering sort of style with…[Read more]

*blinks* Oh, well, I wasn’t expecting it to be so sad… *blinks again to hide the fact that she’s crying* Okay. I’ll need to read this over again before I can give anything constructive, but otherwise, good story! It’s really well written, and the plot seems smooth and easy to follow.

I’ll come back if I think of anything else.

@daeus

Even the king is against me.

@ingridrd *cough* Dragons are our friends.
*flies off so as not to be beaten*

There. I made one!
The picture came from Pexels…the quote came from me.