Darik Swisher

@gideon-sowdon Oh–haha. This is what happens when you skim a forum post–you miss the important line that says they don’t have electricity. >.< Going for some sort of chemical reaction sounds like the best route then.

@gideon-sowdon Mechanical arms and legs actually already exist to some extent… The technology probably isn’t sophisticated as the technology in your world, but I’ve honestly been surprised by how sophisticated the technology currently is. I’d research what people currently use to power them.

@gideon-sowdon This probably wouldn’t work and you’d need to do more research to make it sound scientific, but it might be possible to have some sort of chemical that reacts to brain signals, expanding and shrinking to move the arm with a complex system of parts worked by air pressure. It might at least sound convincing.

@Gideon-sowdon *taps fingers against keyboard, trying to figure what words are*
We-ell. Erm, I guess one way would be just not to mention how it works. I had a mechanical thing once too, and I never considered how it worked, because my brain never considered it until now. 😛 In ‘I, Robot’, they never mention how the MC’s mechanical arm runs, nor…[Read more]

@Gideon-sowdon *taps fingers against keyboard, trying to figure what words are*
We-ell. Erm, I guess the best way would be just not to mention how it works. I had a mechanical thing once too, and I never considered how it worked, because my brain never considered it until now. 😛 In ‘I, Robot’, they never mention how the MC’s mechanical arm runs,…[Read more]

@Gideon-sowdon Yes! ScriptureTyper is awesome! I use it all the time for memorization!

@Northerner I have no idea where my first post went. Here. Have it again.

Okay guys.
@Hope gave me a book with three of G.K. Chesterton’s novels in it as an early birthday present, and though I have only read one of them so far it completely blew my mind.
It was The Ball and the Cross.

Has anyone else read it? If so, can we please discuss how…[Read more]

Reminder everyone that we’re having our panel discussion tonight.

@graciegirl @overcomer @r-j-wordsmith @Rachelle @Dragon-Snapper @northerner @perfectfifths @Ethryndal @Brandon-Miller @the-bean @Julia-R @Gideon-Sowdon @Jess @clairec @His-instrument @Christi-eaton @Winter-Rose @Adry_Grace @faithdk @Anna-Brie @howling-wolf @Hope

Reminder everyone that we’re having our panel discussion tonight.

@gracie-girl @overcomer @r-j-wordsmith @Rachelle @Dragon-Snapper @northerner @perfectfifths @Ethryndal @Brandon-Miller @the-bean @Julia-R @Gideon-Sowdon @Jess @clairec @Hannah-R @Christi-eaton @Winter-Rose @Adry_Grace @faithdk @Anna-Brie @howling-wolf @Hope

@gideon-sowdon Sadly there’s not a place where the prompts are continued so we can hear the rest of the story. 🙁 But if it was someone here on the forum who entered their prompt you can certainly ask them for the rest of the story! I’ve thought the same thing! Some are so good I wish I could read more.

Thanks for the input everyone! It looks like the best option is going to be February 24th from 3-4 PM EST, so we’re going to be scheduling the Q&A for that. I’ll be sending out an email the day before with a webinar link, and will also make sure to post a link in this thread! Looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible there. 🙂

And to…[Read more]

@gideon-sowdon Daeus took pretty much everything I had to say, so it looks good now! And great idea to think about using an autobiography in addition to a fictional story. Seeing these principles in real life like that can be really helpful for learning how to apply them in your own storytelling.

@gideon-sowdon Great! You’ll just want to tweak your focusing question for Beyond the mask since you want the message to be able to answer that question directly. So, like:

Focusing question: How can one find a new identity after a dark past?
Message: Only through Christ can we truly change.