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Elizabeth replied to the topic Help! I need a plot! 🙂 in the forum Novel Idea Critiques 9 years, 1 month ago
Hm, hm, hm… This can be tricky.
I’ll use my current WIP as an example. See, back when Prison was just a tiny whisper of an idea, I had my main character, Kara, wandering around a random, nameless city, on the run from a random, nameless group of government affiliated guards. Probably. See, a lot of the details were weakly tied together, and…[Read more]
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Elizabeth replied to the topic Help! I need a plot! 🙂 in the forum Novel Idea Critiques 9 years, 1 month ago
Hm, hm, hm… This can be tricky.
I’ll use my current WIP as an example. See, back when Prison was just a tiny whisper of an idea, I had my main character, Kara, wandering around a random, nameless city, on the run from a random, nameless group of government affiliated guards. Probably. See, a lot of the details were weakly tied together, and…[Read more]
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Snapper replied to the topic Questions for Writers in the forum General Writing Discussions 9 years, 1 month ago
@arella-noreen *maniacal laugh* Here we go.
1. What is your favorite children’s show?
2. Why did you make a blog?
3. Why did the chicken cross the road?
4. What is your favorite word?
5. How long have you been writing?
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Snapper replied to the topic Help! I need a plot! 🙂 in the forum Novel Idea Critiques 9 years, 1 month ago
@delightinlife Oh yeah. I totally get you on this.
What I did to fire up my plot was to find a problem among the story world and among the characters. What about the story world could allow for conflict. This character feels this way but the other feels this way.
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Elizabeth replied to the topic Just Chatter #2 in the forum General Writing Discussions 9 years, 1 month ago
@perfectfifths “Y’all” is more of a southern thing, not everyone in the States uses it. But I do. A lot.
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Elizabeth replied to the topic You know you are a writer when… in the forum General Writing Discussions 9 years, 1 month ago
Okay, but who… *sighs* *hangs head and decides to submit to her lack of LOTR knowledge* @ethryndal
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Elizabeth replied to the topic You know you are a writer when… in the forum General Writing Discussions 9 years, 1 month ago
Okay, but who… *sighs* *hangs head and decides to submit to her lack of LOTR knowledge*
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Snapper replied to the topic Just Chatter #2 in the forum General Writing Discussions 9 years, 1 month ago
@perfectfifths That does make sense. So, lets unpack the reason why Christian Americans like to use the word ‘unpack’. 😛
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Snapper replied to the topic You know you are a writer when… in the forum General Writing Discussions 9 years, 1 month ago
You know you’re a writer when you literally walk face first into a beautiful spiderweb, then come back inside and say ‘Well, at least I can write about that accurately….”
Yes. That just happened to me.
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Snapper replied to the topic Just Chatter #2 in the forum General Writing Discussions 9 years, 1 month ago
@emily-d Oh, yeah. I forgot about that one, though I’ve definitely heard it. There’s also quite a few others now that I think about it. I can remember them now, but if you’ve ever seen the Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the Icelandian uses a few American Slang words with Mitty.
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Jane Maree posted an update 9 years, 1 month ago
@aratrea my annual town book fair is on over the next few days, and -after doing Theme Mastery and hearing your thoughts on some of the classics- I thought I might give some a read/study/analyze myself. Today I got The Count of Monte Cristo, Crime and Punishment and one or two others, but I was wondering if you had any specific ones (other than on…[Read more]
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Jane Maree replied to the topic You know you are a writer when… in the forum General Writing Discussions 9 years, 1 month ago
@That_Writer_Girl_99 Aw yaaas. <333
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Ethryndal replied to the topic You know you are a writer when… in the forum General Writing Discussions 9 years, 1 month ago
@That_writer_girl_99 Galadriel’s turning green. 😀
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Elizabeth replied to the topic You know you are a writer when… in the forum General Writing Discussions 9 years, 1 month ago
I’m confused. What’s going on in that gif? @ethryndal
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Snapper replied to the topic Writers' Corner #7 in the forum General Writing Discussions 9 years, 1 month ago
@ethryndal I’m honored. *bows*
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Ethryndal replied to the topic Writers' Corner #7 in the forum General Writing Discussions 9 years, 1 month ago
@dragon-snapper Whatever you want, kid. I dub thee…the LWW. Sort of like the DLF, but more…Lizard With Wings-ish. 😀
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Snapper replied to the topic Writers' Corner #7 in the forum General Writing Discussions 9 years, 1 month ago
I’d rather be a lizard with wings than a child, though.
@ethryndal
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Snapper replied to the topic Writers' Corner #7 in the forum General Writing Discussions 9 years, 1 month ago
I’d rather be a lizard with wings than a child, though.
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Ethryndal replied to the topic Writers' Corner #7 in the forum General Writing Discussions 9 years, 1 month ago
@dragon-snapper *eyes narrow* Oh really.

*shakes head* Lizards with wings. Can’t trust a word they say.
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Ethryndal replied to the topic Writers' Corner #7 in the forum General Writing Discussions 9 years, 1 month ago
@dragons-snapper *eyes narrow* Oh really.

*shakes head* Lizards with wings. Can’t trust a word they say.
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Ah! Where to begin? If you can find the Divine Comedy by Dante Alghieri (it’s normally split into its separate books: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso), get it. As an allegorical poetic epic, it’s not necessarily the most relevant to novels, but it’s my favorite work of literature ever and has some masterful themes in it.
After that,…[Read more]
Ooh yep yep. I’ll write all those down on my list and see if I can hunt any of them up!