Greta

@jess-penrose You may be setting a record for how quickly someone has worked through this course! 😉

Silmarillion is a great book for finding negative arcs in, though you’re correct that Melkor is the villain of the story and not really the protagonist. Children of Hurin is another great example. I’m really fuzzy on the details of Children of…[Read more]

@jess-penrose Haven’t read that series yet (though I think I have the first book on my Kindle), but it sounds like the character arc does exactly what it’s supposed to do there! When readers feel like they’re growing right along with the character, you know you’ve done your work as an author effectively!

@jess-penrose Got it. Makes sense! Actually, thinking about my comment on your homework for lesson 5, perhaps the difference between your MC’s beginning and closing arc is that initially the MC just believes that everything must be sacrificed for justice, and he doesn’t add the “as long as it is not unjust to do so” clause until the end of the…[Read more]

@ethryndal How would you say Emolas is connected to your story’s theme? I.e. what does he consider to be the greatest gift?

I think it may be tricky to have Sley’s EiL come out effectively in the story as one doesn’t normally think of justice when they think of the greatest gifts. However, I think that some well-placed lines of dialogue could…[Read more]

@jess-penrose

Good questions. I would personally try to sketch out the general character arc of the entire trilogy, but keep it rather general at this point. Enough so you know where you’re headed and where you’ll be building off of this first book, but not so much that you’re getting bogged down in details.

With regards to this outline, I would…[Read more]

@jess-penrose Glad to hear you’ve been finding this so helpful. 🙂 Those are good thoughts. Often we are unwilling to change until we’re forced to change, which is why it’s crucial to have a relevant plot in our stories that will do the work of forcing changes in the protagonist.

@jess-penrose Yep–that works! The physical problem doesn’t need to happen to the protagonist as long as it still affects the protagonist.

@jess-penrose By “not require atonement of itself,” do you mean that we shouldn’t commit injustice in order to bring about justice? Or do you mean something else? I’m a bit confused on what you mean by that.

@ethryndal Yes–looks great!

@daughteroftheking My short story is actually an allegory about the fall of man and how God saved us.

@daughteroftheking I’m going to take a break now. I wrote a few poems and sent a few emails.

@daughteroftheking Well, I’m still here. Gotta love summer. 😛

@that_writer_Girl_99 @winter-rose @jess @daughteroftheking @kate-flournoy @daeus
I just love summer. I’m getting a lot of writing done. 😛
I’m writing a short story if anyone is out there.

@everyone OK, I’m signing off too. Did pretty well. See you tomorrow, I hope.

*explodes all chairs with the idea*

Well…I can’t seem to concentrate anymore, and it’s nine, so I’m signing out. I wrote a few short things.

@winter-rose @that_writer_girl_99

Um…maybe I shouldn’t say this and don’t take it as an absolute that is going to happen, but on the retreat we actually did put it in the plan to host a nationwide KP conference at a time in the future which I should probably not reveal lest we not be able to meet the deadline. Very likely though, it will become…[Read more]

@winter-rose I can excuse myself by saying I’ve spent the last three days at Josiah’s house with a lot of other people from the KP staff. I hope you won’t melt me for saying KeePers are even more wonderful in person than online. Seriously. We’ve got a great staff.

@winter-rose *crosses arms stubbornly* *melts @daeus chair too*

@that_writer_Girl_99 *melts phone* Ah…I haven’t done that in a long time…
@daeus @daughteroftheking Welcome and thrice welcome!
@winter-rose Okay…I’ll be mostly nice. I’ll just melt your chair. *melts chair*