Hannah Olsen

@Revayah1 Welcome to the forum!!!
That’s super exciting about your book! Congrats on making it light years of ahead of me on the road to publication. 😛
And yet another INFJ. *shakes head in wonder* Whoever came up with the statistic that INFJs are the second rarest female personality type has obviously never looked at a writers’ group before. :P…[Read more]

@PrincessFoo Welcome (officially) to the Kingdom! I’m so glad you decided to introduce yourself. 😀

I love The Ranger’s Apprentice too!!! And book nine…that’s Halt’s Peril, right?

@Daeus @Mariposa @Brandon-Miller @Ethryndal @Northerner @Hope @Audrey-Caylin @Jane-Maree @JosiahDeBoer

Thank you all so much!! This is a huge help.

To answer all your sorta-questions collectively, the post is probably more along the lines of a philosophical/personal experience/just for laughs post. If that makes sense. 😛 It is divided into…[Read more]

@Dragon-Snapper *looks at crazy people and pretends she never does this herself, ever* Welp, I’m late. But the one thing I have to add is pretty boring anyway.
Practice.
Don’t just practice, observe. Begin picking style apart and figuring out what makes it tick. Read books whose style you like, then dissect it and find out why. Become a style…[Read more]

@belegteleri

I can’t change it, but it’s possible that @aratrea or @rolena-hatfield could.

Fyi, K.M.Wieland’s posts are also often above 2,000.

I think a large deciding factor is your subject matter.

@shannon Truth is never boring, but variety is the spice of life.

The articles on KP are about that length just for comparison.

@revayah1 Welcome!

*gasp* You’re writing a vengeance book? Those are the best ever.

@dragon-snapper I can see that a bit, but it didn’t really pop out at me. I think overall you have a pretty consistent writing style. I believe that if you work on just generally improving your style and edit your book a few times, the problem will disappear.

@that_writer_girl_99 @shannon Actually, I just came up with a story idea I’m pretty excited about. It just remains to be seen whether all the plot threads will tie together, but I’m pretty sure they will.

If you come up with any great dilemma ideas though, make sure to post them here. They could be great story inspiration for anyone else…[Read more]

@shannon @epicaddie2 @ethryndal @jess @graciegirl @dragon-snapper @catwing @daughteroftheking @that_writer_girl_99 @christi-eaton

Any other ideas? I’m not coming up with anything that’s clicking.

@ryanna Show don’t tell is important, as always. Like, you don’t want to say, “Things were looking very bad for my plan.” Instead, you might focus on the downcast faces of the fellow conspirators. Or, you could do something subtle like this with the internal monologue: “I could be very optimistic at times, but surely this plan had to work. Not…[Read more]

@DaughteroftheKing First off, I think this a perfect example of how writers can get into some pretty weird conversations. XD I love it.

And it seems you’re pretty much covered here. Everyone’s making great points, and I especially like @Kate-Flournoy‘s point about theme and plot.

I’m afraid I don’t have much to offer myself, but there’s always…[Read more]

@DaughteroftheKing First off, I think this a perfect example of how writers can get into some pretty weird conversations. XD I love it.

And it seems you’re pretty much covered here. Everyone’s making great points, and I especially like @Kate-Flournoy‘s point about theme and plot.

I’m afraid I don’t have much to offer myself, but there’s always…[Read more]

@Daughteroftheking ooh, that’s wacky, but I like it! Great points already so far… I’ll just add that it might not be such a bad thing for the reader to think Rori’s a little off her rocker. As @Catwing said, it gives a curiosity factor.
But if your concern is believe-ability and the reader taking your story as a story seriously, I’m afraid…[Read more]

@daughteroftheking Well, that’s weird, but it’s also cool.

Could you write a scene from these killer plants’ POV?
Could some small animal be left in a room of plants and then when we come back to the room the animal is dead with signs of violence?
Could you describe a setting from the omniscient POV where there are these killer plants around and…[Read more]

@joy I like it. Actually, to some degree that happened. Not white servitude, but the south felt mistreated after the war and there was a good deal of unrest during reconstruction. It could be good stuff to get ideas for your novel from.

Anyway, I would totally be for keeping this story in the real world. However, since you don’t want history…[Read more]

@Joy Fascinating idea! Definitely thematic potential here. 😀
I’m gonna echo what some of the others said too: I personally would put it in a fantasy world with strong similarities to tie it to the Civil War era. It just sounds plain easier to me because there’s more freedom to wing the details. But it’s, of course, totally up to you, and if…[Read more]