[Hope Ann]

@kate-flournoy How many times do I have to tell you I’m not giving him up?

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@Jane-Maree No, he mine, I tell you. If any of you want him to be happy, then let him be.

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A few more collages:

This one is of a popup character in my novel, Fidelyon. His name is Cadoc and @kate-flournoy keeps trying to steal him from me.

This one is one of my side-kick characters, also from Fidelyon

And this is from another project completely.

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[Hope Ann]

*stalks the form with a grin and waits for new apprentices to pounce on… I mean, take under my wing*

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@GracieGirl *peers in* *looks around* What everyone else is saying, I think. One of the large things it to make it easily readable, whatever the length. So lots of paragraph breaks and section breaks with headings and such.

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@katherine I would say that is fine. Getting feedback is part of the writing process, so as long as they (obviously) aren’t changing it themselves and are just giving you their thoughts, then yes. That is fine. 🙂

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@warrioroftherealm Two or three. The second title does sound darker than the third. It depends what angle you are going for.

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@daeus love the ‘When fate seeks to destroy you, where can you turn?’ hook. Much better than the others. 😉

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Legends of Light, @kate-flournoy? *scratches head* I may have heard something about them somewhere… XD

Welcome, @jessi-rae! Fairy tales retellings and fantasy are quite fun. I’ve tried my hand at futuristic/dystopian type stories too, but I mainly stick to fantasy. I don’t have very many female protagonists, though. That’s going to change one of these days. So many fantasy stories (or at least most of mine) have male MCs, which is quite fun, but I want to write some girls too. 😉

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@emily By all means. I want to hear your thoughts whether I tag you or not. We just have a tagging limit of 10 and I’m not on here enough to know everyone’s names… 😉

@jane-maree Yes, the to will work, if I have the ‘of nights’ instead of just ‘night’.

So… bringing hope to the blackest of nights

Or

Penning hope in the blackest of nights

@catwing Ha. Ha. Ha. *scowls* Like I’ve not heard that and every other pun related to hope before. *coughs* Sorry. We like to indulge in a bit of dry sarcasm every now and then. Yep, we have fun with our name. XD Plus I love the meaning. *nods* It tends to be a theme in most of my stories to some extent. XD

@Shannon I still like ‘breathing’ too. Breathing hope into the blackest of nights.

So, that’s the three so far. Preferences, guys? They all have slightly different meanings, though they all do work.

1. Bringing hope to the blackest of nights
2. Penning hope in the blackest of nights
3. Breathing hope into the blackest of nights

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@daughteroftheking Same here. My first thought was ‘darkest’ but then I switched to ‘blackest’ because I thought it sounded better.

@catwing Breathing hope into the blackest of nights. I like that.

@jess Hmmm… I like breathing. Penning could maybe work too. Penning hope in the blackest of nights. Eh… not sure. Thoughts?

The main thing is that my family members are looking at me and thinking it sounds too dramatic. XD Though a number of taglines are dramatic, so I don’t mind. But I also have a tendency to think something is cool when it is actually more like… cheesy. XD What do you think, then? Too dramatic, or not?

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@catwing You made it!!!! And I’m two days late to the party. Like normal. XD Still, it’s great to see you. I’ve always loved cats with wings. Anything with wings, really, except for some bugs. But cats, horses, dragons, wolves… I enslave *coughs* I mean, care for them all.

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@graciegirl Oooo, yes. *grins* *rubs hands* I definitely think a Christ figure can be a well-rounded character in His own right. Even a main character, if you do it right. Part of it depends on the depth of your allegory and if you are making a certain point or if you are presenting the gospel story itself. Even then, the point is to present things in a new light so making him different, like a healer on the streets of a steam punk type world or the bard who seems to match several prophecies, yet fulfills none of them the way he is expected to (both are from my own stories, so no touchy. XD ) certainly steps things up.

Of course, if you have a Christ figure, you wouldn’t have him do things wrong, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have likes or dislikes or preferences or emotions (even Jesus wept, laughed, and got angry) or anything else a good character has. Or, even, that what he does will be viewed as right by those around him. They may not understand until later why he did what he did. Remember, you’re writing an allegorical figure based on Christ. It isn’t as if you are presuming to write Him, Himself. You are focusing on a theme or part of the truth and you are presenting it in a new light to bring those truths across. My favorite kind of allegory is the kind that is so skillfully hidden, you don’t see where it is going until suddenly the larger picture opens up before you.

Waking Beauty did this wonderfully. One doesn’t even know if the person who turns out to be the Christ figure is good or bad until a ways through the book, and you don’t realize what he is supposed to be until near the end.

Eli is another great book. It’s a modern retelling of the Christ story as if it were an alternate universe and He came in the 2000s. I was leery about the idea, but the author handled both the character of Jesus and the idea very well.

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What everyone else said. I think switching names and such from the common terminology is cool. That being said, I have the Prince and Followers in one of my own books. But the religion is a backdrop for another theme and not a great part of the plot in and of itself. It depends a lot on your angle and point of your story. The larger a part something takes in your story, the less you’ll want it to use a common cliche like a plain ‘the King’.

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This is hilarious. And the dramatic fainting… XD

As for renaming my MC in each book, that is a great idea. *nods* I shall have to remember that. Does it work even if the MC is a woman?

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