Kathryn Comstock

@anna-brie Elanor and Marianne definitely constitute a good foil in Sense and Sensibility. Keep looking for examples and I’m sure you’ll be able to come up with more!

@delightinlife That’s awesome! Glad to hear you’ve been finding more of your inspiration. 🙂

@jenali That looks like a good contrary set-up to explore the elements of leadership from the perspective of someone who doesn’t view themselves as a natural leader? What would you say Jenali’s starting EiL is about what makes a leader a good leader?

Also, it’s nice to learn the meaning behind your username. 😉

@jenali A sharp betrayal like that can set up a very good theme on loyalty and could definitely make Melat the best possible opponent for Teren on that front. The more you dig into his desire to see a unified people, I suspect the more compelling his motivations will be as a villain. Nice work.

@jenali Yes–the villain can absolutely have a positive arc! I would point to Darth Vader as being a prime example of that trope, but there are others as well.

That sounds like a great example of a well-done villain. Giving a villain very human desires and motivations like that is a very effective way of creating a sympathetic villain who will…[Read more]

@jenali So it sounds like we even have some inter-connected foils there as Manel and Tekal foil each other in addition to the protagonist on that front. I like that. And that makes sense with regards to Teren and Xandley’s EiLs. Both of those positions can be painted really sympathetically, and if you do it right, that should make for a really…[Read more]

Thanks for the feedback everyone! We’re going to schedule this for April 13th (that’s this Thursday) from 3-4 PM EST. I know this time doesn’t work for everyone, but I hope to see many of you there! Check your emails later today for the link.

@audrey-caylin @dragon-snapper @ethryndal @overcomer @aella @hope @anne-swiftblade @gideon-sowdon @anna-br…[Read more]

Thanks for the feedback everyone! We’re going to schedule this for April 13th (that’s this Thursday) from 3-4 PM EST. I know this time doesn’t work for everyone, but I hope to see many of you there!

@audrey-caylin @dragon-snapper @ethryndal @overcomer @aella @hope @anne-swiftblade @gideon-sowdon @anna-brie @jane-maree

@feedingmygoldfish Oh, neat. I’m trying to remember if I’ve read either of those poets in my college courses (I’m currently finishing up a degree in literature), but am coming up blank. =P Poetry has never been my strong suit, so I have a much harder time remembering what poets I’ve actually read and studied. xD

@feedingmygoldfish Ah; nice. So Fitzgerald, Hemingway and the like?

@feedingmygoldfish Welcome to the forum! Glad to have you with us. Do you have any favorite literary time periods as a quasi-English major?

@dragon-snapper

“You only ever show up to tell me things I don’t want to hear!”

This has got to be my new motto. xD Nicely done. I laughed while reading it.

Analyzing other stories for theme lessons that you can apply to your own stories is an awesome course of action to take. Since last summer, I’ve kept an excel sheet of all the stories I’ve read/watched and the storytelling applications I can glean from them, and that’s been incredibly helpful in my own journey as a writer.

I’m always thrilled to…[Read more]

@jenali Awesome–thanks for making all that clear. Those look like good foils. I especially like the potential for interplay you have within the antagonists, specifically thinking about Manel and Tekal’s similar views on loyalty. Does Manel take a similar course of action to Tekal (giving gifts) to obtain loyalty, or does he use a different tack?…[Read more]

Thanks for letting me know what works for you all! Sounds like it’s harder to find a good date for everyone this time around. By any chance, would the 19th or the 21st at the same time work any better? If enough people say by Sunday night that one of those times would work better, we’ll do that. Otherwise, we’ll do the 13th or…[Read more]

@jenali Detailing those physical consequences there helps to clarify the poetic justice on that front. Looks good!

@jenali Ah–sorry for not seeing this before! Thanks for the tag. Both of those look great!

@jenali Got it. Thanks for the feedback!

@delightinlife Audrey and Jane had great thoughts on things you can change about a story to make it appear fresh again. I’ve read stuff from several different authors who experience the same thing, and sometimes this can be an unfortunate side effect of thinking about a project too much before working on it! There’s an old blog post I wrote on…[Read more]

@jenali What’s the focusing question and message of your book, and what’s your character’s EiL, just so I understand everything that’s going on in your story?