Kathryn Comstock

@kate-flournoy Wait, so the MC and his wife are both fighting on different sides of the war? You’re a cruel author. 😉 So it sounds like both of them are similar in powers and EiL, and the only distinction is what side they’ve chosen?

Ah; yes. Good example of that character type.

@winter-rose Oh; I like that idea. And I’ve seen that in waaaaaaay too many stories.

@gabrielle Oh; I like that idea. And I’ve seen that in waaaaaaay too many stories.

@audrey-caylin I am starting that first book today. ;P

@kate-flournoy Oooh; I like it. Very nice way to alternate between two different perspectives there to create a rich dichotomy and irony. Both supporting themes seem particularly well-mixed in the last section, where morality is tied into hope. Well done.

Welcome to the site, Bella! Glad to hear you were able to find us. 🙂 Great reading choices as well–Pride and Prejudice is one of my all-time favorites. Have you read any other works by Austen?

@audrey-caylin That kind of foil setup can work really well for a story. Do you have any favorite examples of that in stories you’ve read?

@audrey-caylin Yes, @daeus and I like to be a sneaky tag-team like that. 😉 The video on Theme & Major Characters should be coming out by the end of this week.

@audrey-caylin Yes, Daeus and I like to be a sneaky tag-team like that. 😉 Like Daeus said, we’ll be covering that in our video on Theme & Major Characters which should be coming out by the end of this week.

@anna-brie That looks fantastic. I really like how both themes weave together there. Nice work!

Thanks so much for the suggestions y’all! You guys are the best. We’ll definitely add love interest & sidekick to the docket.

@dragon-snapper This is actually for our Youtube channel, not the Theme Mastery course. 🙂 Our first video here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1B1zNr_X-g&t=3s) introduces what character types are, and we’ve actually…[Read more]

@hope Got it. Those story points make sense then.

With regards to the other question, I do agree that there are additional challenges when you don’t have physical conflicts like that. I think some of that will require a lot more deep-POV where you’re getting into the character’s head and really ferreting our his/her thoughts and where he/she is…[Read more]

@audrey-caylin Got it. Sounds like this is one of those scenes that’s going to be a bit trickier to weave one of your themes into. Foreshadowing can be a great technique, though, so if you use it to foreshadow how her Experiments might fail, that could be a great way of weaving it in.

@hope That looks fantastic! Great work.

@hope Not completely sure what you mean with the mental/physical distinction since, from a thematic perspective, you can weave themes into both sorts of stories in a rather similar way. What parts of these lessons do you think have been more focused on physical conflicts than mental conflicts?

I’m not sure how well story structure works across…[Read more]

@audrey-caylin Got it. In that case, scenes 1 and 3 look like a great way of deepening the protagonist’s EiL and pushing her forward in that. How would you say that scene 2 relates to the themes of truth & forgiveness?

Thanks for posting this Daeus! Y’all should come. This time we’ll be making sure all 3 of us are actually able to participate in the panel. 😉

@hope That looks great! I really like the expanded depth you have here with both five-step processes. They look good to me. 🙂

@audrey-caylin Haha, nice work choosing ‘normal’ scenes. 😉 Just so I understand what’s going on in this other story, what’s the theme that’s being tackled?