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@aella I’m not doing NaNo this year–I’ll be doing college. 🙁 Y’all have fun, though!
@daeus, just to let you know, I’m going to skip this study as I just read Animal Farm last year and didn’t care for it enough to want to spend more time reading it. No offense to anyone whatsoever, it just wasn’t my style. 🙂 I can’t wait to participate next time around!
@hannah-olsen WOW! We really should get together sometime. That would be so much fun.
Let’s see, my favorite era is mid 1800’s to 1950’s. 🙂 What’s yours? My soon-to-be-published first book is based on the true story of my great-great-grandparents, who came from Chicago to Spokane in 1892. It was so much fun to delve deeper into that time period as I researched!
I’d love to do this, but I can’t gauraente that I will always be able to participate. In 2 weeks, I am making the transition from homeschool kid to college student. *panics!!!!* Granted, I will be taking classes from my home, but life is going to get busy. So yes, I’m in…halfway, at least. 🙂
@hannah-olsen hey there! Welcome to KP!!!
If you don’t mind my asking, whereabouts in Northern Idaho are you? We can’t be too far away from each other; I’m just a little west of Spokane. 🙂 And wow. Coffee, chocolate, and historical fiction? We’d get along well. 🙂 I’ve been to China, also; 9 years ago (I was 9). We stayed there for 2 weeks while picking up and adopting my little sis. It’s an interesting country. 🙂
I’m excited to get to know you more!
@bluejay Sounds like you already have it figured out. But just to throw my two cents in, I once knew a cat who could open doors. Literally. Not even kidding.
@writefury Perfect. My title is getting rather long. 🙂
~Historian of Pen, of the Eastern Drylands of Soggins, of the KeePers of the Realm.
@kate-flournoy you share a title with the Lady Dragon, is the wretchedly evil villain in Kendra E. Ardnek’s Rizkaland Legends book(s). (Hopefully I’m thinking of the same Lady Dragon as @anna-brie is.) Lady Dragon is an awesome villain by the way; one of my favorites. Not that it helps any, but… 😉
Historian of Pen reporting. (I like that title, by the way.) 🙂
One thing…there is a side of Washington that does not fit in the Soggins realm. More fitting for the Eastern hemisphere would “burnt to a crisp.” Any ideas of a name for the Eastern hemisphere in the realm of Soggins?
@jadamae your email address isn’t working. Is there another one I could try?
@sarah-h did you get my email or did I type your address in wrong? 🙂
Thanks so much everyone! I have enough readers now!!! (i.e. breathing regularly again)
@dbhgodreigns Mostly little grammar mistakes, punctuation, fluidness…that type of stuff. Also, any general feedback on the story would be most appreciated.
@Hope, yes, it’s Clara’s Story. Did you get the email I sent yesterday?@hope Sorry, no amazing ideas here, but the “ancient pear that doesn’t break” made me laugh out loud.
What book is this? I don’t think I’ve read it yet…but I’m thinking I need to!!! 🙂
I think you’re absolutely right (and no, you’re not crazy). And wow…the beginning of Black Falcon is amazing. That would definitely get me reading past the first sentence. 🙂
Something that I think works well as a hook is starting right in the middle of the action. Here’s an example:
“Go! Go! Go!”
Lindy pumped her legs, hardly feeling the ground beneath her feet. Her breath came in short pants and blood burned in her chest. She was almost there.Now, until you read further, you don’t realize that Lindy is only participating in a foot race, not running for her life. 🙂 Still, the reader doesn’t learn that until about 4 more lines.
Another hook I’ve used is here:
It happened. Their worst nightmare, their deepest fear, was now a shocking reality.That one is the beginning of the preface of my Civil War novel. I love it because it sets the tone for the rest of the book.
@Daeus your comment made me chuckle. Seriously, that is EXACTLY something my dad would say (and has said). 🙂
@hope, I don’t think there is anything wrong with purchasing said dagger. It does depend on what kind of money you have to spend on fun things like that. For me at the stage of life I’m in now (i.e. scraping pennies off the ground to add to the college fund), I can’t afford to spend $50 without batting an eye. Not to say that I wouldn’t spend $50 on something fun, but I’d need to think about it and make sure my finances are going to balance out. As to purchasing fun things that are solely for writing inspiration, I don’t think it’s bad. Especially if it’s something as cool as a dagger. 😛