Jane Maree

@leumeister Yes

@leumeister I would personally vote 1, 3, 2.

@amy-l-klob I’d recommend starting by introducing your protagonist, but I would be careful about having a slow lead-in to the actual story. You want to grab the audience’s attention in the first page. That doesn’t mean you need to immediately leap into the main plot of your novel, but you should be including some conflict and/or intrigue that…[Read more]

@amy-l-klob  You’re very welcome! Yes, exactly! I love how deep it sounds, her normal life being “separated” from her. I have to agree that a good background is essential for that!

Anyway, I’m glad I could help! What is your novel about, if I may ask? (If not, that’s okay 🙂 )

@daughteroftheking  Thank you!! Good to know I’m not the only nerd here! B-)

Good point! Not a lot of people would want the “gollums goll’ming…” Or the “Daleks screaming” XD Well, I suppose the light sabers are good for that! 😛

@dekreel THIS. THIS IS THE BESTIEST. *promptly geeks out*

The tribbles… *snickers*

I don’t think I want 11 gollums goll’ming. 😛 I’ll take the light sabers, though.

@princessfoo Get over here, fellow geek. 😀

@dekreel *cracks knuckles* Fun thread idea. Let’s see… *searches memory* Well, I dearly loved My Father’s Dragon. My fascination with dragons started at a young age, you see. I also really liked the first Boxcar Children book, The Family Under the Bridge (A children’s book about the Great Depression. Now, there’s a thought.), The Cricket in…[Read more]

@catwing Hey, I missed you around here! *cheerily toasts with cup of orange juice*

@dekreel yep!

@seekjustice  Are you still around?

@perfectfifths  Naw I’m just finishing up the scene 🙂

@catwing Good night!

Greetings, @amy-l-klob!!

How to begin a novel. *scratches chin* Hmmmmmm…

It makes sense why you want to do that! The reader does need to know the background of the protagonist.

I think you should kick off the first chapter like right before the action happens, around the time when the conflict comes in. Like, the protagonist is coming home…[Read more]

@catwing how did you go with NaNo?

@dekreel i feel you.

@dekreel Is that your quote? Because it’s from the same movie. 😛 XD

Greetings, @catwing! Coming back to an older story! An old flame, eh? (get it? Ok that was some awkward wording…)

@seekjustice  I’m all right. Very, very unmotivated though 😛

@dekreel I can’t even remember them all

I read so many of them

I can remember the first one with the dinos

And there was one on the moon, and one in the sea, and one in prehistoric times, and one about the Civil War and one about the revolutionary war and one about Rome and one about Egypt…

And then there the Merlin Missions, which where…[Read more]

@alia  It’s going okay. It’s hard not to overuse verbs of being though! My teacher found billions! Personally I don’t find much wrong with verbs of being, but…. *shrug* 🙂

I love it when characters do that! It’s a good change! 😀

@dekreel I’m a bit worn out, but I’ll survive. How are you?

@supermonkey42  Oh they are called droids , aren’t they? They are! I forgot and thought they were called “drones!” Alright, I’ll do that! Thanks!

@alia Thank you! What! You don’t like Harry Potter??