Jane Maree

Mmmmmm! *pounces in ice cream* How are you, @alia?

@dekreel YES!!! This is the best Christmas thing I’ve seen this year! 😀 XD

I must say, thank you for the tribbles! 😛 Although, I might change “drones a’bleeping” to “droids a’bleeping” just because I’m building a full-size R2-D2 with my dad. (That’s how geeky I am, so don’t worry about overdoing the geekiness. 😉 ) I guess I’m biased. 🙂

Hi, @seekjustice! How are you doing?

@dekreel I’m here catching up on blog comments and hoping to find motivation to continue my epicly long NaNo novel.

@dragon-snapper @emily  @winter-rose  @audrey-caylin  @seekjustice  @waterlily  @sam-kowal  @perfectfifths

Anyone want to accompany a poor little wolf-woman who’s revising a complicated school essay? 😛

@catwing  @perfectfifths

No it’s not…

“You expect us to swim there?!”

“I expect you to trust me!”

@supermonkey42  @sam-kowal  What were your favorite Tree House books? I likes that magical saga about… Oh, it was a wand, and they were trying to find happiness for a magician (I forgot his name!) who lived in Camelot. And there were certain rules one had to follow in order for the wand to work.

@catwing “We survived but we’re dead!!” XD

@dekreel I was a reading monster when I was kid.

Ironically I didn’t really read that many kids books, I started with Harry Potter when I was 8, along with the Hobbit and then Eragon

When I was younger than that, I loved the Magic Treehouse. I mean LOVED them. Also, I read the Boxcar Children a little bit.

And also Narnia! How could I forget…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper You’ve already got loads of good tips so I probably can’t say much more, but all I can would say is, Yes 😀 😀

Totally have two villains, if you like

It can help make things a lot more interesting, although it can be harder to write both at once

If I were you, I really wouldn’t make one half one villain and then switch to…[Read more]

@catwing  The Incredibles!!!!!!!! *dances around at Pixar reference*

@catwing  Wow… Nice list! I actually meant writing weaknesses — considering writer’s block. *gives nervous smile*  But thank you!!

@dragon-snapper

Yes! Have two villains! Have three! Have four!

Ok, maybe don’t take it that far…

But, more than one villain is often a good idea. It keeps your protagonist on his toes. And, you know those crazy authors, they just want to make everything so hard for the hero. Not nice writerses.

Lots of works have more than one villain. For the BBC series of Robin Hood, they had the Sheriff of Notingham, and Guy of Gisborne. Guy mostly worked for the Sheriff, but he also had his own personal axe to grind with Robin Hood, which didn’t just make him the main villain’s lackey.

Lord of the Rings has both Sauron and Sauraman Again, Sauraman…[Read more]

@inkling-for-christ Ah, now it works!

@dekreel

I remember the Magic Tree House books! And…

• the Boxcar Children series
• the Sugar Creek Gang series
• the Guardians of Ga’hoole series by Kathryn Lasky. (She’s the only author I remember) 🙂

@inkling-for-christ Thanks! This will make it much easier to give you specific and understandable feedback. 🙂

@dragon-snapper , Funny you should ask. I think it’s fine (and sometimes best.) My current WIP has two villains, and then three at the end! 😀

In short, I have two villains who are allies and are both fighting the good guys, but then one villain betrays the other, and they start fighting each other. So the good guys think they’re safe, but the…[Read more]