J.A. Penrose

@kballen

Yes I’m on a hiatus right now but I thought I’d just throw this link at you. It might help.
*throws link at you*
NANO OUTLINING by Brandon Miller

Hi @kballen! I’m also doing NaNoWriMo for the first time this year. 🙂

@dekreel I’ve actually read the first three books in the Wingfeather Saga several years ago, and enjoyed them quite a bit. I know the fourth one’s at one of the libraries I go to, and I plan to get it one of the next times I go there. 🙂

@dekreel *grabs and shakes you like a rag-doll* YES YES YES. YAY YAY YAY. You will like it better hereafter. SO. MUCH. MORE. And I know how good it is already, even only halfway through. You just wait. The length is so worth it. *pumps your hand insanely* You just wait.

Also, I’ve read Night by Elie Wiesel. It’s so sad, but it’s a good one.

@Emily Hey, I’m a native. I was born and lived there the first few years of my life. It’s my state too, so I can insult it if I want.
Anyway, I stepped in a fire-ant hill with bare feet in sandals there, so my memory is slightly tarnished. But OTHER THAN THAT, it’s great. ;P

Yup, I’ve watched The Princess Bride. Love it to pieces.

@ingridrd Ooh very nice. I love the colour theme you’ve used.

Out of Time trilogy – Nadine Brandes
Songkeeper Chronicles – Gillian Bronte Adams
The Tales of Goldstone Wood – Anne Elisabeth Stengl
The Mission League – Jill Williamson
Ashtown Burials – N.D. Wilson
Storming – K.M. Weiland

And that’s just scraping the surface of my favourites list. 😛

@dekreel Yep! That’s the one!

I love so many books…

Pretty much anything Ted Dekker
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Tales of Goldstone Wood
The Codebearers Series
The Door Within Trilogy
The Cooper Kids Adventure Series
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Count of Monte Cristo (I haven’t actually finished it yet, but it’s writing style and the story are putting it on my list of favorites.…[Read more]

@ingridrd That’s so pretty! All calm, elegant, and majestic. 🙂

@catwing I don’t know much about writing synopses, but what you have sounds super interesting! I can’t wait to read the story and find out how Alex and her friends save the kingdom. 🙂

@Dekreel to tone it down from being so dark, you could change the aspects of fear and horror/dismay that the tree feels, to a sense of confusion and curiosity. That would shift the mood from ‘scary’ to a much lighter feel.

A way to avoid so much of the human terminology you can use similes instead. Saying “I feel a great, pulsing joy in my heart”…[Read more]

@ingridrd I’m back…but if anyone comes along claiming I must return to the gold from whence I came, I don’t know what I’ll do. Especially is someone says:

that.
@salome01w4g *lights your sword* Go forth and conquer!

@ingridrd I can’t hug all of them!! I had like 120 stuffed animals…now I have guilt.

*sigh*

My only critique is that I though the dog was real so I was confused when you said the button nose was falling off…but otherwise it is really cute. 😀

@daeus

Even the king is against me.

@ingridrd *cough* Dragons are our friends.
*flies off so as not to be beaten*

There. I made one!
The picture came from Pexels…the quote came from me.

@Dekreel something to think about is that Catcher in the Rye is about a character going on an adventure, and the reader experiencing his thoughts and emotions along the way.
I could list many many books that have this same vague plot. If I look at my bookshelf, there’s half a dozen that I see immediately which I could say had that idea as…[Read more]