Jodi Maile

@trahia-the-minstrel Welcome!! I’m Jodi, and I’m a huge LOTR, Marvel, ATLA, and Zelda fan too (and Mario, and a bunch of other video games…)!

I’m so happy to meet more people who have ocarinas (@scripter-of-kingdoms I didn’t know you had one too)! I have a small collection of ocarinas and I used to perform at local markets with them XD my fav…[Read more]

@koshka I love C.S. Lewis too! I used to have a list of poets/poetry that I liked, I’ll be sure to send some of my favorites your way if I find it again 🙂

@melancholic-writer I majored in English in college, and I minored in history because I thought it would give me more content for stories (which it did!) so…yeah! It was challenging but definitely worth it

That’s cool! I definitely feel the struggle trying to find time to write haha, I am also just coming out of a writing break and I’ve been…[Read more]

@koshka

Hello! Welcome to the Kingdom! I’m Jodi, I write a lot of things but fantasy, historical fiction, and dystopia are my go-to genres.

I have to tell you that I love the sound of your books!! They totally sound like something I would have stayed up waaaay too late reading when I was in middle school and had more time to read 🙂

I also love…[Read more]

@elishavet-pidyon Helloooo! Welcome to the Kingdom! My name is Jodi, I write fantasy, historical fiction, and sometimes dystopia.

I love the sound of your poetry, especially by the squirrel poet. Are you a fan of the Redwall series, by any chance?

I am also learning to play the piano! It’s slowly getting easier but also harder as I force myself…[Read more]

@melancholic-writer

Hi Tasha! Welcome to the Kingdom. My name is Jodi, and I write fantasy, historical fiction, and the occasional dystopian piece. I was homeschooled pretty much my whole life and I just graduated from college this year! 🙂

I love fairytale retellings! What other kinds of fantasy stories do you usually write?

@joy-caroline Ooh good question! I am someone who always makes the mistake of turning books into series when they should probably just be standalones. I think one of the ways to tell is to take a look at the scope of the story: if it is big and covers a long period of time with a lot of important events taking place in that passage of time, it…[Read more]

@madelyn Thank you!! Honestly I think my biggest problem is turning off my inner editor, since because I listen to it, I end up adding things that I think would sound good from an editing perspective but that creatively fall flat and sound pretty boring when compared to the fun and unexpected things I’d been writing before. I’ll be sure to keep…[Read more]

@elfwing You did help! Thank you! I think the thing is that I have to probably cut some of these scenes that are bugging me…

@faith-q Haha yes let’s get some much-needed advice XD

@keilah-h That is a good solution! Thanks!

@anatra23 Yes *cries* I think that’s what I have to do, cut a bunch of new stuff that I’ve written until I get back to…[Read more]

@kathleenramm I’m working on a short story by myself right now. I’m thinking it might just be one POV, but it might require me to write two. I’ve been practicing one POV for a while now so I hope I’ll be able to accomplish it effectively XD

@elfwing Oh cool! That’s so interesting that you do that too! It does work really well when you need…[Read more]

@kathleenramm I have written stories with multiple POVs. When I write alone, I usually only have one or two. My first book that will never be read by anyone had two or three, and the books I wrote with my sister had up to five, I think. I read a lot of fantasy with lots of POV shifts back then, so I figured I needed more POVs. Truthfully, I…[Read more]

@elfwing Congratulations! That’s so exciting, and it looks really good!

@scripter-of-kingdoms Ooooh! I haven’t been able to do any short story contests this year, so I’d love to do this! Thanks for sharing!

@e-k-seaver How exciting! Thanks for sharing! I’ll definitely check it out 🙂

@nanisnook Welcome back! Yeah KP can make me feel guilty too…but I recently started working on a short story so I feel a bit better about it now haha

Honestly, I might just go back (if you’re working in a Word/Google doc) and put some comments in the places where I want to add those ideas. But if they are huge things that affect everything in…[Read more]

@sparrowhawke Haha yeah I just really like history, I don’t actually know how I got interested in Japanese history–it’s just kinda been something I’ve always been enthusiastic about learning XD

Electric bass was super fun, I could mostly play rhythms and I was in a very small band for awhile, but I’ve never played electric bass for a crowd…[Read more]

@maryg3 Ooh that’s so exciting! I’d love to read it. My email is jodiwrites21@gmail.com 🙂

@sparrowhawke Hello! My name is Jodi. I write fantasy, historical fiction, and the occasional dystopian piece. I also like ancient stuff–I minored in history (mostly medieval England, American history, and the entire history of Japan haha) when I was in college.

I like music too. I play piano, sing, and used to play electric bass! My favorite…[Read more]

@sparrowhawke Hellooo! So, I think you should choose your tense based on how close/far you want the reader to feel to the main character, the MC’s feelings, and how immediate you want the events of the story to feel.

First person present makes the reader feel like they are right there in the story, with things happening to them just the same way…[Read more]