Jodi Maile

@jodi-maile Girl sameee!! It’s sooo hard to keep on track of an original idea. In fact, I often have to draw my characters, make pinterest boards, and much much more to keep the original aesthetic and themes in my head.

One thing that helps me is if I write the edit I’m thinking about in a comment to myself on google docs, and then think on it…[Read more]

@jodi-maile

Ah, the all too familiar dissatisfaction. This is pain in many forms. This is the point where I would’ve given up a couple years ago XD

But since then I have been taught perseverance! So when I’ve found my idea/theme shifts and am unsatisfied with it, I usually have to go back and read it and really just delete a lot. It hurts so…[Read more]

@jodi-maile I’m pretty sure that’s happened to me more than once.

What I did with one story was I copied it to another Word document (that’s what I use to type up stories) and saved the original one, then I deleted what I didn’t want from the copy and re-wrote it. So if you are writing and find you like some parts of a story but not others, make…[Read more]

@kathleenramm well most of my characters are based off real people that I either know really well or have observed, and I recognize people by their voices and I guess I note how they talk. I’m weird hahaha

Also, after that, I write how I think, so it seems to work well.

Idk if that made sense haha, but that’s the best I can explain…[Read more]

@devastate-lasting

Yeah, I really like how adding multiple POV you can explore different avenues of the story while adding a new flavor to the narrative.

What the most POV you’ve ever had in one story?

@jodi-maile

It’s really cool how you split up POV with your sister like that! My siblings and I might do that in the future, but right now…[Read more]

@jodi-maile ooooo the each writing charries so the voices are different! soomeone else who did that!! I am doing that co-writing a book with my bestie!!! She’s taking one, and I’m taking the other, and then we have one we sort of do together. it’s so fun, and works well since all three are very different lives, cultures, and thinking.

@jodi-maile thank you!! 😀

@jodi-maile Yay! So glad you’re joining!! :DD I’m very excited to see what you come up with!

@jodi-maile

Percy Jackson was actually the book that got me into reading!

And I’m with you on the History subject. For me I think it really depends on the history book and whether or not they focus more on the people or on dates and basic events. When I started reading history that focused more on the actual people and their lives I started…[Read more]

@anatra23 @jodi-maile

Present tense first person is definitely special, haha. I 100% get it why a bunch of people would dislike it. But it can work really well in the story it’s in cause I don’t even notice it anymore once I’m past the first page now.

Also I am the only one here who disliked Percy Jackson? *hides*

@scripter-of-kingdoms

That’s totally true. I would feel so bad if I forgot something! Thanks for the advice!!

@daisy-torres

Yes, I have definitely been noticing that KP is good at that…. I hadn’t even thought about a lopsided draft, so that’s super good to remember. And thanks for the advice about the word count! Very helpful…[Read more]

@scripter-of-kingdoms

Did you get my reply? It seems KP ate it. Maybe it got messed up when I tried to edit it?

@jodi-maile

Wow, it seems you know a lot of history! How did you get interested in Japanese history?

Electric bass is really cool! What kinds of stuff could you play on it?

I’ve been homeschooled my whole life and started taking…[Read more]

@scripter-of-kingdoms

Thanks for your thoughts!

@devastate-lasting

First person peripheral? I actually did consider that for this story. That’s when the narrator is not the main character, like in The Great Gatsby?

@jodi-maile

I think I may just have to experiment and see which one works best. Because I can see how great it would be for the…[Read more]

@jodi-maile Aww, that makes me so happy to hear!! I really hope you enjoy this one, too!

@jodi-maile Yay!!! Thank you SO much!! This means a lot to me!!! My email is authordaisytorres.1@gmail.com Send me an email and I’ll send you my novel in a google doc!! Again, thank you SO much!!

@ariel-f @lydia-s Thank you!!!! I hope you love it!!!

@nova21 Eee, I’m sooo excited too!!!!!!! 😀

@jodi-maile Yay, I’m so happy you think so!!!!! 😀 Aw, thanks!!! You’re SO welcome!!!!!

@gracie-j Awww!! Thank you soooo muchhh!!!! Sorry you’re so busy! If you ever find you have time, let me know!! I’d love to have you on the team XD

@nova21 Girlll, thank youuu!!! That would be amazing!!! (And thanks!! I’m glad it did!!)

@jodi-maile That’s perfectly fine!! I don’t have any specific date on anything right now. I’m actually a bit…[Read more]