Joy Schmidt

@reaganramm

Another question.

I was wondering what your thoughts were on talking and sharing about your novel before it’s published? If you’re planning to get published within the next few years, should your novel facts and characters and everything else go incognito?

For example, if I were to talk about my novel on my blog, would that be…[Read more]

@slylilhuntress Well if you like dragons, you’ll like me. XD  I am one. Call me Snapper. 😀

What’s your favorite instrument?

@Daeus I’ll have you know I was racing to get that typed out before you posted and said all my stuff for me. XD

No, good points though. Maps are important… I have them… in my head… XD Allegorical and historical elements too. Oooh ooh, in fact @Joy, I actually have a cool thing for you. Four ‘pillars’ for you to figure out, that’ll give you…[Read more]

Oh, drat. Kate just stole my secret fire. 🙁

@joy

Fantasy, more than any other genre, is about the past, so the most important thing to nail down is the past history of your story world. Allegorical aspects are good to nail down early too if you want to have them. If you’re going to have magic, nail that down early. Oh, and nail down a map of all the lands included in your story, so you…[Read more]

@Joy excellent question. Someday I want to write a book on worldbuilding, but I’ll try to refrain from dumping the entire tome off on you right here. XD

The first thing, I think, is to realize that worldbuilding is not so much a list of facts about where your story takes place as it is a key— like the key on a map— to discovering why your…[Read more]

@slylilhuntress Ha! I’m reading The Green Ember Series right now too. Andrew Peterson’s great, though I have to sheepishly admit I haven’t read Dekker yet.

@slylilhuntress Welcome to the bestistest place on the internet!

Besides Lewis and Tolkien, what other writers inspire you?

*characters

@kaya-young A piece from your writing would be helpful. Also, I’ve found that when character’s aren’t coming across well, it’s because I don’t have a consistent mental image of them. The different mental images make them act like ten people mixed into one which ends up as chaos.

@Jenwriter17 this is a brilliant idea! I’ll definitely join in. 😀

@Dekreel All right, thank you for the Les Mis part. 😂

@Ethryndal No problem, Miraz dude. *resumes seat unconcernedly*

(Thank you for getting that quote stuck in my head for the next 48 hours.)

@Dekreel the greatest thing about these is all the inside KeePer jokes. XD

@Ethryndal yeah. What they said. XD

@rochellaine I meant alternate universe, like, what might happen if a certain situation was different. Like, if instead of being homeschooled, I were public schooled, what would be different. Like that?

@seekjustice XD Parachute. That would be funny to see.

@jenwriter17 Aw, thank you! That story sounds sweet. 🙂

But I did manage to figure…[Read more]

@rochellaine *blinks* Alternate universe? XD

@rochellaine Hi!

Well, all right except for the fact that I don’t know how to get my MC unstuck… and to the place where he needs to be. I used to have an idea… and I forgot. XD

If you have any ideas, let me know!

@seekjustice Here’s a question:

How would you escape from a skyscraper that’s surrounded by people and you need to get on the other side of the people.

And the people kind of want to kill you. (Not you in particular. My character)

And the only thing you have a staff.

Do you have any ideas about how to get out of that? My MC’s a bit stuck…[Read more]