Joy

Okay, I’ve reached 30k writing fragments of whatever comes into my head at the time; does that really count?

@DaughterOfTheKing

I don’t mind at all 🙂 Yes, it’s my first year too, and I haven’t written anything properly in months. I wanted to do it last year, but couldn’t get up the nerve.

I’m here too! Late to the party, I know, but things have been pretty crazy at home lately. My novel was called The Exiled, about superheroes in a contemporary western fantasy, but I bombed on Day 3 of NaNo. Now I’m drifting along, writing something that is the diametric opposite of what I planned to and grinding my teeth as people put up their…[Read more]

the characters you plan out so perfectly in your head decide to do exactly the opposite of what you want them to on the page.

@Tatiana Hi! My novel’s genre is fantasy and it’s about this world in which there are four other races beside man. A great war happened, with some of the races siding with Men and the other two on their own. Now, the war has been over for nearly a year, and there’s an uneasy peace – until a powerful human lord is found dead, believed to have been…[Read more]

@joy-schmidt You’re not the only one! I like to plan my stories to some extent, but I don’t like to think too much about them because then I start overanalysing and trying to figure out the ending, and the story loses its appeal. Finding out where I’m going along the way is harder, but a lot more fun 🙂

@Daeus Thanks!

@Daeus

1. Both my mum and my teacher said I tended to use the same expressions and the same themes in my stories. I had begun to notice that I repeated some of the same expressions, but since I had never really thought about theme before, I never realised it until they said.

2. I love the “old days” and, as ridiculous as this might sound, I…[Read more]

My favourite tools are probably Pinterest, Tumblr, and Youtube. I could spend hours on those three sites. Pinterest is good for pictures; Tumblr for writing prompts, and Youtube has some great music 🙂 I particularly love medieval music composers like Adrian von Ziegler, Brunuhville, Vindsvept, and Brandon and Derek Fiechter. Their music’s really…[Read more]

@lifeofkatie Hello!
@Emily-D Hi! Fine, thanks; everyone is really sweet here. Yes, homeschooling is great! I’m almost sad to be finishing soon 🙂

Thanks, everyone 🙂 This has all been really great. @Kate-Flournoy, you’re right, though – I do keep putting it off and putting it off, both because I’m afraid of what other people might think and because I like things to be “perfect”. I don’t want to be like that anymore, and with God’s help, I’m going to try to move on from it.

Thanks again for…[Read more]

Could I ask for prayer, please? I’m currently trying to find a job but haven’t had any success so far. I really need it to pay for my driving lessons. Also, in the past couple of weeks someone has been calling our house repeatedly and hanging up without saying anything, and I’m worried. I would really appreciate it.
@Daeus @Jenni-Grace @Emma-Flourn…[Read more]

@Kina-Lamb Hello! Nice to meet you! Yes, Joy is my middle name too 😀 What are the odds? 🙂 Do you write too?