This book, I like it. Another! *smashes cup*

@waterlily

I might just take you up on that beta reading offer; I’ve never had one before, so it will be a new experience 🙂

I think I’ve pretty much got those four pillars worked out, so yay!

@daeus

@mnvalentine

@sam-kowal

Thanks, guys! This is my first time ever doing an in-depth worldbuild so I just wanted to get some direction. You all have been a great help 🙂

@gh24682468999

That’s quite some url you have, Grace 😀 I hope the answers on th…[Read more]

That is actually very helpful 🙂 Thank you! xx

I do like a bit of the ‘damsel in distress’ – the girls who dress as boys and run away to avoid marriage annoy the life out of me 😉 Defeating a tyrant is another one of my favourites as long as it’s well done, and I’m a sucker for medieval settings with knights and castles and all that goes along with it 😀 I prefer my stories where…[Read more]

I need help with:

1. writing good Christian fantasy without sounding preachy
2. motivation to finish a story
3. handling multiple plot bunnies

It’s a bit of both, language and grammar. I lived in the UK before I came here 🙂

I haven’t written anything yet. I’m still in the brainstorming for ideas phase 😊

I still like romance, but the cut-and-paste characters do get boring after a while. I…[Read more]

Don’t worry about it; I’m pretty curious myself 😃 I had to move; it’s the first time I’ve been away from home for so long and things are still rather rocky. I used to write Christian romances; can’t help but cringe slightly thinking about that now (!) but I really want to try my hand at fantasy.

Thanks for the encouragement! 😄

Heh, I kind of need this as well. I started a new job overseas nearly two weeks ago now and though it’s been really overwhelming, I’ve also found myself longing to write in a better direction than where I was going before. (That probably sounds weird; I mean writing more for God’s glory and my own enjoyment than for the praise others…[Read more]

Thanks, guys! I think I’m going to go with the first one, but you never know, elements of the second idea may crop up in there just as well 🙂

Thanks! Congrats to you too 🙂

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.

Tagging anyone who wants to reply xx

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]

Thanks again for…[Read more]

1. Whenever I’ve written stories before, I’ve never really thought about theme. Do I pick a theme for my story before I start writing it, or do I just start writing and hope it comes out?

2. I have several ideas that I really like, but I don’t know which one to pick. How do I go…[Read more]

@Josiah-DeGraaf Hello 🙂 Thanks for the articles; I look forward to reading them!

@Jenni-Grace Hello!

1. The first idea is probably the one I have most planned out; it’s been around the longest.

2. Dusk Before Dawn, I think, has the most thematic depth. Because it’s in the middle of a war where both sides see themselves as right, there are a lot of difficult decisions to be made. It’s also different from…[Read more]