Joy

@joy Hey Joy! Sorry I’m late. 🙁 How’s KP been going?

@joy – hello, hello! Welcome to Kingdom Pen, I apologize for my tardiness in greeting, but I’m very glad you’re here!

@Joy, praying. 🙂

@Joy Yup. 🙂
I can imagine that last one would be slightly freaky…maybe it’s just a tele-marketer though. XD
Good luck with the driving, too. I’m learning to drive as well.

@Joy, like @Seekjustice I don’t decide on a theme beforehand. I like to let the first draft alone in that regard, and then when I’m going through later, I can see what themes are rising naturally from it, and then prune here, or add a bit there, to focus it, or them, better. And sometimes if I do enough rewriting the theme will be completely…[Read more]

@Joy sure thing.

@Joy yep. What they said, pretty much. I’m just going to add one more thing, and it’s kinda tough… excuse me ahead of time. 😛

It’s simple. Stop avoiding writing and just write. I know that sounds so callous and oversimple, but it’s so easy to put it off and put it off, and fool yourself (guilty!) into thinking you’re doing something about it…[Read more]

@Joy, I don’t want to sound like I’m just repeating @dragon-snapper and @that_writer_girl_99 because that isn’t really going to be helpful for you. but I agree with pretty much everything they’ve said.

However, when it comes to theme, I’ve never actually planned my theme before writing. That’s just something I’ve never done. my theme comes…[Read more]

Hi @joy!

I’ll answer your questions just like Snapper did.

1. Choosing a theme can be tricky. During the early chapters of my current WIP, I had one theme, but it’s different now that I’ve gotten further into the story. That being said, I think it comes down to a couple different things.

–the message you want to share in your story.
Do…[Read more]

@joy These are great questions!
1. You should definitely pick your theme first. If there’s anything I’ve learned from KP’s Theme Mastery, is that your story should basically revolve around theme.
2. I had this problem too. I picked out my favorite ideas of my idea notebook and tried to make a quick overview of each. I went through the process of…[Read more]

@Joy Will do. 🙂

@joy Yes!! I think @emma-flournoy is probably the only one on KP that doesn’t write. Am I correct Emma?

@joy Yay for Newsboys! I love their album Restart (the Deluxe Edition) And I love a lot of classical. I play piano and I’m learning Beethoven’s Fur Elise. He’s my favourite compose. 🙂 I love Fur Elise, Moonlight Sonata, Cannon in D (by Johann Pachebel)…what classical pieces/composers do you like? 🙂

@joy This is late and I haven’t read through the comments to see what everyone else has said, but welcome!! And thank you deeply for making your tag very short. I think everyone appreciates you already. 😀 😀 My middle name is Joy! Is that your first name or a nick-name or a middle name or no name at all? Joy seems to be my theme this year. I went…[Read more]

Welcome to the site @joy! We actually have a bunch of articles on writer’s block since it was our monthly topic a couple years ago. You can find a list of them here: https://kingdompen.org/?s=writers+block Hope they help you as you try to figure out what you want to write!

@Joy Gosh, I’m late. XD But welcome to KP all the same!!!

@joy
Hiya! Welcome to Kingdom Pen, the amazingiest place on the internets!
Do you play an instrument?

@Joy *nods* He’s clever. He does our courses. Listen to him. *nods again*

@joy Well, let’s disregard thematic depth then because that can be fixed. In that case, Queen of Thorns or Aethra Falls seem like the two best options.

@joy I can see why you’re torn. Those all sound like great ideas, only the second one is a little scattered in that I don’t see how it all connects as well as with the others. I probably have a tie between 1 and 3, with four sounding great too.

I’ll just offer a few questions that might help you pick one idea to go forward with.

1. Which idea do…[Read more]