@kate-flournoy
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic It's Just a Little Poem in the forum Poetry Critiques 10 years, 6 months ago
Wow, thanks @overcomer! So glad you liked it! And guess what, I’d already replaced ‘the bow is not bent’ with ‘the bowstring is snapped’ long before you even suggested it. Well, you know what they say about great minds… 😉 😉 😉
Here, I’ll post the completely revised version and see if I caught everything— I do like the rhythmic flow, but…[Read more]
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Help! I have a nameless poem! in the forum Poetry 10 years, 6 months ago
Er… well… what’s the poem about? 😛
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Beginnings make readers— endings make fans in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 6 months ago
*goes slowly green in face* Uh… on second thought… I’ll admire it from a distance @Daeus! 😛
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Beginnings make readers— endings make fans in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 6 months ago
Well glad the topic was timely, @belegteleri! (Still can’t write that tag without smiling 😉 )
This is all to say that subtlety is the key to a strong character.
@Daeus— can I just frame that, and put it on my wall? 😀
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Beginnings make readers— endings make fans in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 6 months ago
@Ivy-Rose @zoe-wingfeather @writefury @faithdk @Daeus good thoughts, everyone!
I think, Ivy, that action hooks can certainly work, but I tend to be careful using them because if you slam your reader with immediate action they don’t really care, because they don’t care about the character, because they don’t KNOW the character. Get me?
Also, I…[Read more]
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Beginnings make readers— endings make fans in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 6 months ago
@Ivy-Rose @zoe-wingfeather @writefury @faithdk @Daeus good thoughts, everyone!
I think, Ivy, that action hooks can certainly work, but I tend to be careful using them because if you slam your reader with immediate action they don’t really care, because they don’t care about the character, because they don’t KNOW the character. Get me?
Also, I…[Read more]
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Kate Flournoy started the topic Beginnings make readers— endings make fans in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 6 months ago
Keep that in mind, @everybody, because it’s true, I’m telling’ ya. Beginnings do make readers, endings do make fans.
But since we can’t have one without the other, I wanna devote this topic first off to discussing beginnings. The very first page. The very first sentence. Readers aren’t willing to stick around ‘until it gets good’. They want good…[Read more] -
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic A Writing Game in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 6 months ago
*nudges topic with tip of boot* This thing needs to wake up.
‘I stared disinterestedly over the top of the bar at the empty judge’s chair, drumming my fingers and trying to look cool and in control. Didn’t matter that my palms were sweating like pigs, and I was three shades whiter than a snake’s belly beneath my arrogant facade. Keep your act…[Read more]
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic You know you are a writer when… in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 6 months ago
That… is hilarious, @hope. One of my go-to games when I’m babysitting my siblings and they start getting rowdy is ‘castle’— each child is elected by popular vote to fill the place of jester, knight, queen, prince, king, etc. Once we’ve got everyone assigned their roles, we play battle or banquet or coronation some other such castley thing.…[Read more]
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Let's write a story! in the forum Novel Idea Critiques 10 years, 6 months ago
Ighhhh… forgot the tag @writefury
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Let's write a story! in the forum Novel Idea Critiques 10 years, 6 months ago
Whoops… missed this! Sorry! 😛
‘The first thing I noticed was the chandelier. Odd, since I didn’t have one in my room. Last time I checked, at least… which was when I fell asleep last night. Of course, it had been dark… but I was pretty sure to have noticed that thing in my room last night, considering it almost touched where the floor…[Read more]
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic "Pen Names" A Good or Bad Move? in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 6 months ago
Haha yes @bluejay, believe it or not I knew that! So fun! 😀
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Kate Flournoy posted a new activity comment 10 years, 6 months ago
Wow no what @writefury, you’re not a sailboat?! Welp, I guess that’s just further proof you can’t believe everything you see… 😉
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic I've Got A Little List in the forum Poetry 10 years, 6 months ago
OW that made me laugh so hard! Every single one of those— yes!!!!!!! They’d totally not be missed! 😛
Oh, that’s great @writefury. Just great. Especially love this line:
And the woman in adventures who’s tough as any guy,
To fill the spot of “strong female” . . . or at least another try.Spot on. 😀
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Kate Flournoy posted a new activity comment 10 years, 6 months ago
Hahaha… yes, isn’t the picture so cute @writefury? Just so you know, I don’t really look like that… 😛 😉 I’m about middle height, very thin, with wavy black hair and brown eyes. And no— I don’t like Tabasco. 😉 😀
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Christianity in Fiction in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 6 months ago
Sounds good to me, @anna-brie! 😀
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Christianity in Fiction in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 6 months ago
Perfect @anna-brie! Sounds like you did great putting Christianity at the core of your story. 🙂
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Novel Start? in the forum Novel Idea Critiques 10 years, 6 months ago
*two thumbs up* 😉 😛
Ugghhhh… that is like the tenth time I’ve almost written your tag as literally atwritefury. 😛
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Christianity in Fiction in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 6 months ago
*pokes topic*
I’ve got something new to say on this. So… *shouts into megaphone* WAKE UP EVERYBODY AND PUT YOUR THINKING CAPS ON!!!!
Thank you. Glad to have secured your attention.
It’s a very simple point, actually, and more on the specific discussion of actual character conversions than Christian fiction in general, but I thought it was…[Read more]
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic KP 404 in the forum Questions and Support 10 years, 6 months ago
Yes, it does @reaganramm! Thank you! 🙂
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It’s really cute. 🙂 Like that’s where he gets his firepower or something. 😛
Ah, I see. 😉
Well, this might come as a shock. But I’m not a sailboat either. :O I’m small with curly, reddish-brown hair and green eyes. Think… a female Pippin. My nose looks a lot like his, actually.
Wow no what @writefury, you’re not a sailboat?! Welp, I guess that’s just further proof you can’t believe everything you see… 😉