Kate Flournoy

Do it @Daeus. Do it.

An assassin who knits while waiting for victims to show up.

That actually reminds me of Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities. 🙂

You guys are way above my head. *resolves to quietly stalk topic and keep her mouth shut so as not to display her deplorable ignorance*

A maiden in a tower as the villain.

… Yeeeessssssssssss … and the hero frog pulls her out of the tower by her hair.

@Daeus write the thing. Seriously, write it.

A blacksmith with an affinity for poetry. A talking tree who plays Paganini on the violin. An ogre who likes chocolate cake. An evil queen who likes to host elegant tea par…[Read more]

Evil dragons with long teeth who are scared of the dark.

No, I actually agree to some extent with that @Daeus. What I was asking is why he wanted to control them— why he wanted power, why he wanted prestige. It seems a little cheesy to me that he would want them simply for their own sake— simply because he’s wholeheartedly black and finds pleasure in them for the destruction he can wreak with them.…[Read more]

Exactly @Daeus. Exactly.

I might— just a quick suggestion. Work with your villain a little. Why does he want to control the nine powers? Is it just because POWER and PRESTIGE? Is it just because he’s SOOOOOO EEEEEVIL?

You can make him more complicated and interesting than that, I know. 😉

Isn’t that a little long for a title, @spradlin? 😉

Another thing I noticed about well done Christian fiction, while listening to Focus on the Family’s audio ‘Bonhoffer: The Cost of Freedom’, was… well, it’s a little difficult to put into words.
The conclusions Bonhoffer came to about the Bible, and Christianity, and the duty of a Christian…[Read more]

Yikes, I love it how it is. I honestly don’t think anything could make it cooler or easier to use or— or anything better, really… but I’ll let you know if I come up with any ideas. 🙂

All you guys on the staff continually amaze me with your ability to keep this place up and running like this, and still live your lives! 😛

Perfect, @Bluejay. Perfect. 🙂

No, it doesn’t sound weird! It sounds perfectly adorable and very interesting at the same time. 🙂

And yes, I know what you mean about the fairytales stuff… some of it can be pretty unrealistic. I love the challenge of balancing out the ‘magic’ and ‘fantasy’ with reality though, and using them to show more strongly what is right and what is wrong. See, (as I see it) no matter how many magical powers your characters have, they’re still held…[Read more]

Oh that kind of stupid! Nothing wrong with that kind of stupid. 😛 Yeah, I’ve had a few characters that act like that… 😉 But then it’s so fun to bring them to maturity in the end.
And technically you don’t have to be crazy to be a writer— but most writers devolve into craziness by the time they finish two or three novels. *wink*

Good! Keep…[Read more]

Oh no, not stupid! Nothing is ever stupid so long as you are willing to take the time to fix it. 😛
So you think you’re hooked on writing then? I know I was by the time I finished my first ‘real-novel’— once the writing bug bit me I was bit for good. 😉

Yes @anna-brie— that is the surest test. 😀

A thousand welcomes, Anna! Congratulations— you have joined the ranks of the most impressive army of nut-cases on the internet. 😉
What kind of stuff do you write? What did you most like about your first novel? What did you most dislike?

Again, welcome. This is the bestistist place on the internet. (There @Daeus— I beat you to it). 😉

@Sarah-h huh. I guess I’ve never looked for it. 🙂

Shadow Hawk, by Andre Norton. Hittite Warrior and God King by Joanne Williamson.

Lunch @bluejay! It’s 8:00 pm here! 😛