Kate Flournoy

Historical fantasy. 🙂

Perfectly great— perfectly fine, perfectly okay. Only fantasy fantasy has to be fantastical. 😛

As for the style question, reading through what you’ve posted so far I’m going to say it reminds me heavily of a lot of classical authors— specifically (guess who) Alexandre Dumas. There are a few minor differences, but it’s…[Read more]

Exactly.

What?! That you make me laugh???

AAAAAACK! Help! Attack of the killer elbow noodles!

Building off of your idea, @Hope… an evil baron with an allergy to broccoli.
A brilliant leader obsessed with spaghetti.
An evil scientist who has a soft spot for frogs and macaroni.
A weak, timid protagonist who has an uncontrollable affinity for any and every reptile in existence.
Something along those lines? You’re right— that would be…[Read more]

You make me laugh so hard, Daeus. 😀

Well Hope, my idea is similar to Daeus’s, but I’ll post it anyway. What if the dad was taken (for whatever reason— trying to save Anna maybe as Daeus suggested) and they experimented with their (or Daeus’s) new Enigma thing on the dad.
Maybe there were problems they needed to clear up about their new and…[Read more]

Caricature’s the word then, hm? Caricature and exaggeration. 😉

So in the case of comedy (correct me if I’m wrong) every rule of serious, emotional writing is completely irrelevant.

Let me give an example.

Let’s say we have a male protagonist who’s afraid of the dark. If he gets shut in a dark cellar in a serious, realistic novel, he’ll be…[Read more]

Thanks guys! I haven’t glanced over those links yet, Amanda, but I will when I find time. I’m a little short of that… 😛

Those are some great tips, Daeus! I’d not thought of it like that before… situation mattering as much as character… hm…

What about exaggerating characters? How far can you (should you) go? Are there rules, or does…[Read more]

Oh my goodness @Rolena! So tragic! 😉

All of those sound pretty creative to me, @Ivy-Rose. 🙂

I like Percy Fletcher and Oliver Sanders, @Daeus!
And Sir Camden, @Tatiana!
And Jasper Cornelius Wyss and Sean Lindstrom and Kagan Trent, @Hope!

😀

That would be great about the guy being part of the gang, @Joy-Schmidt! I would totally read that.

Well there are several options here, and some of them may not apply, but a few things that came immediately to mind are:

(1) To hold her hostage— I am assuming the older sister is in some way important, so they might want to manipulate her into doing something for them by holding her little sister against her.
(2) Are they a thief organization?…[Read more]

Haha that’s funny, I had a villain named Mr. Burton too! He was a land agent…

I have so many characters and so many names it would take for-ev-er to list them all, but a few of my favorites are as follows. I’m only going to list historical fiction ones to save time.

Minor Characters:
Button Smallwood (Police Inspector)
Corrie (Cornelius)…[Read more]

Ooh, I just thought of another favorite messed up protagonist.

Ebenezer Scrooge.

Seriously, I’m not joking. 😛

Thank you Sarah. I really enjoyed this discussion.
I believe I have stated all my arguments, and furthermore I believe each and every one of them was Biblically and logically sound, as I tried to explain. I may perhaps have failed to come across on some points, but I don’t know how to state them more clearly.

So thank you. God bless! 🙂

Absolutely. 😛

*giant tsunami crashes over island, sweeps it all away* The end. 😛

Thanks Daeus— I was wondering that too, but didn’t quite know how to say it. You put it down very clearly. 🙂