Kate Flournoy

I’m just as curious as you are.

Oh, and I’ve also heard it said that while women will dress up for practically anything, men dress up for weddings and funerals and that’s it. 😀

What do you think?

Okay. Got it. 😛

Here’s another good one— Lyrical. Do you suppose that has anything to do with a lyre? The instrument, you know?

That’s an excellent question, Reagan. I like questions that make me think.

So, is it morally wrong to add fantastical elements into our world? No. I don’t think so. But I do think we need to understand that it certainly has the potential to harm.
And, as with so many other things, it depends heavily on how you go about doing it. I started this…[Read more]

Haha! But it’s a great word, though. If you can pronounce it. What is it— si-ON-o-mee?

Ooooh… I’ll have to look into Dropbox, Daeus. I’ve had nightmares about losing my stuff ever since I accidentally hit ctrl A instead of ctrl S and highlighted my entire file, then started typing without noticing. I was able to recover it via edit undo, but let’s just say I went around with less than stable legs for the rest of the week.

@Hope— but I would consider time travel a technological achievement, not magic.
And with the characters coming alive and yelling at their author… take it from an expert… that stuff really happens. Believe me. I know what I’m talking about. 😛
A story like that could just be told from the perspective of the crazy author whose characters are…[Read more]

Okay. I agree. But why? What makes it that way? After all, there is no verse in the Bible that forbids it, is there?

Or is there?

Hm… this comes pretty close. ‘Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar.’ And that’s… in Proverbs,…[Read more]

Good thoughts. I especially like the idea of setting up your own small government in a dystopian world. That could be a thing— imagine a book with that as its plotline. A few devoted advocates for law in the midst of a vast sea of anarchy, struggling to bring some order without becoming as tyrannical as the anarchy they are trying to replace. I…[Read more]

Oh that’s good. I may take you up whenever I need a beta reader after all, Hope.

I know. I’m so mercenary. 😛 🙂 😉

Warning: all who enter this forum do so at the risk of their own sanity.

Okay, I’ve filled my obligations. 😛

Welcome just the same, Ivy! And yeah, fantasy is awesome. That’s primarily what I write. What genre do you most like to write?

Wow— that’s quite a word, Tatiana!

I thought of two other good ones, and I think Ezra Wilkinson would agree with me on this one. Existential.
And Crisis.

Ha! Right. Don’t get me started on the illogicality of the Big Bang theory. I could go on for hours and hours and hours.

Yes, as I worked through this argument on my own several months ago, I realized that really the only logical way to set up a system of powers is the way it happened in our world. Imagine that. One supreme power that created…[Read more]

Hm, that sounds like an interesting one. I don’t know that I’ve encountered that one before. I do definitely think I’d disagree with such a system, from what little you told me about it. It’s not Biblical. It’s not even logically sound.

How can there be two opposing forces within one world, both of equal power? Did the creator of the world…[Read more]

Right— there are things about the Force that I don’t think fit with a Christian worldview. That being said, I disagree (and I love Star Wars, by the way) that because the Force is just a force that anyone can use, that makes it bad.
My objections to the Force lie in that it is not a non-intelligent entity that’s just there for anyone to use. It…[Read more]

Pictureskew. And groteskew.

I mean picturesque and grotesque. 😛 😉