Kate Flournoy

Platypuses… elephants, it would appear. Well, Mark— welcome to Kingdom Pen! I would issue a warning about the sanity of this place, but you seem to be walking into this with both your eyes open, so howdy and so glad to have you here!

Oh.
I thought that was only with velvet when it came to antlers.
>P

Serfs and vassals are great too— it must be something about those medieval words.

The word, Hannah, would be evolved. Another great one… only it has… hm… unsavory associations. 😛

EZRA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR ANTLERS!!!!???????????

Downtrodden. Outcast. Conquered. Puppet. Tool. Servile. Castaway. Unwanted. Or can you say gloomy…

Ow…

Oh minion! Yes, I forgot that one. It’s a wonderful word. So… I don’t know, humiliating. 😛 And underling too— lovely. *Shivers, rubs hands together*
@HannahWilson— aren’t those tomato varieties? 🙂
@Rosey—I love the word privateer as well! And I know what defenestration means, but I’m not sure I’d ever use it…

Also, one great word I…[Read more]

Hm… never been in that situation before, but if all you’re wanting is inspiration, I might have a suggestion. What genre is your novel? What are some of the key story elements? Dragons? Ships? Space Shuttles? Turtles? 😉
Anyway, I’ve not tried this myself, but I imagine it would work. Do a Google search for writing prompts with dragons or…[Read more]

Actually just went and looked it up: effusively or insincerely emotional. Nice. And yes it is German, originally schmalz, or dripping, lard. Double nice. Good one, Ezra.

What? Is that German?

Yeah really, it sounds so much like its meaning, doesn’t it? And it just rolls off your tongue so nicely. I love words like that.

Which Hammond? 😉
No, I know what you mean. His accent is actually so strong it can be annoying. Especially when you’re used to everyone else calling Horatio ‘Mr. Honblowuh’, pretty much, Hammond’s concise ‘Hornbloor‘ can grate on my nerves. 😛
It’s funny, but I don’t really have to consciously think about writing dialogue beforehand, or rehearse…[Read more]

Yes! Definitely agree with you there.

@Hope— one of my very favorite words is gloaming too! In fact I can really tend to overuse that one…
Actually I have so many favorites I can never list them all, but I like words like limpid and lucid and citadel (oh yeah citadel is probably a top five on the list) and causeway and bastion and foundation and twisted and winced and mist and…[Read more]

Yes… I do say the conversation out loud. Well, actually, define loud. Most of the time I mutter it under my breath while I’m in the shower.

What do I think of the different spellings for people’s accents in dialogue?

Hm. Whal now, I ain’t ‘zactly givin that noo proper thought. I ‘spect it’d have a laht ta do with yer nationalitee, if ye take…[Read more]

Yay! A fresh perspective! Mine was about strangled…

Good thoughts, Rolena. I like the point you made about a believing audience needing more than the truth of the gospel by itself. That’s funny, because I never really picked a target audience when I wrote a book. The question was always ‘How do I present this theme that I’ve chosen in as fresh…[Read more]

Actually it may also have to do with the impossible deadlines I set for myself— right now, I am angling to finish an eleven book series before I turn twenty, which is four years from now. Who knows if I’ll make it, but for now I’ll try for all I’m worth.

Whoa, yikes… I don’t know if I have any tips. I don’t think I’m ever not in the mood to write. Give me five minutes between when the dryer timer goes off and the dishes need washing, and I’ll sit down and type, type, type as fast as I can until I have to go do something else. There’s never a time when I feel like I need to get in the mood to…[Read more]

Oh. Drat. I thought it would be something interesting. 😉
Oh well.
Do you mean… procrastination in writing? Oh My Goodness! Wonderful! Will you share your secret? Because I cannot make myself procrastinate to save my life. If I haven’t picked up my writing for twenty four hours I’m absolutely miserable, and when I do pick it up I go so fast…[Read more]