@kate-flournoy
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Novel Start? in the forum Novel Idea Critiques 11 years ago
Um… it’s not inconvenient, but maybe I should have mentioned… all the names are Germanic and Celtic and Anglo-Saxon names. I would be happy to send it to you if you want, but I didn’t think you used those kinds of names.
If you still want the list, I’ll weed out the names I know for a fact I’m using (dibs and prior claims and all that) and…[Read more] -
Kate Flournoy posted an update 11 years ago
@daniel-leinad-thompson (by the way, I have a hard time believing that is really your middle name 😛 ) I seem to remember you saying somewhere that you were working on a dystopian COMEDY. You remarked in the podcast today that dystopian fiction is usually pretty dark, so I was wondering. Was the idea for a dystopian COMEDY just a ‘because you…[Read more]
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic A Sort of Dark Story in the forum Short Story Critiques 11 years ago
Oh yes. Me too. Outlining fries all my creative juices.
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Kate Flournoy posted a new activity comment 11 years ago
Well, better to aim high and fall short than to aim too low and reach it. 🙂
Yes, it definitely helps to come from a unique perspective and think about the facets that aren’t usually explored in fantasy. One thing I forgot to mention in my first post was the villains. You probably noticed that most fantasy villains (speaking generally) are the…[Read more] -
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Novel Start? in the forum Novel Idea Critiques 11 years ago
@Daeus: hey… you may have something there. XD
For Your Information: my brothers are as follows. William. (Scottish/Gaulish). Douglas. (Scottish). Morgan. (Welsh). Christopher. (Latin/Anglo-Saxon). But yeah, I do love names. All you really have to know is the roots of the language to figure out pretty much what any one name in that general…[Read more] -
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic KP Staff in the forum General Writing Discussions 11 years ago
Yes! You guys have made the difference in my writing, taking it from something so-so to something I would proudly acknowledge to be my own. I’m the only writer in my family, and all you wonderful staff have been the encouragement and practical wisdom I lacked when it came to writing. Thank you all so much!
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Novel Start? in the forum Novel Idea Critiques 11 years ago
Daeus thinks ‘Quinn’ is not old enough, but I loved it because it’s unique. It’s different— I don’t think I’ve ever seen or heard or read it before. It sounds to me like it could be a name from a culture I have very little clue about, and that makes me curious about that culture. I’m not bashing you, Daeus (ha! How would I dare?) but just so you…[Read more]
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Novel Start? in the forum Novel Idea Critiques 11 years ago
I like hugs. So… thanks. I’ll take that one.
Ahem… um… Quinn? I like him first because he is compassionate, maybe quietly shrewd.
Captain Quinn leaned his tall body over the wheel,
“You’ve had a good shift, mate. Why don’t you go below and get some rest?” Not many captains would show such quiet, un-condescending concern for their crew, a…[Read more] -
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Novel Start? in the forum Novel Idea Critiques 11 years ago
Oh, and also, who is the MC? Finnian or Captain Quinn? Not that you necessarily needed to make that obvious in this part of the book just yet, but I’m curious.
By the way… do I espy in Finnian a likely convert? Or is that top secret? 😉
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Novel Start? in the forum Novel Idea Critiques 11 years ago
Wow… I like this. A lot.
I had a few suggestions, though.
First, let me say I really like Captain Quinn. I mean, really like him. Eamon has too many teeth. Finnian is a little more nervous than I think he wants to be.
And yeah. All that stuff.
It clung to the Finnian’s clothes and made them damp and sticky as he watched out into the night, k…[Read more] -
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Zombies and Vampires ~ Yeh or Bleh? in the forum General Writing Discussions 11 years ago
Haha! I know what you mean. I noticed that this great discussion was going on, and I wasn’t a part of it, and it made me want to go and kill someone off in my novel.
Okay… maybe not.
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Kate Flournoy posted a new activity comment 11 years ago
Hm… good question. 😛
I think it’s the kind of fantasy that isn’t full of stereotyped plot twists and characters who just toss magic around like it was nothing. It’s complex— believable. It has creatures no one has ever heard of before— in this case Naldo and Ingrim and Nervil, and beautiful moths that glow in the dark. 😉
It’s a fantasy…[Read more]-
Sounds awesome! I really love the fact that it’s full of hard-hitting themes and struggling/betraying stuff. I mean the chosen one (who’s usually an orphan) is so overused (even though I’m all for giving a stereotype and then psyching out the reader by flipping it). Fantasy, I believe, is written as a quality novel in a unique setting and unique…[Read more]
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Well, better to aim high and fall short than to aim too low and reach it. 🙂
Yes, it definitely helps to come from a unique perspective and think about the facets that aren’t usually explored in fantasy. One thing I forgot to mention in my first post was the villains. You probably noticed that most fantasy villains (speaking generally) are the…[Read more]
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Zombies and Vampires ~ Yeh or Bleh? in the forum General Writing Discussions 11 years ago
Isn’t it amazing that God actually cared that much about something that small? You didn’t laugh at the picture because you’re a fallen creature, fighting against the sin in your bones. Even though we’ve been trying all this time to wrap our minds around the deep moral dilemmas behind this complex, stirring issue . . . all that stopped for somethi…[Read more]
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Writing with meter in the forum Poetry 11 years ago
Oh good! I’m glad I was able to be of assistance.
Yes, ‘The Hobbit’ did have poetry in it, though more of it was on the comic side than is common with Tolkien. But then, the Hobbit was a bedtime story (he wrote it for his children) and it was on the whole lighter and more comical than the Lord of the Rings. The Lord of the Rings is a very…[Read more] -
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Favorites? in the forum Book Discussions 11 years ago
Tatiana— I’m always glad to meet another Tolkienite!
I totally agree about Faramir. In fact I’ve just been reading the LOTR for the second time (complete time, that is— skimming doesn’t count) and I found myself falling in love with him all over again. Sometimes I just cannot choose who my favorite characters are, no matter how much I like…[Read more] -
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic A Sort of Dark Story in the forum Short Story Critiques 11 years ago
True. 😀
That’s a really interesting context, Mark. It doesn’t feel icky as I had imagined anything having to do with an ‘undead’ personality would have. Maybe it’s because you didn’t do it simply for a cheap horror effect. I like it. -
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic Writing with meter in the forum Poetry 11 years ago
You must have got the same storm we are getting now! What a small world it is…
Um… I won’t be much help, because I write poetry almost exclusively by ear, but I read your poem and to my highly sensitive ears it sounds very rhythmic and controlled, yet it flows well. The only thing I would suggest would be instead of ‘Storm cloud rifts the…[Read more] -
Kate Flournoy replied to the topic A Sort of Dark Story in the forum Short Story Critiques 11 years ago
It’s certainly very gripping. I’ve never really read much dark fiction simply because I haven’t ever found any near to hand. Other than Sherlock Holmes, which—forgive me— I don’t like. This story gave me a very intense feeling like something constricting around my heart— an icy fist, if you will permit me to use a stereotyped expression.…[Read more]
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Kate Flournoy started the topic Maps in the forum Fantasy 11 years ago
Okay people. New topic. You know those really cool maps in the front of the Lord of the Rings? Who doesn’t love those? What reader did not find those maps very, very useful? And aren’t they just so amazing to look at? I find all maps fascinating, and in the front of a book taking place in unfamiliar territory they can mean the difference between a…[Read more]
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Kate Flournoy replied to the topic The Depths of Description in the forum General Writing Discussions 11 years ago
Well, when you put it that way…
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Yeah, that’s totes a thing. A lot of my project conceptualizations start with the phrase “it can’t be done”, oftentimes coming from my own mouth, before my overarching (and highly optimistic) ideology of NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE kicks in. This idea though, while it had traces of that, was more of a, “Hey, this hasn’t been done yet, let’s go for…[Read more]
Wow. That’s great. If anyone can take something totally depressing and make it comic, it will be you. 😛
What kind of comedy are you going for? Slapstick? Snarky, sarcastic humor? Irony? Or wit? The only kind of humor I seem to be able to handle well is a mix of the snarky, sarcastic humor and the wit. For some reason I just can’t do slapstick…[Read more]
My current style is very . . . British? It combines a very specific type of narrative tone with completely ridiculous things happening, but very specific character development that births the type of everyday comedy people have in conversations, which keeps the story grounded. At least, that’s what I think I’m doing. I’m no pro, I’m just kinda…[Read more]
Riiiiiiiight. Gotcha. >D Hey, I thought the punchline was ‘Get rid of cable’!
I think I know what you mean about a ‘British’ style. Did you mean the kind of dry, matter-of-fact style that takes everything in stride no matter how wacky it is?
And then of course the dialogue. I’ll have to say most of the humor I write is in the dialogue. All my…[Read more]