Kate Flournoy

(fyi for anyone, I will be writing off and on all day)

@jenwriter17, Cool! Editing is soooo much fun on a tight schedule. You had a professional editor look at it, right?

Thank you! I have both the 1st and 2nd draft open at once, and I realized that already the 2nd draft has a much darker, but more plot appropriate tone to it

@devastate-lasting

I got Dan Brown, Stephan King, and George Orwell (I wanted to see how many different ones I could get from one sample. Apparently the beginning is Orwell, middle is Brown, and ending is King from the 7 paragraphs used)

@jenwriter17

here’s the first page of my WIP. thoughts?

Everyone knelt, the white fog weighing heavy around them. Jycin could feel his legs growing stiff in the cool damp air, but he dared not move. They would be coming at any moment and he didn’t have the luxury of playing with fate. He closed eyes and tried to distract himself with thoughts of…

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@jenwriter17,

Hey! You working on Ignite? Also, is it the same doc as before that you have us beta reading? or am I just missing it?

@jenwriter17, @rochellaine, @seekjustice (you’re probably asleep…I’m too lazy to look up what time it is for you though so just in case I shall tag you), @valtmy (same), @gracie-j, @dekreel, @catwing, @anyone-else

I’m writing! Anyone want to word war, chat musicals, chat plot, chat deaths, or chat about literally anything?

@r-m-archer Thanks!

@gracie-j Thank you! Also my synopsis…

Jycin is a simple weaver in a simple village. Or at least he was. But when his sins lead to the choice of joining the hated priests or have his family killed, he discovers there is a much bigger world than he could have dreamed of. Faced with the future of losing his daughter, Jycin…

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@e-k-seaver

I’ll do what I can!

@alia It’s setting the chapter/book up to dramatic and mysterious, so I think as long as you follow through on the promise very quickly, it’s all good!

@kathleenramm

First of all, I completely agree about MacGuffins. They’re not bad, after all, I would argue that LOTR is a reverse-MacGuffin-quest-thing, but they’re often lazy.

Secondly! My worst mistake? I don’t know exactly, but a lot of my early stories and novels suffered from far too many main characters and subplots connected to those…[Read more]

Or not. I have to get off now

I’ll be around for about 30 more minutes if I don’t get distracted by too much Tchaikovsky

@lewilliams, yours made me laugh

@e-k-seaver

Somehow life wouldn’t be quite the same after all, even though no one would remember.

@anyone interested

@jenwriter17, maybe for another hour, then my day gets pretty busy

@rochellaine, @seekjustice, @jenwriter17, @valtmy, @catwing, @dekreel, and anyone else

I am working on my 2nd draft if anyone wants to come chat for a bit

I meant I’m not writing

@rochellaine,

you still around? I’m writing right now but could chat for a bit

@r-m-archer

Can I just say that I absolutely love the name Tora! It’s actually my dog’s name and I think it’s so cool. Sorry, just had to get that in there 😀 😀 😀

@kathleenramm

I honestly think my biggest struggle with writing is balancing it with the rest of my life. I have a very all-or-nothing personality and I can go for months without…[Read more]

Anyone around? I’m just working on some blog posts 😀

@gracie-j @jenwriter17 @rochellaine @valtmy @alia