Kate Flournoy

I think it can also depend on the audience that you’re aiming for. I once read a book about Ash Wednesday which was an extremely (not exaggerating) bad fire that swept through South Australia. It had a lot of horrible detail for the afterwards (you know, burnt houses, animals, people) But it is a book I would read again, because I know it is a…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy Yep. He’s pretty much the classic bully-villain type. Everyone has to do what he says NOW. Or else.
And he has wonderful respect for everyone around him. Fall under his slightest displeasure and you are deemed a “butthead”. XP

Exactly, @kate-flournoy. The arc of the story needs to have a slow rise to a lesson. Not just wandering along as a flat line and then a sudden lesson spike up right at the end.
Also, both those movies were pretty good, conceptually. But when you aren’t able to root for the characters, it’s a big hole in the storytelling.

@kate-flournoy In retrospect, it’s sort of already been done. Have you ever seen Biff Tannen from Back to the Future? XP

Ooh, @kate-flournoy, I think you’re onto something. If there is a way to turn the birds against the good guys and take away their powers from singing, then the king is obviously weakened. What about the rest of the kingdom- do they have anything to do with birds, and would the fall of the birds (ha, that would make a creepy title) directly cause…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy and @sarah-h Loved that idea! XD We actually have a running joke in our family that I’m “Somebody” and my brother is “Everybody”. 😛

“I say… er… good sir?” I squinted against the bright sunlight to the guide loading the camels ahead. He looked up at me, his white teeth contrasting sharply against his nut brown face.

“Yes,…[Read more]

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Yeah, that makes sense. So the author voice isn’t all evil after all.

The example you gave gave me an idea. I think the proper use of the author voice is for statements of truth as opposed to statements of what happened. Things like, “The brave die young” or “a fall of 1000 feet had a high chance of fatality” or “few men really…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy: Wow, that’s so cool your last name is a Huguenot one! I recently learned about the Huguenots in my French class. They were tough bunch of people. 😀

Dialog is probably my easiest part to make sound interesting. But I’m trying to stop using it as a crutch.
I agree with what @kate-flournoy said about saying what you want your reader to see. Just ascribe the most vital and interesting parts of the movie in your head. Also interesting comparisons and descriptions, original ones especially, really…[Read more]

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Hey, the Huguenots took a lot of battering and held strong. I guess their names can too. And French? Really? I thought the Huguenots were Swahili.

… Ok, not really.

Man, stop making me envious. Yeah, you kept to the rule really well. Actually though, when writing a conversation, I tend to do fairly well at keeping things moment…[Read more]

Why do I keep misspelling your name? @kate-flournoy. There. Much better.

@kate-flournoy: Now THAT would be something. 😛

@kate-flournoy That top one actually sounds like the plot of Eight Cousins to an extent. XD

A super cheerful, perky character who swooshes around in a long, evil-looking, black hooded cape.

@kate-flournoy Maybe both together… XD

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It was great to take that webinar. It is just as good to be done and come here.

When it comes to arguments like these, I tend to prefer the point by point approach. I’ll try to use that here. C.S.Lewis justifies the Calormen soldier in this way:

1. He who seeks good seeks the God who is good.
2. He who seeks the God who is good…[Read more]

I totally agree with you, @kate-flournoy. I was talking with a friend recently, and she was asking me all sorts of hard questions about God and life and something like this came up. I don’t remember the exact wording, but I know I said something that if you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He died to save you from your sins and…[Read more]

Fluvial geomorphologist is someone who is devoted to understanding rivers, both in their natural setting as well as how they respond to human-induced changes in a watershed. 😛 😛 😛
How did you know about it @anna-brie? I had to google it to find out. I’d never have thought of it if someone had asked me. 😀 My knowledge is not that great.

Oops…[Read more]

Probably. Still, I think it would be nice. 🙂 Maybe just not as a book.

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@kate-flournoy. I find I ask myself (when I’m writing about girls) “what would I do in this situation?” Anna (Anna’s Savanna) and Tess (Princess Tess and the Perfect Story) are based on my views and opinions, and yet I still don’t feel like they are me. I don’t make them me, I just give them a few good ideas and then let them handle the rest.…[Read more]

I am officially dominating this section with a bunch of posts that should have all been one. Here is the tag thingy *dramatic pause* spelled correctly. @kate-flournoy