Kate Flournoy

Thanks. I went ahead and got it. It may take me a bit before I read it since I don’t read e-books in the evening and my day time is busy, but I will get to it sometime.

I did take a flip through it though. Smart job putting the email sign up link in there. Just one suggestion. Put some sort of visual there to grab readers attention. It could be a…[Read more]

@jadamae No, unfortunately I’m not a princess. I think she based on my feelings but really she’s not very much like me.
@writefury. Thank you. Yes, it was a KP critique awhile ago.
And thank you to @kate-flournoy and @gretald for your encouragement. 😀

I paused and crouched beside the remains of an old building. The loose rocks crumbled as my shoulder brushed them. I ground my teeth in frustration. This job needed absolute silence. The rain made things hard to see, but I knew that any further and I’d go over the edge of the cliff.
Quickly I scanned the skies for my transport. A flutter of wings…[Read more]

@Daeus, Haha, great story!

@writefury and @kate-flournoy, I was laughing so hard when I read that the pet frog died and was then resurrected. XD

Thanks, @kate-flournoy! I’m mostly writing free verse, as I don’t feel completely comfortable with rhyming poems yet. I’ll be sure to watch out for the long lines from now on.

About Beleg, yes, he was a bowman (and, I must say, one of my favorite characters in The Silmarillion), but apparently, one of the translations of my name into Elvish is…[Read more]

Silly phone and auto correct. Try again.
@kate-flournoy

@kate-flournoy the guy seemed pretty interesting. The scene displayed that he is important and that he has an unordinary life – a secret life to some degree. I also liked that he had a perfectly straight nose because that seemed to give him a personality unique to his type.

@kate-flournoy I don’t think all the adverbs and adjectives are bad. There is some good description here. The worst part is at the beginning. It would have been better I’m sure with some context, but there was an over description or at least ineffective description that made it feel like running through two foot water. It got much better later on.…[Read more]

A dragon with arthritis.
A griffon prone to colds.

Haha, those are great @kate-flournoy!

That thought, was an inspiring one! @kate-flournoy You almost got me to cry out in agony for the poor mother sitting there teary eyed as she watched the flickering flame go out in a little poof.

I love symbols. Especially when they are something other than a necklace. 🙂 Although I’ve used a necklace before in a book I’m actually working on…[Read more]

Awesome! @kate-flournoy It’s a great verse! 🙂

@kate-flournoy I might actually.

That’s perfect! @kate-flournoy 😛

I am loving these ideas!!! *scribbles ideas into official notebook of awesome KP people ideas* Y’all are rockstars. 🙂

@Daeus — LOL! I’ll see what we can do about that generator. 😉 I love the idea of the event board! What format do you think would be best for that? Also, digging new forum topic ideas. Get the people talking. What would be in…[Read more]

What I was asking is why he wanted to control them— why he wanted power, why he wanted prestige. It seems a little cheesy to me that he would want them simply for their own sake— simply because he’s wholeheartedly black and finds pleasure in them for the destruction he can wreak with them. What does he want to accomplish with them, and why?<…

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@kate-flournoy Sorry to disagree, but the villains desire to control the 9 powers seems the most natural thing in the world. If I personally were offered control of the whole world, I hope and would guess I might deny it, but don’t think for a moment it wouldn’t tempt me. Of course he wants power and prestige. Everybody does to one degree or…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy, great suggestion! I’m definitely going to work with the plot…what I wrote is by no means set in stone. 😉 I’m definitely going to work out why the villain wants the 9 Powers; it actually drives me crazy in stories when the villain has no particular purpose for destroying things and terrorizing people…he just does because he’s…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy Yeah, that makes sense. Of course the bible does lay down a clear right vs. wrong, but I don’t think our job as fiction writers is so much to explain the bible (though absolutely avoiding that could cause serious problems) but more to make people excited about the bible and to want to follow it themselves.

If we are writing solely…[Read more]

Yes, it does makes sense @kate-flournoy 😉 And I completely agree. Nobody wants to be given a bunch of rules to follow *coughmecough* 😛 I think that portraying God’s love (rather than all the “rules”), even in stories, will inspire people to seek God. A lot of people, I believe, think of Christianity as a bunch of rules. But it’s SO much…[Read more]

Wow! I have rels in Canberra. Yeah. It is so cold here. It was drizzling as we played a game of cricket and was overcast and not very summery. 🙁
Yes! Daydreams are great for short stories. @kate-flournoy has been telling me that everything has a story in it. You just have to think creatively. And it’s working for me. Last night I had a headache…[Read more]