Kate Flournoy

@kate-flournoy That would be positively fantastic! I’ll take all the beta-reader I can get. Baby sister, pet dragons, hobo friends, etc.

I realized after I decided on the plot that the story is just about what you’d expect to get if you mashed (guess what?) The Count of Monte Cristo, Ben-Hur, and A Tale of Two Cities together.

Ahhh, those times @kate-flournoy. Once we were playing Samson, so the kids tied me to a table and then shouted “SAMSON!!! THE PHILISTINES ARE ATTACKING!!!” and thankfully it was easy to get out.

Arianwen sounds awesome, @kate-flournoy!

I’ll be doing this with Captain Quinn.
He’s a firm believer in God, though doesn’t take opportunities to shove it in people’s faces. Selfless and loyal to his friends. Good logical thinker and problem solver. A dedicated optimist. If anyone here does character MBTI, he’s an ISFJ.
Physically, he’ll probably…[Read more]

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Thanks! So glad you like Cobalt. 😀 I fixed that typo thing with the blanket fort and had him just say he could put it over his head and still see everyone through it. But, definition-wise for the blanket fort, you’ve made a fort from chairs and blankets, haven’t you? I just meant that. Because Cobalt probably still makes them.…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy I know right! It’s so sad… 🙁

@kate-flournoy NaNo is pretty much like a writing exercise in so many words. It is a contest in its own right and if you do complete the 50k in one month you do get an award and a print out and it keeps a record of it.
It is not a curriculum, though you could use it as a writing tool/challenge.

It got started when a small group of guys came up…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy I enjoyed reading this!
One thing though; the beginning ‘ands’ of each line in this are distracting and kind of…make it bland. Some of them are necessary, but not quite that many. What I suggest is taking it through another round of revision and taking out the ‘ands’ one sentence at a time. Read it out loud and see how it sounds.…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy That makes it even better. Yes, much better, and I think his best friend should employ some creative magic tricks to stop him – though it won’t be good enough.

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What is life? What is me? What is the use of me? Oh me. Oh my. Oh, oh oh oh. woe

Thanks, @kate-flournoy! 🙂 Yeah, both those lines were not sitting quite well. I’ll make those changes.
Do you think there’s a better word with the same syllables I can use instead of “harmless”?

@kate-flournoy: lol! Yes, you are definitely in good company. Awesome, thanks for the suggestion. That was one of the lines I was actually poking with like “why are you not doing the things I want you to do, hmm?” I also don’t drink coffee (well, I kind of don’t– like, only when someone’s like “let’s go get coffee” and it’s a social obligation),…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy, @a-knight-of-the-prince Self-driving/hover cars, already done. 🙂 I call them Trans or P-Trans (short for Personal Transport). They all contain chips that interconnect with all the other Trans and so prevent accidents (normally). They hover using magnetic technology and so there are rails embedded into the road. Which makes it…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy, @a-knight-of-the-prince Self-driving/hover cars, already done. 🙂 I call them Trans or P-Trans (short for Personal Transport). They all contain chips that interconnect with all the other Trans and so prevent accidents (normally). They hover using magnetic technology and so there are rails embedded into the road. Which makes it…[Read more]

Good stuff, @kate-flournoy! 1 especially. That’s the thing that in my mind that tip the villain scales to frightening.
The quote was from Josephine Tey’s book, “The Singing Sands”. The speaker is Inspector Alan Grant, one of the most awesome MCs of all time. There are actually a few other observations on villainy and such in The Daughter of Time,…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy Yes, I have read The Griffin and the Minor Canon…it was pretty amusing. 🙂

I think…I think I did write a story from a dragon’s POV. Or at least part of it was from her POV. It’s been awhile, and there was a dragon and another character, so I can’t remember who I stayed with. The hardest part is describing them because to…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy Hmm, evil dragons. I know they are bad in quite a few stories, but they’ve always been good in mine so far. It would be fun to have a bad dragon though. Or a bad griffin. 🙂

@kate-flournoy Hmm, so you wanted my thoughts on ‘magic’? I don’t have much time right now, but here are the different categories I have for ‘power’ things…a very unoriginal term, I know. But by this I mean things we normal humans can’t do. And it is all to be thought of in a fantasy setting.

!. Special powers in a fantasy race; such as…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy I’m just reiterating what this big name director guy said. I forgot his name (does that make him not a big name director?), but he was like, “Try to get people who actually want to act, to act. It’s a better opportunity for both them and you.” Or something to that extent. Well, I guess if you can’t do it the easy way . . . <cue evil…[Read more]