@kate-flournoy
Active 8 years, 3 months ago- Rank: Chosen One
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Mark Kamibaya replied to the topic Aspiring Cinematographer— Help! in the forum Film 10 years, 12 months ago
You can get movie scripts at IMSDB (Internet Movie Script Database). @kate-flournoy
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Hope Ann replied to the topic Beta Reading: King's Armor in the forum Novel Idea Critiques 11 years ago
@Kate-Flournoy I got your e-mail. 🙂 I’ll send along the first part in the next few days. Glad you liked the first paragraphs…I just hope the rest of the story holds up as well. 😉
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Hope Ann replied to the topic Beta Reading: King's Armor in the forum Novel Idea Critiques 11 years ago
@Kate-Flournoy that works…and if you get too busy, that’s fine. Life happens. 😉 There’s a link to my blog in the first post (the blue ‘here’). Just contact me though the contact page…which should be working. I’ll get your e-mail that way and you can just say who you are and that you’re from here. 🙂
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Hope Ann replied to the topic Beta Reading: King's Armor in the forum Novel Idea Critiques 11 years ago
@kate-flournoy ‘word wielder’, I like that. 🙂
I like to get a few different opinions on my books…I don’t have an set number of beta readers (it’s pretty much anyone who’s interested). As for length, this book has grown at least 10,000 words since the first draft and I’ve another book that is about twice its length…and I can’t figure out how…[Read more]
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Hope Ann replied to the topic Beta Reading: King's Armor in the forum Novel Idea Critiques 11 years ago
@kate-flournoy The book is around 75,000 words long (125 pages, give or take a little).
@Daeus I’d love if you could look my book over…especially to (hopefully) make my fight scenes realistic.
It would depend on what is going on in a year, of course, but I’d probably be able to look over a longer book. I have a book of my own which is nearly…[Read more] -
Mark Kamibaya replied to the topic Aspiring Cinematographer— Help! in the forum Film 11 years ago
Here’s my two cents worth @kate-flournoy.
I love dialogue. Scripts are basically all dialogue. So get good in dialogue? I’m not an expert, but that’s what I’ve heard. Um . . . read Save the Cat. Or if you don’t want to spend money then check out the beat sheets on the website.
Read script-writing books. Read scripts. A lot of them. It takes a…[Read more]
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Mark Kamibaya replied to the topic Morally Perfect Characters in the forum General Writing Discussions 11 years ago
Thanks @kate-flournoy Charles Xavier said it from X-men Days of Future Past.
Who’s the other Mark? Sorry, but I haven’t been on here for a long time.
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Mark Kamibaya posted an update 11 years ago
@kate-flournoy sorry I should’ve seen it a while back when you posted it the first time. I’ll check it out and tell you what I think. ‘K? Thanks
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Hope Ann replied to the topic Heart-Stopping Moments in the forum General Writing Discussions 11 years ago
Oh yes, @kate-flournoy …Long white hands and fingers with a grip of steel, a sure sign it’s the Pimpernel. 🙂
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Hope Ann replied to the topic Heart-Stopping Moments in the forum General Writing Discussions 11 years ago
Rule #1: The Scarlet Pimpernel is never dead.
Rule #2: The Scarlet Pimpernel always knows what he’s doing.
Rule #3: Don’t mess with Sir. Percy’s wife.I love the Scarlet Pimpernel books; there are some pretty good parts. 🙂
One thing I find thrilling in books is when I get to a spot, and suddenly the title of the story makes…[Read more]
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Mark Kamibaya posted an update 11 years ago
@kate-flournoy So what exactly is quality fantasy?
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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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Okey dokey. Thanks so much.