Kathleen

@kathleenramm I am so late to this topic, i haven’t been on here in over two weeks lol

Well my greatest strength? whew, I am not sure; probably making new worlds and ideas with every moment I am awake and not preoccupied with life, so… endless ideas that I can use in stories? XD

Weakness…

Well, I’d say Im weak in a lot of areas, but…[Read more]

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Echoing what Trahia said, I thought you were supposed to use alternatives for ‘said’ whenever you could. School really screws us over telling us we can’t use ‘said’!

Other than that, I can’t really think of anything else. When I first started writing, I had never seen books that had explicit multiple perspectives (like the kind…[Read more]

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True, villains and antagonists don’t always need to be in a story. I’m usually writing some kind of story where they’re like, far away, so they don’t always show up in the main story (you know, like a Sauron kinda thing), so I always feel like I have to find ways to have them interact with the protagonist. But…I don’t always need…[Read more]

@kathleenramm Oh, almost everything. That you had to follow prose conventions taught in school or plot outlines that followed a specific formula, that your character had to go through a very specific and obvious development, that you had to write something that followed all of these things with a reasonable and expected ending…

None of those…[Read more]

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Hahaha, that’s funny you should mention that about the antagonist thing cuz my sister and I were just talking recently about how villains are actually not something you have to put in your writing and how even things like nature can be an “antagonist” in stories, like survival fiction!

Anyway, for me, it was long, thorough…[Read more]

@trahia-the-minstrel That’s a good tip! And @Kathleenramm I’ve written stories without villains before, but most of them have had some sort of antagonist. Even if it was the heroine’s overprotective older brother who wasn’t really trying to harm his sister.

Thanks, @kathleenramm 😊

I taught myself to draw when I was little, it was my greatest passion before I got into writing. I watched a lot of YouTube tutorials by a guy called Mark Crilley to get me started, and then gradually practiced more and more, using how to draw books and stuff. I used reference pictures to create the Arslan image, obviously…[Read more]

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Even though he doesn’t come in until the next little bit (I started this story just before I started working and took a break) Lucas, my hero is probably my favourite from what I know about him.

Lol that would be fun XD

@kathleenramm Hmmm… Bren, Marge, & Ripley are the ones I know the best. Those guys are my oldest characters/the ones I’ve had around for the longest, so I know them better than I do my other ones (lol sorry guys). My friend and I like to joke a lot about what Bren or Marge might say and do. I definitely know them better than my other characters.

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The plot itself is still being developed but this should give you an idea of the story concept:

Your name is special. It is who you are, giving you identity and individuality. It also has a meaning. It was often said that children live up to the meaning of their name. But what if it went beyond that? What if your name was the source…

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Story I’m particular proud of? My WIP for sure. Ig it’s cuz I’ve spent years hammering out fuzzy details, and mostly having fun with the plot.

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This is the best form of outline XD I depend heavily on inconsistency. (in the best way)

@kathleenramm I pretty much just practiced writing for a while, then I took a couple of courses on style and things, and then I just wrote a ton until sometime last year when I felt like my style is more like what it is now. And it’s still developing, though right now I’m finally finding it satisfactory.

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I usually have my story at least almost figured out but I don’t write an outline because then I feel stuck to that and my story changes in my mind a million times while I’m writing it (usually for the better.)

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Hi!

I haven’t written a premise so here’s my quickly 1 minute whipped together one.

When Mercedes wakes up in a foreign world, she must face trials to get home that inadvertently lead to an even bigger trial which will change her life forever.

I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember and I started writing because I loved…[Read more]

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Who told you to guilt me on editing?
But fr, my biggest weakness is my tense. Constantly changing from ‘actively doing something’ to ‘did it in the past’. Ugh, it’s such a pain to edit. But I think I’m getting better.

Strength would be creative ideas and plot, I think. That’s for sure the most fun for me too. Throwing together a…[Read more]

@kathleenramm My biggest weakness is probably editing. Editing is the thing I’ve spent least time on. It always makes me feel like I’ve never edited enough lol.

Biggest strength? At this point, probably my prose. That’s the only thing I get consistently complimented on.

@kathleenramm My biggest weakness is DEFINITELY staying consistent. I’m a pantser, and about 80% of my ideas happen as I’m writing. So when I don’t have ideas and am uninspired, I literally can’t write. And that makes writing VERY hard sometimes. *sighhh* I need to be better about just WRITING and not waiting for Miss Muse to come sit on my…[Read more]

@kathleenramm I like my Tron-Star Wars crossover, where I took the characters from my favorite show and the setting from my favorite movie and put them together. The characters are basically reenacting a modified version of the movie, but I really like writing it. I also like the stories where I made half-man, half-animal characters–people with…[Read more]

@kathleenramm I thought it was going to be more of a struggle between whether or not androids and humans have a difference and what it means to kill one… It took more of a 1984 direction, hhhh…