Kathleen

@devastate-lasting i completely forgot to answer your first question!  I visited a mining museum that was super cool.  It just looked like a little shop, and the the tour guide just opened a door and led us into a tunnel undeground.  It was super cool!  There were these cool blue mineral deposits on the walls, and he talked about the history beh…[Read more]

@kathleenramm It’s based off the Warriors series, about cats, but most of the characters are from Star Wars (such as Echopelt, whose real name is just Echo; he’s a clone trooper-turned-cyborg in the Star Wars animated tv shows). The rest of the characters, including Feathertail and Crossfire, are of my own creation.

@kathleenramm About five or six years ago I started writing it. Stories, hmm…maybe it’s been a decade. It’s been a long time, ha…

@kathleenramm thanks!!

the idea for the fantasy one was a griffin keychain pendant and an idea that sprouted from my childhood world I invented when I was about 10.

The inspiration for the sci fi was… um… good question. XD wanting to try my hand in it and the character was based on my personality but obviously not my life lol.

Honestly……[Read more]

@lewilliams Ahhh thank youu!!! I designed the cover with Ibis Paint X (a free illustration app that I loooveee so muchhh) and for the actual video, I used plain ol’ Canva! (This was my first time to make a video using Canva, and I must say, my respect for them only grew XD). Thank you so much!! (Pshh girl, you’re asking me, a girl with a soul from…[Read more]

@kathleenramm,

Uhhh…. tough question to answer ’cause I’m pantsing it all the way through. But since I have a vague idea of where the story’s gonna go next, I’d have to say

1. If they don’t win the war Kismena is crushed. Dead. Annihilated. Oh, and did I mention they’re in trouble? And if the kingdom falls, so do it’s inhabitants….

2.…[Read more]

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Thanks!  Well, i always had the idea for Hope’s character in the back of my head, but watching the Will Smith movie, I Am Legend inspired me to expand the plot.  That movie, paired with Interstellar really sealed the bill for me. XD  I love complex plots, high stakes, and characters searching for family/romance, so this story is b…[Read more]

@kathleenramm This is actually the sequel of a sequel of a spinoff for my original idea for Thirteen Ways, ha… It started out with me wanting to make a world where I could escape to, and gradually I just added on, and on, and on… And now, thankfully, I’ve run out of ideas for it.

@kathleenramm intriguing!!

My plot stake? in my fantasy it’s these:

Stake 1: If they fail the world is destroyed by giant dragons.

Stake 2. If they fail they die in painful ways and goblins take over what is left of said demolished world.

my sci-fi novel…

1: If they fail to keep away from the lab that screwed up their genetics and made them…[Read more]

@kathleenramm The characters are quite good! They definitely get more fleshed out as the series goes on (I’m thinking of one ((Fitz)) in particular), and the dynamics are all very interesting. It’s a large enough cast so that their interactions are never dull, if you know what I mean. I’m currently impatiently waiting on someone to return Book 6…[Read more]

@kathleenramm I’m gonna use the current arc of Thirteen Ways since the stakes are the clearest. Basic premise: they need to gather ingredients for a spell to vanquish a demon. If they don’t, then some friends and family are lost forever to the demon.

In order to collect the ingredients, they must defeat the guardians of some of the ingredients.…[Read more]

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for my WIP Spirals, the stakes are the choices between life and death.  Hope, the MC, lives alone in the wild and wants a “family” more than anything: parents, friends, anyone.  Every decision she makes decides if she’ll survive the next morning.  The people living in the post-apocalyptic world are basically insane so she never know…[Read more]

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One of my new favorite books, Ignite by Jenna Terese! It is amazing!

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I basically get story ideas from just about anywhere. Any interesting situation that I am in or people that I am around may spark a few ideas. I come up with a lot of ideas at night while either dreaming or trying to fall asleep. Ideas will also just randomly pop into my head while I’m feeding the chickens or washing the dishes. The…[Read more]

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I just finished Lord of the Rings last night. It was awesome!

@kathleenramm Good luck on your story! Yes, now I think I want to incorporate at least one delivery boy henchman into a future story. I love it when henchmen have distinct personalities and appearances. Makes the story much more fun.

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Okay, so I was originally gonna say I pants things, but then as I thought abt it, I realized that I legit plan nearly everything in my life. As I’m falling asleep at night, I usually dream abt two things. One, fiction, and two, the upcoming day and the events in it.

I find myself sympathizing with seekjustice and morgan on this…[Read more]

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yes, poor Colin. It also shows how critically important parents are; if you don’t teach your child to be confident and  a little independent, they literally cannot do things for themselves. And yes, he’s not a character I want to relate to but I can and it is encouraging to see his transformation!

as for my writing style… it was…[Read more]

@kathleenramm I fully pantsed some works some months ago. It was terrifying. Like, usually I have no idea where things are going when I’m writing, but at least I have an outline as a roadmap. No, for this I had one sheet of paper covered with characters I wanted to be  in it, and then another page for me to jot down ideas as I wrote.

And…[Read more]

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I’m currently pantsing my way through a fantasy novel and I have never written anything that was not pantsed. I have never been a person who can use outlines or plots and I also had no idea how my story would turn out when I started so trying to plot it would have been a disaster. I basically just came up with an idea and started…[Read more]