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@overcomer it reads like a poem, but in theory it’s a prayer. I love it! Polish it up a bit, and I think it will be absolutely beautiful. 😀

I like them if they force me to think. Otherwise they just annoy me.

Hey, this is an awesome topic @Daeus. Thanks so much for starting it.
Your theory is perfectly accurate— that’s a really good way to look at it. A plot-twist is when you reach the door at the end of the tunnel and it slams in your face, but a second door opens to your right. You’re still moving forward, but the playing field has changed.

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@overcomer Hey, I love that pun!

So we are officially reading through at a pace of two chapters a week, but you can read ahead if you want. All I ask is that you don’t give away any spoilers. Right now we are discussing the first two chapters, but we will be starting the next two on Monday.

@kate-flournoy, @hannah-c, @bluejay Just wanted to let you know that I probably won’t be able to make it tonight. I’ll try to join in if I can though.

@winter-rose Yes, that’s the one I was thinking of, but I feel like there was another one too. Oh, well. The Dreamlander opening was awsome.

@Daeus drat.

@kate-flournoy Nah, dreams don’t have many rules.

@bluejay you could write a story about a girl who finds a huge golden conch on the beach and takes it home, only to realize during the night that it’s whispering to her. And when she puts it to her ear, she discovers that this shell belonged to the queen of the Lost city of Atlantis… and wants to tell her the story of its destruction.

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Hehee… I gave you the perfect excuse in baking you that cookie, didn’t I @Daeus?
If we’re talking excuses here, I was struggling my way through a present tense dream sequence. Does that count for anything? 😛

@kate-flournoy Well I had to completely rewrite a scene, but I got 594 words done. Of course, we all know I would have gotten 1,846 words except that I was too busy nibbling on my eternal cookie and I couldn’t keep concentrated.

Okay @Daeus, I got 870 words edited. Not too bad. What did you get?

@bluejay You can have half of my cookie. It’s everlasting, so it won’t matter.

I’m sure you’ll think up something soon. Maybe try reading a novel. I get all sorts of ideas reading other people’s writing.

@Daeus yup. Here goes. See ya then.

@kate-flournoy As I nibble on my everlasting cookie, I remember that I should be writing now. Can you go till 9?

Do you mean hooks @gretald? That’s what I’ve always heard them called (though there are many names for everything). You mean some sort of exciting first line/paragraph that really catches people’s attention, I assume.

I guess I’m not obsessed with them, since, of the two books I’ve ever written, my novella started off with a setting description…[Read more]

Some of the best authors (like Jane Austen) begin their novels horribly…

What?! @gretald I think the beginning of Pride and Prejudice is one of the very best opening sentences of all time! ‘It is universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife’— what’s left to be desired? 😛
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Oh— and here’s your cookie. *hands you cookie* I doesn’t look like much, but looks can be deceiving. 😉

Ha! You need to take math again

What???????? What did I say? What did I do @Daeus? 😛 I didn’t think my horrible mathematical abilities were that obvious…