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@anna-brie You have a queen? Is she more of a national figure or does she actually have a position in government? Who is she?

Does sound kinda like a Brittish-American mesh. Do prime ministers have term limits?

Hi howdy hey. Welcome aboard Adry!

Totally get you about the cereal box thing.

You’ll love this place. My two cent’s worth. Seriously, I’m that frugal.

@anna-brie

Hope covered a lot of it. One thing about the states is that they all have their own constitutions so their state governments do vary.

As far is the presidential election, each party decides how their primaries are run. I don’t know very much about how the democratic primaries work (and I don’t even have the republican primary system…[Read more]

Okay, scratch the first post. 😉 I have to share a little bit about one of my favorite cultures with you.

So, there are these short people that look like really ugly dwarves. People call them trolls. But they’re not— they’re actually Ingrim.
Theirs is a very solemn, serious culture— they live underground, in all these magnificent but simple…[Read more]

Welcome to KP, @adry_grace! I’ve not read a ton of scifi, but I have a scifi novel all planned out that I’m super excited about. Why do you like scifi so much, if you can tell me? Is it just all the awesome, confusing, techy stuff that makes no sense and makes your head spin? 😉

And: Salutations. 😉

Oh yikes yikes yikes, you guys, that’s a lot. Very impressive.

I would share mine, but y’all would be stuck reading one post all day. 😉 Besides, a lot of it is still moving and growing and shifting, so I’m hesitant to put down anything in stone.
I have so many cultures, and so many different ways they changed, and morphed into other cultures…[Read more]

The truth does tend to be beautiful, @Rolena-hatfield and @overcomer. 🙂

Quite fun. I think this might have come from boiled potatoes from blue sky.

It’s a good thing that you think so seriously about stuff like this, Mallory! I admire that, truly. One thing that helps me with this when I struggle over the difference between ‘making a name for myself’ and glorifying God is to remember that this gift isn’t even mine to be proud of. God gave it to me. There’s nothing at all I did to earn or…[Read more]

Well, I guess it all depends on why you want to use a pen name. For the longest time I thought I would be forced to— my last name being, as you see, rather an odd and unpronounceable one. 😉 But when I finally came to a decision, I realized that nothing, absolutely nothing, would compare to seeing my very own real name printed out on the cover…[Read more]

There is certainly nothing discreditable about them. What it really comes down to is what do you want to be associated with. I understand the author of fifty shades used a pen name. I think the reason’s obvious. If your main activity is going to be advanced mathematics, you might not want to have the same name associated with children’s books you…[Read more]

Quit school. That’s one solution.

I like the idea of a chapter a week.

I don’t know about others, but skype would be too much for me. First of all, our internet won’t currently support it, though we’re supposed to get unlimited soon. Also, I do better when I can just pop in and make a comment, take a break, and then come back again. That way I can take my time analyzing things…[Read more]

Much better @bluejay

If you wanted to make a children’s book, you’d have to have an illustrator unless you can do it yourself. You’d probably want a couple more stanza’s too and I would make it a whole stanza a page. You can self-publish children’s books in paper and e-formats or you could shoot for a publisher if you prefer that.

Oops, somehow I forgot about this.

Looks good, but you’ve two lines that don’t quite work grammatically. I’ll just list them for you. What’s in the parentheses won’t necessarily work poetically, but it’s what would make the line work grammatically.

I’ll wipe out human (should be “humanity”)

And thunderclouds to pour (should be “poured”)

@ingridrd

Yes, I think we win actually. There’s you, Greta, Kate, and me. I’ve lived near Columbus most of my life, so chances we probably have some mutual friends or something.

@christianna-hellwig

Ok, you can get a piece of the pie. Fact is though, they didn’t have to choose Kitty Hawk, but the people who actually did all the work (and 95%…[Read more]

@christianna-hellwig

Aren’t you the ones that have the licence plate feud with us over who can really claim the Wright brothers?

Oh yeah, another Amerifact is that we invented the airplane (or if you’r an ooparts fanatic, perhaps we reinvented it)

Gene Stratton-Porter! I can’t believe I forgot her— everybody should read Gene Stratton-Porter. Fantastic with characters.

Taken from Daeus’ Encyclopedic Unabridged Fictionary of the English Language.

A good conversion is:

.Essential to the plot. If you don’t have to rewrite the story by taking it out, it will probably seem thrown in there.
.Carefully built up to. This is just the way it is with any character arc. The reason for the incident that led to his…[Read more]