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Welcome to the site, @koryn-koch! I believe I remember seeing your name around the YWW groups. 🙂 High-five for another Hamilton lover. I listen to that soundtrack way too much. xD What type of fiction do you like to write?

@mark-kamibaya So that’s what brainstorming looks like.
Awesome.

Yikes, I’m late.
Bad llama.
Anyways.
Hi, Addie! Welcome to KP! It’s great to have you here!
Word of warning in case you haven’t been warned. Watch out for dragons. 😛

@leumeister Whatever works, right?

@daeus When you mentioned the hills, I did think of Tolkien too. He does linger on his descriptions.
*hides in dragon hoard*
I will not tell anyone. 😛

@leumeister … I suppose that would make a difference.

@daeus Haha! Nice. 😛
You have quite a nice British accent, may I say.

And geography. How long do they have to linger on the way that the mountains reach into the sky? 😀

@perfectfifths I will answer to your call and draw Jem.
@leumeister I have a few villains that sound like Jansen, I’ll draw him. 😀

@LifeofKatie @bethanysinkyroses @Kate-Flournoy @Emma-Flournoy @Ethryndal

Jasper’s check-up results came in today. He’s all healed up!

@anyone
I’ll be here till 9-ish brainstorming.

@EpicAddie2 That makes sense; one of the most helpful books I’ve read on that topic is 12 Editors Tackle the 12 Fatal Flaws of Fiction Writing by C.S. Laskin (actually did a review of it here: https://kingdompen.org/kp-book-review-5-editors-tackle-the-12-fatal-flaws-of-fiction-writing-by-c-s-lakin-et-al/) If you get the chance to read it, it should…[Read more]

@SeekJustice The one YA book I’ve read with an older protagonist is Wayne Thomas Batson’s Sword in the Stars. Haven’t seen it done anywhere else, and have likewise read that you shouldn’t have YA protagonists much above college age. That being said, it’s also good for a protagonist to be older than the reader, since apparently younger readers find…[Read more]

@Northerner Oooh, I have heard a lot about Realm Makers. Will definitely look more into it. 🙂

@Aratrea Thanks! I’ll check it out. 🙂

@SeekJustice Great question! I just recently went through trying to figure this out myself. 🙂
I’m not sure I have a definitive answer, but I can definitely share how my reading experience differs depending on the MC’s age which may help a bit. 🙂

As a reader, the MC’s age is definitely a factor when I’m deciding whether or not I buy the book or…[Read more]

@SeekJustice Great question! I just recently went through trying to figure this out myself. 🙂
I’m not sure I have a definitive answer, but I can definitely share how my reading experience differs depending on the MC’s age which may help a bit. 🙂

As a reader, the MC’s age is definitely a factor when I’m deciding whether or not I buy the book or…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy *stops snickering*
*bursts into uncontrollable laughter*
Dragon Snapper will never stop laughing. XD

@seekjustice
Great question!
First, let me try to think up a reasonable response…
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Personally, I love it when the character is exactly my age, but because YA is such a broad age group, that rarely happens. From 12-18, it’s hard to find a happy medium for everyone in an age group.
So.
As far as I know, the characters I’ve read in YA have…[Read more]

I’m here till 9. 🙂

@that_writer_girl_99 Barely. My brother and sister are begging me to turn out the light, so I told em I’d stop at 10:30. XD