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And Lieutenant Mucklestone of the army of nuts reporting. *salutes* G’day and welcome to Kingdom Pen, Anna! 🙂

It’s actually kind of hard to think of stuff… you guys are doing an awesome job as is.
I’ve looked at the serial novel publishing guidelines and it would be pretty cool to get one of those going. But I guess that’s up to us, not you guys. XD
Maybe organizing some KP webinars. Every month… every other month… something like that.
Oh, and the…[Read more]

@Hope, I don’t have a Pinterest, but I could use Google images. Thanks for the ideas! 🙂

Or maybe he is obsessed with marrying the MC and that is why he brought her to his castle, but she refused with vehement obstinance, so he sought the 9 powers so that he he control her to his will, and then found out that she controlled the 9 powers …

xD @Daeus

What I was asking is why he wanted to control them— why he wanted power, why he wanted prestige. It seems a little cheesy to me that he would want them simply for their own sake— simply because he’s wholeheartedly black and finds pleasure in them for the destruction he can wreak with them. What does he want to accomplish with them, and why?<…

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@Daeus, Yes! I completely agree. There has to be a happy medium between forcing the Biblical principals and you-can-do-whatever-you-want-because-God-will-love-you-anyway. 🙂

@Daeus, Yes! I completely agree.

@kate-flournoy, great suggestion! I’m definitely going to work with the plot…what I wrote is by no means set in stone. 😉 I’m definitely going to work out why the villain wants the 9 Powers; it actually drives me crazy in stories when the villain has no particular purpose for destroying things and terrorizing people…he just does because he’s…[Read more]

Exactly! @Daeus 🙂 We can’t avoid the rules in the Bible (kind of like assuming there is a God in novels, it should also be a given that the morals of the Bible are true), but we don’t have to outline them in our stories.

@writefury, thanks for the ideas! I’ll have to think about the contradictions idea. 🙂

The story, so far, is about a girl (the MC) who lives in a small town in another land. It’s fantasy, so I’m probably going to set the story in another world (which I haven’t figured out the name of yet 🙂 ). An evil king rules the country in which she…[Read more]

Yes, it does makes sense @kate-flournoy 😉 And I completely agree. Nobody wants to be given a bunch of rules to follow *coughmecough* 😛 I think that portraying God’s love (rather than all the “rules”), even in stories, will inspire people to seek God. A lot of people, I believe, think of Christianity as a bunch of rules. But it’s SO much…[Read more]

Interesting… on the forum posts it says it’s around 8 pm, but it’s 5 o’clock here in California… Wow, have I been paying attention.

Anyways, hello Anna! Welcome to Kingdom Pen! I have heard rumors that we writers here are crazier than the people on Tumblr. But that can’t be true… Can it? Well, just letting you know, once you join, there’s…[Read more]

A Tale of Two Cities is one of my all-time favorite historical fictions. (I feel that I’ve mentioned that one a lot in the forums I’ve been on!)
To all of you who have mentioned The Hidden Hand, thank you, thank you, thank you! I absolutely love that book!
@kate-flournoy and @daeus: I’m more than halfway through with The Count of Monte Cristo, and…[Read more]

@writefury, yes! I just can’t get over how ironic that is… 😛

Vivacious is another word I like. I love how it sounds 🙂

And there’s nothing like that sort of story to make math exciting. I always finish and I’m like “Ah! Now where’s my algebra book?” XD

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia – what a word! What does it mean? 🙂

I believe it’s the irrational fear of large words. Obviously invented by some cruel person. XD
And that hill name… wow. I got lost halfway through. You guys have some sort of nickname for it, right?

@gretald Glad to be of help. 😛 I’d take into consideration one of @kate-flournoy‘s points as well when your starting out. The bit about contradictions is definitely something to work with. Usually having a fish-out-of-water concept to work with starts off the inspiration quite a bit.
Cressida Cowell came up with Hiccup as “The Viking Who Was…[Read more]