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@gretad 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]

YES! I totally forgot Carry on Mr. Bowditch. That one is amazing. I’ve reread it like 3 times. 😛

@Daeus, Yes! Doesn’t Tolkien use the word discombobulated? Or maybe I’m thinking of confusticated. 🙂

Some of my personal favorites are pseudonym (I just love that way it sounds) and hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (I think I spelled that right…).

Hi everyone! Sorry I didn’t respond sooner. 🙂

Thank you all for your advise! @writefury, I haven’t done much of anything yet…I guess I didn’t know where to start (but I did come up with the MC’s name, which is a start 🙂 ).

@hannah-krynicki, that’s a great idea! I’ll have to try that.

@kate-flournoy and @daeus, I will have to refer back…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy Heeeey! Within the Palace Gates! We just finished that as a school read-aloud in our family. 😀 It was pretty good. I had that same problem you mentioned with it sort of niggling the whole way through. But, hey, at least they didn’t outrightly change anything the Bible said. that was all just expanding on it.
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Anything by Lois Walfrid Johnson is great, though I think Viking Quest is my favorite. And I’ll back up @sarah-h on the Zion Covenant and Zion Chronicles, though I had to wait for a bit until I was old enough to read the second one in the Chronicles.
A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Neilsen (a family separated by the Berlin wall. Pretty…[Read more]

Algorithm.
Does anyone else get words stuck in their heads? A lot of the time it’s words that I don’t know. Algorithm was stuck in my head for a few days before I actually looked it up. 😛

The Viking Quest series by Lois Walfrid Johnson. The whole series is really bittersweet, which I love!

You know you’re a writer when you’ve considered rewriting someone else’s book, because you know that you can write character dialogue and plot lines WAAYY better than the author.

Ho yes. Lots of fun stuff to do with characters. *rubs hands together gleefully*
So, what have you done so far? Do you have the characters and need to develop them, or are we starting from scratch here?
Get down the basics to start out with. Name and/or nicknames. General appearance and personality. Likes and dislikes. That sorta stuff. Finding…[Read more]

And the point is not so much ‘put as much Christian behavior as you can’ as it is ‘write your story inside out with Christianity at the center, and the Christian behavior will follow.’ It will flow naturally and realistically and characteristically into the story if it is the heart of the story.

Exactly. I probably would have worded it better…[Read more]

@Daeus, yes! Gandalf has so many great quotes. My favorite is probably “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” 🙂

@writefury: Great thoughts! Honestly, I forget to pray. A lot. And that’s not how it should be. But a lot of times, that’s the way people are; they need help, and suddenly they remember that…[Read more]

Wow. Gone for a day and I get to come back to this beauty. Seriously, we’ve got some great stuff in this topic already, guys. I might have to keep this open as a reference for my WIP. 😛
The realistic prayer thing is really something I watch myself carefully for. It’s never really a “fold your hands, get on your knees and reverently close your…[Read more]

I think #3 or #2. They’re the clearest when small.
I think the reason it showed up as a link would be that you didn’t put it in the image box. Here let me try…

Sorry, I just kind of put all my thoughts out there. 😛

The existence of God is a given. Now this one sounds like an absolute no-brainer, but when you think about it it really isn’t. I mean, how easy would it be to assume the person reading your book is a staunch atheist and just dump all the evidence for God’s existence off on them? Very easy.
The thing is, when a reader picks up a piece of fic…

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