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I really like this, Kate! Really cements the like of Denholm I already had. 😉
One line that stood out to me and I’ll comment on now before a more in-depth read over. “Monotony becomes monotonous.” It’s funny and made me smirk while reading over it, but I think maybe with some rewording or additions it could be funnier if you want it to be.
It…[Read more]

That’s awesome, Hope! 🙂

The best simple thing to avoid mushy-ness is to make it just a really good friendship. They share jokes and tease each other and just generally act like best friends. If they’re in love, great. Just a step above friendship works great for romance in my opinion. 🙂

Say someone is searching for something on a particular topic. They search “humor”, but the topic’s name is “Comedy”. You could add “humor” into the tags to assist with searches to the topic can be more easily found.

That is actually using logical fallacies to your advantage. What you did was switch the supposed meaning of the word “it”. Plenty of potential in writing that kind of humor. Like blatant red herrings or bandwagon… cheap appeal to false authority… stuff like that. 😉
Red herring example:
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Comedy is actually a very fun thing to analyze. 🙂
Another thing, you’d probably get this because you’re in a big family like me, is interactions you actually observe. In a big family, I’ve been able to really realize the full humor of all people’s personalities just by themselves. Characters simply bouncing off each other can be unbelievably…[Read more]

Actually, one of my favorite authors wrote a fantasy trilogy like that. The Ascendance Trilogy by Jennifer A Nielsen. Just what you described. Very real world-ish, just in a made up land.

Cool! Back just in time for my favorite sort of topic. 🙂
Seeing on the point of exaggeration here, I must humbly object.
Exaggeration can be great and funny, but I’d say the place for it is prose or commentary within the writing itself (dialog is a bit tricky, but it depends on the character). An excess of it can really kill the humor and is more…[Read more]

This is such a great topic! Thank you, Rolena, now I get to share my characters with the world!

Protagonists:
Princess Asbee of Valor
Kadira
Winter Maher

Secondary Characters:
Chance Tudors
Lyric Donner
Laila
Sir Camden
Princess Rue

Villians:
The Benefactors (a group of men)
Qadir

Wow, I might have to look into that @kate-flournoy! Sounds like a GREAT book. 🙂

Wow, I might have to look into that @kate-flournoy! Sounds like a GREAT book. 🙂

Wow, I might have to look at that @kate-flournoy! Sounds like a GREAT book. 🙂

Welcome to Bag end, Mossflower! May the force be with you! Ummmm….. You might want this, it is iococane (Yes I give out poisons) It is recommended you get an immunity against this stuff. Look out for strange gifts, here, have a platypus, strange people, oh, wait, never mind, it seems to be a little late. If you have questions I’d love to help…..

I think you may be assigning Satan far more power than he actually has. Above all, Satan hates God’s light. When we shine that light on him and all his doings, there is nowhere for him to hide. When we are cowed and timid and afraid to speak of demonic things, or write of demonic things and show them for what twisted, hideous blackness they a…

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(I hope all this works the same as on the OYAN forum….)
I (Me, myself, who I am) think (My opinion, not necessarily correct) That we need the dark creatures.
Why?
some day, at noon when the sun is out, flip on your lights. What happens?
Even if you flip on all of them the room will not be much brighter.
Now, it is dark out (When I am writing…[Read more]

The system of power thing could work, but I’d say that’s treading on dangerous ground. In the bible, there are the outright miracles, true. But usually the prophet or person seeking help prays to God, gets direct instructions and follows them. There aren’t any incantations or wand-waving and nothing that closely resembles the magic we see in a lot…[Read more]

Yes, it is @Alia. I haven’t read the other books in the series; maybe I’ll pick one up over Christmas break. 🙂