Kylie

Hey guys, I’ve been thinking. How do you encourage a reader to like a character who is already dead? And with minimal flashbacks? And and without being boringly sad? I have a few ideas, but this has been a challenge so far and I was wondering what everyone else thinks.

@rae

Gotcha.

Alright, here is my feedback!

~ Which character(s) did you find the most compelling/relatable/believable and why?

You know Tyn and Cyrus were my favorites from the previous book. In this book, I enjoyed James and Eric (post-memory wipe), both for their enthusiasm. Iskyagus was fun as well for the brief moment he was there.

~ Were there any c…

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@ellette-giselle

I like Evan, he’s probably my favorite. The other guys sort of blend together a little for me (that might just be a me thing though.) Amber is fun too.

@ellette-giselle

Exactly.

@ellette-giselle

Yikes. Poor Jonathan.

@rae

Thanks for the update!! I’ll keep praying!

How have you been feeling?

@ellette-giselle

Good chapters!

Amber and James both have tough backstories…

Be careful out there, fellow writers 👀😂

@ellette-giselle

Evan’s story is crazy. He must sympathize with Jonathan a lot.

@linus-smallprint

(: thank you.

@keilah-h @linus-smallprint

Yeah, probably, I just like overthinking :p

@linus-smallprint

And in Wanted when tco is flying past the wind turbines we see a brief shot of him from behind and it doesn’t even look like his torso is connected to his head, which it would be if it was 2D.

@linus-smallprint

Hm, I kind of think it’s a sphere based on just how it looks in the 3D world (in Wanted you get a lot of shots of tco flying from above and it seems like a sphere), but the shorts do seem to imply that they’re flat…

Plus, in ‘Victim’, when victim holds the flower wreath to his face, we see it from the side and if his head was…[Read more]

@linus-smallprint

Good idea.

And that’s pretty good!

Ok, debate time, is his head a flat circle or a 3D sphere that has an outline no matter what angle you look at it from? Because both seem to be implied at different times 🤔

@linus-smallprint

My sister and I don’t think he’s going to excuse Victum’s actions and we will get a redemption arc instead, but we will see. The way she puts it, ‘Victum is bad, and his actions aren’t justified, but after that, I really don’t want things to go badly for him because I now understand him!’

This! It drives me crazy how much of t…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle

Oh no, no way, they’d better not do that. I trust that Alan knows better, though.

@ellette-giselle

But here’s the thing. Yes, victim is now a villain, and made those choices. His actions in The Box were definitely evil. But TCO was also an actual murderer and what Alan did to victim was also really bad.

So, I wouldn’t say he’s a misunderstood villain, but his motives definitely make sense and you cant deny that his backstory…[Read more]

@linus-smallprint

Nobody watches The King without (at least almost) crying. There are no exceptions.

@ellette-giselle

Orange is technically called The Second Coming, but Alan and Green both just call him Orange, so that’s what I call him :p