Mark Kamibaya

@feedingmygoldfish Ah; nice. So Fitzgerald, Hemingway and the like?

@feedingmygoldfish Welcome to the forum! Glad to have you with us. Do you have any favorite literary time periods as a quasi-English major?

Ack! Overcommitted. Sorry, I like beta reading.

Wahoo! An outline’s not easy work. Congratulations on starting your first novel too.

1. Extended is a little relative. With my current WIP, I had all the plot points K.M.Weiland talks about outlined (minus one or two minor ones) before I started writing. Also, before every chapter, I spend at least an hour figuring out how the chapter is going to…[Read more]

@clairec *pats you on the back* Much congrats, girl! 😀 That’s super exciting!

As for your questions:
I don’t do extended outlines, because I find if I plan too much, I lose inspiration and motivation for that story. So I just stick with having a basic plot, a few planned ideas, and mostly winging it. Recently, however, I have revived a story I…[Read more]

@clairec Yes, Princess Bride if the best! Yes, same perfectfifths 😉 but actually my name is not Louise. That’s my pen name, and I thought I might as well stick it on here as well, so you know what books are by me when I get published 😉 XD But you can call me Louise, so you’re not saying Perfectfifths all the time 😀

@clairec Yes, Princess Bride if the best! Yes, same perfectfifths 😉 but actually my name is not Louise. That’s my pen name, and I thought I might as well stick it on here as well, so you know what books are by me when I get published 😉 XD

@clairec @ethryndal I want to say Princess Bride, too, and I am sure 😉 Okay, not super sure 😛 Are we right?

@that_writer_girl_99 Heh, no, that wouldn’t end very well. 😛 I’m kinda scratching my head on how I gave that impression. I was just seconding what Gabrielle said:

They helped each other through their struggles. They helped each other grow. They actually had a relationship, if you know what I mean. Not just a you-look-pretty-we-work-well-together…

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@Clairec I want to say The Princess Bride, but I’m not sure…

@r-j-wordsmith Yes, when I was about eight I entered in their essay contest and got an honorable mention and then last year I did their poetry contest and made it as a finalist.

@dragon-snapper The Aussies could ride kangaroos instead of horses.

@dragon-snapper frankly, I’m not quite sure what they do… It was just one of the older jokes that I think @daeus came up with and I remember the name if not the contest.

@clairec Wow! Super thanks. Katie’s been my #1 writing mentor, so that feels pretty awesome.

@dragon-snapper Sure. Iron bars have a nice regularity to them.

@Dragon-Snapper @Emma-Flournoy *passes out bottles of complimentary glitter* Sweet Elvish waybread, I haven’t had my own kingdom since Lothlorien! *rubs hands in anticipation* I’d better change my profile picture back…

@Winter-Rose YES. Why do writers not do it more often?

@Dragon-Snapper @GracieGirl @Winter-Rose yep. You said it.