Mark Kamibaya

@Daeus Wow. Okay! My friends, watch out.

@theliterarycrusader Yeah…when I brainstorm, it’s almost like there is a storm over my lake, crashing waves over to the shore, water-flinging ideas into buckets. 😛

@kate-flournoy @daeus Indeed. It is cork board worthy. 😀

@that_writer_girl_99 This question is always present in the back of my head, and usually I’ll just say ‘no’ to myself because 1st, I don’t want to. 2nd: I think they are overdone. I plan (and am) writing in the young adult fiction area, and none immediately come to mind that don’t have a love interest. Particularly ones that are cliche (like @daeus…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy 😛 Actually, my wall could use it too.

Seek truth, not trends.

@Daeus with or without your permission I am putting that on my wall.

@that_writer_girl_99 Btw, I love The Force Awakens too. 😉

@that_writer_girl_99 Love the question.

We’ve actually got a resource coming out that you’ll hear about tomorrow that covers this topic (among many other things).

Personally, I’ve never been a romance reader and I never planned to write it either. My position on writing it, however, is shifting. In my current WIP, I included a love interest…[Read more]

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1,000 strong. That’s my goal.

I am thrilled to announce the launch of the new Reader Behavior Survey. If you haven’t already read through this thread, the Reader Behavior Survey is a survey I put together that asks readers detailed questions to probe into how they think and what influences them. “Why?” you ask. Well, these…[Read more]

@that_writer_girl_99 this is a good question, and @Aratrea has a good answer. I’d just like to add that first, it is possible to write a good romance without experience if you’re looking on it as essentially a really, really deep friendship. Obviously romance is more than that, but it will be easier to let the character’s slip into romance if…[Read more]

@Elizabeth-K this is a good question, and @Aratrea has a good answer. I’d just like to add that first, it is possible to write a good romance without experience if you’re looking on it as essentially a really, really deep friendship. Obviously romance is more than that, but it will be easier to let the character’s slip into romance if you’ve…[Read more]

@cloudy Those sound like some good thematic starting points! And you can certainly write strong themes without making your story explicitly-Christian. Our marketing director wrote a post earlier this year defining the basic principles of theme that you may find helpful on that front: https://kingdompen.org/a-new-focus-for-2017/ I’m right there with…[Read more]

You can definitely have good stories without a love interest. Now, I should probably mention that, from what I’ve heard, publishers tend to prefer stories with love interests for marketability purposes. As an author, if you get to that point where you’re negotiating with publishers, you may have to fight to keep love interests out of the story.…[Read more]

You can definitely have good stories without a love interest. Now, I should probably mention that, from what I’ve heard, publishers tend to prefer stories with love interests for marketability purposes. As an author, if you get to that point where you’re negotiating with publishers, you may have to fight to keep love interests out of the story.…[Read more]

@Alia well, here she is… I decided to break out the colored pencils after *cough* ten years and as a result the picture ended up looking a little scratchy… but here you are just the same. 😉

@cloudy Sounds like a fun premise! Have you thought at all about what themes you want to be tackling in the book?

@Cloudy Welcome!! Glad to have you. And nobody’s asked you yet what MBTI type you are. So I ask you, what is your MBTI type? (I’m guessing INTP. If I may make so bold as to guess. 😛 )

@kate-flournoy *prepares pen and paper* You have my sword!

@Dragon-Snapper I may test you on that soon… 😉

@hope Yes, I will be creating a video of me going through and analyzing the results and Josiah has agreed to share that directly through KP.