Mark Kamibaya

@kina-lamb Alright, time for me to sign off. I wrote 811 words. Hope you got past your person stuck in a tree. 😛

@daeus Ho boy, that’ll be interesting. 😛
@emma-flournoy *smeagol voice* Yeesss. Moooree. I’m going to love writing this.
@jane-maree Hahaha!
@aysia-serene I like anything. 😛
@ethryndal Hehehe! Rogue spaceships vs. People watching a doorway. For some reason I can imagine a cat watching a doorway too.
@winter-rose Thanks! I can’t wait to…[Read more]

@kina-lamb Fantastical? Who knows? 😛
Okay, maybe an unusually large cat attacks him. He is mobbed by owls. Captured by thieves. Make him fall out the tree and be injured in the feat. He wakes up the next morning and can’t get out because he had a dream with terrible vertigo. Or you could have something fantastical happen and it just be a dream…[Read more]

@kina-lamb I’ll join you.

Multiple themes… this is for a seven book series I’m going to write one of these days, so far as I’ve figured it out.

Primary theme:

Love

Major themes:

Hope
Freedom

Minor themes: These are basically the subthemes of my primary and major themes

Love
Forgiveness
Courage
Sacrifice

Hope…[Read more]

@Jane-Maree We writers call that Somewhere Very Weird our brains… XD

@Dragon-Snapper Write a first-person of a spaceship that gets bored with the places its captain always travels to so it decides to go rogue.

Write a third person of a people watching doorway.

@Jane-Maree We writers call that Somewhere Very Weird our brains… XD

@Dragon-Snapper Write a first-person of a spaceship that is so bored with the places its captain always travels to that it decides to go rogue.

Write a third person of a people watching doorway.

@Daeus yes, you have a point. Looking at it from that angle, and concentrating on the miracle itself rather than the allegory, I agree. If you had said that before I read it I probably would have been annoyed, but as it was I hardly even noticed.
And I just copied and pasted the above reply into my ‘THEME’ folder. 😀

@GabrielleMassman I’m…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy This relates to what was mentioned in the theme course about how you want to set yourself up against the very best arguments against your message you can find. You want to place yourself and the position of least advantage in order to show that your position is true.

@northerner I don’t remember a miracle at the beginning of the story, but oh well.

I agree that reason isn’t what brings about a conversion, but, for one, just because reason isn’t the primary cause of a person’s salvation isn’t reason, doesn’t mean it isn’t a cause and an important one.

I don’t think there was anything wrong with the ending…[Read more]

@R-J-Wordsmith YES! LONG LIVE VILLAINY!
*collapses into uncontrollable laughter* This is great. I love it. I can especially relate to However-you-spell-it because I’m just about as short as he is. 😀

@Aratrea No, they aren’t related. At least, they weren’t… Though that could be quite fun to mess with. Probably not, though. The word count is already crossing 140,000 as it is, so I’ve no room for adding things. 🙁

@aratrea Yes, they hold to the same views, yet act according to slightly different EiL.

@Emma-Flournoy W-w-wait… *shaky breath* You haven’t seen the prequels? Okay, I admit, they were pretty dumb sometimes, but Obi-Wan literally made up for every cheesy line and poorly acted scene EVER.

@GracieGirl I just realized something! The tag for your first post actually showed up in my notifications! *high five* Victory! But then your next…[Read more]

@Ethryndal Aaaah! I’d forgotten several of those. Help! K2K2K2K2K2

That does look interesting. *lowers voice* I’ll share the admission, I do that too. With things I’m not required to read at least. 😛

Ugh yes! No, Saw…is low on my list.

Meh, can’t look at Anakin. Haven’t seen the prequels. I can imagine it though.

@GracieGirl Uh-huh, yes.…[Read more]

Thank you. 🙂

@hope Oh, I like that. A very nice blend of similarities and dissimilarities like that can create really strong foils. You even get some of the benefits of Method #2 as well since while they may both intellectually believe the same things (and thus have the same character arc) in practice they seem to live according to different EiLs, if I’m…[Read more]

@overcomer Haha, that makes sense. Sounds like you’re on the right track! You may find it worthwhile to jump ahead to the ‘How to Handle Multiple Themes in One Story’ lesson in the last module of the course, as that’s where I really address what to do with stories like yours that have multiple themes. Some aspects of the lesson may rely on…[Read more]

@northerner I’m going to hop off now. I editing 12 Word Doc. pages and then wrote 470 words, so I’m happy.

@Emma-Flournoy
“There were a lot of explosions for two people blending in.”

“I’m not very optimistic about our odds.”

“I am taking them…to imprison them…in prison…”

“Do you want to know the odds of her using that blaster on you? It’s high. It’s very high.”

“Did you know that wasn’t me?!?”

I’m done now. 😀
I’m shocked. A dictionary…[Read more]