Mark Kamibaya

Alright. Hopefully we’re good now. Can you find any way to improve it? Does it attract you? (why or why not?)

@leumeister @emma-flournoy @hope @kate-flournoy @perfectfifths @faithdk @jess @his-instrument @writefury @gretald @ingridrd @sarah-h @the-bean @mark-kamibaya @warrioroftherealm @hannah-c @ivy-rose @ethryndal @dragon-snapper @anne-swiftbla…[Read more]

@mark-kamibaya Yay! You got it. It’s from Davy Crockett when Major Norton is trying to find him and Davy’s in the middle of grinning down a bear. The Major wrecks his concentration and he had to kill the bear the old fashioned way. 🙂

Yes, I decided to go with a omniscient, narrator sort of voice throughout the book, but who knows how that will work. Here’s a bit more, and yes this is wordy @daeus, but I sort of did that on purpose, and sort of not.

Now, I hope you know that twins mustn’t always look alike, and in fact most times are quite different, so please do not suppose…[Read more]

@anne-of-lothlorien @mark-kamibaya

What’s LGBT? :S

@bluejay But Edmund was only infuriating the most in tLtWatW. Not Prince Caspian. I just hate the way Peter says, “No, no retreat! I can still do this!”

Really!!!!!

Come one, you hold the lives of armies in your hands and yet you just be a jerk and say “Oh, don’t worry, my plans ruined, but I have to prove I’m better than Prince Caspian. Let’s…[Read more]

@Mark-Kamibaya N….oooooo clue. At all. Man, you do really hard ones. Or maybe my movie repertoire isn’t as expansive as I think? How about this?

“Congratulations San Fransisco! You’ve ruined pizza! First the Hawaiians, and now you.”

@daeus Thanks. That makes is clearer. I should try one of those sometimes.

@hope is dauntless, and a little weird
Her writing is notorious and her wit is feared
To be on the end of her razor sharp mind
Is a scarring experience, I’m sure you will find

Her books are well written and quite enthralling
Into her spell you will find yourself…[Read more]

@bluejay Yah, I cried too, at the beginning, when I knew his parents would die cause how else would he get stranded in the woods, when he had to choose between Elliot and his ‘family’ and even at the end when he found Elliot again. I wasn’t expecting that, but I guess they weren’t happy to leave it like the old one, where he never sees them again.…[Read more]

So, who else has watched the new Pete’s Dragon? I watched it Friday with my family, even my five year old sister. I was so pleased with it and I loved it. I wanted to march to Hollywood and shout to everyone “See! See! You can make an awesome sweet epic touching movie without including immodesty, language, immorality, etc. It can be done peo…

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@anne-of-lothlorien: I have written a short Choose-your-own-Adventure story in second person. It was fun, but incredibly difficult! I can’t imagine doing 2nd person in any other way than a CYOA. That’s one thing I never liked about CYOA’s. Sometimes, they would say things like, “If you decide to chase after the criminal, go to page 8. If you…[Read more]

@Mark-Kamibaya Youre right. How about another quote from a released movie this time?

Okay, @Mark-Kamibaya DO NOT BASE YOUR ASSUMPTION OF BEYOND THE MASK OFF OF PENDRAGON. Yes, they are the same company, and I haven’t even watched Pendragon, but my brothers have, and they say BtM is WAAAAY better. They improved a LOT and got professional actors (John Rhyss Davies and Andrew Chenney or whoever) It’s a bunch more professional.

As…[Read more]

@bluejay You were right. *tap nose for you*

@dragon-snapper That was my first thought but I’ve seen most of the commercials and didn’t recognize it.

@Mark-Kamibaya What on earth is La-La Land? Isn’t that where people go when they are dreaming?

Here’s a new one.

“Throw yourself in next time and rid us of your stupidity!”

Now someone HAS to…[Read more]

I used to ONLY write third person, and I had no idea if it was omnipotent, or omnipresent, or whatever. Still don’t quite remember those. @Daeus what are those things?

But now I write mostly in first person. I like focusing on one person personally better, and it lets me put in weird thoughts that I probably wouldn’t if it was third person.

But…[Read more]

I used to ONLY write third person, and I had no idea if it was omnipotent, or omnipresent, or whatever. Still don’t quite remember those. @Daeus what are those things?

But now I write mostly in first person. I like focusing on one person personally better, and it lets me put in weird thoughts that I probably wouldn’t if it was third person.

But…[Read more]

@mark-kamibaya It’s from Captain America, Civil War! I can’t remember the name of the girl who said it, though. She’s Peggy’s niece, I believe, but I can’t remember her first name…

@mark-kamibaya That quote sounds familiar, though I don’t know for sure where I’ve heard it. Is it from God’s Not Dead?

@bluejay One thing you could do is find a sibling or a friend of a sibling or really any child who is in the age range you’re writing for and ask them what they want to see in a story.

Another rout to go all together is try and focus on a real life problem that children have. Maybe a pet dies, or (like @mark-kamibaya said) they move. It doesn’t…[Read more]