MarkMcGuire

@Northerner Beowulf! Yes!!! And Sir Gawain and the Green Knight— YES! And Anglo-Saxon history— YES. All that stuff is amazing. And the SCA sounds really fun.

XD

@Daeus *in most convincing ‘mom’ voice* It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.

@Daeus *glares*

Welcome to KP @Northerner! So glad to have you. 🙂

Ha. 😛

Ooh, nice! I’m looking forward to that one.. I get to read it right??

@Daeus

@Northerner Welcome to the bestiest place on the internet! YES! I got to say it. Though whether I spelled it right is another matter… So glad you are finally here! You’ll have fun. 🙂

@Daeus hey, that’s great! Which story are you brainstorming now?
I got 675 words.

@Daeus okay! I’m with ya. I’ll tag you when I stop, or if you stop before I do tag me.

@Daeus yeah… it was a comical overstatement… XD

@Daeus shaking is so mundane.

Welcome to KP, @Emma-L. 😀 Glad to have you here! We are quite an assortment of characters on this forum (no, for real) but don’t let us freak you out. We’re all well-intentioned. 😉
Ooh, The White Gypsy! I haven’t read it, but I’ve heard the audiodrama and I love it. Have you heard the audiodrama?
What genre do you write?

@Daeus YES!! Congratulations. *pumps your hand enthusiastically up and down*

*applauds* Excellent work my dear.

@Hope

I’ve been learning more about character arcs recently and am working on a disillusionment arc for one of my MCs. A disillusionment arc is, how did @kate-flournoy put it, moving from a pleasant lie to an unpleasant truth. So it is positive in that it moves from lie to truth, but negative in that it goes from pleasant to unpleasant. Since I’m…[Read more]

@His-Instrument ummm… about thirty minutes… east? of Circleville. But our ‘travel-zone’ is usually limited to around an hour either way unless we’re going to do something really special all together, in which case we have to wait for a day with comparatively little cabin-related work, which are few and far between. Also we practically don’t…[Read more]

@His-Instrument I appreciate your flexibility and efforts, but I’m afraid not. 🙁 See, I’m not driving yet, so one of my parents would have to take the time to drive me, which would take them away from the cabin business and leave the other half of the family to do all the cleaning work themselves, and while I’m sure we could manage if we had to,…[Read more]

I think @kate-flournoy and the others might have already said all this, but my main thought on hooks and first lines is that it needs to present a question. It doesn’t normally ask a question outright, but the question is implied. If the story starts with dialogue, we wonder who is talking. If it says ‘once only God knew the day that you would…[Read more]