MarkMcGuire

@dragon-snapper I kind of had this problem with my current WIP. It wasn’t that I’d another character taking over the story, I just couldn’t connect with the MC. It’s only in the last draft that I’ve really started connecting with the MC. Delving into a character’s backstory helps. And figuring out how they view life (as a war, as an adventure, as…[Read more]

Yeah, what’s up with that? Either we’re prancing through a field of flowers, or wreaking havoc throughout the universe!

@graciegirl YES. It’s crazy. :’D Literally the only INFP heroes/heroines I’ve been able to find are Frodo Baggins, Arwen Undomiel, Anne of Green Gables, and one or two others I can’t remember. Whereas the villains… I can…[Read more]

@GracieGirl ha! 😀 I haven’t read it either. INFP villains do seem to be remarkably prevalent though. It’s scary actually, but since I’ve started looking I’ve found more INFP villains than I have heroes. ;P

@GracieGirl oooh, actually you know what? You’re right. Good example.

@Dragon-Snapper *chokes* I am mortally afeared. XD

@Daeus wellll… I have an ENFJ anti-hero but he’s not written yet, so… XD
*ahem*
Yes. Let me think.
Hmmmm… *scratches head* You guys aren’t natural villain material.:P The only one I can think of straight off the top of my head is Mr. Waternoose, from Monsters Inc, and then it’s close between ENFJ and ENTJ.
Also… hm. *dredges through the…[Read more]

@Dragon-Snapper it doesn’t really matter when you have beta-readers actually. I think it is pretty standard procedure to wait until you’re ‘done’, but in my case the story was so ridiculously long I’ve been sending it out in sections to the first round, hammering the second draft into shape as I go. Once I finish up with that I’ll run through it…[Read more]

@Dragon-Snapper welllll… generally I’d say if you’re connecting with one character better than the other and giving them more screen time etc., switch MCs because you’ve probably got them mixed up, but it looks like you already tried that.
So… the problem may not be your attachment to SACK, but your lack of attachment to the quiet one.…[Read more]

@Cloudy I love her as a villain! 😀 I can think of several ways I would go about making this a short story or novella, but that would be me writing it, which isn’t quite fair. 😉
I would just say play around with the character motivations and relationships and go from there. Go for it. Never know until you try. 🙂

@Cloudy I really like the intent/picture of the poem. The only thing I would suggest is either make it more obviously a rhyming poem or more obviously free verse, because I was a little confused by the alternating patterns.
Otherwise, I really like it. 🙂

@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.

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

@Dragon-Snapper hey. You do whatever you want and I’m totally cool with that. 😉

@Dragon-Snapper yessssss. Do it. 😀

@Dragon-Snapper and cookies. 😀

@dragon-snapper Oh, oh, oh! You have to mention butterflies wielding timesabers at some point!

@Aratrea The 19th won’t work, but the 21st, afternoon or evening would.

@Aratrea my future course? Since I’ve already gone through all my next ten ideas and mapped out their themes in excruciating detail, I suppose you mean more futurely than that… um… continue? XD Pick other stories to pieces and keep learning and applying as I do, hopefully.

Seriously. There are no words for how amazing this was. I am…[Read more]

@Aratrea my future course? Since I’ve already gone through all my next ten ideas and mapped out their themes in excruciating detail, I suppose you mean more futurely than that… um… continue? XD Pick other stories to pieces and keep learning and applying as I do, hopefully.

Seriously. There are no words for how amazing this was. I am…[Read more]