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That’s perfect! @kate-flournoy 😛

Evil dragons with long teeth who are scared of the dark.

Ooo, I like that idea! @writefury

@Hope, I don’t have a Pinterest, but I could use Google images. Thanks for the ideas! 🙂

Or maybe he is obsessed with marrying the MC and that is why he brought her to his castle, but she refused with vehement obstinance, so he sought the 9 powers so that he he control her to his will, and then found out that she controlled the 9 powers …

xD @Daeus

What I was asking is why he wanted to control them— why he wanted power, why he wanted prestige. It seems a little cheesy to me that he would want them simply for their own sake— simply because he’s wholeheartedly black and finds pleasure in them for the destruction he can wreak with them. What does he want to accomplish with them, and why?<…

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No, I actually agree to some extent with that @Daeus. What I was asking is why he wanted to control them— why he wanted power, why he wanted prestige. It seems a little cheesy to me that he would want them simply for their own sake— simply because he’s wholeheartedly black and finds pleasure in them for the destruction he can wreak with them.…[Read more]

@Daeus, Yes! I completely agree. There has to be a happy medium between forcing the Biblical principals and you-can-do-whatever-you-want-because-God-will-love-you-anyway. 🙂

@Daeus, Yes! I completely agree.

Exactly @Daeus. Exactly.

@kate-flournoy, great suggestion! I’m definitely going to work with the plot…what I wrote is by no means set in stone. 😉 I’m definitely going to work out why the villain wants the 9 Powers; it actually drives me crazy in stories when the villain has no particular purpose for destroying things and terrorizing people…he just does because he’s…[Read more]

Exactly! @Daeus 🙂 We can’t avoid the rules in the Bible (kind of like assuming there is a God in novels, it should also be a given that the morals of the Bible are true), but we don’t have to outline them in our stories.

I might— just a quick suggestion. Work with your villain a little. Why does he want to control the nine powers? Is it just because POWER and PRESTIGE? Is it just because he’s SOOOOOO EEEEEVIL?

You can make him more complicated and interesting than that, I know. 😉

@writefury, thanks for the ideas! I’ll have to think about the contradictions idea. 🙂

The story, so far, is about a girl (the MC) who lives in a small town in another land. It’s fantasy, so I’m probably going to set the story in another world (which I haven’t figured out the name of yet 🙂 ). An evil king rules the country in which she…[Read more]

Yes, it does makes sense @kate-flournoy 😉 And I completely agree. Nobody wants to be given a bunch of rules to follow *coughmecough* 😛 I think that portraying God’s love (rather than all the “rules”), even in stories, will inspire people to seek God. A lot of people, I believe, think of Christianity as a bunch of rules. But it’s SO much…[Read more]

Isn’t that a little long for a title, @spradlin? 😉

Another thing I noticed about well done Christian fiction, while listening to Focus on the Family’s audio ‘Bonhoffer: The Cost of Freedom’, was… well, it’s a little difficult to put into words.
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Yikes, I love it how it is. I honestly don’t think anything could make it cooler or easier to use or— or anything better, really… but I’ll let you know if I come up with any ideas. 🙂

All you guys on the staff continually amaze me with your ability to keep this place up and running like this, and still live your lives! 😛

Perfect, @Bluejay. Perfect. 🙂

Wow! I have rels in Canberra. Yeah. It is so cold here. It was drizzling as we played a game of cricket and was overcast and not very summery. 🙁
Yes! Daydreams are great for short stories. @kate-flournoy has been telling me that everything has a story in it. You just have to think creatively. And it’s working for me. Last night I had a headache…[Read more]

@anna-brie You might get this today, cause our time will be closer than America. 🙂