Merie Shen

@typewriter77 Well, I’m afraid that I’m the type of person who doesn’t know what their own theme is until someone explicitly tells them. I’m that clueless and unprepared, usually. And to me, usually in good literature themes are hard to pick out clearly, but you can feel that it’s there.

I think that each scene and character could show a facet of…[Read more]

@kathleenramm

Whoever was the villain of Shrek.

I haven’t watched it yet though but I’m sure he is preeetty epic.

@typewriter77

EPIC.

Now tell me your deepest darkest secret. (then I’ll tell you mine) 😉

@godlyfantasy12 Sounds like Lyn really wants to be their friend. If I were her then I would want to tell them a bit about myself and maybe show them around if they have any questions. Probably the smoothest way to info-dump.

@daisy-torres Mood, mood. At least you wrote something!

@daisy-torres Gonna stop at :23 for dinner with 10.5 pages. Maybe 2625 words?

Have fun!

@daisy-torres I’ll be handwriting for some time! Trying to get as much as I can done…might check back around :00 or so.

@kathleenramm Oo, foils! Gotta love those.

Mine is probably the villain who knows what he’s doing is wrong but does it anyway either for a higher reason or to prove a point. Basically the villain who has a conscience but has higher ideals. Not sure how to phrase it quite right. You don’t see it often.

Also, I like the secondary villain who…[Read more]

@typewriter77

Greetings, uh… I used to be the only guy on the forum so… uh thank you? I guess?

Correct me if I’m wrong.

art thou a dude?

@joy-caroline I’ve also always wanted to go the traditional route. And right now I still do, although I’m doing a variety of other things. I’ve been working on trying to make an online presence on some web serial platforms, and this summer I also want to experiment with Kindle Direct Publishing. All this, of course, is so that I can hopefully get…[Read more]

@relia I’m stuck somewhere between the two…when I’m planning it I’m the evil author type, but when I’m actually doing it I get kinda teary…

@abigail-m Very much looking for an opportunity every chance I get. It’s just too good to pass up.

@lewilliams I’m with Kathleen on villainous ice cream trucks. You should definitely include it in a story. Like, where do ice cream trucks even come from? Are they even stoppable?

@relia Ah, yes, I’ve done this myself several times. It’s awesome,…[Read more]

@typewriter77 From the posts I’ve seen about how to pick locks or shoplift at the beginning whoever wrote it always puts a huge disclaimer that these tips are for writing purposes only and not for in real life.

I myself am usually too lazy to go into detail about anything, lest I mess any details up, or, perhaps, accidentally teach someone how to…[Read more]

@typewriter77 A lot of those themes seem to work, in my opinion! God’s Justice vs Man’s Justice I’m not sure could be written in just a short story…maybe a longer work. Courage, trust, and Truth vs Deception could be in any work, I think, and Sin & Salvation as well as Loving Enemies both propose great story premises.

Good luck!

@typewriter77 Hmm…I would say it is possible, since a lot of anime and manga are based off of Japanese light novels.

Both of those projects sound awesome! I’d love to hear more about them in the future!

I think I’ve read the first book of the Ascendance series. It was pretty good. And I’ve yet to watch either of those movies, but I should p…[Read more]

@relia I’m waiting till I finish most of my series to edit…or maybe all of it (probably because I hate editing) but also in future books I might decide to change things that happen in previous books so when I go back to rewrite or whatever I can change accordingly. Also because my writing improves the more I write.