Michael Stanton

Actually, I would say Ted Cruz is doing pretty amazing right now even if he is just a little behind Trump. Even if he loses, what he’s already done is practically a miracle. Never has such a pure conservative done so well – almost ever.

This. So much this. It makes me so happy, actually, @Daeus.

And here’s a piece of positive news— my dad…[Read more]

Okay, scratch the first post. 😉 I have to share a little bit about one of my favorite cultures with you.

So, there are these short people that look like really ugly dwarves. People call them trolls. But they’re not— they’re actually Ingrim.
Theirs is a very solemn, serious culture— they live underground, in all these magnificent but simple…[Read more]

Welcome to KP, @adry_grace! I’ve not read a ton of scifi, but I have a scifi novel all planned out that I’m super excited about. Why do you like scifi so much, if you can tell me? Is it just all the awesome, confusing, techy stuff that makes no sense and makes your head spin? 😉

And: Salutations. 😉

Oh yikes yikes yikes, you guys, that’s a lot. Very impressive.

I would share mine, but y’all would be stuck reading one post all day. 😉 Besides, a lot of it is still moving and growing and shifting, so I’m hesitant to put down anything in stone.
I have so many cultures, and so many different ways they changed, and morphed into other cultures…[Read more]

The truth does tend to be beautiful, @Rolena-hatfield and @overcomer. 🙂

It’s a good thing that you think so seriously about stuff like this, Mallory! I admire that, truly. One thing that helps me with this when I struggle over the difference between ‘making a name for myself’ and glorifying God is to remember that this gift isn’t even mine to be proud of. God gave it to me. There’s nothing at all I did to earn or…[Read more]

Well, I guess it all depends on why you want to use a pen name. For the longest time I thought I would be forced to— my last name being, as you see, rather an odd and unpronounceable one. 😉 But when I finally came to a decision, I realized that nothing, absolutely nothing, would compare to seeing my very own real name printed out on the cover…[Read more]

Gene Stratton-Porter! I can’t believe I forgot her— everybody should read Gene Stratton-Porter. Fantastic with characters.

No, I don’t think so… but I don’t know if this forum even has forty four more active members, let alone all from different states. 😉

I was born in Texas, if that counts for anything… love that state, despite all the mosquitoes. 😀

No, I don’t think so… but I don’t know if this forum even has forty four more active members, let alone all from different states. 😉

But @kate-flournoy…no American authors? What about Mark Twain (some of the time), Serena Chase, or umm, *clears throat at Grimina’s insistence* even lesser known authors who like retelling fairy tales?

Somehow I missed that the first time around, @hope… 🙂
I was thinking more classical, so I didn’t think of those, but yes all three of tho…[Read more]

That is quite funny, actually. And ‘Republican’ used to be a dirty word— now it’s the other way around. 😛

@Gretald…

-Trump’s probably going to win the Republican nomination. Sadly. Very Sadly.

Hm… you just may be surprised. Obviously nothing’s certain, but I’ve a gut feeling you just may be surprised.

@Daeus

Now if Rubio would drop out, that might flip things right around.

I cannot tell you how much I wish he would drop out— and Carson a…[Read more]

@Gretald…

-Trump’s probably going to win the Republican nomination. Sadly. Very Sadly.

Hm… you just may be surprised. Obviously nothing’s certain, but I’ve a gut feeling you just may be surprised.

@Daeus

Now if Rubio would drop out, that might flip things right around.

I cannot tell you how much I wish he would drop out— and Carson a…[Read more]

Well actually @Sarah-h, in my current novel the MC’s arc spans… eh… one two three four… four? Yes, four years, and it’s not been either annoying or unrealistic. In fact, it’s more realistic to have the character take a long time to make up their mind, because no one really makes snap decisions on that level of importance… specially when…[Read more]

Whew! Glad to hear it, @Daeus, glad to hear it…

And believe it or not, I actually knew both of those facts. I just wish all the submarine crews hadn’t drowned trying it out. 🙁
In fact, if you read the story of that first submarine, there’s something about it that appeals to the novelist bit of me (which is like 99.10 % of me) very strongly. I…[Read more]

Wait wait wait wait— Lew Wallace was American?

I take it all back. Every word of it.

Ohio here as well… 🙂

Random fact of the day— we are currently suffering through the primaries of our presidential election, which happens every four years. And as @Daeus mentioned, today is Super Tuesday, which is special only because a great many of the states vote at one time.
And this election has been by far the craziest one I’ve ever…[Read more]

Perfect. 😉