Michael Stanton

@jess-penrose I like the irony of the MC realizing that he deserves justice as well. Is there a way you could bring about a physical component for the MC’s poetic justice as well? That seems to be the main thing you’re missing. I like the nuanced version of #4 here as well–it resolves the potential issues I was seeing with it in the other topic. 🙂

@ethryndal Good observation there. I think that’s generally true of the more prominent foil characters in literature, although you get pretty good diversity on whether the foils are right or not when you start looking at less prominent foils in literature.

@ethryndal Sounds like some good adjustments to make on the thematic front. How would you say Lotch and Noyarc would answer your story’s focusing question? It looks like their EiLs are pretty close to functioning as answers to that question (especially Lotch’s), but Noyarc’s may need a couple small adjustments to fully answer that.

@jess-penrose Yes–it’s very freeing as an author to know that you can write about meaningful topics in a powerful way in a way that isn’t preachy to the audience. Hold that goal and that anti-goal in mind, and both should be powerful motivators for you to study and master themes!

Sorry I’m late on interacting with you all on this! The KP staff had a work retreat this weekend and I fell behind on keeping up with these…

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My biggest recommendation would be to consider the different ways Christians might honestly answer that focusing question in the way they live their lives. While most Christians may know…[Read more]

@jess-penrose Great motives! Sounds like you’ll especially enjoy one of the last lessons in the course on how to write explicitly Christian fiction in particular. Most of the course will focus on how to write meaningful stories from a Christian perspective effectively, but that lesson will particularly focus on writing in the “Christian fiction…[Read more]

Welcome to the site @lifeofkatie! Congrats on being roped in by some of our most enthusiastic forum members. 😉 Haven’t read any Spurgeon yet, but he’s on my list of theologians to read!

Late to the party, but welcome to the site, @jess-penrose! Glad to have you here with us. 🙂

@LifeOfKatie *grins* I look forward to seeing you around. 😉

Wait. Are you for real? We’re a stereotype? There’s nothing stereotypical about writing fiction…

@That_Writer_Girl_99 *grins* Chill. I’m totally teasing. It’s just that the stereotypical career choice of an INFP, according to popular consensus in the MBTI community, is writing fiction. That, or poetry. Which I love. 😉 SO I guess that makes…[Read more]

@LifeOfKatie heyyyyyy!! Welcome! I also had no idea you wrote, and which is just unpardonable of me as a six year friend, isn’t it? 😛 Glad to see you on KP. 😉 Lots of encouragement and stuff here.

@Jess-Penrose DID SOMEONE SAY MBTI. 😮 XD
AHEM. Yes. Well… in summary, I love Myers Briggs because I think people are downright fascinating and I love the insight it gives you into people’s minds. I love it just for that, but it’s also really helpful with characterization if you understand it properly. And hey! I’m an INFP as well. *grins*…[Read more]

@That_Writer_Girl_99 I’m headed over to the brainstorming doc.

@Jess-Penrose oh ha! XD Tabasco sauce is a really, really spicy hot sauce. If you look at my avatar it’s a baby dragon with Tabasco for his bottle. I don’t like it but I adore the thought of a baby dragon growing on it. :”D

Thanks for jumping in, @graciegirl! 🙂 Yes, normally we ask people to email us with their username info since we don’t have the technology yet to automatically add premium students to the private section of the forum. However, because you posted here, I was able to quickly add you to that forum section. The links should all work now, and you…[Read more]

@That_Writer_Girl_99 welcome. Enjoy your new claws and don’t incinerate your laptop.

@That_Writer_Girl_99 fire away. Pun intended. lol XD

@That_Writer_Girl_99 @Dragon-Snapper *sits and winks baby eyes and breathes fire and looks intimidating as she sucks on her tabasco bottle*

All right Elizabeth, signing out now. Good night. Good luck. 😉

@That_Writer_Girl_99

@That_Writer_Girl_99 I’ll be writing until 9:40.