Michael Stanton

@rochellaine Late to the party, but welcome to the forum! 🙂

@mnvalentine That does sound helpful to be able to switch from one to the other if you run into writer’s block or plot holes with one particular story. I may have to try that out for myself some day.

Thanks–I’m glad you enjoyed reading those. 🙂 They’re a lot of fun to write. And thanks for the well-wishes as well (both you and @jenwriter17)!…[Read more]

@mnvalentine Cool–kudos to you for being able to handle two novels at once! I’ve never tried that myself, and it sounds difficult to juggle two different stories at once over the long term like that. 😛

Haha; not top-secret at all! I’m actually sending book proposals for one of my fantasy novels this week to some different literary agencies to…[Read more]

@mnvalentine Welcome to the site! That’s an amazing rank idea. xD I’d be tempted to add it except no one would ever see it if I did… or maybe I <i>have</i> already added that rank and nobody else knows… *grins mysteriously*

Anyways, great to see another Austen fan and fantasy novelist on the site. How far are you with your current novel? Are…[Read more]

@skredder Neat. I was more of a Hardy Boy than a Nancy Drew reader during elementary/middle school, but I definitely read a lot of those books back then. 🙂

Welcome to the site @skredder! Glad you found us. 🙂 What authors have influenced you most as a writer?

*dies laughing* I love my hair. It’s so poofy. XD

@seekjustice you’re totally fine. 😉 Thanks for the good wishes. 🙂

@rochellaine no no, it’s fine. XD

Longfellow has some really great stuff. Tennyson too, though I haven’t read as much of it. Mostly just The Lady of Shalott. ;P

@rochellaine welcome to the bestistest place on the internet! I love singing too. 😀 Do you like poetry? Do you know your MBTI type? What’s your favorite genre?

@sleepwalkingmk Good thoughts–the records of the biblical kings in Kings and Chronicles form some really interesting case studies of Experiments in Living & Poetic Justice. You can certainly use dramatic irony like that to create catharsis; in recent storytelling, Rogue One also uses a similar narrative technique in similar fashion (albeit with…[Read more]

@inklings-for-christ I think that’s a fantastic idea! I probably won’t be able to chime in much, but otherwise, go for it. 😀

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@Winter-rose perfect. 🙂

@winter-rose eh… close enough. ;P

@jenwriter17 well first of all, I must have somehow missed your introduction cuz I don’t remember saying hello. Hello, and welcome. 😉 I’m an old timer here, but I haven’t been around much lately due to crazy life. I’m so pleased to see new faces filling in.

Writing goals… *whimpering laugh*

Oh boy.

1. FINALLY get the third draft of the book…

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@Winter-Rose nineteen this coming March… how close are we? 😛

@mariposa *chokes on her left-over Christmas gingerbread and faints into the eggnog*

Oh wow… I… I don’t even know what to say…

@Winter-Rose I love how you tied it together at the beginning and end; nice work. 😀

Overall, I think it’s pretty strong. I do think you could cut this one line: Before he can drop the mission killers close in, confronting him with a choice. Will he run from the men who want Amy dead, or will he remain and risk repeating a past defeat he wishes…[Read more]

@winter-rose *props chin on fist and looks up at you with enormous, adoring brown eyes* When I grow up, I wanna write like you.

That. Was. Awesome.