Michelle Black

@michelle Sure! 😀

Hi, @michelle! Aw, I remember that! 😀 This is just a place for writers to come on and chat with each other as we write. 🙂

@alia

Oops, did I miss you? I think I’ll be on for a bit…

@seekjustice @rochellaine @catwing @ariel-ashira @daughteroftheking @valtmy

@leon-fleming Your words ring very true. Thank you for the reminder.

Thanks for the recommendations! I’ll be sure to check them out once libraries open again.

@michelle I live in MA, and usually it fluctuates between hot and cold and just staying a very chilly tone. Sometimes warm, and then it’s nice. Cookies are very good! Hard or soft ones?

@leon-fleming I’m afraid I’ve only read And Then There Were None and Murder On The Orient Express. I should read more of her, though. I love her writing.

I guess mainly I want to portray “messed up people doing messed up things in a messed of world”, because honestly, that really is what life is like, right? Just different degrees of “messed up”.

@leon-fleming Haha no worries! Any poetry of yours is welcome in my inbox XD

@leon-fleming I think you should know I received an email with a poem in it. It was very nice. I might specify that it’s your poem XD

@kathleenramm I really like villains in general, but they have to have some sort of element to them that I like. For example, I really disliked Count Olaf, but he was a really great villain.

So my saga has a wide cast of characters, all of whom appear in some way or another. A character may be a hero in one book but a villain in another,…[Read more]

@devastate-lasting

Yeah you wouldn’t be able to do it with all the villains in your story if you had multiple, but you could do it with one of them.

Kinda like in the LOTR how Sauron and Saruman were nothing like Frodo, but Gollum was eerily like him. Gollum was the exact thing that would happen to Frodo if he let the ring corrupt him, which was…[Read more]

@leon-fleming Haha yeah. Fireflies seems to be a pretty popular song.

@katniss-everdeen

This may be the typical answer, but Peeta because he’s the moral compass. And I have a soft spot for bakers.

However I really love how raw, real, and complicated Katniss is. I haven’t watched or read one story that has a character quite like Katniss in it.

@kathleenramm Oh yeah! They say one way to craft a really good villain is to take your main character but twist him wrong. Though, I must say, this wouldn’t work if you have multiple villains.

Personally when writing I like writing from my villain’s POV most. It makes him seem more human to me.

@millennium @leon-fleming My signature on SE used to be “I like to make myself believe…that planet Earth…turns…slowly” actually XD

@millennium Ooh. That is a solid premise.

@not-so-secret-secret-assassin

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@devastate-lasting

I definitely agree that the best characters, including the villains, are the ones that have internal conflict and compelling motivations.

I also like villains and antagonists that scarily resemble the protagonist at his worst. The villain being a reminder to the protagonist that he easily become just like the villain himself…[Read more]

@lrc

Oooooh, glad you made this topic.

I honestly think that a good theme is one of the main things that makes a story memorable.

Loyalty is definitely something that can be explored in a story a lot of different ways. It can get pretty deep and complicated!

I also agree that showing both sides of the theme makes it much more thought…[Read more]

@devastate-lasting Ahh! Nice!

@leon-fleming Ohh okay XD