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@dekreel This just keeps getting better 😀 I have to try not to laugh since I’m in a quiet library… 😀

And now I’m a little scared of @rochellaine

Although I guess she can’t hurt me I am a real squirrel… right???? Wait, am I??

@filewriterbase13x Welcome to the bestistest place on the internet!!! What kind of music do you like to listen to?

@dekreel Awesome!!! I was laughing so hard 😀

@catwing That’s a relief, I was a little worried there… *takes nuts and runs for her life*

@dekreel I seem to have missed a part or two…. Ah well, I’ll find it on the fancy-shmancy website. The whole Kingdom of Pen holds its breath in anticipation for the GIF-hunting – and also the moment they show up in the story 😀 Great job, I love it!!!

@jenwriter17 That’s funny 🙂 NOT a chapter book.

@dekreel Sounds exciting! What was it about?

I don’t have the first things I wrote but I was just thinking about it this morning 🙂 My younger sister and I collaborated when we were little on the ‘Lightbulb Boy’ books (thus named because his head was shaped like a lightbulb) They were basically…[Read more]

@skredder I agree with them. A well written prayer can move a reader deeply, especially if it’s a long-awaited moment. If you’re writing God into your book, it seems important to show your characters praying for the reasons Grace and Dekreel gave.

@gh24682468999 It is not too complicated. Actually it sounds fairly cohesive. If you think about it, any theme written realistically will have multiple applications and multiple conclusions. The world is complicated and so are humans, and so a simple theme will not be convincing and is more likely to come over as preachy, as opposed to a complex…[Read more]

@joy I think that maps are the most important thing. You should at least map the direct areas where your story takes place, because you need to have consistent distances – we don’t want it to take a month to go somewhere and a week to get back. Also, if you have traveling in your story, you want to let your map shape the travel, so that the…[Read more]

You’ve got some good advice here 😀 @winter-rose has it totally right. Dialogue isn’t about relaying information so much as it is about characters’ motivations and trying to get what they want. Here’s a tip for figuring out how to improve dialogue: Take everything but the dialogue out of the section so it’s purely dialogue, then read it out loud.…[Read more]

@dekreel That was awesome!!! I can’t believe I missed an installment, it somehow slipped through the cracks! Excited for more 😀

@daughteroftheking I really like your idea! I think it sounds like a great story for that age range. Honestly I think what you should do is read some good children’s fiction. I know a lot of good children’s books because I still mainly read from the children’s section at our library (I’ve probably read every book in there). I was going to…[Read more]

@joy That’s a pretty cool idea 🙂 The only problem with it is that if the kids aren’t heroes, they’re not extremely involved in the story, so it might end up having to be short… idk 😀 Thanks!! By the way, what are some of the cliches you like?

@dekreel That one’s cool 🙂 I like the way the colors are used.

@seekjustice I really like that Lord of the Rings cover., I don’t think I’d seen that one before. I’m definitely one for simplistic covers too 😀

@rochellaine @sam-kowal @valtmy @supermonkey42 @ashlyvye

Thanks for the input! Great advice!!! I’ve been struggling over the cover of my book for a long time, but I think I have it figured out now 🙂

@dekreel Awesome!! I loved it 🙂 I started laughing when she wondered why a stool and didn’t stop after that… 😀

@daeus Yes I would love to become an established author 😀 I’m less afraid of publicity and work (although I’m extremely introverted) as I am of my writing going downhill if people start saying it’s good… But I dream of writing for a living and having some kind of fanbase. In reality, a couple hundred readers would probably satisfy me. And yes,…[Read more]

@ashlyvye Everyone says that about Ragnarok, which is actually why I think I won’t like it. I prefer the more serious movies, with the exception of Spiderman: Homecoming which was basically just awesome…

My sister has a ragdoll cat patronus too! That’s cool 🙂 Mine was a dog, but I don’t think that’s accurate.

Writing is kind of like breathing…[Read more]