Mallory O'Bier

@GracieGirl awesome. 😉

For those of you who have been praying about my jaw… everything seems to be going okay. We’ve had some lingering complications with the muscles (they got pretty badly inflamed, apparently) and with the vertebrae at the base of my skull, but things are getting straightened out and it doesn’t look like there should be any…[Read more]

@that_writer_girl_99 Ah, yes. You’re good.

Ooops. @That_writer_girl_99

@winter-rose @graciegirl @dragon-snapper @his-instrument I sent you separate docs you can read the book on. 🙂

@that-writer-girl-99 Did you still want to do this? No pressure to. If you’re wanting to get started though, just send me your email.

I, and a few others here, are planning on attending this Indana Faith and Writing Conference in October. 🙂

And if Realm Makers is in PA next year, I am so going to try and go. I’ve been watching it for years, but Nevada was a bit far…

@northerner I would, but I already have more going on than I actually have time for. Besides which, I’m also entering the contest (If I get time to sit down and write). 🙁

@epicaddie2 I think you should do a novel. Partly because everyone says it won’t work. I mean, Book Thief pulled off a book narrated by Death. Anyways, now that you gave me a great idea :D. I’ll brainstorm a little in this post so you can steal my ideas.

Brainstorming Session
-The biggest advantage is that trees are older than most people. 100s…[Read more]

@EpicAddie2 That makes sense; one of the most helpful books I’ve read on that topic is 12 Editors Tackle the 12 Fatal Flaws of Fiction Writing by C.S. Laskin (actually did a review of it here: https://kingdompen.org/kp-book-review-5-editors-tackle-the-12-fatal-flaws-of-fiction-writing-by-c-s-lakin-et-al/) If you get the chance to read it, it should…[Read more]

@SeekJustice The one YA book I’ve read with an older protagonist is Wayne Thomas Batson’s Sword in the Stars. Haven’t seen it done anywhere else, and have likewise read that you shouldn’t have YA protagonists much above college age. That being said, it’s also good for a protagonist to be older than the reader, since apparently younger readers find…[Read more]

(apologies for taking a while to get to this, I got halfway through my reply last night and ten got distracted and forgot about it until this morning. >.<)
@SeekJustice Very good question. (as Elizabeth mentioned) I think that it doesn’t matter the age of your character, what matters most is the realism. I can read books that have 25-year-old male…[Read more]

@EpicAddie2 Welcome!!! I am 13 years old and I play the piano and I love photography and I love to read and write so we have a bunch of things in common! If you like, you can view some of my photography here: http://www.rachel579.wix.com/rlphotography I like doing portraits and events best. What do you like to photograph best? What genre is your novel?…[Read more]

@christi-eaton Ahhhh! Why did you tell me about that conference?? I looked it up, and now I seriously want to go there! But Idaho… hehe. Probably not going to happen.

@Dragon-Snapper yeah, yeah. *rolls eyes*

@kate-flournoy *stops snickering*
*bursts into uncontrollable laughter*
Dragon Snapper will never stop laughing. XD

@SeekJustice hey, everyone does. No biggie. 😛 I will be the first to confess that my name is cumbersome. 😉 In retrospect, I probably should have made my tag just @Kate, but oh well. (@Daeus @Rolena-Hatfield actually is there any way I can change it?)

Great question. You’ve got a lot of good answers here already, but I’ll just add my two cents…[Read more]

Well, the tagging thing’s not working. Anyhow, I found out about kingdom pen as soon as Daeus did, but he wouldn’t let me join until I became a ‘teenager.’ (We’re not allowed to be teenagers in our house so I say that word with cringement and apostrophes.) Therefore almost as soon as I turned 13, I jumped on here. I am (kind of) writing a…[Read more]

@anonymous 13 and a half. You?

@seekjustice
Great question!
First, let me try to think up a reasonable response…
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Personally, I love it when the character is exactly my age, but because YA is such a broad age group, that rarely happens. From 12-18, it’s hard to find a happy medium for everyone in an age group.
So.
As far as I know, the characters I’ve read in YA have…[Read more]