Mallory O'Bier

@Northerner Yes, Kingdom Pen is wonderful. I don’t know where I’d be without the things I’ve learned and the people I’ve met here.

@emma-flournoy I don’t believe so.

@Emma-Flournoy I didn’t get much writing done that day. XD
Yessss. And seriously it’s such a cool concept. I really really want to write a superhero story now. About the super villain. Because there’s so much room for tragic backstory and betrayals and eep yes. BM is just so so amazing.

@Northerner We’re glad to have you. 🙂

Personally, I know I would never be where I am without KP.

@Emma-Flournoy I found it because I knew Rosey from the OYAN forum. So I binge read the entire thing in one sitting. XD SO MUCH EPICNESS.

@Emma-Flournoy YES YES GOODNESS BLANK MASTERMIND IS THE BEST.

@Emma-Fournoy YES YES GOODNESS BLANK MASTERMIND IS THE BEST.

@Dragon-Snapper *chokes* W-well, I guess… thank you?? 😛 *cough* I’m sorry… perhaps you can write one, eh? *winks**chuckles*

@Dragon-Snapper *chokes* W-well, I guess… thank you?? 😛 *cough* I’m sorry… perhaps you can write one, eh? *winks**chuckles*

@Emma-Flournoy heh… *grins* I popped up unannounced in her google doc and opened the chat and said hi. 😀

@kate-flournoy

‘Hey, why are you cleaning the fridge?’
Bob slapped his soaking rag down on the floor of the fridge, twisted his head, and glared up at her over his shoulder.
She gave a little grin and shrugged. ‘All right…’

Nuts. Now I want to write a story completely based off of that.

@That_Writer_Girl_99 go do your exam, deary. 😉

@That_Writer_Girl_99 there’s a button at the top of the document with a word bubble on it, where it shows who’s logged in. Just click it. 😉

@That_Writer_Girl_99 *hysterical laughter* It was too good of an opportunity to pass up.

@Emma-Flournoy sneaky! XD I wasn’t ready yet…

@anne-of-lothlorien THREE BABIES!!! How fun! I’ll definitely pray for your aunt—my mother wasn’t able to have children until she was older, either. And of course I’ll pray for your mother and other aunt. And happy root canal, which I just realized is happening today. I be praying.

@That_Writer_Girl_99 oooh— cool flashback! I love it. *grins* Good job.

@Holly-Nelson-Gray yeah… what they said. 😉

This may be a somewhat random tangent of this topic, but I’ve found that a lot of times body language can be used to replace dialogue and automatically include more description. Instead of ‘Hey, why are you cleaning the fridge?’
‘Because it’s dirty and needs cleaning and I’m disgusted about it, that’s…[Read more]

@Holly-Nelson-Gray If you haven’t yet, check out our recently published articles on writing descriptions. I think once you have a full understanding of the potential of descriptions and dialogue, your brain will naturally sort out how to balance them.

Your problem probably isn’t so much that you have too much dialogue, but that you don’t have…[Read more]

@Holly-Nelson-Gray Heyooo. I’m not entirely convinced that I’m interpreting the meaning of your question quite right, but I’ll take the plunge anyways. (So sorry if this is a useless bunch of rambles. xD)
My writing definitely leans to the dialogue side. I often accidentally forget to do very much description at all. So one of the most important…[Read more]