Mallory O'Bier

@audrey-caylin Yes, Daeus and I like to be a sneaky tag-team like that. 😉 Like Daeus said, we’ll be covering that in our video on Theme & Major Characters which should be coming out by the end of this week.

@anna-brie That looks fantastic. I really like how both themes weave together there. Nice work!

Thanks so much for the suggestions y’all! You guys are the best. We’ll definitely add love interest & sidekick to the docket.

@dragon-snapper This is actually for our Youtube channel, not the Theme Mastery course. 🙂 Our first video here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1B1zNr_X-g&t=3s) introduces what character types are, and we’ve actually…[Read more]

@hope Got it. Those story points make sense then.

With regards to the other question, I do agree that there are additional challenges when you don’t have physical conflicts like that. I think some of that will require a lot more deep-POV where you’re getting into the character’s head and really ferreting our his/her thoughts and where he/she is…[Read more]

@audrey-caylin Got it. Sounds like this is one of those scenes that’s going to be a bit trickier to weave one of your themes into. Foreshadowing can be a great technique, though, so if you use it to foreshadow how her Experiments might fail, that could be a great way of weaving it in.

@graciegirl @winter-rose @dragon-snapper @anyone-else I’m gonna write till 2:30 (EST)

@audrey-caylin Yes. It’s possible for too many character arcs to overcomplicate your story, but if the characters you are considering are main characters, they should be just fine. We’ll be covering this more in lesson 15.

@overcomer

@anne-of-lothlorien I’m afraid not, though I might be able to convince my parents to take us down to the museum for the day… We live two hours away and have lifetime passes.

@daeus Cool, well, I’ll let me parents know (something I had completely forgotten about until just now! I hope you understand *sheepish grin* ) and if it’s all good, I’ll send it to you when it’s ready 🙂

@perfectfifths Yep.

@daeus Oh, thanks. Is that like your website or something? 🙂

@perfectfifths You can contact me here: http://www.thescratchingquill.com/contact/

@i-j-anderson Hehe! I love it! I think you did a great job. My idea of them isn’t quite complete yet and I think they’d be slightly different, but that’s a great representation.

@I-j-Anderson First off….WOWOWOWOWOWOWW!!! You are good at drawing people. *runs off and decides to start practicing*

@i-j-anderson That’s amazing, Joy! It’s so cute!

@daeus I’ve had a couple of people read it, and I’m still interested in your offer of beta reading as well, but as for sharing with every one else, I want to wait, is all. So, if I wanted to send it just to you for now, how would I do that?

@Daeus *grins* Thanks…

And those sound absolutely adorable. I want one.

@perfectfifths Is outside critique not allowed?

@i-j-anderson (btw, Taren’s also silently intense and sympathetic)

Ok, here goes one for a fantasy race I’m working on inventing.

The name is Teedletiden.

They are two to three feet in height, human like, and tree-dwellers. Culturally, they are traditional and by disposition merry, musical, and artistic. Their chief occupation is an…[Read more]

@i-j-anderson This is a cool idea! I love drawing characters (that doesn’t mean I’m always good at it 😛 Sometimes I get a gem, but it takes a lot of time sometimes) and I would also be interested in seeing what other people’s ideas for my characters would be.

Another thing I’d suggest we could do is after people draw other peoples’ character,…[Read more]