Mallory O'Bier

@S-G-Dewey CONFETTI AND CYBER HUGS ABOUT WRITER’S BLOCK VICTORY! Now tell me your secret. Is it chocolate? 😛

There are so many good names from the time period you’re writing about, it’s hard to narrow the list down. What letter do you think it should start with? Your character sounds like a rather militant type of person, so I would suggest…[Read more]

@S-G-Dewey hm, I’m best with wayyyy older names, but I shall see what I can think of… Francis. William. Laurence. Alexander. Oliver. Douglas. Richard. Martin. George.
I’ll let you know if I think of anything else…

And congratulations on defeating your writer’s block! *cheers*

Digney. Er, that’s the first thing that came to mind, but I completely invented it.

Same here. For me, life IS the story, and since life without Christ is not complete, it stands to reason a story without Christ is not complete either. So it’s a matter of learning to see reality through the correct lens and put it down just as it is— death, life, despair, hope, sin, God, and everything! 😀

And I’m currently feeling like all my…[Read more]

@ethryndal C-3P0 from Star Wars
Okay, here’s one. 😀
“We’ll barbeque together! We’ll point at things together! We’ll team-build together! We’ll wear suits together!”

The Elf is hauling this thread out of the dreaded depths of page 2. And since it’s pretty safe to say that no one knows where the current quote came from, I’m going to do a new one that (hopefully) is pretty obvious.

“Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1!”

@aratrea What excites me most about theme is the ability to write fiction that’s deep and meaningful, not just a ‘fun’ book that people immediately forget because they’re nothing but glue holding it together. I want to be able to touch people, to move them with my writing while being a testimony of Christ.

@audrey-caylin That’s awesome! Glad to hear that the lesson helped you so much!

One thing you could do with your story’s message is to expand it by offering a reason for hope (e.g. “There’s always a reason to hope because _______________”). It somewhat depends on what type of story you’re trying to write, as a reason isn’t strictly necessary,…[Read more]

@daeus, I’m so glad things are better now. Serious disagreements with your parents are so hard, for both parties involved, but resolutions are wonderful! Praise the LORD! 🙂
@bluejay, I’m glad you’re better. 🙂
@perfectfifths, stormy days are my favourites too. 🙂

I’m a little late on this, and I wasn’t tagged, but hopefully no one will mind if I butt in…
I personally don’t read books if they have any swearing or bad language in them. Sometimes a war novel, with soldiers, will have words that, although they aren’t swear words or using God’s name in vain, I would never use (And I’m pretty sure none of you…[Read more]

@Daeus I’m late, but the gold title definitely works better.

@Daeus *groans* Tell me about it. 😛

@hope Anything helps. God bless.
But actually, that point that individual book plot points may sometimes line up with the overall plot points is very helpful.

@kate-flournoy 😀 You haven’t gone green in a while. And it’s funny because I can’t think of anything you might have read that would have caused it. It feels like I did, but now I don’t…[Read more]

@emma-flournoy That’s what I’m thinking. Say, do you think it might look better if the subtitle were gold too?

if you have a 150,000 word novel, you should split it up into three 50,000 word novels

*stares at quote*
*turns bright green*
*screams*
Yah, we’re just gonna pretend we didn’t see that. 😛

I actually don’t know all that much about trilogies, not having dealt with one myself, but the one piece of advice that’s coming to mind is make the middle…[Read more]

@Daeus *tears at hair and wails to the night sky* I’m in the middle of this too and everything is such a mess right now… *draws deep breath* *calms self down*

Ok, firstly, if your book is ‘only’ 150,000 words I see no reason it can’t be one book. Especially if you plan on self-publishing. Authors are able to get away with longer books in…[Read more]

Thanks, y’all. I’m thinking for my story I’m gonna have to write it mainly as one long story arc, but give each book a feeling of semi-completion.

@kate-flournoy @hope You two have thoughts on this, don’t you?

@Winter-Rose I actually have to go now too. So… Namarie!

@overcomer Fare thee well!