Mallory O'Bier

@slylilhuntress Read Brandon Sanderson (crazy amazing fantasy author). Also, Cry The Beloved Country (not fantasy, but very deep and heartfelt. The best Christian novel I’ve ever read). Oh, and read Dreamlander too! It’s amazing.

@kaya-young  Those are good points! I know I struggle with taking God’s gifts for granted, too

@jenwriter17  I read Ruth 1, as well

I looked up the names for Naomi and Mara. Mara means “bitterness and sorrow,” and Naomi means “pleasantness.” It’s interesting to know

I think one of the reasons God brought food back to Judah was to show Naomi H…[Read more]

@Sam-Kowal ha! Well, remind me, and I will. ;P

And YES. Depth is everything. If you can boil your entire world down to a single deep, resonant core story/concept, so much the better for you. Hard to stress enough how important that is. Focus on what you have and make it so magical you don’t have to go look for other things to distract you.

@slylilhuntress  Those are AMAZING!!

I think I’m actually kind of an ambivert. I just happened to be in a really good mood when I found you XD

Which is your favorite Wingfeather Saga book? I like the second one for all the adventure

I totally forgot about this temporarily but I WILL RETURN LATER. xD

@slylilhuntress  WELCOME TO THE BESTEST PLACE IN CYBERSPACE!!!

I love your username!! And your profile picture!

So, you like Andrew Peterson! Please tell me you’ve read his books… If not READ THEM, OR ELSE!!

Can I see some of your dragon pictures? If not, that’s okay 😉

Is my extroversion enough for ya? 😜

@inkling-for-christ  Unfortunately I haven’t watched enough of Star Wars to give an answer. XP Sorry!

(However, if you ever want to write a Dr Who story… 😂 )

@slylilhuntress  Hello and welcome!!!  Looking forward to seeing you around the forum!  🙂

@reaganramm

Another question.

I was wondering what your thoughts were on talking and sharing about your novel before it’s published? If you’re planning to get published within the next few years, should your novel facts and characters and everything else go incognito?

For example, if I were to talk about my novel on my blog, would that be…[Read more]

@slylilhuntress Well if you like dragons, you’ll like me. XD  I am one. Call me Snapper. 😀

What’s your favorite instrument?

@Daeus I’ll have you know I was racing to get that typed out before you posted and said all my stuff for me. XD

No, good points though. Maps are important… I have them… in my head… XD Allegorical and historical elements too. Oooh ooh, in fact @Joy, I actually have a cool thing for you. Four ‘pillars’ for you to figure out, that’ll give you…[Read more]

Oh, drat. Kate just stole my secret fire. 🙁

@joy

Fantasy, more than any other genre, is about the past, so the most important thing to nail down is the past history of your story world. Allegorical aspects are good to nail down early too if you want to have them. If you’re going to have magic, nail that down early. Oh, and nail down a map of all the lands included in your story, so you…[Read more]

@Joy excellent question. Someday I want to write a book on worldbuilding, but I’ll try to refrain from dumping the entire tome off on you right here. XD

The first thing, I think, is to realize that worldbuilding is not so much a list of facts about where your story takes place as it is a key— like the key on a map— to discovering why your…[Read more]

@slylilhuntress Ha! I’m reading The Green Ember Series right now too. Andrew Peterson’s great, though I have to sheepishly admit I haven’t read Dekker yet.

@rochellaine  😂 Hahahaha!  Thank you muchly.

@daughteroftheking  *bows*

@kaya-young  Thanks!  I just copy and paste pictures into PowerPoint so that I can have all of the collages in one place.  I usually just find pictures on Pinterest and sometimes just Google.  🙂