Louise Fowler

@seekjustice Haha, yes! 😛 By the way, speaking of Alia’s story, you should definitely read the Mars Diaries by Sigmund Brouwer.  Seriously.  They’re amazing. 😀

@alia 😉  You like The Princess Bride?

I’m very interested in how you make your new story different from Brouwer’s.  I love the premise, because of course I love his books and I lov…[Read more]

@alia

No worries. I just rolled with it.

Oh yes! I was stalking the topic the other day and saw that. It sounds pretty cool and reminds me a bit of Ender’s Game.

I definitely think that sort of isolation would be damaging, but maybe not as much as complete isolation. Are they allowed to be friends with each other or do they just exist with each other?

@alia

Awesome 😀

I’d do some research, but I’d hazard to guess that the consequences wouldn’t be good. I think it also depends on what sort of isolation it is. Is it isolation from absolutely everyone? Isolation from everyone but one or two select individuals? Isolation from everything except a group (say, a church)?

I think each of those w…[Read more]

@rochellaine

That’s pretty much how it is 😛 It reminds me of when I try to explain musical plots to my family.

@alia

Awesome! What are you outlining?

@valtmy

Oops, I forgot your new job! Maybe I’ll see you later then 😀

@seekjustice Oh, oh!  I scrolled up a bit and saw the end of your long post to @catwing where you said “to sum up.”  Immediately, this flashed into my brain:

@rochellaine Got your tag wrong 😀

Anyone around I’m editing my novel/reading a short story for a friend. 😀

@catwing @jenwriter17 @rochellane @valtmy

@alia

I find that writers know how to write the least when they can’t hide behind their characters. But I’ll keep praying for you and I hope God brings you through this time soon. 🙂

@catwing

All right, Catwing, I am here to give you instruction in the way of the glorious character arc.

I’ll try to keep this concise:

So, I feel the trick to Character arcs are these two things. Basically, a character arc can’t just be the character going from A–B. I’ve read books/seen movies where the characters are one way at the start,…[Read more]

@valtmy Hi!  How’s it going?

@alia @jenwriter17 Hey, hey!  Who’s talking about me staying up late??

😛 I’m here for a little bit, Alia, if you’re still here.

@catwing @alia I’ve got to go now for a bit.  Hopefully be back in a little while or later tonight.  Bye!

@catwing

I’m currently getting ready for church so I don’t have time right now to answer your question, but  as soon as I get home I’ll give you a whole lecture on Character Arcs (hey, wasn’t slope a term invented by Daniel??)

@alia Yes, I can see it!  Cool.  Which one is this for?

@alia Hahahaha!! 😛 😛 😛

@alia Cool!  You have to save the collage to your computer as a JPEG or whatever file it saves as, and then you click the little landscape icon at the far right of the “Visual” panel here on the forum.  That’ll open up a little lightbox, and you click on the “search” icon which will open up your documents so you can select the picture from your c…[Read more]

@alia You haven’t read the Viking Quest series??!!  That may be the best his-fic series for teens ever written!!!

😛 Well, anyway, I like it a lot.  Love it a lot.  Adore it from the depths of my heart and my imagination.  Something like that.

In other words, yes.  You should look into them. 😉

@catwing That’s something I’m not very good at myself, since I had several people tell me one of the guys in my last book had a really quick change of opinion which should have been explained better.  That was two years ago, though, and I think I’ve gotten better, but I can’t tell yet since I haven’t finished a book yet.

However, I would assume…[Read more]

@alia Yeah, I never had any trouble seeing them grow up.  It was only three years, and that’s not as much as Bree, Devin and Mikkel grow up in Lois Walfrid Johnson’s Viking Quest series (ever read those?) which is also only five books long.  I understand that it wouldn’t be great if you can’t see them as older than 14.  We have another series wh…[Read more]