Power

The Wise Fool is one of my favorites.

Also, that character in the background with more knives than words, that is the first to react to a threat, but the least likely to comment on it. Mikhail Gregovsky from A Light in Zion fit this to a pin. Natan Israeli in Brother Enemy is similar, if more snarky. Smalls from Green Ember is kinda like this to…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle

I knooowwwwwwww!!! 😭

We’re both still at home though, so there’s that.

@keilah-h

Yes! Agreed.

At least Martin made the right choice. I would argue his death scene was the most frightening one I’ve written.

@whalekeeper

haha!!!

Oh yes, absolutely.

@whalekeeper

Oh really? I love them. It’s so fun to start tying them together in subtle ways.

In the first one, all three end up frequenting the same cafe at different times, and only a few readers pick that up because I never state the name, but I describe the surroundings the same. Things like that.

One of the MC’s works with another…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

Ooo! Cool!

I did one with the first book in the series and I’ve decided to keep going with it thought the whole trilogy.

@whalekeeper

Nope, he’s an MC. But it’s a three-way POV, so there are two other MCs.

He’s also an interesting character because of his job…. so he has that going for him.

@koshka

Nooooo! The twins have separated!!!  😱

@ellette-giselle

My older sister is a graduate student there, so yes, but no, my twin is going somewhere else.

*Mournful sigh*

@koshka

Ooo! Yay!

Is your sister going with you?

@hybridlore

I know poor Aelic. This is my fourth time though that scene as a draft, (read it several times just for fun) and it still gets me. Ugh.

(I’m wondering what’s happening to Aiden now that Martin believed and died too. It would have been tough to see his brother and his cousin killed like that.)

I know!!! The poor kid! 😱

Guess we’…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle

It’s close enough to commute, about 40 minutes one way (so not amazing, but not bad).

@koshka

Ooo yay! Graduation!

oh! So are you leaving home, or is it close enough to access?

@whalekeeper

no, not really! I like her ideas. I have written quiet moody characters, but I don’t know if they’re quite like this.

I have a current moody character, but he’s not super likeable. (except that he happens to be all my reader’s favorite) he’s doing the right thing, but he kinda hates the world. (and has good reason to) But then he…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

Sounds like you’re all set to me!

Words of wisdom are heavy upon the fingers.

Oh my word. XD That needs to be a tag line

Ack, my slow typing…

@whalekeeper

I already have that! Perhaps I have made some better-than-bad choices!

Yay!

…What about the first few chapters of the book, though? I want to set him up as likable then, but the beginning doesn’t include any huge brave decisions because it’s setting up the status quo.

The status quo is him trying to be “comfortable” or whatever, right…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle

O.O

Yeah, entering finals and graduation, then transferring to a university for next fall.

Annnnnd you answered some of that already. XD

@koshka    @whalekeeper

I like Koshka’s idea.