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@Ethryndal I guess I automatically assume that the guy will get the girl (or the girl will get the guy, whatever) so it would be a sort of unique twist to make it that they didn’t end up together in the end.

Personally I love it when fairy tale retellings are done in completely different genres. Like a steampunk beauty and the beast or a sci fi…[Read more]

@Daeus it’s pretty cool! You could make the shadows a little heavier which would be a very subtle ominous layer, or add a little shading to the white around the whole picture. Not sure though.

@lightniningmouse Oh, that’s a great idea. I don’t have a Spotify account, sadly, but writing them down or something is a good idea…*grabs pen*

Well, if you wanted to have one, you could get the free version XD and there’s a web version so that you wouldn’t have to download the program, but a written list is definitely helpful. I was plann…[Read more]

@Dekreel I don’t really have problems in this quarter because I’m very good at just ignoring all my horrible mistakes in a first draft. And I also enjoy rewriting the full novel because it’s fun seeing the massive improvement in it. xD But still, I have friends who struggle with this. Three things you can try:

1: (as Kate said) write in…[Read more]

@Kballen so exciting that you’re doing NaNo!! (I am too.) Like the others have said, having an outline is very helpful, and so is having a group of encouraging buddies who can spur you on in writing. That was one of the things that helped me most. 🙂
K.M. Weiland has a bunch of great advice on NaNo (here’s a link if you want to check it out).

@ingridrd Ooh very nice. I love the colour theme you’ve used.

Out of Time trilogy – Nadine Brandes
Songkeeper Chronicles – Gillian Bronte Adams
The Tales of Goldstone Wood – Anne Elisabeth Stengl
The Mission League – Jill Williamson
Ashtown Burials – N.D. Wilson
Storming – K.M. Weiland

And that’s just scraping the surface of my favourites list. 😛

@Dekreel to tone it down from being so dark, you could change the aspects of fear and horror/dismay that the tree feels, to a sense of confusion and curiosity. That would shift the mood from ‘scary’ to a much lighter feel.

A way to avoid so much of the human terminology you can use similes instead. Saying “I feel a great, pulsing joy in my heart”…[Read more]

As I develop characters I like to add songs and pieces of music that remind me of them and their arcs to playlists on my Spotify. Occasionally I’ll make a list for a scene or a whole story, but I like to have a whole story complete and in front of me before I dive into a playlist for it.

ALSO, if anybody here has a Spotify account, I made a bunch…[Read more]

@Dekreel something to think about is that Catcher in the Rye is about a character going on an adventure, and the reader experiencing his thoughts and emotions along the way.
I could list many many books that have this same vague plot. If I look at my bookshelf, there’s half a dozen that I see immediately which I could say had that idea as…[Read more]

@SeekJustice alrightyo then. Farewell until next our paths cross! *salutes*

@SeekJustice sweet! *waves*

@SeekJustice @Catwing If either of you are still around–hi. I’m doing some brainstorming.

@Catwing that’s super! Just poke me after NaNo/whenever you need me to go over it and I’ll be happy to. (poke me because otherwise I’m 99% likely to completely forget xD)

@Catwing I would love to help out, (here comes the ‘but’) but I’m about to be participating in NaNoWriMo in November so I won’t have time to do anything during that month (because I also have another manuscript that I still have 100k left to edit/critique). HOWEVER, depending on your deadline and the length of your novel I might be able to fit it…[Read more]

@Catwing I gotta go now. *vanishes*