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@seekjustice Oh my goodness.  This is horrible, but horribly funny! 🙂

I was reading lines from a play by W. S. Gilbert (One of my favorite authors) and one of the lines seemed to me to be what your characters from Stars Fill Infinity would say to you…

“When the process of extermination begins, let our deaths be as swift and painless as you c…[Read more]

@seekjustice I read your post!  🙂

@princessfoo Thanks for tagging me.  I’m really sorry, but I don’t feel comfortable getting that involved with magic.

The way I usually make up words, though, is to take two words and mash them together, mixing up a few letters and leaving out some others.  I make several combinations until I am happy with the results.

@christi-eaton Jim Weiss does some very enjoyable versions of G. A. Henty’s books.  However, he does edit them to ensure they can be heard by children, which some might think is a good thing, and others a bad thing. 🙂 (I usually prefer the unabridged versions.)

I don’t listen to audiobooks much, but when I do I go to librivox.org for free…[Read more]

@dekreel I don’t know that one, but I think I do know the one Louise Fowler posted over a month ago which no one answered…

@perfectfifths, is it Fezzik from The Princess Bride when he and Inigo are trying to find the “Man in Black?”

Anyone know this one?  (We can do books, too, right?)

“He calls me a crow, because my hair is black…”

@catwing This will sound like a totally ridiculous question unless you are the person I’m thinking of…

Something you said here about a book you are writing made me want to ask: When you were about twelve years old did you write a book about a detective animal – I think a rabbit?

And illustrate it yourself?

Have you ever been to the HEAV…[Read more]

@valtmy Thanks for commenting!  You make some very good points.

Giving Chara a bad experience at home so that she flees to her aunt and uncle’s house to mature and then go back to face the problems at home is a reasonable idea, and I’ve read several books with that premise.  My problem with it is if something like that happened to me, I don’t t…[Read more]

@gh24682468999 No idea. 🙂  Good quote, though.

@ingridrd Oh, I LOVE the Julie Wright quote!  Most people think this is weird, but my form of optimism is often not “Things could be worse,” but “Now that I’ve experienced this horrible thing, I can write about it more correctly.” 😀

@valtmy I think time loops are really cool, though they do kind of give me a headache. 🙂  I don’t really have anything to add, but I’m wondering where you got the idea?

There’s a hilarious episode of Stargate SG-1 that deals with time loops and their quirks called Window of Opportunity.  If you’re writing about time loops you might enjoy it, and…[Read more]

@that_writer_girl_99 I finally came up with something. 🙂

I think science fiction worldbuilding shouldn’t be as complicated as a lot of us try to make it.  When writing science fiction, wouldn’t it be simpler to pick one specific scientific interest which is the basis for your story, and then have the rest of the story be more normal?  That would…[Read more]

@bella-d I second all the comments above! 🙂

Something I think is interesting about Medieval times is that back then very few people knew how to read, and so almost all news was carried from castle to castle by minstrels who would make up songs about the famous deeds done, and would learn songs from other minstrels to carry the news of those…[Read more]

@daeus Are we supposed to answer the questions as Christian readers, or as readers in general?

@jenwriter17 Isn’t it, though?  I have a tendency to become melodramatic, but I think this really sums up how to write good drama.  I know I usually cry more when I watch/read about someone trying not to cry than when they’re sobbing their heart out.

I like your quote, by the way. 🙂

@skredder That’s a great quote!  It sounds like a good way to…[Read more]

@notawriter I just had a great thought.  I used to read a lot of old westerns, (Zane Grey, William MacLeod Raine, B. M. Bower,) and am trying to write this with the same type of storyline, but modernized.  But when I read those books, I was looking for entertainment, and not for themes and character arcs.  I mean, I noticed those things in the ba…[Read more]

@notawriter Thank you so much for your feedback!  In response:

Goals and Motivations/Conflict I am actually having a little trouble with this one.  My idea of her is that she is not confident – loses her sense of direction very easily, and so is very afraid of having to take care of herself – and that she has a hard time with her self-image be…[Read more]

@seekjustice I’m leaving now.  Got a little done this time.  Bye! 🙂

Hello, I’m here if anyone wants to join.

@seekjustice Are you back yet?

@dekreel you were here around the same time last night…

@winter-rose @seekjustice I’ve got to go watch President Trump’s State of the Union Address with my family.  I’ll probably be back here in a couple of hours, at my usual time. 🙂