Rolena Hatfield

@reaganramm Wow! Thanks so much! This is infinitely helpful! I was wondering about this because I read an article about someone who said never to talk about your novel before publishing it because it would make the book jaded whenever it came out, but now I think that article was probably wrong. XD 😛

Well, I knew I wanted to publish before I go…[Read more]

@warrenluther04 Yes, one of the biggest Star Wars nerds in the business. Nice to meet you. I make random mynock noises whenever I’m surprised or scared out of mind or just too happy to say anything.

@dekreel Awwww! She’s so cute!

@dekreel XD I figured.

@dekreel Lol. You just tagged yourself. 😛

@sam-kowal 😀 Thanks!  Go eat the pancakes and cinnamon rolls. (Stop it, you’re making me hungry too.) 😛

@ethryndal @daeus @winter-rose @jenwriter17 @sam-kowal @jane-maree @audrey-caylin Hey guys! I revamped my blog, if you wanted to check out the new design. 🙂

(And Audrey, I also redid my blog button, if you could update that too. 😀 Thanks! )

@SlyLilHuntress 😀

@Dekreel Quite. XD

@SlyLilHuntress Welcome to KP! You have now gained many friends. 😉

@Dekreel 😀 And the Les Mis thing is hilarious.

@Dekreel It’s great! And I love my door. 😀

@skredder Woah. That’s awesome!

@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  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]

@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]