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@seekjustice I put a link to the Wikipedia article in my previous post.  Redshirts on Star Trek became so famous that they became a trope.  To be a redshirt means that you are brought onto the show for the sole purpose of dying. 🙂 Basically.  Read the article Here.

@jenwriter17 Hahaha!  😀 But sometimes I don’t like it, because I have such a fearful imagination that if the character gets hurt, if I am paying enough attention to the story that part of my body will actually start to hurt.  I have several times had to stop reading to rub my “stubbed” toe or pinch the bridge of my nose to cure my “headache”.

@jenwriter17 *hands you a handkerchief* Thank you!  I feel so sorry for @seekjustice‘s characters.  I believe to be a character in Seekjustice’s book promises about as sure a death as to be a RedShirt on Star Trek, TOS. 🙂

@valtmy Those are great suggestions!  I really like the thought that some people might get irritated with her needing them to be with her all the time.

Her aunt and uncle actually don’t live on a ranch.  They live in a house in the middle of the city. (Las Vegas).  They are medium strong Christians, and very laid-back.  They either don’t have chi…[Read more]

Hi everyone!  I have a children’s picture book I’m planning to publish around the end of this month or the beginning of next month. (I am currently working with an illustrator.)  But though the story is complete, I didn’t pick a name for the protagonist, and I think it would be a smoother read if he had a name.

So here is a document with the s…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 You know you’re a bookworm when you get so engrossed in a book that when a character shrugs, you shrug, and when a character bangs his head, you get a headache.

You know you’re a bookworm if when you were twelve if you were reading your mom had to physically shake you before you could hear her talking. (I trained myself out of that…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 Yes, or a book.  My quote is from a popular girls book written about a Canadian island circa 1900…Does that give anyone clues?

@kaya-young That sounds like it came from a movie – but then, I really only watch classic movies, so how would I know? 😀  Is it from Disney?

@seekjustice I’m so glad you liked it!

@amily-huddleston Hi!  Welcome!  You write realistic fiction?!! That’s wonderful!  So do I, almost exclusively, but I’ve rarely met anyone else who does.  Fantasy seems to be in style. 🙂

Do you write historical or contemporary?  I do a little of both, but mostly contemporary.

@amily-huddleston WELCOME TO THE BESTISTEST PLACE ON THE INTERNET!

Yo. I won the game for once. 😉

Ooh, realistic fiction. Do you have a current WIP?

@valtmy Okay, that makes sense, but would the scene have to be before the airport scene, or could it be later in the book as Chara remembers it happening?

There should be a pretty stressful scene in a few pages and I’m planning to have her unable to take care of it until someone helps her.  This should show her at the bottom of her self-reliance…[Read more]

@perfectfifths Hooray!  My brother quotes that movie a lot. 🙂

@dekreel I didn’t notice the second quote the first time.  The word “dynamic” makes me think of the dynamic duo (Batman and Robin) but it is highly unlikely you would use a quote from the 1960s here, so I’m sure that has nothing to do with it.  🙂

@jenwriter17 @seekjustice @kaya-young…[Read more]

Whoops! Double post. 😀

@mariposa I like the “Rome was not built in a day” quote.  It helps remind us that though writing isn’t always easy, by keeping at it we may come up with something grand. 🙂

@daughteroftheking Cool description!

Here’s a quote by one of my favorite authors – Carolyn Wells.

“A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil…[Read more]

@mariposa I like the “Rome was not built in a day” quote.  It helps remind us that though writing isn’t always easy, by keeping at it we can come up with something grand. 🙂

@daughteroftheking Cool description!

Here’s a quote by one of my favorite authors – Carolyn Wells.

“A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil…[Read more]

My post keeps getting deleted.  I hope it stays here this time 🙂  Sorry if it keeps sending you emails with the same post, but it just won’t show up on the forum.

@seekjustice For some reason I decided to write this today.  It was originally supposed to be semi-funny like the quote I showed you last night, but it ended up – well, like it is. :)…[Read more]

@seekjustice Thank you so much!  Looking it up right now…

Okay, bye!  Have fun! (But sometimes it’s fun to be antisocial! 🙂 If you get to write instead.)

@seekjustice The only things I have done with guy characters before was I gave one of them an anger problem which I didn’t fully develop because he was taking care of his sister for most of the book and didn’t have time to be angry himself, and the other guy was just thoughtless about the feelings of others for a little while when he was enjoying himself.

@seekjustice Well, there are worse things to be known for. 😀

How do you make a guy character?  I’m having trouble with Derek because I know people will get annoyed if he’s perfect, and he actually isn’t because I’m planning for him to have a big argument with someone sometime in the book – though the argument isn’t entirely his fault – but to m…[Read more]

@seekjustice You have chosen wisely.

But you do such a good job killing your characters that if you did end up doing so, I would probably be cry for a really long time (which I did while reading Stars Fill Infinity) and then give up and say, “Yeah, it’s probably better that way.”