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@xonos-darkgrate I know some people who would find that too graphic, but I don’t. I think there’s a good light/dark contrast and it doesn’t make me feel empathetic toward the villain so I’d say this is good so long as it’s for a good purpose. 🙂

Oh, and I didn’t read your excerpt either. If I did, I’d want to know what basic content was in it first and I might not be able to get it in anyways.

@xonos-darkgrate

I’ll just stop in real quick to drop a few bits of meat, but if you want to hear a lot about this subject, we have several articles on it.

The thing I think is crucial to understand with content is that you want sympathy but you do not want empathy.

Sympathy is when you feel for or understand another person’s e…[Read more]

@xonos-darkgrate

Hey!
So I haven’t read the thing, because I’m a bit of a ‘link-a-phobe’ (not you, just the internet), but my main thoughts are dark themes and darkness in literature in general is that if you’re not comfortable showing it to someone close to you, like your mom or dad or brother or sister or best friend, then it may have gone to…[Read more]

@leumeister Yes

@leumeister I would personally vote 1, 3, 2.

@dekreel Opps. It’s been a while since I saw it…

I get it. @dekreel
Everyone I have to go sleep. Good night.

@alia @dekreel I have come! And I’m working on Firebird a story I put to the side that I must write now… So bye Starting Fires.
I will write you later
And spark all your raging flames
Til they glow high.

*pulls out Firebird notes* This is such a different story…

@shannon Maybe I need to do a character quiz thingie too. But what I did to meet my characters (since some refused to talk to me.) is write a random scene that just seems fun to write. I try to get a feel for the character and how they act (and look sometimes). Sometimes it’s a tense scene for them or it may be a fun scene. It depends on the…[Read more]

@perfectfifths XP indeed.

@dekreel Yes!

“Get a grip! Or so help me I will ground you for a month!”

…

“Good. Those look like land based missiles, so there must be land that way.”

“You mean we have to go toward the guys who tryed to kill us?”

“If it means land, then yes.”

There. The scene is complete…

@dekreel some of those are writing weaknesses… Now you know more about my character. 🙂
Writer’s block… I don’t feel like writing. I don’t know how to get my characters out of a mess. I want to do something else. Rewriting something a few times. I need to work on Showing not Telling.

@perfectfifths @daughteroftheking @dragon-snapper @ingridrd @dekreel @people-of-KP Here’s one!

“We’re dead!”

“It blew up!”

“We’re dead!”

“Did you see that? It blew up!”

“We’re dead!”

Now guess!

@dragongeek Hello. You play School of Dragons? Well now me and my brother do. So he wanted me to see if we three shall have a clan. 🙂

@xonos-darkgrate I agreed with @kate-flournoy @dragon-snapper @daeus
I was going to say what Kate said.

@dekreel
*sees list* … I didn’t think it was that long… I did put some good things…
…
Oh! And I can’t faint. I tried. My brain always tricks me into not fainting. Yeah. I held my breath cause I wanted to faint. But my brain didn’t listen. *shrug*

@dekreel I have returned!!! My weaknesses? Here’s a few… Things.
Knows when not to speak, but not always when to speak.

Doesn’t always plan ahead or outline. Scratch that. Hardly plans or outlines.

A lot of things she ‘plans’ are random on the spot.

She puts her characters in an underwater prison and decides they must escape with paper clips,…[Read more]

@Dragon-Snapper YAS. THE MORE VILLAINS THE BETTER.

*coughs* Okay, maybe not always… but personally, since I write sprawlingly epic books with dozens of thematic threads and plotlines apiece, I usually have at least two villains. One is usually the head bad guy, but giving him an evil sidekick doesn’t hurt.

@dragon-snapper Sure, though you shouldn’t just stick two stories in one book. The two villains need to have the same goal or attack the same weakness in the protagonist or do anything else that keeps the story coherent.