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Greta and
Sarah Spradlin are now friends 10 years, 8 months ago -
Greta replied to the topic Lovely Words in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 8 months ago
@writefury, yes! I just can’t get over how ironic that is… 😛
Vivacious is another word I like. I love how it sounds 🙂
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BlueJay replied to the topic Your Favorite Historical Fiction in the forum Book Discussions 10 years, 8 months ago
@Sarah-h – No, book 5 is not the end one. Book 6 is. But I have read 1-4 miss 5 and then 6, so I know how it ends. I haven’t read The Young Underground so it wasn’t too sad. 🙂
And yes, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch is a great book for boys and girls. -
BlueJay replied to the topic Your Favorite Historical Fiction in the forum Book Discussions 10 years, 8 months ago
@Sarah-h – Carry On, Mr. Bowditch is about Nathaniel Bowditch’s (a real person) journey from his modest beginnings, to his first sea voyage, to his rigorous self-education, to the triumphs of his fine-tuned mastery of navigation and eventual publication of his famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known as the “Sailor’s Bible”).…[Read more]
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BlueJay replied to the topic Lovely Words in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 8 months ago
@kate-flournoy – Yes lunch. (Which I have had now. It is actually 12:54pm) And if it was 8pm over here I’d be heading to bed. Which sounds nice cause I had a late night (got to bed at 1am) cause my sister had her engagement party. But no, I still have the whole afternoon ahead of me.
@daeus – You’ll probably find that you skim read it cause you…[Read more] -
BlueJay replied to the topic Lovely Words in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 8 months ago
Oops sorry @daeus. (My fingers are way toooo fast for my brain and I’m hungry for lunch so my head isn’t focused.) 😛
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BlueJay replied to the topic Lovely Words in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 8 months ago
You were right @writefury. It is the fear of long words. (Thank you Google. 🙂 ) I like your idea too @deaus
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BlueJay replied to the topic Your Favorite Historical Fiction in the forum Book Discussions 10 years, 8 months ago
Yes! Yes! Yes! Normally I hate maths (I have a soon to be brother-in-law who can’t understand how I can dislike it) but Nat makes me wish that I had a better brain and I sometimes feel like learning Latin and Greek too. 🙂
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BlueJay replied to the topic Lovely Words in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 8 months ago
I have no idea what they do as I’m Australian not New Zealand. I found it in a book and loved it ever since. 😛
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BlueJay replied to the topic Your Favorite Historical Fiction in the forum Book Discussions 10 years, 8 months ago
It’s a great book. It is written so well that it is interesting and yet it still has a great lot of history in it.
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BlueJay replied to the topic Lovely Words in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 8 months ago
By the way, this is the name of a hill in New Zealand. Have fun trying to say it –
taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu 😀 And for another interesting name, a town in France has the shortest name – Y. 😛 -
BlueJay replied to the topic Lovely Words in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 8 months ago
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia – what a word! What does it mean? 🙂
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BlueJay replied to the topic Your Favorite Historical Fiction in the forum Book Discussions 10 years, 8 months ago
Yay!!!. I read it to my eldest sister and had to stop so many times cause I was laughing too hard. (And there was the occasional teary scene) 😛
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Greta replied to the topic Lovely Words in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 8 months ago
@Daeus, Yes! Doesn’t Tolkien use the word discombobulated? Or maybe I’m thinking of confusticated. 🙂
Some of my personal favorites are pseudonym (I just love that way it sounds) and hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (I think I spelled that right…).
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Greta replied to the topic Help with Characterization! in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 8 months ago
Hi everyone! Sorry I didn’t respond sooner. 🙂
Thank you all for your advise! @writefury, I haven’t done much of anything yet…I guess I didn’t know where to start (but I did come up with the MC’s name, which is a start 🙂 ).
@hannah-krynicki, that’s a great idea! I’ll have to try that.
@kate-flournoy and @daeus, I will have to refer back…[Read more]
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BlueJay replied to the topic Your Favorite Historical Fiction in the forum Book Discussions 10 years, 8 months ago
Promise of Zion Series by Robert Elmer
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
Freedom’s Sword by Annie S. Swan
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
How They Kept the Faith by Grace Raymond
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Greta started the topic Help with Characterization! in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 8 months ago
Hello, everyone!
To be honest, I’m new to writing. I’m beginning a novel (I’m still in the planning stage), and I really need to develop my characters. Do you all have any characterization tips?
Thanks!
~ Greta
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Greta replied to the topic Christianity in Fiction in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 8 months ago
@Daeus, yes! Gandalf has so many great quotes. My favorite is probably “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” 🙂
@writefury: Great thoughts! Honestly, I forget to pray. A lot. And that’s not how it should be. But a lot of times, that’s the way people are; they need help, and suddenly they remember that…[Read more]
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Greta replied to the topic Christianity in Fiction in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 8 months ago
Sorry, I just kind of put all my thoughts out there. 😛
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Greta replied to the topic Christianity in Fiction in the forum General Writing Discussions 10 years, 8 months ago
The existence of God is a given. Now this one sounds like an absolute no-brainer, but when you think about it it really isn’t. I mean, how easy would it be to assume the person reading your book is a staunch atheist and just dump all the evidence for God’s existence off on them? Very easy.
The thing is, when a reader picks up a piece of fic… - Load More
