Sarah Spradlin

@Dragon-Snapper I would disagree. The definitions are wrong. Sorcery in our world is demonic power, and since our fantasy worlds should be copies of God’s nature and God’s creation, sorcery should be bad in fantasy worlds as well. Spells and dark incantations and witches and the like should always be portrayed as bad. I do not think you…[Read more]

@alia
*stares at laptop for really long time* Um…
Well, I had once written half a book of a highly magical fantasy wizards/magicians type story; the MC had magic and the Antagonist had magic etc. However, I was convicted against using such elements in my stories when I read about how much God hates sorcery (Galatians 5:20) I was convicted and…[Read more]

@aratrea So glad I’m doing this course. I have no clue as to what and Archetype is. 😛

@Alia ha! I feel ya. 😛 Not a problem. 😉

@Alia this is such a lovely discussion that we already had it. 😀 Check out this topic here. Please add your thoughts and ask your questions. It’s a huge discussion, and the more opinions we can get on it, the better. 😉

Hm… the whiny teenaged hero? 😛

@Aratrea

@Aratrea Well… Hmm. I wouldn’t say the lessons have been focusing on physical conflicts rather than mental conflicts. It’s just the matter of tying the theme to the conflict. Something like your example of fear and courage is pretty easy to show through conflict. You can show a character running and hiding at the beginning, then standing up and…[Read more]

And now I feel so terribly uncultured because I’ve never read Byron or Shelley or Milton… *sniff*

@Daeus @Northerner dah! Had to restart my laptop… it froze on me… *glum look* Sorry to keep you waiting. I got 623 words.

@Daeus *screams* I DON’T WANT TO TURN EIGHTEEN!

@Daeus… don’t you mean nine? :’D
I’m with ya.

@hope That looks fantastic! Great work.

Yay, it worked.

@Adry_Grace Yay for Enjolras. 😀 He’s one of my top faves too. And yes, you DO need to find a copy of the book! Look, here’s a link to the kind we have; I don’t know if we bought it here or not, but this is the one we have.…[Read more]

@hope Not completely sure what you mean with the mental/physical distinction since, from a thematic perspective, you can weave themes into both sorts of stories in a rather similar way. What parts of these lessons do you think have been more focused on physical conflicts than mental conflicts?

I’m not sure how well story structure works across…[Read more]

@audrey-caylin Got it. In that case, scenes 1 and 3 look like a great way of deepening the protagonist’s EiL and pushing her forward in that. How would you say that scene 2 relates to the themes of truth & forgiveness?

I wrote 251 words since I started writing, @daeus @overcomer

@daeus All for a worthy cause. 😀

@daeus Excellente.