Sarah Spradlin

@aratrea Hmm, yes. I think I remember that now. The last video I watched was on matching the character arc with the plot arc so that might have had something to do with it. Anyway, I reworked it. I’m pretty happy with the disillusionment now, though I’m not quite sure how well the postive arc flows.

Round 1: The Disillusionment Arc

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@winter-rose Well, I’ve got to run now, and wrote 178 words. How’d you do?

@winter-rose @overcomer @graciegirl @anyone else I am still writing for about half-an-hour

@daeus Yeah, I’ll be writing more, though not too much this afternoon, because I have a place I gotta be. But tonight around 7-9 I should be. It depends.
In that fifteen minutes I wrote 344 words.

@daeus …Alright, I’ll see what I can do in that frame. 😛

@daeus Are you still there?
@r-j-wordsmith @jess @ethryndal

Brainstorming is good! 🙂 @graciegirl Thanks for writing with me. 🙂

@overcomer YES. One of my favorite things is being able to see storytelling principles of a sort in my own life. Thanks for sharing! And I agree that faith is certainly another major theme in Lord of the Rings.

@anna-brie Sorry to hear that. :/ Unfortunately, I don’t recall seeing any posts here either…

@hope Yeah, characteristic moments are harder when you’re plotting over a full trilogy. That story actually looks like a flat arc to me with just a really poignant third plot point. To turn it into a disillusionment arc followed by a positive arc, I…[Read more]

@jenali That does sound like a depressing book. Course I guess that isn’t exactly new to Dickens. =P Good example. Sometimes catharsis means giving another character a positive fate if the negative arc character can’t achieve any epiphany.

@rachelle Hmm, I don’t know. I mean, there are so many angles you can take. 😀 Amnesia is fun. I’d make sure you are showing the sinfulness of the characters before they start regaining their memories, though. It’s not the past/memories that make them sin, it is their heart.

As for the lost memory… let’s see. Random fun things: you could give…[Read more]

@overcomer Thanks. 🙂 Yes, I love so many things about Lord of the Rings, but the theme of hope is one of my favorite things. 🙂

A poem! Sweet! What I did was so much more boring, @dragon-snapper . I did find the theme of my novel, though! (I think.) 😉 Yay! 🙂

I have been writing, @graciegirl . How’s your short story coming?

Wow, @hope! Good job with “The Lord of the Rings.” I was going to use that book for my homework and picked “Faith” for the theme, but you penetrated a little deeper than I did. “The Lust for Power” Josiah mentioned I would rate as the third most important theme, and there are definitely lesser themes of Courage, and Friendship, but I’m pretty…[Read more]

@overcomer Well, I forgot to sign off fifteen minutes ago to tell you I was going…I’m going fifteen minutes ago. I wrote a poem that is 203 words. Thanks!

Yay! @dragon-snapper , I’m just gonna toss some laundry in the washer and then I’ll join you! 🙂

@overcomer Still here. 😛

I’m going to write for an hour if anyone wants to join. 🙂 @dragon-snapper are you still writing?

@daeus hmm, well, don’t have to use itunes. I just use it because you can go down and change the story really easy and so get links for about a dozen different national stores/sites. I’m not sure how it works it other places or if you could use one Smashwords link for all of them. If you do, let me know how it goes. 🙂

This is a disillusionment arc which spans a trilogy. Or rather the first two books and the first quarter (probably) of the last book before shifting into a positive arc.

The MC’s experiment in living is that good will always win and victory over evil here on earth is inevitable so long as one gives their all to the fight. Her experiment in living…[Read more]