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@valtmy  Thank you! Yes, finding a good way to present information has been the biggest challenge, (mentally, I haven’t actually started writing anything yet) and that was something I’ve needed to work through first. I really like your idea of covering the same event in one chapter but from multiple perspectives.

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@valtmy If you want to have characters on individual cycles, my advice is to look at your main characters first, most specifically the characters that will be fighting each other throughout the story, so you can design their cycles to complement and contrast each other.
Perhaps their first element is related to when they first stepped on special…[Read more]

@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]

@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]

Thank you all for your great input! I’ll be using all of it!

Special thanks to @rochellaine and @valtmy

@valtmy This is a brilliant idea!!! I love what you have so far.

#1 @daeus stole the very words out of my mouth…or post. You can totally use age or gender differences to determine who has what power. Of course, it could also be interesting to go by family line.

#2 The time loop is the hardest thing. However, it actually does line up with your…[Read more]

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I love all of your quotes!❤👍

@mariposa I like Charles Spurgeon too. Have you read his morning and evening devotional book?

@valtmy Wow, Rochellaine covered it pretty well, lol.

Some babies might be deep sleepers, but they frequently wake up in the middle of the night and cry for attention (I have two younger siblings), so I don’t know if saying the baby was a deep sleeper is enough (it’s also been a while since my siblings were babies). I like the idea of a false…[Read more]

@valtmy Thanks for commenting!  You make some very good points.

Giving Chara a bad experience at home so that she flees to her aunt and uncle’s house to mature and then go back to face the problems at home is a reasonable idea, and I’ve read several books with that premise.  My problem with it is if something like that happened to me, I don’t t…[Read more]

@valtmy I think time loops are really cool, though they do kind of give me a headache. 🙂  I don’t really have anything to add, but I’m wondering where you got the idea?

There’s a hilarious episode of Stargate SG-1 that deals with time loops and their quirks called Window of Opportunity.  If you’re writing about time loops you might enjoy it, and…[Read more]

@valtmy I love magic systems! I don’t know if this would be helpful to you at this point, but I published an article on creating a magic system a while back on Kingdom Pen.

#1. I think it would be better for everyone to have a different elemental type, but I can see your problem of coming up of reasons why. Maybe, to mix it up a bit, everyone…[Read more]

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1. I’m going to differ with @Daeus and say I think it’s a cool twist if everyone must use the same element. I think you could come up with other things to differentiate the characters from one another. Maybe fighting styles are a big deal, or people are divided by who trained them to use the magic properly.

2. Do the characters trapped…[Read more]

@valtmy Wow! This sounds cool enough to give me a headache. lol

I doubt I can answer all your questions, but maybe I can help you with a few. Here goes.

#1 I agree that different people should have different powers at the same time of day. If you do this, there should probably be a governing rule. For instance, males and females are divided as…[Read more]

@valtmy @supermonkey42 *snorts* Huh. Good luck trying to subdue me. As self-proclaimed Security Chief, I’d love to see you try to rebel against us.

@sam-kowal *whispers* Keep an eye for any suspicious activity. We don’t want them to know what we’re up to.

@supermonkey42, @valtmy,…three INTJs????? is that even legal? I guess I should be thankful my sister is hardly ever on. I should also be thankful for the pause on the plans to overthrow @daeus, though in his kingdom I don’t have a powerful position…so, if y’all ever change your minds, I offer my services as long as I get some power.

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Putting a baby in a box, even well padded, does sound potentially dangerous. However, if what they’re running away from is super bad, the ends probably justify the means in this case. It would likely be a risk worth taking.

A  few things worth mentioning to you.

• Babies all have different personalities. Some people just see “cute…

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@valtmy Welcome to the forum! I’m a more a recently-writer as well.

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I agree. Will do.

@valtmy My family did foster care for something like 13 years, and during those years there was never NOT a baby in our house. But we stopped five years ago, after a bad experience with the agency, so it’s been a while since I’ve done much with a baby.

That box does sound pretty unsafe. It’s wooden, so to make sure the baby doesn’t get jostled…[Read more]

@valtmy Having the baby be a deep sleeper would definitely work.  When I was a baby, I slept something like 20 hours a day, and when relatives came over they wanted to see my eyes, so my dad would toss me in the air (gently, but he is very good at that) and talk to me, but I would never wake up. 🙂

My older brother, on the other hand, slept…[Read more]