Jackson Graham

Hey @valtmy! Welcome to the forum. 🙂 What animes do you watch? I haven’t watched much, but really like Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood & Death Note (the original, not the Netflix travesty).

@valtmy You’re a world traveler! That’s cool. 😀 What were you studying in London?

What’s the story behind your username?

@ingridrd AGH! I know, so many forgotten ideas. It’s torture, really.

@sleepwalkingMK “They’re writers.” XD Yes, I’ve had to do that once. Somebody was asking someone else a whole lot of questions, and I just looked at him and said, “We’re writers.”

“Aahhhh…”

@ingridrd *absent whistling*

You know you’re a writer when you don’t want to become a certain way because it’s cliche.

You know you’re a writer when you have dreams about your characters.

@pickupyourpenandwrite Just a note of encouragement. Rewriting/doing major revisions may be a tough process, but it will teach you A TON and leave you feeling a much more confident writer afterward.

You know you’re a writer when you haven’t written in your novel for a few days, and your walking around the house, saying, “Boy, I miss ___”

Then you stop…and say, “Oh wait, he doesn’t exist.”

@gracie-girl can tell you a lot about J/P. It’s really cool stuff.

@naomijackson I don’t think it’s best to just insert chapter breaks wherever there is a cliffhanger. You want chapters to be fairly similar in length with just a handfull of short and long ones thrown in there. I believe writing chapter breaks in the first draft helps me craft nice chapter breaks and more cliffhangers because I’m planning for the…[Read more]

@mariposa Oohhh… I wish to read this novel.

Here’s one I just made for a character in the third book of my trilogy. He’s eight.

@rochellaine I’ve never thought about this before. I’ve always just had the chapter breaks right from the start. I assumed that’s how everyone did it. I suppose it’s not a big deal, but it does work well for me how I do it. It helps me plan chapter breaks well and gives me an added sense of completion when I finish a chapter.

*stalks this topic*

@mnvalentine It depends a bit on what you consider “action”. If action is battles and desperate plots, no novel actually needs those and you can bring them in at any point in your story. If action to you means confrontation, which I think is a good synonym, perhaps you do need the action to come in earlier, though it depends on how long your book…[Read more]

@photobloggergal Okay, I can’t help with Word specifically, but I’m pretty sure it’s not a hard process. I’m sure Youtube has some good tutorials.

All you really need to publish is an account on kdp.amazon.com. Then, upload the file of your story and a cover, enter a description for your story, etc. It’s a very simple process.

HIIMAKAPEEFER!

@the-real-kapeefer

@perfectfifths *facepalm*

Would your character rather live underground in caves or in a cloud kingdom?

I’ve been ignoring this thread, but for some reason I just really wanted to do it all of a sudden. 😀

Flash would rather never hear stories than never hear music…probably. He wouldn’t like either though. 🙁

Flash would rather climb a hundred foot wall than watch TV all day, though he’d feel awkward having to climb a tall wall.

Flash would…[Read more]

Thanks, @overcomer 🙂  I plan to soon.

@aviantrail Well, that’s an excellent start at least. Hopefully you’ll learn to like him in the next movie.

@bella-d I could answer this, but I’m most interested in what @kate-flournoy would say since I know she’s faced something similar and overcame it.

@kaya-young Nice list! Austen is one of my all-time favorites.