Emily

@kathleenramm

Thanks!  Well, i always had the idea for Hope’s character in the back of my head, but watching the Will Smith movie, I Am Legend inspired me to expand the plot.  That movie, paired with Interstellar really sealed the bill for me. XD  I love complex plots, high stakes, and characters searching for family/romance, so this story is b…[Read more]

@kathleenramm This is actually the sequel of a sequel of a spinoff for my original idea for Thirteen Ways, ha… It started out with me wanting to make a world where I could escape to, and gradually I just added on, and on, and on… And now, thankfully, I’ve run out of ideas for it.

@daisy-torres

So cool! This really made me want to read the book.

@nova21

That sounds really interesting! The world where anyone could be insane is so cool and works so well with the MC’s desire for family. It sets up a really clear desire vs fear.

Where did you get the idea for Spirals?

@devastate-lasting

I really love these kind of simple yet really intriguing premises. I tend to overcomplicate things in…[Read more]

@kathleenramm I’m gonna use the current arc of Thirteen Ways since the stakes are the clearest. Basic premise: they need to gather ingredients for a spell to vanquish a demon. If they don’t, then some friends and family are lost forever to the demon.

In order to collect the ingredients, they must defeat the guardians of some of the ingredients.…[Read more]

@akbaer

Tbh, i feel like every era was just plain bad. XD  Maybe i’d go back to the eighties and nineties to jam out and crowdsurf XDDD  Not a super intelligent answer, but that’s what I’d do:)

@power

I LOVE geometry too!

@kathleenramm

for my WIP Spirals, the stakes are the choices between life and death.  Hope, the MC, lives alone in the wild and wants a “family” more than anything: parents, friends, anyone.  Every decision she makes decides if she’ll survive the next morning.  The people living in the post-apocalyptic world are basically insane so she never know…[Read more]

@daisy-torres i love it!  wanna read it now…

@kathleenramm Good luck on your story! Yes, now I think I want to incorporate at least one delivery boy henchman into a future story. I love it when henchmen have distinct personalities and appearances. Makes the story much more fun.

@daisy-torres Oo, nice! Looks great!

@elfwing

I know! I think that’s the very thing that makes him so relatable. We sympathize with him because of all the mental torture he put himself through, but at the same we are annoyed with how mean and pathetic he can be.

It’s not a character you want to relate to because, who wants to be Colin? But his positive character arc gives hope for…[Read more]

@morgan

That sound like a really fun and chill way to write. Just letting ideas flow as you write the novel.

Where you find you get the most story ideas from?

@devastate-lasting

Following characters is the best right? So many fun and out-of-no-where ideas come to me when I do that. Plus writing is so much easier.

I’ve done it with outlined…[Read more]

@nova21

Haha, that’s okay! Grace gave some great tips!

@joy-caroline

It’s cool how you just took up a pen and started writing stories when you were younger!

Funny, I don’t think I remember a time where I didn’t know what outlining was, I guess because I grew up in a family of writers. XD

It totally makes sense that you outline Biblical…[Read more]

@abigail-m Sorry this took so long. I’ll answer your questions now.

how likable are the characters?

Very likeable! I do like the three that you introduced here.

If you had to eliminate all but one character, what one would you keep and why?

I’d keep Anton because I’m a sucker for minor characters. But seriously, I wouldn’t eliminate any of…[Read more]

@kathleenramm I fully pantsed some works some months ago. It was terrifying. Like, usually I have no idea where things are going when I’m writing, but at least I have an outline as a roadmap. No, for this I had one sheet of paper covered with characters I wanted to be  in it, and then another page for me to jot down ideas as I wrote.

And…[Read more]

@kathleenramm

never have, probably never will. not because i don’t like it, i just can’t XD  i wish i had some tips, but all i can give are just the things Gracie already said. XD