Rosey Mucklestone

Algorithm.
Does anyone else get words stuck in their heads? A lot of the time it’s words that I don’t know. Algorithm was stuck in my head for a few days before I actually looked it up. 😛

Ho yes. Lots of fun stuff to do with characters. *rubs hands together gleefully*
So, what have you done so far? Do you have the characters and need to develop them, or are we starting from scratch here?
Get down the basics to start out with. Name and/or nicknames. General appearance and personality. Likes and dislikes. That sorta stuff. Finding…[Read more]

And the point is not so much ‘put as much Christian behavior as you can’ as it is ‘write your story inside out with Christianity at the center, and the Christian behavior will follow.’ It will flow naturally and realistically and characteristically into the story if it is the heart of the story.

Exactly. I probably would have worded it better…[Read more]

Wow. Gone for a day and I get to come back to this beauty. Seriously, we’ve got some great stuff in this topic already, guys. I might have to keep this open as a reference for my WIP. 😛
The realistic prayer thing is really something I watch myself carefully for. It’s never really a “fold your hands, get on your knees and reverently close your…[Read more]

I think #3 or #2. They’re the clearest when small.
I think the reason it showed up as a link would be that you didn’t put it in the image box. Here let me try…

I’ll have to jot this strategy down. XD

I went to one in October, here: http://www.siwc.ca
That’s in Surrey, BC. Not much of a drive for me, but it probably would be for pretty much everyone else.
It’s not overtly christian, but there was a whole bunch of great stuff there. 🙂

@daeus Yeah, I was thinking about deleting that. I was mostly following Cobalt’s thought process and he would have worked the whole hobo thing for sympathy, so that’s why it’s there in the first place. But not everyone follows that sort of train of thought. 😛

@kate-flournoy No problem at all. 🙂 I totally get the whole big family busy-ness thing. 😛

Haha, nice! XD Neither of those seems like things too far off Cobalt’s option list. 😛

You’re welcome! 🙂 Glad you enjoyed it.
Just wondering, would you like to beta-read when I’m through combing out the end?

Love it, @kate-flournoy! XD It is fun seeing how they’d approach different situations. Let’s see… what would Denholm do if he’s a wanted man by his given name and someone asks his name? (Cobalt pulled on a Scottish accent and said his name was Angus McCampbell.)

I like #4 personally. It’s the clearest that what we’re looking at is a heron. 😉
And of course, add the E.

While we’re playing with the Thesaurus…
Tales of Light
Sagas of Light
Yarns of Light
Memoirs of Light
Epics of Light
Narrations of LIght

Yeah, don’t take me to seriously here. 😛 Though the first one wasn’t bad….

@hope and @kate-flournoy Thanks! I was afraid I’d missed something like that. 😛 The policeman thing, Cobalt was supposed to be facing the opposite way from them, away from the car, so he saw it and they didn’t. But yeah, I did kind of drop the other henchman at that part. XD Will fix that.

@kate-flournoy Correct on the blue eyes, though he has…[Read more]

@daeus I think the Lollards might be a nice, historical tie-in. But you could have them be believers even if not. Depends on how much research you’re wanting to do. 😛

There’s pretty much two ways to take on the whole traveling-back-in-time-thing. Either you humorously explain the way history is in the books, or you alter it. I’d say you’re…[Read more]

Can we meet at a writer’s conference or something so I can ask more questions?

Eh… that’s a bit of a gamble. 😛

Totally agree with @kate-flournoy‘s ideas. The Chekhov’s Gun is usually better used if it starts out being a hinderance or a symbol of something bad.
Yeah, I’d say the mad scientist should use his technology as manipulation and make people think he’s more powerful than he is. A magician of sorts. But he could also have a sort of limitation he’s…[Read more]

@daeus I will feel free to do so in the future, then.

I think them hiding that they’re from the future would create a nice sort of tension undercurrent with them and the resistance. I mean, if they told them “Hey, we’re from this wacky future world and we came here in a time machine”, they’d probably think they were insane and not even listen to…[Read more]