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OKAY, folks. Apparently, I have the esteemed position of Featured Guild Member. And not only that — I’m also the first featured guild member, so I can’t piggy-back of off previous examples because there are no previous examples. Which means I have to trailblaze this thing, WHICH MEANS…

This is the long-winded way of saying, “I have no idea what I’m doing. Please bear with me.”

*deep breath*

A Brief Introduction

I’m not on Story Embers as much as I was on Kingdom Pen, so to all the Emberlings who aren’t as familiar with my work, here’s the tentative pitch for my WIP:

A devout immortal is forced to wrestle with her perception of God when she’s sent to protect a people-group who stand for everything her faith is against.

(I only wrote this thing a couple days ago and am still in the process of refining it, so any opinions and suggestions are more than welcome.)

Status Report

NaNoWriMo has taken all my brain cells and turned them into Troll snot. Have a good evening.

*long pause*

That just won’t do, will it… Alright then. This year, I decided to try my hand at nano for the first time ever, and if you haven’t seen me around as much, that’s why. Yes, it’s been scary and stressful and exhausting, and yes, I’m quite ready for the end. But at the same time, there’s something strangely liberating in writing for the sake of churning out words, and not being able to stop and think about how HORRIBLE those words probably are. Death to perfectionism, and all that rot. It’s been a good month of writing.

Though I have this nasty feeling that come December, I’m going to look back over my new 50k and be blindsided by how much editing I have to do…

Question for the People

Okay, guys. *whips out notebook* I’m a little bit past the midpoint, and this baby just reached 110,000 words. (What have you done to me, @Kate, I’m turning into you…) With a MC who’s main traits are unwavering loyalty and blind stubbornness, the worldview shift she should have experienced by this point in the book has failed to hit her as completely as it might a more emotional, philosophical character, SO:

How do you show change in a character who is still determined to not see the faults in the worldview she’s desperately clinging to? She spends the majority of the book absolutely determined to be blind to the issues of her old ideas, and it’s only by the climax that life hits her so hard she has no choice but to let go of herself. I know that’s pretty standard for a character arc, but I’m afraid that Liriel’s willful blindness is going to come across as annoying.

So I guess my question is this: How can I make a character resist change without frustrating the readers?

Itty-Bitty Critique

I actually wasn’t going to do this, but, ehhh… What the heck. This is the 4th chapter of my novel and the first introduction to my main antagonist. Out of all my characters, his POV feels the shakiest, so it would be nice to have some feedback and overall thoughts on character and style, and whatever weakness I should look out for in the following chapters of his.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lXe6ILdFoHcn3i8AtFKU1NAMDB81nZzKpJsN2z5Qb9g/edit?usp=sharing

 

And… I’m done. You see, @Daeus-Lamb, I thought I’d play safe and do it all. *jazz hands*

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