Beth Darlene

@rose-colored-fancy

I have the opposite issue, my main plot ideas need a lot of time but I often didn’t have enough sub-plots to fill up the middle. I do think I’ve gotten better at that though.

Do you use chapter by chapter outlines or list of chronological events outlines?

I was absently thinking of that time our gremlin cat jumped on the tab…

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Kallun gathered small rocks together and used it as glue. He stuck some pieces of armor together. He molded the metal and stone together as one big plate.

@noah-cochran

Yeah, I do need to get Scrivener sometime.

It’s awesome, I couldn’t do without it anymore. Absolutely recommend.

Oh, then I definitely agree. My mind just works in long, epic proportions I guess, so I write long stuff despite the  ‘I wanna stop and burn this’  issue.

That is an entire mood. I think that at least once a week, or even…[Read more]

Julian stripped off his armor and piled it in the middle of the floor. “Here. Do what you want with it.”

Ellie bent down and started messing with it like she knew what she was doing. “Clueless….” She mumbled

@rose-colored-fancy

If you’re still considering Scrivener, it has this lovely feature where you can write in whatever font and size you like and it will format it for you, make a title page, and number and label all your pages and you can export it in all kinds of formats.

Yeah, I do need to get Scrivener sometime.

I really like reading long b…

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@noah-cochran

I had no idea about the 12pt, double space formatting thing. But I looked it up and one is supposed to have 12pt size, indented paragraphs, Times New Roman, Double Space, and no  extra space between paragraphs (just one enter after each). I had none of that before, so the amount of pages in TTD is small.

If you’re still co…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

It was that long? My second book is 130k and 460 pages long, yours is 40k longer but thirty pages shorter. I guess that’s the formatting difference!

I had no idea about the 12pt, double space formatting thing. But I looked it up and one is supposed to have 12pt size, indented paragraphs, Times New Roman, Double Space, and no  ex…[Read more]

@noah-cochran

 Yeah, differences in cultures and languages are always hilarious like that.

And it’s very funny how you can get used to it so completely XD

Oh there are so many. A few for book one are a several of the big confrontation scenes,  writing the MC’s arc, developing a friendship, writing a house fight, and writing the climax.

Sounds lik…[Read more]

To make my question on the dialogue punctuation clearer, please tell me if the following things are true:

This is correct: “I hate cars,” Roger said. “They are weird.”
This is incorrect: “I hate cars,” Roger said, “They are weird.”
This is incorrect: “I hate cars.” Roger said. “They are weird.”
This is incorrect: “I hate cars,” Roger said, “they…[Read more]

Alessio had decided to leave out the part where “immune” was loosely defined as “won’t kill me” but it was a moot point now. He only caught Nithel the moment he popped some sort of nuts in his mouth. For two seconds Alessio completely panicked. But his friend grabbed another fruit and he didn’t drop dead or anything…
But Nithel’s action made Ale…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

For me it’s like “I know four people with this name” and to you it’s more like “How are you supposed to pronounce this eldritch nonsense? Man, I wish they’d kept “Joke” as a name. It’s not pronounced like that, but that’s how it’s spelled and it’s a common girl’s name

😂 Yeah, differences in cultures and languages are always…[Read more]

@irishcelticredflowercrown

Hehe it seems there has! It would have been so funny to see her try to hack him to bits while he dodges out of the way smiling and saying ‘Oops you missed me’ and ‘try to work on ypur footwork darling’

LOL, that would be hilarious XD She totally would have done that last time XD

I really like Liorah! I’d love to know h…

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@noah-cochran

Well I’m fairly confident they won’t be generic to me. xD

Which is exactly what makes it so funny XD For me it’s like “I know four people with this name” and to you it’s more like “How are you supposed to pronounce this eldritch nonsense?” XD I’m really glad the translator made that choice.

Man, I wish they’d kept “Joke” as a nam…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

and then this book has the most generic old-fashioned Dutch names

Well I’m fairly confident they won’t be generic to me. xD

I plan to start drafting book 3 next week monday so we’re close together!

Yep. 🙂

I’m really excited to start, I think I’ll really enjoy writing this book.

Same here, I love all my characters before I’ve…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

It also struck me as very funny that Liorah would have absolutely murdered Lorcan for like half the things he’s said to her and now she just laughs it off?? There has been✨character development!!✨

Hehe it seems there has! It would have been so funny to see her try to hack him to bits while he dodges out of the way smiling and s…[Read more]

@irishcelticredflowercrown

I am flattered that Liorah thinks so

I really wasn’t expecting her to say that XD She’s kind of surprising me by how much grace she can give people. I mean, yeah, that was her entire character arc for the second book but I’m still surprised she learned her lesson XD

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@noah-cochran

Alright then, after I read it, I’ll come back and see how badly I mispronounced them.

LOL, in the preview I saw that the translator did switch out a couple that would be too weird to prounounce.

I find it very funny because Letter for the King and some of her fantasy books have these really outlandish names like “Jiacomo” and “…[Read more]

He probably wasn’t a bad person at heart, but I was going to snap if I talked to him much longer, and I really didn’t want to do that.

@rose-colored-fancy I am flattered that Liorah thinks so🤣

@rose-colored-fancy

Tell me when you’ve read it! I can rant about those books for ages (as you’ve seen XD) My favorite characters are Rosemary and Geert-Jan.

Will do.

(You’re going to have a fun time with the Dutch names, as far as I could see from the preview they left most of them original

Alright then, after I read it, I’ll come back and see h…[Read more]

Liorah

Lorcan scowled at me, then started to laugh, the first time I’d ever seen him do so.

The mixture of startlement and warmth was the same as the first time I’d heard Aydin laugh. My memory flitted back to that time and I smiled, slightly. I didn’t wish those days back, it had been filled with bitter heartbreak and heavy days, but that was…[Read more]