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@daeus-lamb I LOVE ideas 1, 2, and 4. I’d say if it works out, y’all should go for it.

I’m with @eden-anderson and @cassandraia about number 3 though. I realize that this might make it quicker and easier for guilds to form, but when the guilds are done right they are worth the wait. Also, where would the leadership come from? I think this could…[Read more]

@daeus-lamb This is very interesting and helpful!

This has sparked all kinds of ideas for my WIP- it’s a mystery, so foreshadowing is a very big element I’m working on correcting (I’m technically rewriting the book, and I first wrote it when I was 12, so… there’s a lot to correct 😛 ).

I don’t have a lot of time right now to explain 3 ways I…[Read more]

@msqueen8 Through the Linn is about a young girl who at first seems to be an ideal young Christian woman- but then she’s put through the fire, so to speak, and her steadfastness is considerably shaken. She turns from a sweet and helpful girl into a hard and bitter one who cares for nothing except herself and her younger sister. Her stubbornness an…[Read more]

@msqueen8 Absolutely! 3 Lamplighters jump immediately to mind: Through the Linn, Pride and His Prisoners, and Treasure of the Secret Cove. All of those were both extremely captivating and convicting.

Also, it wasn’t really the dark side of The Hidden Hand that bothered me; kidnapping, murder plots, and deception sounds like my cup of tea (not t…[Read more]

@bama-rose We were talking about the books, but I LOVE the audios as well! Over the summer I listened to The Haunted Room so many times that I practically had Emmy’s lines memorized. It’s one of my “secret dreams” to adapt the story into a script for the stage and portray Emmy in it. 🙂 My other favorite is Sir Malcolm and the Missing Prince, b…[Read more]

@msqueen8 I LOVE the Lamplighter! It’s one of my other favorites. 😀 I have read the Hidden Hand, but honestly that one wasn’t my favorite. It just felt like it went too far in some places. I haven’t read Ishmael or Self Raised yet; what did you think of them?

I first heard about Lamplighter books because my pastor is a distributor. 😀

I have…[Read more]

@chalice Congratulations on making it all the way through! 😀

I would basically echo what @literatureforthelight said, especially about keeping a copy of your first draft to look back on if you need to. I learned the hard way that sometimes, after all the editing, you realize there was a scene or description that you liked way better in the…[Read more]

@daeus-lamb I’m afraid that it won’t work this time. I enjoy beta reading and editing though, so I’d love to do something like this if it ever works with my schedule!

Have a blessed week, and the Lord be with you and use you and this curriculum for His glory!

@msqueen8 That’s so hard! Probably Through the Linn, The Lost Clue, The Haunted Room, or The Treasure of the Secret Cove. I love so many of them though!

Oh, and another non-Lamplighter favorite that I would add to my list of favorite books read this year is Evidence Not Seen, by the missionary Darlene Diebler Rose. It’s an incredible accoun…[Read more]

@daeus-lamb How many pages is the script?

@eden-anderson This is a great idea! Thanks for starting it! 😀

What I Wrote

Mostly newspaper articles and term papers, which is good but doesn’t help so much with the story-telling side of things. 😛 I did also write some poems and flash fiction and got some outlining done on a book I’m working on re-writing. Not terribly productive, but not…[Read more]

@eden-anderson First of all, I want to say that I would completely understand if you decided to leave. It has been a bit dead the last couple months. 😛

Secondly, I’m very glad you’re not leaving. *hugs you* Hopefully things will pick up soon! If you ever want to talk about something or have a question, I can’t guarantee I’ll have an answer, but…[Read more]

@selah-chelyah I am completely with @eden-anderson; I hope you aren’t offended, but your post reads very much like a scam. I think your best move at this point would be to explain, here on the forum, what is going on. I doubt that many people will give you emails, and if you truly want to help people, it seems strange and suspicious that you…[Read more]

@kate @eden-anderson @msqueen8 Thank you so much!!!

We had 20 children at the club! Praise the Lord! There were some complications with the result that I spent about the first 20 minutes making calls to parents making sure that it was okay that everyone was there (sadly, one girl did have to leave) but everything else ran smoothly! We serve a…[Read more]

@noahlitle @kate @sesi

I love the direction this is headed, and I think any of the options could work.

Just gonna throw out an idea that kind of blends a couple of them: what if it’s his wife, and she loved music and was just beginning to experience success when she had an accident/was diagnosed with a debilitating disease. She missed music so…[Read more]

@noahlitle I say go for it. 😀 I think your “thing with continuity” will be perfect for this story.

Though I would add a word of caution: in my opinion, stories like this often end up placing too much emphasis on the “presence” or the “feeling” of the person, or thing, that the MC needs to let go of, and their “encounter” is what enables them to…[Read more]

@noahlitle Got your tag wrong the first time. Sorry ’bout that. 😛

@kate Let’s brainstorm it a little more than. What do we want them to let go, how will we incorporate it into a dream? It would be neat if it were something different… not necessarily “I wish I did this before they died, but it’s time for me to let go,” or “If only I’d done…[Read more]

@noah-little I once read a similar book called “Tilly,” by Frank Peretti. In it, a woman who’d had an abortion 9 years before and then regretted it ends up in a dream (though Peretti leads you to believe that it could be a dream or a vision) where she meets her daughter and spends time with her, and then learns to let go of her regret. It is…[Read more]

YAY for @ethryndal day! 😀 I’m glad you went first.

Of course, you’ve left some pretty large shoes to fill next month…

So did you survive NaNoWriMo?