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@noah-cochran

Ah, yes, guilty as charged. I used to love my stick-men battles way back in the day.

Oh, absolutely. Mine were of the rectangle horse varietyXD

@rose-colored-fancy

All little kids draw themselves doing cool things, and in his case that was being a mighty warrior

Ah, yes, guilty as charged. I used to love my stick-men battles way back in the day.

@noah-cochran

Nice. Seeing first hand sources of writing and archaeology is always fascinating.

Exactly! This was originally written on birch bark, not parchment, so it’s amazing it was preserved that well.

Elucidation required.

All little kids draw themselves doing cool things, and in his case that was being a mighty warrior XD

@rose-colored-fancy

It’s one of the many doodles made by a seven-year-old boy named Onfim who lived in Novgorod (now Russia) around 700 years ago.

Nice. Seeing first hand sources of writing and archaeology is always fascinating.

As you do.

Elucidation required.  😂

@noah-cochran

Happy Holidays, I hope you had a great Christmas 🙂

I’m getting a zillion character ideas just thinking about it.

Absolutely! I think one of the interesting things about it is that family dynamics function completely differently from most others and that even in the same circumstances, it could work completely differently. Endless p…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

Sibling dynamics are my absolute favorite thing to write, and parent-child dynamics are up there too. That’s actually what most of my first book is centered around and it was really fun to write!

I’m getting a zillion character ideas just thinking about it.

It’s an official Croatian letter that was written in 1445.

I love tha…[Read more]

@noah-cochran

I really like the family dynamic of a son or daughter working with their parents, especially in a medieval/fantasy setting.

Exactly! It’s a bit harder work to justify everything but it’s so worth it! I love writing family dynamics in general, and I think all of my main characters have some family.

Sibling dynamics are my absolute…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

I can really see why so many people choose to make their main characters orphans just to get the parents out of the way of adventuring things XD It makes sense from a plot perspective, even though it isn’t any fun for the character.

I agree. However, though I write mostly adult characters (19-20+ in age), who are out of the h…[Read more]

@noah-cochran

Oh wow, nice. That’s a lot more than I do, all I have when I go into a chapter is several bullet points under that chapter.

I used to do that too, but I found that even though it takes a bit longer, it makes it much easier to write since I’m very prone to get lost in the middle of a conversation like “Where was I going with this? I k…[Read more]

That same cat had a habit of jumping on people’s backs while they were bending over. That happened multiple times, but the crowning glory was the time my mom was painting something on a step-ladder and bent down to get something and that extremely large cat decided jumping onto her back was the best possible way to demand attention. Nothing went w…

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@rose-colored-fancy

And then before I write it I write an outline for the chapter with as much detail as I think of and a rough idea of the dialogue.

Oh wow, nice. That’s a lot more than I do, all I have when I go into a chapter is several bullet points under that chapter.

On that note, thinking of external justifications for why characters are…

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@noah-cochran

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

Both! I start with the fifteen beats, then I fill in anything I can think of to get from one to the other and then split that up into chapters. And then before I write it I write an outline for the chapter with as much detail as I think of and a rough…[Read more]

@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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@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]

@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]

@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]