But I have a tricky situation in my WIP and I was wondering what I should do about it. My MC and her family live on Earth in Russia, so she knows about Jesus and such from the…[Read more]

From my experience, girls tend to use more words and more time to say basically the same thing, whereas boys are typically more curt. They also notice different things than women, because male/female brains see things differently (I’d spend some time reading up on their differences; it’s…[Read more]

Recently I was watching a documentary about Greece, and on one island they whitewash all their houses so it’s not as hot, but the doorways are all different colors, so…[Read more]

1. I’ve heard a lot of good things about Bluehost and know several people who are pleased with it. It’s easily compatible with Wordpress and not too expensive, if I remember correctly.

2. I’m not using/paying for…[Read more]

What I’ve personally found the most helpful is to study blurbs from books I’ve enjoyed and read (so I have an idea of how much the author shared in the blurb.) I do this for books in the same genre that I’m…[Read more]

What if Ivy offers her assistance to find the jewel, but only at a price? The price being something the princess could offer that would give Ivy a chance at becoming more than a peasant, like bringing her along to an important city or a letter of introduction or…something.

I don’t know w…[Read more]

I have a blog called The Voyaging Storyteller where I post stories, gush about my musical and book-ish adventures, drag you along on my travels, and spew an occasional thought that is either profound or arbitrary or both, depending on who you are. 😛

I’ve never…[Read more]

*ahem* My first instinct, like what @jenwriter17 said, is that the reader doesn’t need to know all that information up front. In fact I think it’s better that they don’t, a better hook, because it’s mysterious when the MC talks/thinks/references things…[Read more]

(also, Rusted Knight, I love the quote in your signature.)

@the-inkspiller – Aaah, thank you, that was incredibly helpful!

You’re right, my battle is more like an epic scale military confrontation. I confess I’m rather plot-orientated, so I hadn’t given much thought to what the characters…[Read more]

Library is Sifria, which is a pretty new word, that was invented in the 20th century. The word for school however is much more older, and probably was in use in Jesus’ time. It referred to a Bible school (Bible = book, in the era’s context) for children, and was different from a Talmud house, where teenagers and adults learned the Jewis…

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In fact we have contractions in Hebrew! For example, the correct form to say ”of you / yours / your” is the separate word shelcha, but in speech we usually contract it to the suffix -shcha. The correct way to say school is beyt sefer (which literally means ”book-house”, by the way), but usually we pronounce it Betsefer. However, unl…

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@eitan –

Sorry, I didn’t understand the question… And nowhere I find the meaning of ”learning contractions”… Can you ask it in other words? 🙂

Contractions are a way to shorten words, like “didn’t” instead of “did not” or “I’m” instead of “I am”. I think English is the only language with them…[Read more]

Dragon ink allows writers to set history in stone—or to change it. This sounds like a great tag line! I also read it as one, so…yeah, I think it’d b…[Read more]

I think the main reason why I wanted to root for the trio was because they faced a lot of cruel, unfair…[Read more]

(tagging @olivia so she can see this) – Also,…[Read more]

One little typo: I think you mean…[Read more]

I haven’t watched that movie, because Robert Downey, Jr. is not remotely how I…[Read more]

Ah, I see! I love bounty hunter stories, so it sounds very interesting. Thanks for explaining it! I don’t have Disney+, but we might try…[Read more]

A thalassophile is a lover of the ocean, and a trinstamentalist is – in addition to being a word I made up – someone who plays three instruments (in my case, piano, guitar, and violin.) I’ve always adored discovering rare words and creating my own. 😀

According to a friend who was outraged at this (and who’s apparently a Star Wars expert xD) said that the one I watched is the worst one and that I must go watch these other ones, but I saw the…[Read more]