Thanks y’all!! 👏🏻 🎉

Okay, so my form has decided to be finicky, so @elisha-starquill I got your email where you commented—@claire-h, if you could comment on the post…? Thanks so much for wanting to read it!

@eitan, no worries, I totally get that, and thanks!!

@eden-anderson I hope it is ☺️

@chalice SAMEEEE. My POV character is an angry, bitter jerk who thinks only of himself and how to bring about the downfall of those who hurt him. He’s so obsessed about advancing his own agenda, he doesn’t really care who gets trampled along the way. (Well, except for like…five people.)

So, yeah, I sympathize with you. 😄

Everybody has been…[Read more]

Ah! Thank you all SO much for giving your answers! You’ve really helped me think more about my character and story, and I’ve had some new ideas due to all of your thoughts, so I’m really excited! 🙂

@arindown, Yes, that was very helpful! I can have a bit of a one-track mind sometimes, so it’s easy for me to get so caught up in all her messiness I…[Read more]

@elisha-starquill

One of the most useful “general guides” on medieval military strategy and tactics has been Christine de Pizan’s The Book of Deeds and of Arms and of Chivalry – there’s a modern English translation of it available (it was originally a military manual written in French in the early 15th century). If you want to get REALLY old…[Read more]

@elisha-starquill

The others have already mentioned stakes and internal battles, and I definitely recommend listening to them. Based on the references you’ve made to other fantasy battles, my guess is that this is an epic scale military confrontation as well, not just a battle between our main characters and their nemesis.

My suggestion is to…[Read more]

@wolverinerm

Thank you so much! You warmed my heart☺

A Bible passage that really helped me was Romans 8.
Thank you! Verses 5-6 really addressed my problem:

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The…[Read more]

@dakota

Cool!

Hmm, my city isn designed with wide streets, and from almost every corner you can see the desert, so it isn’t very crowded. Tel Aviv however is very crowded (and one of my most hated places. I was once in New York city and didn’t like it either. Big cities aren’t nice).

@elisha-starquill

Library is Sifria, which is a pretty…[Read more]

@caseybold @elisha-starquill @allertingthbs @taylorclogston @eden-anderson @jennythefaun

Hey, this is already going where I didn’t expect it. I actually really liked Matt. 😁Well, particularly his younger self, but the older self was fine too. It’s fascinating how we read the same things differently. @taylorclogston, the lines you quoted, I…[Read more]

@elisha-starquill

I’m a bit of a language nerd.

Me too! And thank you for clearing the question!

In fact we have contractions in Hebrew! For example, the correct form to say ”of you / of yours” 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 lite…[Read more]

@olivia

Boreal forest? It’s so cool!

@elisha-starquill

Hi, and welcome! It’s so cool that you live in Israel

Hello, thank you!

what was learning contractions in English like for you? I’ve always wondered, because I think English is the only language with them.

Sorry, I didn’t understand the question… And nowhere I find the meaning of ”l…[Read more]

Ooh, this is so fun! I feel a little out of my league though, because I’m not used to critiquing or looking very in-depth at books. I just kind of read them and if I like them, I like them and if I hate them, I hate them. And don’t have any particular idea why. 🙃 I guess it’s good to do things outside of our comfort zones sometimes, though.

So,…[Read more]

@elisha-starquill

Thanks for tagging me on that. I don’t know a whole lot about Catholics, so I thought they were Christians, but because of my lack of knowledge on the subject I didn’t want to address the subject. Which is why I just said I didn’t know if Tolkien was Catholic or not. 😛 xP  But ya, I don’t know much about all the different…[Read more]

Wow! I completely forgot about this. I could see moving this over to the fantasy thread making it super interesting. One option is that we could keep this one for specifically Parimis and then also have one over on the fantasy thread. Whatever y’all want, I look forward to seeing what happens.

@steward-of-the-pen @ariella-newheart @elisha-starq…[Read more]

@elisha-starquill Thank you for pointing out that little typo. That would’ve been embarrassing! xD

@abigail-rebekah @evelyn Thanks for taking the time to read it. It’s really encouraging to hear that you like it. 🙂

@elisha-starquill Thank you!! I used MediBang Paint.