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Hope Ann commented on the post, How Personality Types Should Affect Characters’ Thought Processes 6 years, 4 months ago
Glad to be of help!
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Hope Ann replied to the topic Help! My characters sound the same! in the forum Characters 6 years, 4 months ago
My answer:
I’ve struggled with this myself. I had two MCs in different books. Both were nice, kind people who just wanted to help and save everyone. And they started feeling way too similar. There were a few things I did to figure out differences.
One was to put them in the same situation and then watch them carefully to see where they acted…[Read more]
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Hope Ann started the topic Help! My characters sound the same! in the forum Characters 6 years, 4 months ago
Question of the week from Sandi. 😉
I have to characters, one main and one side, they are brothers and both very similar. The MC is very developed and recently as I’ve been developing the other, I’ve been struggling to make them different yet similar. Fears, reactions, etc… Any suggestions! Thanks!
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Hope Ann replied to the topic Fantasy Types in the forum Fantasy Writers 6 years, 5 months ago
@naiya-dyani If the world isn’t real, then it’s speculative fiction; probably fantasy. 😉 There’s lots of kinds. Some have magic. Some don’t. There’s one fantasy series that is pretty much ‘this world’ except for the names of the lands and peoples. So there’s lots of kinds.
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Hope Ann replied to the topic Fantasy Types in the forum Fantasy Writers 6 years, 5 months ago
Also, here’s a cool list of fantasy sub-genres. You have to scroll down a little. I’ve not even heard of some. Honestly, you can couple about any genre with the term ‘fantasy’ and make something out of it, I think. Even if there isn’t an official term, it’s still a ‘steampunk fantasy’ or ‘western fantasy’.
Also here’s that link:…[Read more]
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Hope Ann replied to the topic Fantasy Types in the forum Fantasy Writers 6 years, 5 months ago
It’s basically…not real. So involves magic or superpowers or sci-fi or supernatural fiction.
Google defines it as: a genre of fiction that encompasses works in which the setting is other than the real world, involving supernatural, futuristic, or other imagined elements.
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Hope Ann replied to the topic Fantasy Types in the forum Fantasy Writers 6 years, 5 months ago
Ooo, hmmm. It depends on the definition of fantasy, I suppose. XD I had a girl reading a book in a fantasy world once, and it was about a futuristic type of setting. Though I suppose it could also involve powers and magic that the world doesn’t have. A world with fire powers obsessed with stories where water powers are a thing and such. Now I want…[Read more]
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Hope Ann replied to the topic Fantasy Types in the forum Fantasy Writers 6 years, 5 months ago
As in… fantasy is speculative fiction? Or what is fantasy? Or how many kinds of sub-genres of fantasy are there?
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😛 Too many to count….
High. Low. Allegorical. Speculative.
And sometimes sci-fi fantasy 😛
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Hope Ann joined the group Publishing and Marketing Nerds 6 years, 5 months ago
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Hope Ann joined the group Fantasy Writers 6 years, 5 months ago
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Hope Ann replied to the topic January 2020 Accountability in the forum Events & Guild Maintenance 6 years, 5 months ago
*looks at lists of plans*
I’m hoping to write 10k in my book
Start a podcast
Get together tax info (yay)
Also I’m going to the Dominican Republic at the end of February for a few months for a mission internship. So that’s a thing I’m getting ready for.
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Hope Ann replied to the topic Dialects! Yes or no and how much? in the forum Research and Worldbuilding 6 years, 5 months ago
In the newsletter, we have discussed language once before. Actually @daeus answered that question because I didn’t know. So I’m going to post his reply here. And maybe he’ll have other people to tag since I’m woefully out of date when it comes to who is active on the forum right now.
First of all, I wouldn’t be Tolkien until I’d already mastered…[Read more]
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Hope Ann started the topic Dialects! Yes or no and how much? in the forum Research and Worldbuilding 6 years, 5 months ago
I’m starting a new thing here. For those of you who get the newsletter, you’ll be familiar with the ‘around the coffee table’ section. Well, instead of me just coming up with answers, Daeus and I will be posting questions here for all of you to discuss as well. One of the answers, (or parts of it, if the discussion goes long) will be posted in the…[Read more]
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Hope Ann commented on the post, How to Use Themes to Create a Fantastic Story Outline 6 years, 5 months ago
I hope it helps! Let me know if you have other questions. 😉 I love outlining.
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Hope Ann replied to the topic 2020 Goals in the forum Events & Guild Maintenance 6 years, 6 months ago
Goals this year…
- Finish and Pitch Rebel Heir
- Write up a life-script based off a sermon series
- Write and publish my next Legends of Light novella; preferable two more
- Make three local friends
- Create a podcast
- Grow my newsletter to 2k subs
- Read 50 books
And… maybe go on a mission internship in which case I’ll only get some of the…[Read more]
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Hope Ann replied to the topic January 2020 Accountability in the forum Events & Guild Maintenance 6 years, 6 months ago
This week (and for many weeks hereafter) I have a goal to write/edit 10k in my current work in progress, Rebel Heir.
And I have some sermons I’m listening too and taking notes on
Also a few other random things prepping for the rest of the week.
OH. And Thursday I have a phone interview for a possible mission school internship thing. So that’s cool.
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Hope Ann replied to the topic The Songkiller’s Synopsis!!! in the forum General Writing Discussions 6 years, 6 months ago
@daeus-lamb Nice! The one critique I have is the first line.
Failing to save her fourteen years ago haunts his memory,
The ‘her’ is vague and not explained and threw me because I was expecting to be told who she was. If it was even just a generic description like ‘sister’ or ‘one he loved’ or… something better than that. XD But something, I…[Read more]
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Hope Ann commented on the post, How Personality Types Should Affect Characters’ Thought Processes 6 years, 6 months ago
Enneagram took me a bit. I finally just got a whole book on it and read about it. I understand it decently now, but I’m still not as familiar with it as I am with MBTI.
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Hope Ann commented on the post, How Personality Types Should Affect Characters’ Thought Processes 6 years, 6 months ago
*says nothing about the parts you basically rewrote for me*
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Hope Ann commented on the post, How Personality Types Should Affect Characters’ Thought Processes 6 years, 6 months ago
That’s so cool though! The majority of writers are N’s, not S’s. But my brother is an ISFP and writes. And there’s always someone to breaks the ‘norm’. That’s what makes life so interesting. 😉
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