Hope McClellan

@naiya-dyani Will do! Thank you! 🙂

@hope-mcclellan 😀

I shall join in the conversation!

I have absolutely NO motivation to write. Ever. (Mostly.) I really want and need to… but like… I dunno how?? I like Hope’s idea of treating yourself, but the problem there is that I, being 15, don’t have a way to get myself into town, which would be…[Read more]

@hope-mcclellan

Hey, girl, I wanted to ask you a question! So a little while back, several of us put together this writing and critique group here. There are currently five of us in it, and every week (or period of similar length), we go over a piece or section of a piece of someone’s WIP. It’s usually somewhere around 10k words a week. We work…[Read more]

@hope-mcclellan Good luck! That can be difficult, but I know you can do it! 😀 Will pray for you! 😉

@hope-mcclellan 307 words! How about you?

Yeah, outlining can be. . . difficult. 😅 I’ve been trying to incorporate a thing I found on Kingdom Pen (I think it’s also in the SE Resource Library) for three-act outlines. It defines nine specific scenes or areas in the plot that help make for a well-structured format. I went through my story a while…[Read more]

@hope-mcclellan *thumbs up* Yup! Does 20 at :25 sound good?

@hope-mcclellan Hmm. . . I don’t really do a ton of external motivation for myself outside of NaNoWriMo. I really should with stories that my excitement doesn’t carry all the way past the first writing spree, though. 😛 Maybe if I did, I would have more stories survive to the second draft!

I am DEFINITELY a plotter/outliner! I don’t think I could…[Read more]

@anne_the_noob14 Oh, boy! Send my love and get-well-soons to all your family members! Including you lol 😉

@hope-mcclellan Hey, all that matters is we got something down, right? XD

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I really do lol. Thank you! <3

@hope-mcclellan @naiya-dyani Thank y’all! I am feeling better today, though after watching Battle of the Five Armies last night, that’s slightly debatable… (I will save it until I know if you two have seen The Hobbit, so I don’t spoil it lol, but I have a huge, poetic rant I can give)

Naiya, which grandma lol? I forget which one I told you…[Read more]

@hope-mcclellan Okay, not all of this counts since I copied (and very slightly altered) a piece from my first draft, but I got 385 words this round. Minus that piece, I had . . . only 177 XD. I’ll blame it on my brother lol

@hope-mcclellan Sounds good!

@hope-mcclellan Yup! Does. . . 15 minutes at :00 sound good?

@hope-mcclellan @anyone-else-available-right-now

Anyone up for a word war? 🙂

@hope-mcclellan *laughs deviously* I guessed as much! 😛 No worries! Naiya’s not my true name either. . . *whips black cloak over face mysteriously*

I’ll probably end up slipping up on here at some point myself. XD Most of the time, though, the fact that I review and edit my posts before I submit them saves me. Not from typos all the time,…[Read more]

@hope-mcclellan XD “My characters are stuck in a jail and I don’t know how to get them out.” That. . . is me! 😀 I sometimes end up begging for help from my sister, since the last thing I want to do is write an unrealistic out for my children. Can’t make life too easy on ’em. 😉

Tai: I would argue that point.

Dari: Your idea of “too easy” sou…[Read more]

@hope-mcclellan Are you copying them from paper to computer as you put it up here, or are you copying this from a word document you’ve saved it to or something? Because I DEFINTELY want to read more when you have time to put it up!!!

@hope-mcclellan AAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I HAVE TO SEE MORE OF CILLIAN

MY HEART BURST IN THE BEST WAY

@hope-mcclellan Oh goodness, do you count all your words off the page???

Oh my word, your brother sounds hysterical! XD XD

And Sarah. . . all of us writers need Sarahs in our lives! That’s so sweet! <3 My brother has said stuff like that too. . . it’s so precious! 😀

@hope-mcclellan 😁 I’m making my sister crazy with the sad stuff! That’s where Kedori is introduced. My precious child. . .😭

Did you have any lines or paragraphs you especially loved from your writing that wouldn’t be spoilery? 😀

@hope-mcclellan Keh, I use too many exclamation points and emojis all the time. XD I don’t think you could annoy me that way!

*used both in the last two sentences*

And yay for key pieces!!! Those are AMAZING for getting motivated!