@imwritehere1920 My week’s been pretty stressful as I’m preparing for Good Friday and Easter stuff for my church’s audio/video team while…[Read more]

My characters had me…erm, detained for awhile XD.

I won’t try to catch up with all the debates, but rather, go back to the most pressing and concerning of them all: should fire-breathing turtles be classified as dragons, turtles, or something else.

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Yes! It’s very concerning, and it has now grow to a bigger issue. They are getti…[Read more]

Hey Lily! Great to see you here!

Would fire breathing turtles be classified as dragons, turtles, or something else? If the turtle is a dragon, and dragons aren’t turtles, could I still call it a fire breathing turtle or would it be a shelled dragon?

On a more serious note, do y’all understand villains better if y…[Read more]

I never have tried the zipline either.

Those are on my list. The only national parks that I have been to that far west are Yellowstone and Arches National Park.

No, unfortunately, we didn’t try the zip-line. :'(

I actually haven’t visited Yosemite or the Redwoods yet, but I would like to at some point in my life.

Creation Museum and the Ark is one of my main stops whenever I go through there and they are amazing. I felt really small seeing the Ark.

Yeah, we did visit The Ark Encounter! We didn’t go to the Creation Museum, but I’ve heard that it’s really cool. I loved the Ark Encounter though! It is definitely my favorite museum.

@r-m-archer

Ohhh, that changes things. 🙂 Yes, he does get better as the series goes on.

@storysmith

Okay, that’s good to know! I might try…[Read more]

Well, when I publish will depend on how much more I have to rewrite my book. xD Hopefully I’ll have it published by January of next year!

@r-m-archer

Ohhh, you’re only on the second book! Well, Tink actually gets a lot better as the series progresses! (although I still think he’s too reckless).

@imwritehere1920

Kentucky…[Read more]

Tink certainly did have a great personality. 🙂 I guess I didn’t like him that much because he was too reckless, but I still think Andrew Peterson did a great job on his character. Yep, I’m the oldest in my family too!

@noah-cochran

Thank you very much! I work very hard on my blog, and I love to hear that people enjoy it.

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Thank you! I spent New Year’s Eve with a splitting headache, but the next day was pretty nice. I hope the new year is treating you well too :-}

@this-is-not-an-alien

Good job defeating recaptcha, lol. Glad you liked the article! Hopefully if you felt attacked that means it sparked a writing idea =P

Oh man. What have we come to.

I honestly have no opinion on modern meds vs herbal remidies. I guess I see both as means to an end.

What’s y’alls opinion on the Vietnam War, and the mistreatment of the soldiers that came back?

YES PLLLEEASSSEEE LET’S DISCUSS MATURE TOPICS!!!!! XD

Buuuttttt…. no breadsticks are not just sticks of bread as they tend to have seasonings and often times fillings as well whereas sticks of bread are just that – bread cut into the shapes of sticks.

*ducks to avoid flying tomatoes* HEY I WASN’T THE ONE WHO SUGGESTED THAT TOPIC!!!!!…[Read more]

@imwritehere1920

You’re most obviously correct… XD

Lol okay there was a time when I probably would have been like YEAH A CELLO’S JUST AN OVERGROWN VIOLIN but now I’m not so sure… Course I don’t actually play either instrument so it’s hard to say for sure…[Read more]

Ooo, you’re in the Jaron fanclub with my sister! XD I do like Jaron, but also Imogen and Tobias. Mott is pretty cool too!  Also, Happy (early) Birthday! I hope you enjoy the fifth book.

I am!
Well actually … all the characters are my favourite.
And yes, even Bevin Conner. 😁

Let’s see. My younger sister is about four and a half…

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Re cereal as soup: Depending on your definition, a soup may need to be boiled or simmered, even if it’s served cold. However, chilled cucumber soup is a major exception that no one would reject calling soup. In many cuisines, soup relies on the concept of broth…[Read more]

Hello there! I’m Lily. Welcome to the S.E forum! From what I gathered, you’re a fellow alto, Greatest Showman song lover, and Ascendance fan??!! (seriously, my sister and I love those books! The fifth book was so amazing!) Who’s your favorite Ascendance character?

Hello Lily! It is nice to meet you. Thank you for the welco…[Read more]

Thank you. I hope so, too. 🙂

Gary D. Schmidt’s most well-known book is probably The Wednesday Wars. I’ve read almost all of his books and I highly, highly recommend them!

I have a few WIPs I procrastinate working on, but the last one I worked on is a fantasy that plays with the chosen one trope. I suppose it would be considered YA, but I don’t care much…[Read more]

Thanks!

@scoutfinch190 has mentioned that book to me before. It sounds interesting!

I volunteer! I needed a certain number of community service hours to graduate, so that’s one way I got them. I enjoy being at the library though so I plan to keep helping out for as long as I can.

Do you write YA, or just MG? And have you read any of Gary D. Schmidt’s books? He’s one of my favorite authors and writes MG and…[Read more]

Hmm, yeah I’ve noticed that sometimes it seem to be a broad and kinda vague term.

Ah, is old school sci-fi and fantasy your favorite genre to write in?

Hi, Lily! 🙂

I write Biblical fiction with a YA audience in mind. It’s what I want to do because I’ve observed that many teens don’t want to read the Bible because they find it boring – which is honestly understandable! I believe that by crafting Biblical fiction that is riveting and exciting while proclaiming deep truths, I can…[Read more]

I honestly hadn’t thought too hard about this question before and I still don’t have a good answer other than “I’m a young adult myself and so I just find it easiest to write for my own age group”. I guess not everything I’ve written would be considered YA–but I don’t know if it would be considered adult either. Most of my…[Read more]

In the last few decades there has been a focus on making entertainment accessible for wider audiences. Take Marvel for instance. It used to be assumed that if you were going to consume comic material, you knew all the old issues and ins and outs of the universe. With the MCU beginning, we got good movies that were enjoyed by a…[Read more]

This is a really good question and I don’t have a good answer. I don’t really understand YA at the moment, and I don’t know if my impressions of the genre over the past ten years are valid any more.

It’s really common to think of the Stormlight Archives as YA, for example, something I don’t think anyone would have done back when…[Read more]

Hmm…so this is a nuanced question. If someone were to ask me if I was writing YA, I would actually say no. I consider myself to be writing adult. YA in its most basic form is just a marketing title, it’s not truly a category of books. People market books as YA so teenagers can know that the publisher is aiming it at them, even…[Read more]

LOL, yes, yes, I’m here. The kingdom cannot run without my guidance and supervision. XD

*in a British accent, accompanied with a slightly higher country dialect* Well, now that’s not going to end well, seeing as he is such a bad player…My, my, someone get the boy a tutor.

HAH, I CREATED A GAME!!! -Ml7raPsMoRyARPo9B5D  I…[Read more]

Apologies for not responding sooner! Got caught up with other things and had no motivation to respond on account of the emails I was getting…LOL!

LOL, how does the nephew coincide with the queen? 😀 Am I missing something crucial? 😀 LOL, well, I don’t usually pay attention to the Dutch Blitz pictures…They’re pictures for…[Read more]

Apologies for not responding sooner! I responded later…Yikes. But I’m here! XD

Wow, I like your perspective despite the movie difference! You know how to analyze things…Well done. I am impressed. I never caught that they incorporated rap into orchestra parts…Then again, preference. Haha.

Yes, I highly recommend Silas…[Read more]

Thank you! I’m glad it was of benefit. 🙂

(Thanks! I might have some natural highlights, but I think it’s just the lighting in the picture, LOL.)

LOL, I’m kidding. Why’d you lose your Dutch Blitz legendary streak??…[Read more]

Also, I have not yet read either of…[Read more]

The discussion on “Does reading make you a better writer?” sparked this idea.

Which books have you (recently) read and what did you learn from them? It doesn’t have to be super in-depth, and you don’t even have to have enjoyed the book, but if it taught you something, I’d love to hear about it!

I’ll go first and list a couple off…[Read more]

Btw, 90k words in 5-6 weeks is pretty impressive ;), I’ve actually never met a “pure” outliner before, what’s your method?

Missed this. xD Yeah, well, I didn’t really have much else going on, so I did lots of writing. Honesty though, I still write quite slow. I had gotten up to nearly 1k word an hour, but now I feel like I’…[Read more]

@imwritehere1920 – Hey there! I’m technically an SE oldie, but I was young back then. The most influential of the middlegrade books I’ve recently read was The One And Only Ivan, by Katherine Applegate. It had me tearing up several times along the way, and even sniffling at one point. What’s a middlegrade book you like a…[Read more]

Don’t worry about it Cathy. I personally enjoyed your vivacious spirit, but one always has to be careful. 🙂

I have six siblings  (4 boys 2 girls) and I share a room with all four of my brothers. Me and my oldest brother often debate morality and theology late into the night for fun. Somehow we find infinite things to…[Read more]

Hey, I just wanna say, don’t do more college unless you find it absolutely necessary. I’m all for just diving into writing and spending your time doing that instead of college, especially if you want to publish.

Thanks, you as well. 🙂

@rose-colored-fancy

Rose, you’re new look is slightly ominous. xD

I loved your second example of description!  I’m going to definitely try that technique out more in my stories (I kinda do already, but not as much as I should). XD

Thank you! Glad I could help 🙂

Yep, it’s my first year. I am studying business. What about you, are you still in high-school or are you doing college?

I’ve been doing fine, been trying to get in 2k words a day, which has been going well, but we’ll see what happens when I have to start online college and school next week.

Nice! 15.5k is great! So, you mentioned finishing your first draft for your YA fantasy, are you in the editing stage for it now? Or what are you currently working on?

Well, my current project is actually a trilogy. I’m very, very close to finishing the first draft of the second book, (I’m on 95k, I only have the finale/climax left to…[Read more]