J.Parkhurst

@Literatureforthelight we have been unusually prolific with ideas, haven’t we? 😛 I suppose that’s a good problem to have though.

If my memory serves me, we have two main ideas on the table now.

Chimneysweep is sweeping chimneys with the aid of happy fire pixies whom all other chimneysweeps mistreat, when the pixies discover a plot to…[Read more]

I tried replying twice a few hours ago, and neither one showed up, so let’s see if third time’s the charm. 😛 😉

@kate I absolutely love that idea!

What would we do with the ending then? Would he still go back to his chimney sweep life, and if so what would that make the theme? Or would we give it a warmer, happier ending, where he does get…[Read more]

@Julianne welcome! Thanks for jumping right in and contributing; great thoughts.

@Corissa I love the idea of him being kind to the fairies. Great way to spin it.

But guys, guys— before we go any further I had a thought. I’ve been trying to think how we can better fulfill the prompt, moving on from the story and developing an engaging voice…[Read more]

Okay.

I just got caught up with the conversation, let me recap what we have so far (disclaimer: as I understand it):

We have two story lines here.

The first (which I think we scrapped already, but just in case):

Kid, the chimney-sweep, 5, is happily sweeping chimneys for his chimney-sweep master, when he finds out about a plot to kill a…[Read more]

@R-M-archer we could use your fantasy smarts here.

I’m thinking we could do this not as a typical ‘London chimneysweep’ deal, but actually have it be a chimneysweep ring in a fantasy city. What difference does it make? At heart, none, but it could do two things. One, allow us to get really creative with the way chimneys are swept (do the boys…[Read more]

*gasps* OUR GUILDMASTER HAS DESERTED US.

Okay guys. We need to get organized.

@literatureforthelight an unreliable narrator is when the narrator believes something untrue about the circumstances in the story and tells it from a skewed perspective, and this is obvious to the reader. For instance, if we had the story of a lazy, neglectful, abusive…[Read more]

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Gotcha, @ncstokes. Thanks for the tip! 😀

@j-parkhurst Gotcha! (I think I say “gotcha” too much on Story Embers… 😛 ) Anyway, yeah, Chris was trying to stalk up on Ruperts from the back, and Ruperts is a good fighter, so Chris had an advantage because Ruperts didn’t know Chris was coming. 🙂

Thanks so much for your help, guys!

@j-parkhurst Same here 😛 But that’s part of the challenge, knowing you can be better then working towards it! And then there’s the times when it’s super infuriating 😉

@j-parkhurst I totally relate 😉 I tend to be a person who dreams about writing, reads about writing, reads books in that genre, then has trouble actually writing ;P

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