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Thanks for your help. 🙂 You’ve given me a lot to think about and some great ideas. Thanks.Red haired Disney Nerd. Proverbs 3:5-6 ENFP-T
Yes, my main character will learn that hurting people is not right, but not until about halfway through the book. I feel really mean for making my character go through this, but she has to in order to grow.
Red haired Disney Nerd. Proverbs 3:5-6 ENFP-T
I am so happy. I am reading all these people’s favourite books and movies, and I am seeing so many of mine! 🙂
Books, anything by Dee Henderson. The River of Time series by Lisa T. Bergren.
Movies, any Marvel movie. THE GREATEST SHOWMAN. Anything from Disney and Pixar. The Princess Bride.
I love movies almost as much as I love books. 😀
Red haired Disney Nerd. Proverbs 3:5-6 ENFP-T
@corkybookworm Start with the O’Malley series. It’s the first. All her books are kinda connected, with mentions of characters from different book in others. Start with the O’Malleys.
Red haired Disney Nerd. Proverbs 3:5-6 ENFP-T
@ncstokes I loved that series. You should definitely go read the rest of the series. Especially the prequel. That one is my favourite. 🙂
@corkybookworm @the-golden-light Melanie Dickerson is one of my favourite authors. You should try out Dee Henderson. She writes Christian Mystery/Suspense. Really well written.Red haired Disney Nerd. Proverbs 3:5-6 ENFP-T
It’s beautiful. I love the battle cry feeling to it. I am imagining Celtic music in the background (think bagpipes and Brave soundtrack but slower). I love it. 😀
Red haired Disney Nerd. Proverbs 3:5-6 ENFP-T
@corkybookworm Approx. every week the guildmasters inform us that there is a Guild War. They can be anything, from a Word War (See which guild wrote the most words that week) to a Short Story War (Where the guilds write a short story or description and the guildmasters vote to see who won) They are so much fun. If you want to see what’s happened in past wars go to the Announcement forum in Rillumen, the guild war posts should be in there. 🙂
Red haired Disney Nerd. Proverbs 3:5-6 ENFP-T
@snapper I love those drawings. The Loki one breaks my heart. He looks so young and innocent… and alive… 🙁
Red haired Disney Nerd. Proverbs 3:5-6 ENFP-T
@ashlyvye I think it would be more like his story is a side plot. My mind is already bursting with ideas for this book.
Thanks for the help everyone. I have decided to go with the DID idea, it has a very interesting story with it and it has grown on me.
Red haired Disney Nerd. Proverbs 3:5-6 ENFP-T
@daeus-lamb You are correct, DID isn’t a random occurrence. It usually comes after a traumatic experience, like abuse as a child. I was thinking if I did choose to give him DID it would play well into a traumatic backstory. And I know that just because his alternate personality is evil doesn’t make his character perfect. Both have their flaws and their things that make us like them. And his other personality is him, just with different brain signals that are stronger.
I have 2 great ideas I could go with this character, so good I can’t choose which way I want to go. I hate it when I have 2 ideas I love so much I cant pick which one I want to use. I’ve had to stop several books because of that. 🙁
I could go with him being a regular psychopathic serial killer who repents because of the saving grace of God, turning himself in at the end because he knows what he did was wrong (and thankfully I set this book in Canada, where they don’t have death row 😛 ). Or I could have him with DID, he doesn’t know that he is the killer, until he befriends Georgiana (my protagonist) and puts things together. At first he doesn’t want to do anything about it, until the other side of him kills another person/tries to kill Georgiana. He realizes that he is a danger to society and those he loves, and turns himself in. At the trial his lawyer tries telling him to plead insane, but he knows that he is a sinner, that it really was him doing those killings, and allows himself to be sentenced to a full sentence. He gets treatment for his mental disorders and help figuring out his past.
Both ways would end with him in jail with other serial killers and murders, telling them about the saving grace of God that will wash away ALL sins, even murders, using his story as an example.
I feel like these would be unique ways to go with my story, since in most mystery/thriller books I read the killer gets apprehended by the police, or kills himself, I have yet to read one where God saves the killer.
Red haired Disney Nerd. Proverbs 3:5-6 ENFP-T
@seekjustice Yes, I understand about DID. When I was thinking about it and trying to decide how to write this I was not trying to be disrespectful to any disorders. I have some people very close to me who have suffered through mental disorders, and some who have lost family members due to them. I have researched all the disorders I might show in my books very thoroughly, as I want to portray them as accurately as possible, since I know there are people out there who actually have them, and I do not want to use a simple idea of the disorders to further my story at the expense of others.
I haven’t decided yet whether or not I want to use DID in my story, but rest assured I will do everything in my power to portray it and any other mental disorders I choose to write about as accurately and as respectfully as I can.
Welcome to the forums, and I hope to see you around here more. 🙂
Red haired Disney Nerd. Proverbs 3:5-6 ENFP-T
@sarah-inkdragon I think if you are writing it for an older audience, then you can write it for an older audience. Don’t hold back because your afraid some young kid is going to read it. And you can write a good fantasy book geared towards a secular audience and still put Christian themes into it. Just look at Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. 🙂
Red haired Disney Nerd. Proverbs 3:5-6 ENFP-T
@emma-starr @jenwriter17 I’m really liking the DID idea too. And Emma, that is exactly what I was thinking when I found out about DID. I have always loved the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 🙂
Red haired Disney Nerd. Proverbs 3:5-6 ENFP-T
