Story Embers | Kite Ayoul | Activity https://storyembers.org/members/kiteayoul/activity/ Activity feed for Kite Ayoul. Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:42:05 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 ba8be808e28a5930a6976a24e05aced6 Kite Ayoul replied to the topic Hello! Theater Writer Here in the forum Introduce Yourself https://storyembers.org/forums/topic/hello-theater-writer-here/#post-152655 Thu, 08 Sep 2022 18:24:10 -0400 That’s an interesting distinction. One of the laws of storytelling that’s been hammered into me over the years is that MC has to take an active role in solving the big plot problem.  But, as you point out, in a novel that problem can be an internal struggle and the active-solution can be one of changing an internal frame of mind rather than an…[Read more]

]]> 0 69f9362a2f981d2bdb1b01aec622837a Kite Ayoul replied to the topic Hello! Theater Writer Here in the forum Introduce Yourself https://storyembers.org/forums/topic/hello-theater-writer-here/#post-152547 Wed, 31 Aug 2022 20:26:51 -0400 Hi, Graham, I’m new here too.  I don’t think of myself as a theater person, but looking back I have done some amateur scriptwriting with a local student group, and we had a great time at that. I think since I’m not regularly part of the theater world, it seems like not-my-genre. But honestly many of my novel drafts are fairly spare and…[Read more]

]]> 0 faf2b10e95c3192e4354bbbbdfe814f9 Kite Ayoul replied to the topic Miscellaneous Mayhem in the forum General Writing Discussions https://storyembers.org/forums/topic/miscellaneous-mayhem/#post-152503 Sun, 28 Aug 2022 22:05:13 -0400

Replacements for look: I’m not referring to the context ‘he looked at the barn,’ I’m referring to the phrase ‘he gave her a flat look.’ Any replacement for that come to mind? I feel like a use it a lot. Stare is an obvious one, but in most contexts that doesn’t work.

Switch to active verbs: “he stared” “he glared” “he squinted” etc. Or for reacti…[Read more]

]]> 0 049a85272ecc3fac254219ffd9264f27 Kite Ayoul replied to the topic non outliner seeking help and support in the forum Plotting https://storyembers.org/forums/topic/non-outliner-seeking-help-and-support/#post-152502 Sun, 28 Aug 2022 20:45:12 -0400 Kayla,

I’m brand new here, and since Gracie jumped in to revive this conversation, I thought I’d do so as well.

I’m a pantser who corrects and marks-up as I write. (I have just started recently trying some outline-first fiction writing, but so far I don’t have any completed fiction manuscripts with that approach. For non-fic I write a…[Read more]

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