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K.M. Small commented on the post, 5 Reasons You May Want to Write Your Novel as a Short Story First 5 years, 7 months ago
I really enjoyed this post! I write short stories a lot for practice on creating strong scenes, but I’ve never considered using any as mini first drafts for my novels. I want to give it a try sometime.
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K.M. Small commented on the post, How to Get the Most Value Out of Beta Readers 5 years, 8 months ago
That was a phenomenal article! Thank you!
I do have a question: do you think it’s unwise to get alpha reader feedback later in the writing process? For instance, if a story takes a first draft and two significant rewrites to get it where I want it content-wise, are there drawbacks to receiving feedback after I’ve already been through that many…[Read more]
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K.M. Small's profile was updated 6 years ago
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K.M. Small commented on the post, Are Your Stories Subtly Undermining God’s Truth? 6 years, 1 month ago
Ah, I remember that one now. Thank you, Zachary!
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K.M. Small commented on the post, Are Your Stories Subtly Undermining God’s Truth? 6 years, 1 month ago
Wow. This is such a thought-provoking and important article! It takes such a balance. On one hand, we need to be extremely careful with our stories, specifically in the three areas you highlighted. On the other hand, we can’t become so scrupulous that we stop writing altogether for fear of making mistakes; we have to trust that God in His goodness…[Read more]
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K.M. Small commented on the post, How to Write Speculative Fiction of Truly Epic Proportions 6 years, 2 months ago
Thank you for this article! I’ll definitely be coming back to it a lot in the near future. I’ve always been a Tolkien fan, but after reading Sanderson last year, I fell in love with epic fantasy all over again. I’m encouraged to hear that rewriting and outlining and compiling ideas for a single story for the past five years means it’s halfway…[Read more]
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K.M. Small replied to the topic How do YOU begin a fantasy story? in the forum Fantasy Writers 6 years, 3 months ago
Theme. Always. I cannot write a story if there is no theme. Usually, that means I get an inkling of the MC’s inner struggles and what the climatic moment will entail. I also usually get a simple worldbuilding and plot idea based off that theme.
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K.M. Small replied to the topic Fun Tool for Fantasy Titles in the forum General Writing Discussions 6 years, 3 months ago
Is this a space opera/fantasy/horror book? xD
Ah, I forgot to add the articles to the title. That’s a little better!
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K.M. Small replied to the topic January 2020 Accountability in the forum Events & Guild Maintenance 6 years, 3 months ago
I haven’t actually worked on any yet xD Schoolwork is good, since my trip got pushed back. Hoping to work on editing and the research paper over the weekend!
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K.M. Small replied to the topic Fun Tool for Fantasy Titles in the forum General Writing Discussions 6 years, 3 months ago
“Daughter Nightmare Stars.”
Um….? xD
I’d like to see what a book with that title would be like!
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K.M. Small replied to the topic January 2020 Accountability in the forum Events & Guild Maintenance 6 years, 3 months ago
My goals are:
– start editing my short story
– nail down a topic for my research paper
– try to get ahead on schoolwork for when I travel next week
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K.M. Small replied to the topic January 2020 Accountability in the forum Events & Guild Maintenance 6 years, 3 months ago
@deeprun thank you! 😀 I used a MozArt Supplies Komorebi Japanese set for the larger one and Winsor and Newton, professional grade, for the smaller ones (pricey, but the half pans I got look like they’ll last a while and really make the color pop, even on student grade paper)
@emgc @seekjustice @filewriter
Thank you all so much! That’s really…[Read more]
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K.M. Small joined the group Contemporary Fiction Writers 6 years, 3 months ago
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K.M. Small joined the group Fantasy Writers 6 years, 3 months ago
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K.M. Small replied to the topic January 2020 Accountability in the forum Events & Guild Maintenance 6 years, 3 months ago
@deeprun sure! I’ve been doing watercolor on and off for a little over a year, so I definitely have lots of work to do. I was just getting better with the amount of water I used, then I moved to a REALLY dry place and doing wet on wet technique for skies has become a pain xD
Here are a couple I did recently 🙂
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K.M. Small replied to the topic January 2020 Accountability in the forum Events & Guild Maintenance 6 years, 4 months ago
@emgc I finished up both paintings, and am pretty happy with how they came out! Everything else but the paperwork (of course) is going okay 😛
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K.M. Small replied to the topic January 2020 Accountability in the forum Events & Guild Maintenance 6 years, 4 months ago
I’m back! College is forcing me to be structured XD
My goals are:
– implement edits to my flash fiction piece
– start planning a rewrite of a short story
– paint two watercolor pieces
– brainstorm research paper topics
– complete that paperwork I’ve had for three months now
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K.M. Small replied to the topic Hey hey in the forum Introduce Yourself 6 years, 4 months ago
@joshuapior I’ve heard a lot of good things about Frank E. Peretti’s works. I’ve yet to read any, but I hear This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness are phenomenal.
It was great meeting you! See you around in the forum!
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K.M. Small replied to the topic Strength in Numbers in the forum General Writing Discussions 6 years, 4 months ago
@deeprun wait, I just saw you’d already posted your email *facepalm* For some reason it showed up in my email notification, but it doesn’t show up in the actual forum? Anyhow, my email’s above xD
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K.M. Small replied to the topic Strength in Numbers in the forum General Writing Discussions 6 years, 4 months ago
@deeprun @caseybold @elisha-starquill
Sweet! I don’t mind dropping my email here, since I have half a dozen and I’m fairly certain a lot of people know this one anyway 😛 It’s kmsmall46[at]gmail[dot]com.
Well, I have a piece of flash fiction that I’m hoping to have ready for other eyes by Sunday. If there aren’t any other takers, I’d volunteer t…[Read more]
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