MyClipboardIsMyViolin

@jenwriter17 Unfortunately I have not seen Star Wars: Rogue One, so I would be no help there. But if you think you can pull it off, go for it! Sounds like a really dramatic setting (Star Wars is definitely good at those) so it fits the bill.

(For future reference, I have seen all the Star Wars movies except Solo and Rogue One…)

I’m not sure w…[Read more]

Thank you. If I had a dime for how many people have told me how supposedly easy it is to make money off YouTube, I’d have a few hundred bucks. Yours truly went to actual video editing class and had my ignorance bubbles popped. If you don’t want to actually make video, don’t do YouTube.

I am going to try again, though. I want to do Choose Your…[Read more]

My writing goal for this week: finish my story for the short story contest, or at least relieve myself of the chaos stemming from my three different ideas for how the story should go. I plan to write out each of the three ideas as far as they will go and review all of the rules for zee contest again. Funzies.

Today I researched one of my ideas.…[Read more]

I think that if you are attached to the point of view of your denomination and you think you are being misunderstood and underrepresented, you should give yourself a voice and speak.

A caution, however: you can only speak for your own personal beliefs. You should not claim to speak for a denomination without the denomination’s explicit…[Read more]

Bit short notice for getting them plane tickets and airfare, folks. Sorry, can’t make it.

If you want my writing consulting services live and in-person, you’ll need to move the location a bit Westernly or give me a month or so advance notice. 😛

(and yes, that is a joke: I don’t actually have any writing consulting services. I wish. 😛 )

Mind if I offer some “honest help”? To be honest I barged in and snuck a peek, and I dig the opener.

Definitely a strong character voice, and definitely “salvageable”.

Idols. That’s how people pretend to meet their needs apart from God. They don’t really actually meet them, but they delude themselves into thinking they are.

The thing is, if people aren’t worshipping the true God, they are worshipping idols – success and iPhones are just as dumb as the stone columns that people used to worship. (Don’t tell…[Read more]

You don’t get to decide which guild you get. Simply fill out the guild sign-up form, and your guild will be involuntarily assigned to you by the friendly Story Embers Overlords.

I just ran across another website today that seems to be useful on deciding this:

Start Here: How to Get Your Book Published: https://www.janefriedman.com/start-here-how-to-get-your-book-published/

Start Here: How to Self-Publish Your Book: https://www.janefriedman.com/self-publish-your-book/

Should You Self-Publish or Traditionally Publish?:…[Read more]

I really like this, actually. Very mysterious. I thought perhaps the woman and the man weren’t exactly the person he was supposed to be interviewing, and perhaps the woman had some connection to a fantasy world?

Not sure what happened to the real interviewee, either. Late? Kidnapped? Is this the real interviewee, and this is all a setup with s…[Read more]

This problem sounds deeper than writing – it sounds like an intense case of discouragement, and maybe even self-hatred (I know, loaded word). I want to encourage you that you are a beautifully and wonderfully made creation of God, and that God looks at and admires every word of your work, even the unfinished pieces.

What I think you’re doing is…[Read more]

The best example of this concept is “Heist”, by far. Other examples include “Roundtable Rival”, “Shatter Me”, “Lost Girls”…the violin solves stuff.

I’d post a couple, but Heist has video-game fakey violence in it, and I was raised in public school so I’m still kinda at a loss as to the Acceptable Sheltered Kid Viewing Rules one must follow…[Read more]

-Therapy (this is where my writing, unfortunately, started – lots of journals)
-Helping people feel better and make some sense out of their lives (love and truth)
-Telling the Gospel, without making the whole world mad at me (just most of the world)
-Ending social isolation (for me and others)
-Informing young people on what the real world is…[Read more]

The latter. It’s a Lindsey Stirling joke. The violin always comes in to save the day in her videos. Given all of the people who have mentioned that they play the violin in response to my username, I’m now inclined to make a Story Embers violin playing team and mix it as a backdrop for my next poetry reading. 😛

(though you’re the first person…[Read more]

*hugs squirrel* Aww, I love squirrels. Actually, I love small furry animals in general.

And for me, now 13 years of writing…not counting the cringe-worthy Bibleman rip-off I wrote in fifth grade. Weird to think that I’ve been writing that long…not something I normally think about.

Anywho, favorite smell is probably this new fabric smell.…[Read more]

Thank you so much for the help so far, everyone! There’s probably more I need to research before I get to more questions, but I wanted to respond to these.

Interesting. I spend too much time on Pinterest myself, and I do have a designer background, so this work. Though the conversion aspect of it might be weird – it would only really work if…[Read more]

Yes.

50% of yonder mystery solved, thanks.

But why can’t we change the time zone on the forums? Or is there some option hidden in some menu somewhere that I haven’t found?