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Chalice replied to the topic Completely Useless Character Game in the forum Characters 4 years, 10 months ago
@rose-colored-fancy @obrian-of-the-surface-world Thanks for welcoming me! I really should probably be more active here. 😛 But I’ve really been enjoying reading about your characters!
Well, if anyone wants to… here’s one of my characters that I’ve been working on developing. 🙂 (I had to put in in a Google Doc, because trying to upload it as an…[Read more]
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Lona replied to the topic Completely Useless Character Game in the forum Characters 4 years, 10 months ago
Thanks for clarifying your meaning, Brian. I think I understand your perspective a little better now. 🙂
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You are helping me, you know. By our conversation, I am better learning how I am heard and where I have not been clear. Communication is best achieved when both reach an understanding of something the other one wishes to convey, even if they may not agree. Thank you for that.
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I agree completely. I’m glad we are able to help each other learn. 🙂
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Emma Walker replied to the topic Completely Useless Character Game in the forum Characters 4 years, 10 months ago
@obrian-of-the-surface-world yea I know, I was assuming that. But it sucks lol
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I agree. I struggled with the system all throughout the day, so I started writing my post in a Word doc before pasting them into the Chat Form panel. That way, if they evaporated into the ether, I didn’t pull my hair out, trying to remember and re-type what I wrote the first time. Good luck to you. Looking forward to seeing the picture you are…[Read more]
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imwritehere1920 posted a new activity comment 4 years, 10 months ago
That’s awesome! I’ll be sure to swing by and listen!
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Lona replied to the topic Completely Useless Character Game in the forum Characters 4 years, 10 months ago
Hi Brian,
Thanks again for your thoughts! However, I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree.
Hope you have a nice evening. 🙂
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That is perfectly fine. We don’t have to agree on everything, just the essentials, and Jesus. ❤ 😉
May you have a blessed evening, too!
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Lona replied to the topic Completely Useless Character Game in the forum Characters 4 years, 10 months ago
Hi, Brain! Thanks for your comments! They were very interesting to me. 🙂
Before I respond to your comments, however, I would like to make clear what I meant by a gentleman. I did not mean a man who comes in to save a woman because she “cannot” fend for herself. I did not mean a man who uses physical violence to meet…[Read more]
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Emma Walker replied to the topic Completely Useless Character Game in the forum Characters 4 years, 10 months ago
@obrian-of-the-surface-world Go you! 😀
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Rose replied to the topic Completely Useless Character Game in the forum Characters 4 years, 10 months ago
I mean, for being completely useless, this actually looks quite fun. (Don’t mind me, I just be over here stalking. )
It’s very fun! It would be awesome if you feel like joining us!
1) Name: Gretta or Hannah
Both pretty, but her name is actually Isa.
2) Age: 17-20
She’s 22, you were close!
3) Care…
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Lona replied to the topic Howdy Al! in the forum Introduce Yourself 4 years, 10 months ago
Yes! That’s the one! 😀
I think you are the first person I’ve met of SE that’s heard of him.
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Cathy replied to the topic Controversial Topics in the forum Themes 4 years, 10 months ago
*staggers into forum, scans through all the new posts* *whoa I is late lol XD, better catch up!*
Yes! The more I talk to people from different Christian religions the more it really is one Faith one Family after all “one flock and one Shepherd”. And He said when people who weren’t his disciples started casting out demons in His Name “those…[Read more]
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MelancholicWriter replied to the topic Talk room in the forum Fantasy Writers 4 years, 10 months ago
No, dad doesn’t like to travel so I don’t much. We used to go to Niagra every year for a family get together (not to the falls though but we do drive by them most times still and that was only for a day) and we’re going to Elam this fall but that’s about it.
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MelancholicWriter replied to the topic Talk room in the forum Fantasy Writers 4 years, 10 months ago
Hi Brian. Ya I’ve been working so I haven’t been on in awhile. Right now I’m working on a Cinderella retelling and a fantasy book.
Yeah I was going to write one buuuut I decided I wanted a younger person and so it was a coming of age book not romance…though I guess you could technically say all the romance I…[Read more]
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Joelle Stone replied to the topic Talk room in the forum Fantasy Writers 4 years, 10 months ago
True. Some of the women at my youth group were talking about how they made lists and stuff of what they’d like their future husbands to be like when they were my age, and how the men they eventually married matched their lists almost perfectly – down to appearance.
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@joelle-stone
My prayer was simply this:
“Lord, I only want the one You choose for me. I know every good and perfect gift comes from You. I know You give better than any I could choose for myself, so I yield all of the details into Your Hands. You know my wants and preferences, but most importantly, You know what I need to find completion, and…[Read more]-
Thanks!
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Joelle Stone replied to the topic Talk room in the forum Fantasy Writers 4 years, 10 months ago
In regard to the whole love at first sight, i think Brian, you hit the nail on the head. Biblically incorrect, logically stupid, it is a notion designed to fool people, especially younger ones, including myself. I think of when Paul tells Timothy, “Flee from youthful lusts,” which in part could be grouped with ‘love at first sight…
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Brian Stansell replied to the topic Controversial Topics in the forum Themes 4 years, 10 months ago
@obrian-of-the-surface-world @this-is-not-an-alien
Hi Neasa,
You wrote:
Here is an…impassioned…response to them. [Loving given, I might add. 😉 ]
What arrogance one must have to think that all of the other people in all of the other countries who have tried “Socialism” and “Communism” that ALWAYS led to great s…[Read more] -
Neasa replied to the topic Talk room in the forum Fantasy Writers 4 years, 10 months ago
What is the greatest gift (besides birth) your earthly father ever gave you?
Hmm I would say his encouragement to pursue my love for writing. He’s like my first fan I suppose 🙂 and for teaching me unusual subjects from a really young age. He likes outer space and ancient history so he used to buy me picture books…[Read more]
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Hi Neasa!
Since you are from “The Emerald Isle”, a place I have so longed to visit, can I ask you some questions about Ireland in general?
I have a character in my WIP that is from Ireland, and I wanted to have him be from an area that was a fishing port, but close the areas where there are fens and bogs that he might’ve explored as a boy. Can…[Read more] -
Hello Brian! I’m more than happy to help you out there, though I will clarify that I’m not an expert in Irishness. I am also not too well versed in the areas around Ireland. Believe it or not, I have not experienced a lot of it in my life so far. My most frequent destination in terms of sightseeing was probably Dublin. But I will try to answer…[Read more]
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Neasa, this is perfect!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Just what I was looking for.
Since my “Surface World” characters are pulled out of Earth time, the period in which “Begglar” lived can be any”when”. (I just made that word up. 😉 )
I have a particular fondness for rural communities, so I am of your mind on the government intrusions and over…[Read more]
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Neasa replied to the topic Controversial Topics in the forum Themes 4 years, 10 months ago
@obrian-of-the-surface-world @this-is-not-an-alien
I actually have a question seeing as you’re well informed. How do you respond to someone who says that ‘oh communism is a great idea, it’s just never been done right.’ I’m getting that a lot, and I just really want an answer that will shut people up to be honest lol
Did I mention that my wife is…
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Rose replied to the topic Character Voice in the forum General Writing Discussions 4 years, 10 months ago
This looks quite useful. Mind if I borrow it too?
Glad I could help! It’s gotten a bit lost in the archives 😉
First off, that character voice questionnaire is fantastic. I had a lot of the info on it already, but you had even more to share and put it all in a coherent and succinct manner. You know your…
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Crazywriter replied to the topic Talk room in the forum Fantasy Writers 4 years, 10 months ago
@joelle-stone, @obrian-of-the-surface-world, @everyone else.
Just hopped on now. In regard to the whole love at first sight, i think Brian, you hit the nail on the head. Biblically incorrect, logically stupid, it is a notion designed to fool people, especially younger ones, including myself. I think of when Paul tells Timothy, “Flee from youthful…[Read more]
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Noah Cochran replied to the topic Character Voice in the forum General Writing Discussions 4 years, 10 months ago
Character sketches sound interesting, I’ll try one of those sometime. Thanks for sharing that!
I agree with you Brian; I also find metaphors more evocative and enthralling. However, I will agree with Rose that I like similes mainly because I am able to come up with non-cliche ones much much…[Read more]
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Hi Noah,
Here one of the Koontz-ian simile from “Night Window” Chapter 28.
“In Arizona, the sky was as dry as the land below, salted with stars, the moon a bitten Communion wafer.”Here’s a Koontz-ian metaphor from “Life Expectancy” Chapter 9:
“All our yesterdays neatly shelved, time cataloged in drawers: News grows brittle and yellow under the…[Read more]-
Those are great examples Brian. I think I need to take a class on metaphors or something. xD
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