Princess Foo

Remember that we are critiquing Ella of Cinders this week! I would appreciate any and all comments on it.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zk8QldbQbAJvfYEpCACVx6Styismop3E1euVHGYnrMs/edit?usp=sharing

@tinuviel @tashah-claymore @caserola @michael_stanton @trallion @catwing @hope-ann @allison-grace @emgc @enu @seekjustice @karthmin @mlbolangerau…[Read more]

@tinuviel I think in most traditional versions the servants are invisible. I am not a big fan of the movies but I LOVE Evermore. I cried when I first heard it (at a furniture store watching it on the display tvs) and my brother was like… “Seriously? You know she comes back, right?”

I have read both of those books! I believe both of them stick…[Read more]

@karthmin Honestly I forgot this corner of the forum existed. There have been several times where I have wanted to rant about a book I have read recently. This is the place to do it. I’ll start some rants off right now.

1. I was reading this book called Delia’s Shadow about this MC who could see ghosts. I got about five chapters into it before I…[Read more]

@karthmin I know there isn’t a sign-up sheet for the critique yet, but I was wondering if I could go first? I have a short story in the final stage of editing, and I want to finish it up and move on.

Here is a link to the doc. It’s fine if we go with something else, but since you normally post on Mondays I thought I would try to get it out.

@karthmin I like this idea! I would sign up.

@lrc It’s funny because there are different categories of clean even within my own meaning of the word.

• There is “Not clean, I am not reading this book.”— there are five swear words within this first paragraph and they talk about sex a lot. The MC has a LGBT relationship, or someone else does within the first two chapters. (Funnily enough, v…

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For resources on writing characters with a mental illness, Blame it on the Brain and Counseling the Hard Cases are both about understanding and treating mental illness with a Christian mindset. It’s was interesting to see issues that I thought were purely medical that could be treated through counseling. (Although to be clear, both books encourage…[Read more]

Nevermind it’s ready now!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W0cb21mBeUjRbTwyZ9Pbr_mZlmAcRoYrQzVxQ-hHOK4/edit

Woo-hoo! We got some serious editing done. Thank you to everyone who helped out!

Tomorrow night is the deadline! Last chance for edits! We are currently FIVE words over the word limit of 2500 words. If the remaining tweaks don’t get it under, then we can just take out the title. (Amazing title, btw)

Here is the…[Read more]

Alright, forget what I said about everything. We have the first draft. Jonathon ABSOLUTELY KILLED IT AND WROTE AN ENTIRE DRAFT IN AN AFTERNOON!!!!!!!!! (Sorry, I don’t know your username but I am NOT going to tag the wrong person again.) Everybody give a big round of applause for Jonathon! I have no words for how awesome this is. Thank you,…[Read more]

It’s time to start writing! Sorry I am getting this out so late in the day. In our brainstorming doc, we came up with a really awesome premise of a female alien attempting to romance a human. Unfortunately, it seems that we don’t have many people that can be a writer this month. It’s completely understandable—school is starting and August is a v…[Read more]

@karthmin So I went to the Jottopia website to link it in my post, and it’s gone! The website has expired and it’s twitter page is old.

But we can still do it without Jottopia, using Docs or something. The concept of Jottopia is that someone writes a little bit of a story, someone else writes the next little bit, and someone else writes the next.…[Read more]

@morreafirebird I am going on campus. My first day is tomorrow!

@karthmin There is that Jottopia thing I mentioned in the docs.

@karthmin When I filled out that form, I forgot that College was A Thing, and not only that, but it is A Thing that I am starting this fall. (To be fair, I didn’t know my schedule when I filled out the form. Lifehack: don’t switch colleges last minute. 3/10 would not recommend.) The time set up for the video call just so happens to be during the…[Read more]

@mckinley Speaking as someone who has never been published or close to published and is not an expert on this in any way, I have an opinion.

I don’t think it would necessarily hurt you to work across multiple genres, but I think it will be harder to build your reputation as an author, as others are saying. It’s like multi-classing in a…[Read more]