Princess Foo

@morreafirebird My first thought is healer. My second thought it “No, that’s cliche!”. And then my third thought is… “Actually off the top of my head I can only think of one book I’ve read where the MC was a healer. Like, an actual healer and not a she-was-a-healer-to-get-involved-in-the-plot-and-then-gets-in-a-more-action-based-role. And that…[Read more]

@seekjustice YES!!! That’s how I found Into the West! I’ve been listening to them so much!

@morreafirebird @karthmin I’m just gonna dump some LOTR and Narnia thoughts here.

LOTR

• SOMEONE GIVE FARAMIR A HUG.
• I would follow Aragorn to the ends of the earth seriously he is so awesome.
• I was watching Return of the King with a friend for English class and we were taking notes. I was going over hers later and one line just said,…

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@tinuviel *whispers* I used to be the person who didn’t like Frodo. *slides down seat in shame* I think it was because he lost…? In the end? He gave in to evil. Heroes don’t give into evil. But *grabs past self and shakes shoulders* IT’S MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT!!!!!!!!!

I love how in the Fellowship (movie), he is so bright-eyed and eager.…[Read more]

@karthmin

I think (hope?) that I write woman realistically, being one myself. I think there have only been a couple of times where I thought “A woman didn’t write this female character”.

The Bendel Test is a bit of a tricky question, because I’ve been writing a lot of short stories lately, and since there isn’t a lot of room for a lot of…[Read more]

@bree-dawn HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I am Princess Foo, the Warmaster of Erekdale! (You can find more information about that sort of thing in the first post.) Welcome to Erekdale!

@karthmin

TOLKIEN AND LORD OF THE RINGS YAAASSSS!!!!!

I once heard that Eowyn’s arc was about war. Tolkien fought in WWII and that generation was a realization that war wasn’t the glorified stories they had all been told.

From what I can remember from my mix of reading the books forever ago and seeing the movies, at the beginning of her arc she…[Read more]

*takes breath* *pauses* *takes another breath* *hesitates* *unintelligible noises*

THE FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELSSSSSS

*coughs*

That’s a good question, assuming I could name a favorite book. I think what makes me LOVE a book are the characters. I love Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles because Cress is the only…[Read more]

Hey guys! The deadline to critique Ella of Cinders is tomorrow!

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 @mlbolangerauthor @lady-frosttongue @sarah-inkdragon @d…[Read more]

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