PursueWisdom

@taylorclogston

Yeah, B.K. was dense. Which is why I’m trying to do some light reading before diving into Mistborn by Sanderson. It took me six months to finish reading B.K.. I LOVE Dostoevsky though – utter brilliance. (Crime and Punishment is a great read as well, and I thought it is less dense than B.K.) Tolstoy’s War and Peace is next in line…[Read more]

@taylorclogston

What I Read: I finally finished Brothers Karamazov and The Fiddler’s Gun (by A.S. Peterson). Started on Fresh Perspectives on Ender’s Game – really highly recommended along with the actual book Ender’s Game, and am about to start Fawkes (you’d be proud, @steward-of-the-pen 🙂 – I’m looking forward to SE’s series on Fawkes.

What I…[Read more]

@april-j-rhys

Thanks for these great questions! They’re forcing me to self-reflect 🙂

Worldbuilding is one of my stronger points. All the others are things I’m currently “working on.” 🙂 I found K.M.Weiland’s Helping Writers Become Authors.com to be super helpful in this area, but I’ve been struggling with finding time to read through her…[Read more]

@seekjustice

It’s funny because I’ve been gone for a couple of months now… so I didn’t notice your absence. 😛

Thanks for tagging me!

Common historical inaccuracy (and I’ve seen more hist. fic. films than books) is the language. They use such modern language and grammar sometimes! Belle though, is one film that I found to be very elegant in…[Read more]

@evelyn

About Fahrenheit 451 – I loved the book’s premise and story and characters! 🙂 It’s also a very quick read. So it’s a recommend, but some content issues (although they didn’t really bother me too much – PG-13). Perhaps the PluggedIn review on it would help? https://www.pluggedin.com/book-reviews/fahrenheit-451

@evelyn

Ah! Thank you!! 🙂

Thanks, @j-a-penrose

🙂 I love this lesson.

I think it’s important also to highlight the MC’s weakness in relation to his/her character arc/development.

And I think even if we’re dealing with, say, an antihero MC, her flaws must be realistic but shown to be flaws and not traits to model from.

@mgtask

Hi!! What is your current WIP about? How far along are you in it?

And what’s your favorite Sci-Fi? 🙂

@kari-karast

Alrighty! Thanks for the info!

@jenwriter17

@jane-maree

🙂 Aww… seeing that you both like the series so much, I WILL finish it once I get my current TBR list done. 🙂

@steward-of-the-pen

LOVE your ideas!! 🙂

@j-a-penrose

@everyone

😛 I can’t come up with anything worth saying right now…

@steward-of-the-pen

TO THE RESCUE!!!

[I’m so sorry I’m behind on this! 🙁  Trying to catch up once a week right now… *master juggler – not* Forgive me, Darth Pen!]

First, I wish to express that I feel exactly and everything you’ve delineated! I work full time and after work have chores to do and etc. and I haven’t been able to really write any…[Read more]

@ariella-newheart

Exactly!

@taylorclogston

Hmm… 1) study other people – what makes them unique, distinctive, from others, and 2) find the right words to draw them out for the reader on page 😛  And 3) still make it work in the plot. Currently, I’m working on studying personalities… and even trying to see if I can get one of my characters imitating another character I…[Read more]

@kari-karast

Oh, really! That’s cool! I’m working on The Phantom Menace novelization by Terry Brooks right now – it’s my first SW book. 🙂 I’ll keep in mind your recommendation about Zahn’s Thawn. 😉

Sounds like quite an adventure for Kari in your WIP 🙂

@jenwriter17

🙂 Thanks for letting me in on that tip! Oh great! At least you’re writing it though… I’m still stuck in the outlining stage. 😛

Thank you for the compliment. I have some great hopes for it but I feel like I really need to hone my writing craft first in order to make it happen.

I’ve tried to read the first Out of Time book from…[Read more]