Samuel

You know you’re a writer when you get in trouble because “How hard is it to put a knife through someone’s sternum” showed up on your internet accountability report

@bigideaskc I think it does take about a minute, and when a person wakes up they are still groggy and suffering from the effects of just having their brain jarred against their skull until it shuts down their consciousness. To do that with just a face blow, however, they would probably have to be struck A) in the bridge of the nose or between the…[Read more]

@the-golden-light The Ted Dekker books (The Lost Books series and the Circle) are really good imo, but the Circle series books can get a little mature, especially Green, in terms of romantic content. Nothing totally horrible if you don’t mind half-page smooches, but I wouldn’t let my fourteen-year-old kid read Green. The other three are fine, tho…[Read more]

@elizabeth That sounds like a good arc. Maybe if something in the plot actually forced him to believe in the unseen, or something indisputable happens that he can’t see, it would be easier. For example if such a person were sucked into a fantasy world and were forced to face that things exist that he can’t see, i.e. unicorns, trolls…I don’t k…[Read more]

@emilys Actually, not yet. I’ve got one or two to go before I get to the one with dragons, but I’m still super excited to write it. My current is about a teen in a high-tech exosuit called the Aster, and it’s basically going to be a fictional autobiography of my last three or so years but in fantasy/electropunk novel form.

@emilys Welcome to the forum! I’m also homeschooled although technically finished unless my writing and music education counts. I’m in the process of outlining a novel and have one sitting in a cardboard box and another being self-published, but both ultra-cringey XD

Editing the living daylights out of your book is great and essential! Most pro…[Read more]

@parker I hear a lot about him too but I can never bring myself to read it for some reason.

I used to write sci-fi/fantasy. Like, the real deal–Spaceships, planets, it had it all. But the catch was that there were no laser-blasters or whatever. Everyone had swords and bows. It was weird. It was cool, but weird.

Now I write primarily fantasy and…[Read more]

@ncstokes I have an idea, how about we make the mentor turn on the protagonist???!!!! YES

@thebookharvester Pokemon isn’t anime…but we can roll with it

I think writing fanfic is actually harder to do than normal writing because you have to work off something someone else has laid out. I have done some though, including LoZ Majora’s Mask, Monster Hunter and Fire Emblem. I generally don’t tho because it doesn’t have much merit other…[Read more]

@julia I struggle with that as well, I love magic but I have to work with what I believe, and that causes problems. What I did was created something called a “Panthiverse” (copyrights). The story basically goes that there were eleven “Great Beings”, i.e. gods, in the beginning, and they each created a universe and an “Infinity” (what we would call…[Read more]

@elizabeth I always have questions…

As far as characterization goes, what do you think of “merging” characters, i.e. a brother and sister, with two different personalities yet almost like one protagonist, instead of making one or the other seem like an important side character?

@annethestorynerdgirl

If you’ve never lived there I think a lot of research is in order. You should research British terms, customs, traditions…Anything you can get. In 1940 the war was about two years in so it wasn’t horrible quite yet, but still bad especially in UK and Germany. I also think weather in London is usually dreary and gray, but…[Read more]

@elizabeth Well, it WOULD be possible to go back and fix it…But like I said I had little (valuable) writing education at the time, so I didn’t see anything wrong with it until AFTER it was into the self-publishing process. I know, big mistake…I may have to write a second edition later assuming it doesn’t sell well (which I’m hoping it does so…[Read more]