Samuel

Thank you, @samuel! I know what I need to do now.

@literatureforthelight  Exactly! That’s exactly what I had in mind. Leave the audience wondering if the fire pixie was real. I couldn’t have said it better.

Also, @corissa I think we could do the same kind of thing with his moral dilemma. Give both choices enough weight to leave the audience wondering if he made the right choice. Whatever he…[Read more]

@Samuel hmmm… my gut instinct says one large SCENE with two or three smaller ones, but this is something we can probably trust to the discretion of whoever writes the draft.

Speaking of which, do we have any takers?

I like the second idea as well; it’s a bit less of a plot to cram in 2,500 words. I would agree with Kate, though, that we don’t know whether or not the fire pixie is real, although we could probably hint at what Noah said, to make the audience think there might be some mental disorder going on, but leave all of them unsure.

(Apparently…[Read more]

I’m with you, @kate, I like the second idea better. It would lend itself pretty easily to one scene. Where he and the pixie break into the palace and warn the king.

We could give him a sort of hallucinogenic schizophrenia, or whatever you call that, where you see and interact with people/things that aren’t real. Then we could make the fact that…[Read more]

@Literatureforthelight we have been unusually prolific with ideas, haven’t we? 😛 I suppose that’s a good problem to have though.

If my memory serves me, we have two main ideas on the table now.

Chimneysweep is sweeping chimneys with the aid of happy fire pixies whom all other chimneysweeps mistreat, when the pixies discover a plot to…[Read more]

I tried replying twice a few hours ago, and neither one showed up, so let’s see if third time’s the charm. 😛 😉

@kate I absolutely love that idea!

What would we do with the ending then? Would he still go back to his chimney sweep life, and if so what would that make the theme? Or would we give it a warmer, happier ending, where he does get…[Read more]

@Julianne welcome! Thanks for jumping right in and contributing; great thoughts.

@Corissa I love the idea of him being kind to the fairies. Great way to spin it.

But guys, guys— before we go any further I had a thought. I’ve been trying to think how we can better fulfill the prompt, moving on from the story and developing an engaging voice…[Read more]

Okay.

I just got caught up with the conversation, let me recap what we have so far (disclaimer: as I understand it):

We have two story lines here.

The first (which I think we scrapped already, but just in case):

Kid, the chimney-sweep, 5, is happily sweeping chimneys for his chimney-sweep master, when he finds out about a plot to kill a…[Read more]

*gasps* OUR GUILDMASTER HAS DESERTED US.

Okay guys. We need to get organized.

@literatureforthelight an unreliable narrator is when the narrator believes something untrue about the circumstances in the story and tells it from a skewed perspective, and this is obvious to the reader. For instance, if we had the story of a lazy, neglectful, abusive…[Read more]

@daeus-lamb Since this is a little kid, but we don’t want to turn “engaging” into frivolous, I think we should probably focus on shaping their surroundings into something interesting/deep/serious (I don’t know), then make the character play off that from some unique perspective. Because a five-year-old doesn’t really know who they are yet, so…[Read more]

@samuel

Thnak you!

@samuel You need multiple themes, but they should all be tied together, and fit with a main theme.

@samuel One way to think about it might be:

You have your main theme, then you have all the little facets of the main theme.

I’m a big stickler for continuity, so of course I’m going to recommend you only have one theme, but…

One theme can have a lot of facets.

Or, to put it another way, one theme can be shown to be true many different…[Read more]

Thank you everyone!

@parker *is showered in confetti* Love the spirit, but it always gets stuck in my… oh wait, I don’t have hair XD Thank you for your well-wishes. 🙂

@wordsmith That’s so awesome that you’ve begun to pick up writing in earnest over the past year and took the dive into having a blog as well! I had a blog for a few years during…[Read more]

@samuel True.

@nuetrobolt, okay! I’d probably be sunburned all the time if I was there, because my skin is very sensitive. Where I live, its usually cooler.

@samuel, yeah, sometimes ‘Octabbrell’ might sound like some underwater creature name, some oddball personality name, or just something that goes with the character Chesna Octabbrell is…

And Velraider i…[Read more]

Wow, thanks guys! Thanks especially @thewirelessblade— that breakdown is really useful. You’ve all been quite helpful. I really appreciate it. 😀

@raemarie @daeus-lamb @samuel @gabriellepollack @sam-kowal @inkling-for-christ @supermonkey42 @briannastorm

Thank you @samuel for the welcome!:)

*holds hand up in the Vulcan salute*

I am very happy to meet you, and thank you for the warning! No one shall touch me doughnut!!

My precious……..My precious doughnut……..* glares suspiciously at anyone who dares to venture into the realm of the doughnut.

Thank you for the doughnut!!!!!!:)

By the…[Read more]

@morreafirebird, I wouldn’t blame you.  I had conflicting feelings about it at first too. Honestly, it’s not that great.

@samuel, it does have A dragon as far as I have read