Sarah Narnathron

-Manage the first week of classes without freaking out over anything.

-Finish first version of BitS ebook formatting.

-Write the rest of my second UGP story.

One thing that stood out to me was making sure readers understand why there’s internal conflict over a choice. However, that point actually stood out to me because of an external conflict, not an internal one (though it’s also an internal conflict for a lot of people in the story). In Mechanical Heart, there’s an illegal magic known as blood…[Read more]

-Write my first story for UGP (paid writing work, yay!).

-Read & review the books I need to read and review.

-Pack for college without forgetting anything.

First off, your story sounds pretty cool.

Second off, to answer the actual question: not making her the only person who doesn’t want to be Thunderstruck might help. Let there be groups of people who want to be and groups who don’t and groups who just don’t care. Another thing — this will depend on how the Thunderstruck person is chosen — wou…[Read more]

Ok, I’m actually using one of my own stories here because I think it actually fits really well. In Between Two Worlds, the main internal conflict is that Kaitlyn (the main character) is supposed to be settling back into normal life on Earth after an adventure in another world, but she’s torn—
—between her family and her friends in the other wor…[Read more]

-Finish editing Mechanical Heart

-Get together a first version of the Blood in the Snow eBook.

-Finish my internship hours.

• Finish Mechanical Heart. (I hit 20K, but I have a couple chapters left.)
• Stay on top of 100-4-100.
• Figure out a final storyline for UGP.
• Send in my assignment acceptance and list of storylines to UGP. (Yay, actual creative writing job with actual money! As long as I didn’t accidentally wait too long to respond . . .)
• Get my Doings! post…

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Ok, maybe this is cheating, but I don’t think I actually have a good single answer to this one. All the answers I thought of, what makes the external conflict great is that it’s tied so closely to the internal conflict so they’re both basically feeding each other. So, yeah.

Welcome back, Audrey!

Congrats, Avensbeck! Y’all deserved the win; your story was excellent.

I’m taking a look now. Most my comments will probably be grammatical/wording things, but hopefully they’re helpful. 🙂

Edit: Just finished. I thought it was good overall. 🙂

I like it! Can’t wait to read the rest!

Succeeded in my goals for last week (though “as many internship hours as possible” was not as many as I would’ve liked).

Goals for this week are pretty similar. There’s a few new ones, though.

• Stay on top of 100-4-100 and Camp NaNo.
• Finish Blood in the Snow edits. (For the sixth or seventh time . . .)
• Start sorting out BitS formatting.

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I achieved my goals, but my goals for this week aren’t much different.

• Stay on top of Camp and 100-4-100.
• As many internship hours as possible.
• Don’t die. Or go crazy.

@northerner You’re welcome!

Ahhhhhh. I suppose I can understand that— the second point more than the first. I’ve generally thought of acting as only a few points off from normal storytelling (in which you are also saying something that isn’t necessarily true, but which hopefully reveals some truth). That said, I also have a few friends who are v…[Read more]

Ay-yi-yi. Small children. I hope someone else knows how to write ’em, because I haven’t the foggiest. I’ll help with editing and brainstorming as I can, sure, but not the actual writing of.

@morreafirebird Oohhhh, yeah. That makes sense. I’ve heard of the thing the character wants vs. needs; I just didn’t make the connection.

Allo, @the-inkspiller and @karthmin ! Welcome to the guild!

Allo, @northerner! I’m Sarah Narnathron, but you know me already as Sarahtps. (You know, if you didn’t recognize the avatar.) Nice to see you here! I saw you on one of the other bits of the forum and decided I ought to acknowledge your existence in other fashions.

I don’t think I knew you were an INTP, but I am exactly 0% surprised. I’m also a…[Read more]