Sarah Narnathron

A few of my favorites:

• The Tales of Goldstone Wood by Anne Elisabeth Stengl (clean, deep, amazing Christian fantasy; only books I’ve ever read that feel like a fairy tale retelling and an epic at the same time).
• Anything by Brandon Sanderson, but especially The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn.
• Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.

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Ooooohhh. I don’t know that I’ll look at this today (just got back from cabin camping; still trying to catch up on the internet), but I’ll take a look later this week!

My goals for the month:

• Keep up with the 100-4-100 challenge.
• Do my last couple rounds of edits on Blood in the Snow and send it in to Kendra E. Ardnek for the Magic Mirrors release. (Ahhhhh!!!!!!)
• Start figuring out actual book formatting for Blood in the Snow. (Ahhhhhh!!!!!!!)

@Sarah-inkdragon Yes, you should. And haha, got it. I wasn’t sure where you were in the process.

*has been traveling and only just got to this today*

Your book is good. Write it.

I basically agree with what the others have said— that there’s a place for darkness and stories that are hard to tell because of the sorrow they carry. And it sounds like you’re being smart about this; you know your target audience and you’re writing for them. A…[Read more]

Here’s a pretty good article about how to keep a conflict going through the middle of the novel: http://goteenwriters.blogspot.com/2012/08/writing-cream.html

The key is to keep swinging from bad news to good and back again and to be aware of what you can take away from your character to make their lives difficult.

@morreafirebird Yeah, I’d say so. And good! 😀

Week goals. Hum.

-Get through this scene in Fight Song that’s been fighting me.

-Assess whether or not I need to reorder the events in this chapter again.

-Stay on top of Indie e-Con.

-Finish my Doings! post for the month and write my Friday 5s for the week. Whatever that’s going to be.

Said a prayer!

@morreafirebird Well, I love the hints of some kind of creepy darkness beneath the beauty of the Fey, besides just the standard “Oh, Fey, they’re WILD and DANGEROUS but also NOBLE and PASSIONATE” and so on. So that was fairly enticing. Otherwise, IDK, I just liked the characters as I met them, and I’d heard good reviews, so that did more than the…[Read more]

I still like the emblem. It’s lovely. *nods*

Regarding colors: I think someone said green for creativity; I like that.

Yellow/gold can be nobility or purity.

Blue could be peace (as Ajaj suggested) or, again, purity, if we use yellow/gold for nobility.

I’m going to use An Enchantment of Ravens again, even though I’ve read a bunch of books since, because it’s easier to analyze than either of the Wrath and Dawn books (even though the Wrath and Dawn books are AMAZING). So, ways the conflict is set up:

• The danger and allure of Fey enchantments is shown early on. We see how Isabelle carefully…

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@morreafirebird That’s a good way to put it. 😛 One day, everything’s magnificent and you get through an entire chapter, or even two. The next day, you struggle to get through one paragraph. *sigh*

Definitely not. It’s no more wrong to write stories about characters who can do the types of things you said than it is to write about a world where dragons are real and animals can talk, or where spiritual battles are personified with knights and swords and kingdoms at war, or where planets are some shape other than spheres. In all these cases,…[Read more]

@lydia-writes Hello and welcome! I’m glad you think Dust of Silver sounds cool; your WIPs sound pretty interesting too, especially the fiction one. (If you can’t tell, I love fairy tale-based books.) That’s too bad that you’re allergic to dairy. 🙁 I can’t imagine how I would survive that. (I love cheese and milk and ice cream too much, haha.)

My week goal is basically just to keep up with my month-goal of 30 minutes of writing or editing a day, so . . . yeah. I’m not setting goals beyond that, since the chapter I’m currently editing has the potential to either go really quickly or incredibly slowly. 😛

I agree with Devastate that I pictured this as a bit larger than just an island. I do like the idea of having more than one city and having different areas to represent different parts of the forums.

@morreafirebird Are we required to sign up today? My top priority at the moment is editing, but if I get editor’s block on that or I have extra time sometime, I may end up working on Dust of Silver instead. But I don’t know if I’ll work on Dust of Silver or not, so I’m somewhat inclined to wait to sign up until I do know? What would you advise?

@filewriter I think the emblem looks great! I’d call it done!

I like the white, gold, and red combination for our colors. White, gold, and green could also be a nice combination.