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@rose-colored-fancy

I have the opposite issue, my main plot ideas need a lot of time but I often didn’t have enough sub-plots to fill up the middle. I do think I’ve gotten better at that though.

Do you use chapter by chapter outlines or list of chronological events outlines?

I was absently thinking of that time our gremlin cat jumped on the tab…

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@noah-cochran

Yeah, I do need to get Scrivener sometime.

It’s awesome, I couldn’t do without it anymore. Absolutely recommend.

Oh, then I definitely agree. My mind just works in long, epic proportions I guess, so I write long stuff despite the  ‘I wanna stop and burn this’  issue.

That is an entire mood. I think that at least once a week, or even…[Read more]

🤔 Boy, I can’t remember which story I was talking about. Probably one that will involve a lot of traveling through a demon-haunted wood that examines how pure good and pure evil are so other to the human experience that we could not survive an encounter with either.

I also have a vague idea for a story set in an old, crazy mansion involving a…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

If you’re still considering Scrivener, it has this lovely feature where you can write in whatever font and size you like and it will format it for you, make a title page, and number and label all your pages and you can export it in all kinds of formats.

Yeah, I do need to get Scrivener sometime.

I really like reading long b…

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@noah-cochran

I had no idea about the 12pt, double space formatting thing. But I looked it up and one is supposed to have 12pt size, indented paragraphs, Times New Roman, Double Space, and no  extra space between paragraphs (just one enter after each). I had none of that before, so the amount of pages in TTD is small.

If you’re still co…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

It was that long? My second book is 130k and 460 pages long, yours is 40k longer but thirty pages shorter. I guess that’s the formatting difference!

I had no idea about the 12pt, double space formatting thing. But I looked it up and one is supposed to have 12pt size, indented paragraphs, Times New Roman, Double Space, and no  ex…[Read more]

@noah-cochran

 Yeah, differences in cultures and languages are always hilarious like that.

And it’s very funny how you can get used to it so completely XD

Oh there are so many. A few for book one are a several of the big confrontation scenes,  writing the MC’s arc, developing a friendship, writing a house fight, and writing the climax.

Sounds lik…[Read more]

To make my question on the dialogue punctuation clearer, please tell me if the following things are true:

This is correct: “I hate cars,” Roger said. “They are weird.”
This is incorrect: “I hate cars,” Roger said, “They are weird.”
This is incorrect: “I hate cars.” Roger said. “They are weird.”
This is incorrect: “I hate cars,” Roger said, “they…[Read more]

Hi @daeus-lamb,

I would love to hear your idea.

@rose-colored-fancy

For me it’s like “I know four people with this name” and to you it’s more like “How are you supposed to pronounce this eldritch nonsense? Man, I wish they’d kept “Joke” as a name. It’s not pronounced like that, but that’s how it’s spelled and it’s a common girl’s name

😂 Yeah, differences in cultures and languages are always…[Read more]

@noah-cochran

Well I’m fairly confident they won’t be generic to me. xD

Which is exactly what makes it so funny XD For me it’s like “I know four people with this name” and to you it’s more like “How are you supposed to pronounce this eldritch nonsense?” XD I’m really glad the translator made that choice.

Man, I wish they’d kept “Joke” as a nam…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

and then this book has the most generic old-fashioned Dutch names

Well I’m fairly confident they won’t be generic to me. xD

I plan to start drafting book 3 next week monday so we’re close together!

Yep. 🙂

I’m really excited to start, I think I’ll really enjoy writing this book.

Same here, I love all my characters before I’ve…[Read more]

@noah-cochran

Alright then, after I read it, I’ll come back and see how badly I mispronounced them.

LOL, in the preview I saw that the translator did switch out a couple that would be too weird to prounounce.

I find it very funny because Letter for the King and some of her fantasy books have these really outlandish names like “Jiacomo” and “…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

Tell me when you’ve read it! I can rant about those books for ages (as you’ve seen XD) My favorite characters are Rosemary and Geert-Jan.

Will do.

(You’re going to have a fun time with the Dutch names, as far as I could see from the preview they left most of them original

Alright then, after I read it, I’ll come back and see h…[Read more]

@noah-cochran

*Adds another book to my read list

That sounds great!

*Moves it higher on my reading list

I’m pumped.

Tell me when you’ve read it! I can rant about those books for ages (as you’ve seen XD) My favorite characters are Rosemary and Geert-Jan. (You’re going to have a fun time with the Dutch names, as far as I could see from the p…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

I hold to the claim that Dickens is better as an audiobook so you can do something else while he rambles

I concur. xD

Also! While looking it up yesterday I saw that they finally translated “The Song of Seven” also by Tonke Dragt.

*Adds another book to my read list

That sounds great!

The book has fantastic side chara…

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@noah-cochran

That is what really didn’t make much sense to me, considering he is her closest friend and everything, and all her focus is on Peeta. The first two books are great overall though.

Huh, that’s actually a really good point. I think making Gale a more interesting character by himself would fix a lot of that, he was just boring on all a…[Read more]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>@k-a-grey</p>
Thank you! I’ll have to check that last verse out. I see what you mean. Thanks! I haven’t put a ton of poems to music, but I have done it before. I would love to do that with this one!

@rose-colored-fancy

Because Gale is never much of a priority to Katniss

That is what really didn’t make much sense to me, considering he is her closest friend and everything, and all her focus is on Peeta. The first two books are great overall though.

Many older books just drag for a hundred pages somewhere in the middle

Read any Dickens? I…[Read more]

@noah-cochran

I suppose I should do something like that as well.

You can try it out! It won’t do any harm, at least, and it may work for you.

Behold the Dawn by K. M. Weiland is still my favorite stand alone novel hands down, and having studied characters and structure myself now, I love it all the more.

Still need to check that one out, it’s high…[Read more]