Skylarynn

The series I write in does have several married couples (it has a very large cast) and they do have intimate moments (by which I mean moments of intense spiritual and romantic love, no actual love-making), but I’m never very explicit and manage to gloss over them actually doing anything.  Generally the only indication that they’ve done something…[Read more]

I have several adorable characters that I hope I’ve humanized effectively.  The main one is a young woman named Kindra Arden.  She’s a tiny 4’11” with rapunzel hair and a bubbly personality.  She also owns a 18-hand Shire stallion named Binky and a rambunctious cat named Mittens.  Kindra is also a (non-practicing) witch and a first responder (EM…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

Glad I could help!  I meant to add in some tips, but I guess I forgot.  Here’s a few:

• Use thoughts sparingly.  Focus on the physical sensations; this puts the reader in the body of the character and helps them feel just as overwhelmed.
• Shock varies from person to person, but it is typically somewhat delayed in onset an…

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@rose-colored-fancy

I actually recently wrote the initial shock of one of my characters finding out his father was dead.  The context is as follows:

Luke is on a team of monster hunters.  His father Jeffrey is Luke’s dad and a retired monster hunter.  Once, when the team was hunting some Indian demons, Luke went on ahead of everyone and got ov…[Read more]

WARNING – This will be long

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Auryon: Why are Phelie and Levi sitting like that?
Elias: They had a fight.
Auryon: Then why are they holding hands?
Elias: Phelie gets sad when they fight.

Phelie: Truth or dare?
Levi: Truth
Phelie: How many hours’ sleep have you had this week?
Levi: Dare
Phelie: Go to sleep

Will: What did you guys get in…[Read more]

Quick sum up

Auryon: Spunky Hunter gal (Elias’s wife, Mal and Wes’s niece) [Luke’s adoptive sis, Mal’s adoptive daughter]

Luke: Laid back tank (Mal and Wes’s nephew) [Aury’s adoptive bro, Mal’s adoptive son]

Mal: Leader of the Hunter team (Aury and Luke’s uncle, Wes’s brother, Sera’s husband) [Luke and Aury’s adoptive dad]

Wes: Immature (Mal’s…[Read more]

I always assumed ‘high fantasy’ and ‘medieval’ were intertwined because it was a time when people were much more superstitious and didn’t have science to combat beliefs about how the world and gods worked.  That and people were often inspired by D&D.  LotR never struck me as all that medieval, nor did Lewis’s Narnia actually.  LotR read like a to…[Read more]

This thread may be dead but I felt like posting on it anyway.  If I get a response, yay!  If not, I don’t mind.

I have read my fair share of books, but at the same time I feel like I haven’t read nearly enough to get an idea of what good writing is.  I myself have been writing since I learned how to read, but I think my skill only picked up ab…[Read more]

Luke again but this time with Arachnea Evilian

1. What is something in your life you wish you could go back on? Something you regret and want to change?

Luke: Not going ahead of the team when we were fighting that Hindi cult.  That kinda led to a lot of bad stuff…

Arachnea: Not being with Wilder when he got divebombed by that harpy…

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If no one minds I’ll join in.  (This is for some of the characters from my urban fantasy, specifically Lucifer MacTiernan or “Luke” and his cousin/adopted sister Auryon Hearne)

1. How are you like the one who created you?

Luke: *after a thoughtful pause* I’d do anything for the people I care about

Auryon: *shrugs* I dunno, I try to protect…[Read more]