@calidris

I’ve heard great horned owls and heard and seen barn owls here. I think those are my favorite owl species, but burrowing owls and snowy owls are super adorable too! If you’ve never heard a barn owl, look up its call. It’s very creepy. They’re called ghost owls for good reason.

I think I like the Costa’s hummingbird best, but the ones…[Read more]

Hey @calidris!

I also like birdwatching, art, reading, LoTR, and worldbuilding when I should be writing lol. What is your favorite kind of bird? Mine are hummingbirds and owls.

I’d love any nonfic book recommendations! I started reading the Silmarillion, but never finished it. However, I did enjoy what I read; I just need to keep better track of…[Read more]

@nataliecone

Thanks! I might have to check out Trello when it comes time to making scene cards.

@noahcochran

Yes, I really love how easy to use Google Drive is–it’s a lot cleaner to me than Office. And it works better on saving my stuff than OneDrive ever does. I love using bulleted lists when brainstorming–it makes everything a lot…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

I got Scrivener for my birthday and I really love it! It helps keep everything organized without having to open dozens of folders for it.

@joy-caroline

Also, Scrivener is awesome for organizing notes and other things. I use it once in a while and would recommend!

At first I didn’t think Scrivener would be useful for me, but the…[Read more]

@irishcelticflowercrown

Hi there! Thanks for letting me know! I did consider Rick Riordan Presents, but I think I’ll be going to for a Christian publisher if I’m going down the traditional route. There’s a publisher called Enclave Publishing who do Christian fantasy and sci fi.

We definitely need good Christian fantasy and Enclave looks like a rea…[Read more]

@irishcelticflowercrown

Once you’re ready to pursue publication with your WIP, you should try Rick Riordan Presents, which is a publishing imprint by the guy who wrote the Percy Jackson books and it publishes books based on all different sorts of mythologies! I don’t know if they’ve done Irish or Celtic yet.

@joy-caroline

I get a lot of ideas from asking myself ‘what-if’ questions, from thinking about ways to subvert or re-do tropes (I’m currently messing with the Chosen One trope), and from history. Seriously, I can’t read my history textbook without getting a ton of ideas about characters and plotlines. I also get inspired by things from my…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

I’ve heard of motifs before, but I thought they referred more to general things that are in different stories but tend to represent the same thing, like a wise old man or a ghost appearing. Maybe I’m getting it confused with archetypes.

The Scarlet Letter has a ton of symbolism and motifs. In one of my favorite books, The…[Read more]

@daeus-lamb

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