Story_Guardian

@emma-walker

Ok there we go!

I can easily edit the picture so let me know if there’s anything you’d like me to change.

Again, very sorry for the long wait!!

@rose-colored-fancy

I can really see why so many people choose to make their main characters orphans just to get the parents out of the way of adventuring things XD It makes sense from a plot perspective, even though it isn’t any fun for the character.

I agree. However, though I write mostly adult characters (19-20+ in age), who are out of the h…[Read more]

@noah-cochran

Oh wow, nice. That’s a lot more than I do, all I have when I go into a chapter is several bullet points under that chapter.

I used to do that too, but I found that even though it takes a bit longer, it makes it much easier to write since I’m very prone to get lost in the middle of a conversation like “Where was I going with this? I k…[Read more]

That same cat had a habit of jumping on people’s backs while they were bending over. That happened multiple times, but the crowning glory was the time my mom was painting something on a step-ladder and bent down to get something and that extremely large cat decided jumping onto her back was the best possible way to demand attention. Nothing went w…

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@rose-colored-fancy

And then before I write it I write an outline for the chapter with as much detail as I think of and a rough idea of the dialogue.

Oh wow, nice. That’s a lot more than I do, all I have when I go into a chapter is several bullet points under that chapter.

On that note, thinking of external justifications for why characters are…

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@erynne

Does your romance help the plot or characters?

I like to think both 🙂 I haven’t written it yet, only outlined, so my answers are purely theoretical XD

The romance (or more accurately, the potential for romance) is mainly used as a motivator for the characters. Both positive and negative. I use it to leverage them to do things they don’t…[Read more]

@noah-cochran

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

Both! I start with the fifteen beats, then I fill in anything I can think of to get from one to the other and then split that up into chapters. And then before I write it I write an outline for the chapter with as much detail as I think of and a rough…[Read more]

@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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Kallun gathered small rocks together and used it as glue. He stuck some pieces of armor together. He molded the metal and stone together as one big plate.

@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]

Julian stripped off his armor and piled it in the middle of the floor. “Here. Do what you want with it.”

Ellie bent down and started messing with it like she knew what she was doing. “Clueless….” She mumbled

@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]

@rose-colored-fancy

I couldn’t sleep XD

I may or I may not add it in. It depends on my mood lol

Does your romance help the plot or characters?

Thanks for your help 🙂

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]

Alessio had decided to leave out the part where “immune” was loosely defined as “won’t kill me” but it was a moot point now. He only caught Nithel the moment he popped some sort of nuts in his mouth. For two seconds Alessio completely panicked. But his friend grabbed another fruit and he didn’t drop dead or anything…
But Nithel’s action made Ale…[Read more]

@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]

@irishcelticredflowercrown

Hehe it seems there has! It would have been so funny to see her try to hack him to bits while he dodges out of the way smiling and saying ‘Oops you missed me’ and ‘try to work on ypur footwork darling’

LOL, that would be hilarious XD She totally would have done that last time XD

I really like Liorah! I’d love to know h…

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