Taylor Clogston

I’ve kind of been gone for a bit, but I’ll make it official here =P My enjoyment of writing has been slowly dying down and not spiking back up like it usually does over the past few months. This past month, it feels like it’s died completely. I’m sure it’ll come back at some point, but for the moment, this is the first time in the nine months I’ve…[Read more]

@daeus-lamb I’ve subscribed!

@shadowwriter161 You’re very welcome! Forster didn’t invent the idea of the flat character, but his notes on it here are the most famous discussion on them. (also, in case it wasn’t clear, emphasis in that post was from me, not from the original text)

@shadowwriter161

“In their purest form, (flat characters) are constructed round a single idea or quality: when there is more than one factor in them, we get the beginning of the curve towards the round. The really flat character can be expressed in one sentence such as ‘I never will desert Mr. Micawber.’ There is Mrs. Micawber—she says she w…[Read more]

@anne_the_noob14 I’m actually a jerk, don’t believe the facade.

The newest opening theme for one of my favorite anime (violence, some blood, mild language warning) is called Traitor’s Requiem, and someone made a joke analogizing the title to the phrase “digging your own grave.” And I thought, “Hey that’s pretty sweet I’m gonna stick it in my…[Read more]

@anne_the_noob14 No worries. In this area I’m as much a noob as you are :p You’re not being a nuisance at all. (Nearly) any guild activity is good activity.

@anne_the_noob14 There are two different “summaries” you’ll need for your book. The shorter one’s usually called an elevator pitch, which is the quick thing you tell people so they know what you’re book’s about in a few seconds, and the second is called a blurb, which is what you put on the back of your cover/on your Amazon page.

I’ve…[Read more]

@evelyn I mean I guess I learned some stuff about Irish and Italian history from the books I read =P Good luck with your poetry, and congrats on surviving the party.

@ariella-newheart And good luck to you preparing for JuWriMo!

@blueberry Thank you! I’m probably going to continue bugging you about it =P

@coggleton Thanks for reading as far as you have! And thanks for the critique, though I’m not at a point where I’m continuing to edit the story details, and am on to the second book. I know the first one has flaws (and sometimes major ones), and I’ve spent too much time…[Read more]

@daeus-lamb @coggleton @blueberry

Not to be too presumptuous, but are any of you planning on leaving reviews, or did I lose your interest? =P

Glory be to the oil-dark bean.

Glory be to the tar-broth of life, from whom comes the vision of sound and time.

Glory be to Arabica in his black throne.

I also got a higher rank than I think I deserve. Self reporting assessment isn’t usually the best tool on its own, but can be useful alongside outside critique.

If you can manage it, polish a story that uses as many of the elements as possible (like, make sure you have an antagonist and a theme), and ask a few people to take the test for you,…[Read more]

@kayla-skywriter Interesting, of all the doctrinal differences I’ve ever seen, I’ve never known the division of the Commandments to be one of them. I looked up the explanation of the LCMS division, and I get it. I think we’d all agree we’re basically on the same page, that the Commandments are the same regardless how they are divided. For my part,…[Read more]

@kayla-skywriter Paul gives the bulk of our instruction on dealing with doctrinal disagreements in 2 Timothy 2:

14 Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to fight about words. This is useless and leads to the ruin of those who listen. … 16 Avoid irreverent and empty speech, since those who engage in it will produce even more…

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Denominations usually exist because churches have doctrinal disagreements.

Sometimes we can agree they’re preferences and not overly important.

Sometimes, they are important differences.

So are you willing to compromise on opinion in cases, insist on the doctrine you believe, or ignore it as best you can?

For what it’s worth I have a lot of…[Read more]

@the-fledgling-artist @edmund-lloyd-fletcher

I got the following email from Daniel David Wallace’s newsletter this morning (minus most of the sales pitch buy one of his courses):

The other day, I helped a talented writer improve a scene in her novel.

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The scene we were discussing was a simple one: the main character’s friend, a fellow…[Read more]