@j-a-penrose Congrats on the graduation, that’s awesome!

I’ve not been active for a very long while, but I lurk pretty frequently. In other words, I’m in no place to judge =P What are your plans out of school?

@eden-anderson “Do you think Christian fiction could combat this problem?”

I don’t know. I don’t have a very broad experience with how your typical reader of Christian fiction engages with their Christian fiction. In my experience, the sorts of very conservative people who have these incredibly sad views of mental illness are either people who…[Read more]

@ariella-newheart Definitely. So long as those small steps aren’t backward ones, I guess =P

Great stuff here, guys. Really interesting thread.

Christians don’t like confronting mental illness. It’s a scary concept (and don’t get me started on frontal lobe damage…). We don’t really know how our spirits, minds, and the physicality of our brains are fully connected, and I think because of that, Christians tend to err on the side of…[Read more]

@evelyn Unfortunately my counselor fired me yesterday. She basically just said “You’re doing everything right, keep taking your medicine, aside from that I can’t help you because it’s perfectly reasonable that working your job would give you depression and boredom-anxiety. Get a new job.” So I don’t really know what to do.

My job involves putting…[Read more]

@j-a-penrose I just got back from a health sabbatical too, so no worries here =P Glad you’re feeling a little better. I’ll be praying.

@anne_the_noob14 I’m really sorry to hear that. I’m praying.

@evelyn Thanks so much! The meeting was fine. My counselor’s initial thoughts are that my issues are more a matter of brain chemistry and chronic exposure to stress than patterns of negative cognitive behavior (I already use all the coping mechanisms she suggested), so she’s not terribly sure cognitive behavioral therapy will do me as much good as…[Read more]

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]