The Inkspiller

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Sooooo, remember when I said ideally we would be finished writing the story Friday night, but it looks like that wasn’t going to happen? Well it happened! The story is complete! *confetti* *spaghetti* *lasagna* It needs a lot of editing, but it’s done!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/171Gru1irPQhCI7YI3TgaTGPlRf5pxWra5eC-jpfhOJQ/edit

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Good news! @karthmin got busy and wrote a bunch last night! We are now at ~1800 words and at the climax. The reason for this update is that we are at a crossroads. Karthmin and I proposed two alternate endings at the end of the doc. (His is in bold, and mine is in the comments.) We have the potential to be done writing by tonight, which would be…[Read more]

I’m back! *bows as confetti rains from the sky* And… we are a wee bit behind schedule. Ideally, we would be finished writing tomorrow, but we currently only have either 164 words of basic set-up or 1200 words of less basic set-up, depending on if we want to cut out most of that set up as some people planned. The deadline is Sunday night.

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HOWARD SHORE AND JOHN POWELL!!!!!!!!!! Love those guys!!!!!!!!! *Shivers*

Yes, I agree. I have a ton of music that just “fits” certain scenes. Thy Will is one that for some reason has been helpful to me, and a few instrumental songs from Transiberian Orchestra.

For fantasy I generally use Howard Shore, John Powell, Narnia…[Read more]

@catwing I genuinely enjoyed reading that. Your imagination is one of a kind. XD

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Well, it really seemed like that question was a bit of a hit, so I’ll keep hitting on something that a lot of us brought up in our answers to last week’s question:

What is the craziest dream you have ever had?

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@the-inkspiller Jumping in on this conversation without having yet read the story, I will say that I have run into the same issue of changing canon after the fact with my short story Endbringer. The way it is published now, it’s basically a bare-bones myth that pales in comparison to the context and bigness of the world that has grown up around it.

@the-inkspiller Ah that makes a lot of sense.

1. I’ve had to deal with that problem recently- I published a short story in a contest then decided to expand it to a novel. My novel’s canon is very different from the short story’s canon. It depends on whether you are comfortable having published versions of your own alternate canon floating around…[Read more]

@devastate-lasting  Awesome! That’s so great. 🙂

@karthmin Yeah… I know what it’s like to have a week like that.  Maybe try again this week, huh? 😉

How did everyone else’s goals go? I think mine went… okay… I got most of them done, anyway.  And I felt like I was pretty productive this week in general, so that satisfies me. 🙂

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@the-inkspiller I’ll try to get to your story this coming week 🙂

Hello 🙂 Thought I’d add my own two cents to this question.

First off, MASSIVE question and I don’t think anyone can really understand all these nuances properly.

As @princess-foo and @the-inkspiller have said, marriage is meant to be an image of Christ and His Church and His utmost devotion to her.

I think God, in His omnipotence, knows who we…[Read more]

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Welcome to this thread on all things historical.

Just know that somewhere out there, there is someone whose job is to scoop up and collect nightingale poop. 😛

It is time to draw our swords/pens and begin battle in earnest! We are ready to start writing! Thank you 3000 to everyone who offered to write—I was worried that @karthmin would be writing it himself, but several people have volunteered to help. Thank you! That said, if you haven’t yet volunteered to write but want to, or find yourself with a s…[Read more]

@h-jones This is a really loaded question. I think I have some answers, but I’m not sure they are adequate to cover “the mysteries of love”.

First, as @the-inkspiller said, marriage specifically is a reflection of Christ and the church. Ephesians 5:22-33 says, “Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband…[Read more]

We got a lot done on chat last night. We worked out the style, tone and problem of our story. To sum it all up:  The story will be told like it is a video game, although the fact that it is a game is not directly mentioned.

Ready? Let’s begin.

<You approach the testing chamber. [Description placeholder because it will take me too long to come up…

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Oi. Thanks for the reminder, @catwing!

So, first off, I think I’ll post the link to the google doc every week, so it’s really easy to access and fresh in people’s memories. (The google doc for asking questions, that is.)

But until I get more questions in there, I’ll keep asking you guys a question each week.

How vivid is your imagination? 

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@the-inkspiller I think one of the most important things you can do to make sure your readers don’t feel like your character arcs all follow the same formula is to, well, make sure they don’t all follow the same formula. XD But even if you have a large number of main characters become redeemed, I think one way that you can make this profound and…[Read more]