This might possibly be one of the latest posts I've ever done, but it wouldn't be a Writing Wednesday if I had it scheduled for the next day. Gods, no. All the same, I did just get back and I wanted to enumerate the lovely things I did with my little voldies. Today we decided [...]
On Wednesdays I put my writing cap on. You know, the more age-appropriate one that tries not to curse or come up with morbid ways to end my characters. Nevermind that the eighth graders in my writing workshop are crazier than I am, but you know. Kids. They have the darnedest imaginations. This week, Jacob [...]
I think Lan goes into bouts of inner thoughts more often than Eirika. I suppose that can't be helped, as they are two different viewpoints altogether. All the same, there isn't much action in the first chapter with him, though I suppose with all of the action being packed into Eirika's first chapter, this couldn't [...]
More Lan goodness! His POV is a little different from Eirika's mainly because she's my action girl, and Lan is the type of guy who thinks his feelings through. Here, we see a bit of what drives Lan emotionally--or at least, we get a bit of background to his melancholy. Previous excerpt can be found HERE. [...]
Today my writing voldies explored the nuances of similes and metaphors (which, by the way, can be explained simply by this most righteous music video). To further induct them into figurative language, I gave them examples from the mistress of similes and metaphors: my girl Taylor Swift. You laugh at this. They laughed at this. [...]
