Down the Rabbit Hole

Sorry this is a day late! I was supposed to put this up Monday but I was so busy with an essay I didn't manage it. My posts will become more consistent again starting this week because I finally have my essay and Annotated Bibliography done. Enjoys I hope you like this post. :):):) Every person on this planet that accepts the Lord with all their heart and is a true follower of Him is a soldier. We battle the world daily. Some might be battling peer pressure at school. Having to look just like all the other girls even when those girls are immodest. Or some might be in danger parts of the world professing God's name. Those are all important and crucial. But the truth is everyone has personal battles to face. Some might be visible and others aren't.   God gives His hardest battles to his toughest soldiers. He will give you nothing that you can't handle. God knows you inside and out and trust me I know that there will be those hard times where you want to surrende...

Two Sunday's ago our Sunday school split into groups and each group wrote a short devotional about a particular verse. I would like to share my groups: Scripture: Mark 3:13-21, 31-35   In this scripture, the verses talk about your spiritual family versus your physical family. Verse 35 says, "For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother." This points out that if you have been accepted the Lord as your savior, you are one of his brothers or sisters! Even though you have a family here on earth, they may not always be there, in ministry, for you. Whether or not you are part of a Christian family, your earthly family can get in the way of your spiritual relationship with God. Your spiritual family goes away beyond your physical family.    Biological family is important to most everyone. Family encourages you and is with you all the time. Your family knows you better than anyone. However, have you ever thought of your spiritual family? The ...

A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build up, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, Ecclesiastes 3:2-4 Now this is a little long but so worth sharing. I've been having a pretty bad week filled with anxiety and panic and yesterday I broke down. My dad looked up a few of these verses and was telling me that there is a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to break down and a time to build back up.  God knows that He gave us these emotions and He understands that there will be times when we just need to break down and cry. There will be a time to mourn and a time to have a mental breakdown. But then He gives us a time to laugh, a time to dance and have fun, a time to build up others and yourself. In those moments when your over flowing with laughter, when your with your best friends and on top of the world remember ...

I've been thinking a lot about characters lately if only because of the fact that my characters are being... difficult or maybe I'm just kind of blocked. But I've been asking myself this question: what makes a good protagonist? A good hero or heroine? And how can I develop my characters so that I know them inside out? I compiled a list of what makes a good protagonist. Of course there are always exceptions and rules can always be broken. Especially when it come to us rule breakin' writers who love to shake things up. But here's what I came up with: Strengths: Everyone has their strengths and to tell the truth I sometimes have trouble figuring out the strengths of my characters because I can see strengths as weaknesses. Love can be a weakness if it fits the character. Curiosity can very easily become a weakness if that character is too curious. Curiosity did kill the cat after all. But characters always need at least one strength and they have to show that streng...

William Cloud was nice enough to share his thoughts on what the Superhero genre is. You can find his blog at:   William Cloud's Blog   Okay, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind when I say “superhero”? Probably Captain America, or Superman. According to Merriam-Webster, a superhero is “a fictional character who has amazing powers, or a very heroic person.” So, while Clark Kent and Steve Rogers (whoops, did I just spill someone’s secret identity?) fit that, they ought not determine an author’s idea of a superhero. Today, I am going to talk to you about how to write superheroes. How to create the character, how to have them work within a world, and how their character can develop. I’ll start with creating a character. So, you basically have three things to deal with when you make a superhero: powers, costume, and identity. Now, what sort of powers are we talking about here? This is such a vague term, and can go anywhere from extra-sensory perception to fli...

First I would like to say that I am sorry for the lack of a post yesterday. Sunday we got back from a long weekend trip and then I had to get boring college stuff done before the end of the day so I didn't get much time to get a post ready. But here is a verse that I found on my Bible app that I frequently read because I always have my phone on me. A person may think their own ways are right, but the Lord weighs the heart. Proverbs 21:2 Everyone in this world at some point in their life thinks that they are right. I am guilty of this. Everyone is guilty of this because we are all sinners. We may sometimes get big heads and think we know everything but we need to humble ourselves. The Lord weighs the heart. He knows what is in your heart, mind, and soul. When you think your way is right God may not and He will turn you in a different direction. The best thing to do is to let Him guide you instead of letting yourself guide you in life because God knows your heart even better th...

There are tons of authors who love writing those sweet middle grade books full of twelve year old protagonists growing up. Some Middle Grade books I've read: The Companion Quartet by Julia Golding The Jack Blank series by Matt Myklutch Savvy and Scumble by Ingrid Law The Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan The Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley The Princess for Hire trilogy by Lindsey Leavitt The Keeper of the Lost Cities series by Shannon Messenger A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd As you can see I am a big fan of middle grade books. I can't get enough of them as long as their crafted and written well. What's a well crafted middle grade book? Like all good books they have great plots and wonderful characters. In almost all of the middle grade books I've read the main characters have started off rather innocent and naïve, unsure of the world and where they belong but as the story goes on they discover so much about themsel...