@noah-cochran

Thank-you! I would really appreciate any help you can give. 🙂

Ideally, I would like to write a completed novel with 50,000 words, but I’m not sure that is going to be feasible. The goal that’s most important to me right now is getting in the habit of consistently setting aside time to write/hitting a consistent word count each…[Read more]

@arindown

Okay here comes the actual infodump XD

Let me count my villains… I’m skipping the regular antagonists who are just doing their job and get in the way XD (Also gonna leave out one or two minor villains because they’re major spoilers XD)

Okay, here’s the big three!

Aydin

Is he a villain? Is he a hero? Who knows, he sure doesn’t.…[Read more]

@arindown

Hey Arindown! It’s awesome to see you around again! How have you been? How is writing? Characters behaving? What are you writing currently?

Ooohhh YES permission to infodump!! I love nothing more!

First of all @calidris it was so cool seeing Sebastian’s character all put together! I still love him, even though he’s horrid and evil…[Read more]

@arindown

Hey Gracie, saw my tag and figured I should drop by.

I’m currently plotting three series in my head at once right now (probably not a wise thing to do) but those antagonists aren’t developed as much, so I’ll talk about my current WIP. I love central villains, but I also love antagonists that are morally gray in that they are…[Read more]

@arindown ooh thanks for the tag!

Well, tbh my villains are so far really underdeveloped, but I do have quite a few concepts I want to develop:

1. One of my characters, Basil, is a prototype super-soldier who was raised in a lab.  So, obviously we have a very cold and inhumane environment here, but the lab staff always really fascinated me.  O…[Read more]

@arindown

Nah you’re good lol

Ok thank you, I’ll definitely look him up.

Yeah I’d agree there. That is what I was thinking of doing , stuff like ‘He swore viciously’

Yeah…the MC is not a cold blooded killer, but one of his Squadmates (who is an important figure) is. Jackson is more like ‘I do it because I have to’

btw here is a very long…[Read more]

The words of @arindown serve as a sufficient stand-in for my own on this subject.

I like the conversation and the premise of objecting to overbearing writing advice; but at the same time, most writing dogma comes from a place of near-universal applicability and shouldn’t be thrown out with the bathwater it has steeped in.

Write, read,…[Read more]

Sooo… I actually replied earlier but the internet gremlins devoured it again XD

@sparrowhawke

It was really cool to hear your opinions on those books! I actually haven’t read any of them, but I want to read Oliver Twist sometime!

@arindown

I haven’t been reading too much lately, unless you count school textbooks. I’ve learned a ton from my…

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@arindown Me too!  Or rather, I was in the middle of a lotr reread and then I got distracted lol.  Who is your favorite character?

I did see it!  I really, really love your charcoal work, especially the animal portraits 🙂

I think that I like stylized art.  I don’t do well with photo realism, and personally I think that it’s kind of… I don…[Read more]

@arindown

I have not read anything by that author,  I’ll check him out. 🙂

@rose-colored-fancy @irishcelticredflowercrown  @noah-cochran  @sparrowhawke  @arindown

I totally agree with all of you! This was a great topic idea, Rose! I don’t think I’ve read any of these books y’all have mentioned (except LOTR), but I sure know which ones to avoid now! XD

I haven’t really done a whole lot of reading lately since life dec…[Read more]

@arindown

Hi!

If you had to go on an adventure with one character from each series, who would you bring?

Umm… Probably Janner and Picket… What can I say? *shrugs* I have a talent for picking the main male character as my favorite. 🙂 We’d probably get in a lot of trouble though…

Who cried at the end of both series?

I cried at the end of…[Read more]