Beth Darlene

Thank you for the recommendations, everyone! 🙂

@r-m-archer

I love The Space Trilogy! I also read the first two books of the Wingfeather Saga, but not the other two, so thanks for the reminder to finish the series! 🙂

@taylorclogston

I’m actually reading the old Thrawn trilogy now! I’m partway through the final book and have really enjoyed…[Read more]

And.. I have a bit of time so I can write another bit for Acyn and Sahar.

Acyn

Niarok, Lorcan, Quin and the other man with the long dark hair had disappeared into a far tunnel and it was getting colder fast.

I didn’t even think about following the advice to get close and wait to freeze to death.

I shivered and hurried along the walls, looking…[Read more]

@denali-christianson

I’M ALL FOR THE BETA-READS BRING THEM ON!!!!!!!!!!!

Yayy!!! *Puts you on the list for a future draft*

@calidris

What’s the current character limit in here?  I have a couple of characters I want to develop more, but I’m not ready to pull Misu out quite yet…

It’s cool! I don’t know how many characters we’re at but I don’t ca…[Read more]

“…traumatically horrific-existential-crisis-in-a-box with a side of a malevolent menagerie?”

Peace settled over Jericho.  Peace she’d not had in a long time.  With a faint smile she began to fade away, gently laying a hand on Alessio’s shoulder to assuage as much of his anxiety as she could before she vanished.  And then she was gone.…[Read more]

Alessio was so. Done. With this.
And now the new girl had decided to be threatening and rude. Buuut. She was still on the other side of the cage.
“Get your weapon, Dom,” She snapped at–apparently–Dom, and they drew swords, naturally. So Alessio kinda sardonically backed a reasonable distance from the cage with the keys still in hand. Nithel would’v…[Read more]

@skylarynn

Ack! My bad *facepalms on desk which is conveniently in front of my face enough I can tell it’s a desk 😂😂*

@sparrowhawke –

I loved that poem very much! It does need some polishing up, as all our work does, but it also resounded with me deeply. I have a fear of people not liking me, so I oftentimes don’t say what I want to say because I’m worried something will go wrong and I’ll spoil a friendship. I’m always telling myself ‘one day I’ll be bold, one…[Read more]

Exhibit A of Bren’s light hair and eyes:

@this-is-not-an-alien

Brendin has a kinda rugged appearance and dark hair and brown eyes that turn gold when his power is activated and Jericho dresses kinda like a female Obi-Wan and has brown hair and dark eyes,

Where are you getting all the dark hair and dark eyes from!?  Brendin has very pale strawberry-blonde/red hair and pale grey-blue eyes…[Read more]

@sir-leeds

“Boo Radley”–that was really good! I loved the imagery! I agree with Anne on a favorite line–that whole stanza was my favorite actually.

@emily-waldorf

I loved the idea of “watching the rain”. It seems to evoke an idea of patience and perseverance through a trial rather than “oh please help i don’t like this it hurts please save me…[Read more]

Hi @emily-waldorf , I’m thankful we can all continue this conversation, even amidst the strong opinions. I think your idea about the heart and soul of poetry would line up well with John Keats: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” (from the last lines of “Ode on a Grecian Urn”).

Now I don’t n…[Read more]

Evie stared in horror at the dude who was literally about to let the wolf out.

Why? Why would he do this???

Evie snapped her knives back into their sheaths and drew her sword, wishing for perhaps the first time in her life that she could actually shoot a bow – and that she had one with her.

No matter.

She’d take the wolf out on her steel…[Read more]

You did great Denali!!

Oh, and now I have to remember what Malvat looks like. Whelp, in dragon form he’s HUGE (like Smaug size), with ebony scales, silver horns like a crown on his head, and silver eyes. His wings are both black, but his talons are silver. In human form, he kinda looks like Thranduil from the hobbit with his same dragon horns,…[Read more]

Oh thank you!! 😂❤️At the end of it I was kinda like “dang all our characters actually did all that here, huh…”

Oh that’ll be fun!! (*assuming Alessio ever works up the nerve to actually say more than two words to Bren…*) Bren’s been a really interesting character to read about!!!
Oooh bring him in!!!!!

Ahhh see all our characters…[Read more]

Lupa shrugged her front biceps not at all reassuringly, but she then seemed to get some sort of confirmation from the wolf before she nodded to him and motioned insistently at the keys. Alessio let out a low measured breath. Normally he’d be able to tell whether someone was lying or not, but reading the emotional subtext of animal’s bod…[Read more]

@denali-christiansen

YES! I think I know what you’re talking about! Which was your favorite level? I got all choked up coming onto the Ark, too. It was so unreal, and so amazing and awesome! I think it should make it into a 7 Wonders of the Modern world list.

@rose-colored-fancy

That sounds like a good idea for Acyn. 🙂 Thanks for the info on…[Read more]

Lupa shrugged at Alessio as much as a wolf could and glanced at the giant wolf who huffed, reluctantly agreeing not to eat anyone.

Turning back to Alessio, Lupa nodded and pointed her muzzle back to the keys.

@this-is-not-an-alien

@emily-waldorf lol Misu’s had too deal with all sorts of people so I think he’ll be fine!  I’m really looking forward to these interactions too, but fair warning – I don’t know how much longer he’s going to be in here 🙁  I have some other characters that I’m wanting to develop, but I don’t plan on pulling him out anytime soon, so we’re good for n…[Read more]

@sir-leeds and @anne-of-lothlorian

After reading my post above I don’t entirely agree with everything I said. You see, I think I have what could be called “sophomore syndrome” and “foot-in-mouth disease”: I have strong opinions that I don’t necessarily pause to think long about before I express them (strongly), and have a tendency to think I know…[Read more]

Anne, I really liked Midnight Thoughts. It was very dreamy and full of a pleasing sort of fancy; I like how you explored the different sorts of thoughts that cross your path, say, at midnight.

Cainon, I was so enthralled with the idea of your poem, Boo Radley! The picture of poems “spreading their wings” and doing without you and that of some…[Read more]