Chalice

Leana winced as he kicked, backing up, and shaking out one of her hands… But three of her fingers still hurt, from bending back when he kicked them.

“What do you care what I do!? Just-get away from me!” Nathair growled, floundering in his corner, as if he wanted to escape, but eventually wrapped his arms around himself. “Leave me alone, you’r…[Read more]

Thank you! Yes, it does seem to be popular. I like your name too!

That sounds like a good plan. Glad to be helpful!

Hey @bookdragon, I think this is one of the most useful discussion threads I’ve ever seen posted on the forum, lol. It’s a really tough and really practical question. I’ve been thinking about it for over a week.

I don’t know that I agree that the obvious solution is to remove the ridiculousness since, like you said, that’s kind of the entire…[Read more]

@sarafini Congratulations on finishing that first book! You mentioned you hope book one is published by the end of summer, so does that mean you’ve already landed a publishing deal and are just waiting on the release date? What has your writing and publishing journey looked like up till this point?

Hi, my name is Sarafini. This looks like the place to introduce characters for the castle. Am I right?

If so, here we go

1st WIP (Sci-fi): The Paradise Lie trilogy (name is in the works)

Summary: 3 teens are sent to a land everyone wants to go to but when a scheme is uncovered the 3 introverts have to jump into action to save the rest of the…[Read more]

Nathair buried himself deeper in his corner, glowering down until he could hear a girl skipping to him. He glared up at her as she dropped in front of him, sparkly eyed. Leana? What did she want? He wanted to kick her before she started making fun of him.

Red flickered in her chest, hungrily, like bait. Then she started…crying. Nathair stared i…[Read more]

Leana, in the corner with Nathair, pulled back just enough to look at Nathair’s face, tears still in her eyes. “You don’t have to stay a snake.”

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Ohel glowered when Alessio tried to shield him from these people and cover his words. If those words were disrespectful, yeah, I meant them. Ohel was about to shove Alessio away but the boy already…[Read more]

“Who are you? What are you?” Demanded a boy and Alessio paled, darting a glance at him as if to say ‘do you want to die!?’ That was…Ohel…wow he looked…different as a kid…

“He meant no disrespect!” Alessio squeaked, thrusting an arm in front of Ohel as if to shield him. Yeeting out the window was looking better and better by the second. He had…[Read more]

I have a September deadline for book 2 so maybe book 1 will be published by the end of Summer (that would be awesome!

@ataralasse

Nice to meet you Abby. Btw, great name! I have 3 friends with that name so it must be popular.

Thanks for the advice. Good to know. I think I’ll wait until book 2 is mostly written just because it’ll help me plan out better the series.

Heyyy Sara!!!! @sarafini

Ok we’re doing a sort of roleplay with our characters to test-run them before we set them loose on our WIPs, it’s a little bit overwhelming and complicated at first but really easy once you get the gist of it!

So Step One: Set up a character bio. We’ve got a separate topic area for talking out roleplay stuff and plotting…[Read more]

Great question!

First off – if the series is episodic (like Nancy Drew or The Hardy Boys), go ahead and publish the first book! Since episodic series are tied together by the same characters or settings, they don’t need to be planned out to the last volume, especially since they are indefinite. They go on until the author is done! The same with…[Read more]

I also have an allegorical fantasy Contemporary story in the works that I’ll add characters from. I need character idea names for the dragon btw.

Hi, my name is Sara. I wrote an intro post. This looks like fun but I have no idea what’s happening. Can you guys summarize and can I join/add my characters. They’re Sci-fi characters but there’s a thin line between Sci-fi and Fantasy so I think they’ll fit in well. If you want to hear more tag me and I’ll share my WIP. You can look at a brief…[Read more]

Wonderful, more people he could torment.

Arsene was about to say something, when Sage walked up to the two new adults.

He looked up at them with the widest of eyes and asked in the tiniest voice, “Do you know where my parents are?”

Arsene could not let him know. Not yet. Not like this. Before either of the new people could say anything, Sage…[Read more]

Leana slowly slipped away from her father, nodding her chin toward the little boy in the corner at Nithel’s worried look. Well, her sort of father.

Nithel looked toward Nathair, recognition dawning. He didn’t want to let her go near him, but… Nathair looked like a lost boy, now. The Star Breather loves him. Perhaps… you were placed here to…[Read more]

Also I meant the 1st book for the 1st time. Sorry if it’s confusing. It’s easier to ask this here instead of KP ’cause most of you are more advanced and older.

<p style=”text-align: left;”>What should I do? What do y’all think?</p>

The room was large and ornate. Not as big as the grand hall but clearly very substantial, the kind you’d expect nobility to possess.

Alessio was looking for a window, and yes! there was one, curtained thickly rushing noises muffled outside. He swung it open with his full force as if to make up for being small and boney. ‘I’ll have that ready…[Read more]