@rae

@abrielle

@e-n-leonard

@lady-grace

@inkhorn

@wingiby-iggiby

@mischievous-thwapling

@millennium

@rusted-knight

@jasmine

@backwardslivewriter

@joelle-stone

@rose-colored-fancy

@littlewolf

@sparrowhawke

@anne_the_noob14

@noah-cochran

@irishcelticredflowercrown

@denali-christianson

@emily-waldorf

@mamaauthoress

@jar…[Read more]

(5 hours later after the battle of the dust bunnies has been won)

*organizes papers and letters and collapses into chair, wondering if anyone will show up*

@mischievous-thwapling

@wingiby-iggiby

@denali-christianson

@joelle-stone

@kylie-wingfeather

Hello everybody

I was just wandering if…[Read more]

HIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You’re alive too!!!!

@mischievous-thwapling

@wingiby-iggiby

@jasmine

@denali-christianson

@joelle-stone

So, what now?

thanks.  that’s encouraging.

aw, thank…[Read more]

I have found…*gasps* a language room?! I might have babbled incoherently about grammar structure when I found this place 😂. I think the phrase is “geek out”? If so, that’s what I’m going to do.

I’ve been working on a language for about ten years, but it’s been really getting refined in this past year or so. Thing is, I’m the only one who’s s…[Read more]

I’d just have to call it “hard-cased heartburn”…😉

😂

I HAVE NEVER MET YOU *bowls you over with a hug* WELCOME TO THE FORUM!!!!!!!! Tell me about yourself!!!! XD

*squeezes the breath out of you* your picture is Éowyn!! Hi!!! Yep, I joined recently.
I’m the Éowyn of this earth in personal…[Read more]

It’s not a hard line for me, but there are a few things I like to take into consideration:

1. Is the author a believer?

I’m much more likely to read a book with magic in it if the author is a believer and is…[Read more]

Would fire breathing turtles be classified as dragons, turtles, or something else? If the turtle is a dragon, and dragons aren’t turtles, could I still call it a fire breathing turtle or would it be a shelled dragon?

On a more serious note, do y’all understand villains better if y…[Read more]

@e-n-leonard

@inkhorn

@jared-williams

@calidris

@denali-christianson

and blog inspiration:

@joelle-stone

Here’s a character castle run-down:

This is where your characters get to interact with others’. You can flex your character by pushing them out of (or into!) their comfort zone, interacting with them outside of the context of your novel, or experimenting with aspects of them that you never see.

The castle itself is just a…[Read more]

@irishcelticredflowercrown

@rose-colored-fancy

@mwcoutugmail-com

@ebyountsgmail-com

@denali-christianson

@embers

@mammaauthoress

@joelle-stone

@erynne

@this-is-not-an-alien

@crazy-writer

@r-m-archer

@james-noller

No noise whatsoever, except the sound of his own footsteps. He paused.  Not natural.

He closed his eyes, trying to erase the life of a duke from his mind. Then he opened them slowly and started forward again, noiseless even though he wore hard-soled shoes. But still he grimaced at the little crunching sounds of gravel beneath his…[Read more]

https://worldofkaphar.weebly.com/aefflaeds-weakness.html

(pictures and descriptions in link)

Aefflaed’s Weakness: A Love Story

This touching story began as a short story and quickly evolved into an epic. (well, a short novel, but still an epic story….if I can toot my own horn a bit. )

In my previous WIP, The Adventures of the Last Aygiff,…[Read more]

and…

haha. this made me laugh for some reason. Poor Halmar, doesn’t know Abirami’s ability yet… lol.

But great job writing! It took me by surprise. Didn’t expect that…

Ku’Aya

I…[Read more]

You were not kidding when you said that Mori was a straight up villain. Two seconds in the castle and he’s already pulling knives on people!

ANOTHER WONDERFUL LORD OF THE RINGS QUOTE! (Any quote with the word “vittles” in it is awesome)

@rose-colored-fancy

LOL, I didn’t expect Hal to start acting like the responsible e…

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that was awesome. =) I like your characters.  I will write Ku’s dream later, but just a short fun ditty in response to Mori. ;p

Abirami

So bored.

I was lying on my back again, waiting for Ku to wake up. A while ago, Enydd had woken up and walked around a bit, asked me what next, but she had gone off somewhere…[Read more]

DENALI YOU’RE BACKKKK!!!!!! I MISSED YOU AND I MISSED NIAROK!!!!!

@inkhorn

pulled Liorah and Aydin out and put Mejt (May-eet) and her older brother, Halmar (did I get his name right?) They’re both around twenty.

Yep, accurate! Halmar is twenty, Mejt is eighteen!

and has a terrible habit of making wry comments about the w…

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lol.

Aaawwww. Sweet and awesome =)

It’s really true, though. So much of his character is him chasing after the image of his father and trying to…[Read more]

I was just scrolling through Tolkien quotes when I came up on this one. Some of my other favorite Tolkien quotes include, “Fly you fools!” and “You shall not pass!” (Huh, all my favorite quotes seem to come from Gandalf XD)

My post picks up right after the man says, “Rest easy, my children.”

ENYDD

I wanted to cry. Not from…[Read more]

yes! That’s correct! heat. =) my students usually take about three weeks to get that one. lol.

Hot air rises, but the higher into the atmosphere you go, the colder it gets. Things move by kinetic energy, which is a form of heat energy, and heat is literally the molecules moving at a faster pace, meaning that heat can literally never…[Read more]

Yet another maybe brilliant maybe not so brilliant guess to your riddle was given to me. Is the answer heat?

@denali-christianson

has a terrible habit of making wry comments about the weather.

That is such a random quirk! I LOVE it!

WELCOME BACK! And YES, throw Niarok back in. The new characters are:

@emma-walker ‘s Isella who is a compassionate and brave princess and has a connection to time. She is sometimes able to control time itself, but it exhausts her. I believe she’s twenty-ish (emily-waldorf ?)

I pulled Khalon out and dropped Enydd in. She…[Read more]

Hi! I’m Jared, currently writing a fantasy romance novel. However, my characters come from a YA fantasy series I’m working on (which the fantasy romance is a prequel to).

I don’t play by the normal fantasy magic/race tropes but come up with all original magic systems (called essence) and races (about 12 different original…[Read more]

@denali-Christianson

anybody home?

Nithel’s jaw set, and he nodded. He put his arm around Alessio, under the youth’s arms. He stared at the lowered head, the pain aching in this youth. He had to resist the urge to kiss him, and looked around the room. It would probably be easier to put Alessio over his back, but it would probabl…[Read more]

And he was bordering panic thinking about it, he couldn’t come up with a contingency for it. There wasn’t any controlling the situation or coming up with a plan. He just. couldn’t.

It was all just a haze of pain, numb and breaking into his marrow. It was like bo…[Read more]

Me and my class are going to  battle a court case (not real) against another class in front of a judge. My role is the Closing Prosecution Attorney. It’s really fun!

@mischievous-thwapling

@wingiby-iggiby

@jasmine

@denali-christianson

@joelle-stone

Sorry I haven’t been on lately! Does anyone have ideas for what’s next?

~Kylie

Heheh…

😅

Get a grip,

Alessio didn’t have any energy to react at all, but the world didn’t stop just because he had. He knew they had to get moving, he had to come up with a plan, that was the only way to survive…

It wouldn’t happen. His brain couldn’t process anything else.

He felt himself pressed tighter, enclosed in warmth li…[Read more]

Alessio squeezes his eyes shut, trying to block out the words. He’d always taken the responsibility like that, as if it was his fault whenever someone hurt him. Nithel didn’t deserve any of this. What if Alessio was just as abusive as his family, inadvertent or not?

They called people with special powers aber…[Read more]

There weren’t any windows, and it was dark and trapped. He knew he recognized the voice, but he didn’t have time to think. It always smelled like urine, or something sick that you could never forget. He’d die before he let them drag him back there.

Someone grabbed his hand and Alessio jerked back against the wall.

“Let me go!” H…[Read more]

Histories of bloodshed and violence could not sum up against the antipathy channelled in this single reciprocated glare.

The background noise lowered to a hum, drowned in the ocean of hatred that crashed…[Read more]

I’ll say Mejt. She seems like an intriguing character (and she’s got a cool name)

Awesome! I’m leaning toward her too, just because I’ll be writing her story first (probably)

@denali-christianson

Ha! Soooo I neglected to mention this, but I’m going to be fasting tech for Lent, which means I’m not going to be on SE at all…

Okay! Have a go…[Read more]

YOU KILLED YILA?! Is she going to pull a Qatar (I will forever use that term) or is she truly dead? Either way, POOR NIAROK!

@rose-colored-fancy

You were not kidding when you said that we would loathe Chantara. I have only read two pages concerning her, and she’s already made me want to yell at her (I’m not physically…[Read more]

Here’s the link for anyone…[Read more]

WHYYYYYYYY THIS IS AWFUL TIMING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHH I’M GOING TO M U R D E R H E R R I G H T N O W

Why are you hurting my sweet cinnamon roll? ROSE!!!!! Aydin’s been through so much already WHYYYYYYYY

*pointedly ignores the fact that I just murdered my character*

*Evil laughter*

REVENGE IS MINEEEE!!!!! Don’t wor…[Read more]

Okay WHAAATTTTT?!!!!!

Did Yila just die??? Please clarify😭😭😭

With a roar the dragon woke, demanding who had disturbed it.  Quin shrank from the heat, a flashback pushing at the back of his brain.

“Qatar,” he spoke through a fog. “Do you have a–knife? Anything?”

His brother looked down at him, the small knife the Castle had given them in his hand. “It won’t do much against that.” he nodded at…[Read more]

WHY DID YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT WORSE?????? I’M ALREADY GRIEVING HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME EVEN MORE SADDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also… sorry. No Qatar treatment… Yila’s gone…

I’M SORRYYYYY!!!!! I COULDN’T HELP IT!!!!!!!!

*Sobs in distance*

@calidris

Tell me if you ever need someone to punch Dr Corvo. I volunteer 😀

Also how d a r e y…[Read more]

*Somewhat hysterical sobbing*

WHHHHYYYYY!!!!????? NOOOO 😭😭😭

I’M BEGGING YOU GIVE HER THE QATAR TREATMENT I CANNOT BEAR THIS!!!!!

Also I’m joining y’all with the dying thing, I want lilies of the valley *Collapses and keeps crying*

@calidris

BASIL SWEETHEART!!!! Awww, you’re making him miserable and that’s making me…[Read more]

Aww thanks!  It took so long, but I’m very, very pleased with how it turned out!  It definitely pushed me, but in…[Read more]

Poor Niarok, who tried so desperately hard to protect her, to restrain her.  It’s absolutely horrific and it’s very, very good

I’m not going to sa…[Read more]

I’m going to go ahead and pretend Basil and Saskia are up to date with the events lol.  Also, I’m officially removing Sasha.  He’s so annoying and toxic and emotionally exhausting to write that I actually removed him from the story altogether.  I’m pretty sure he won’t be missed lol

Also, Basil and Saskia ha…[Read more]