Emma Walker

I’m honestly someone who is fascinated by the amount of detail evidenced in LOTR. I do aspire to learn what I can from Tolkien, and have been intrigued by the making of languages, and want to do so for my book, as shown in my philology page.

Honestly I see the benefits of both, but I think, especially nowadays, it is better for Christian a…[Read more]

@crazywriter

Yeah. To quote this awesome bumper sticker that I’m putting on my car once I get one, “easily offended people offend me.” XD I’m like, can I have an opinion please? Or does my opinion disagreeing with yours somehow harm you physically?

Anyways, our culture annoys me sometimes if you can’t tell. 😀

@denali-Christianson

I definitely feel you there. A lot of people can get offended by things easily, so while I try to be considerate it’s nice to be with more understanding souls

@crazywriter

Oh this is interesting. I’m going to have to think about it. I mean, I’d say there’s advantages to both, and personally I support what Tolkien did with his extra extreme detail, but I’ve already written one rant today, so I’ll spare you. 😀 I do have some thoughts though. I’d love to hear yours too!

Alright here’s one. What is the advantage of getting super detailed into a book project, like Tolkien, who basically devoted his entire life to one series, as opposed to someone who puts in detail and effort, but not to that umpth degree, and is able to write more books, like CS Lewis did?

@crazywriter

Well now. I did not expect that reaction. Glad to impress you! XD

@denali-Christianson

Wow. Like really all I have to say. Wow.

That argument was much better built than my own.

Again, one more time I say, Wow.

Ditto. What she said.

@r-m-archer, @crazywriter

Oh, these are awesome topics! I’m excited…

Okay, so to begin, I’m going to add my own to cents to this argument. @crazywriter, I agree with what you’ve said so far. (some debate this makes lol)

I think that cussing in books by the worldly standard, i.e. by using known expletives that I will not name because I’m a…[Read more]

@mamaauthoress

(Now I’m doing it again … when I have no clue what to do with my characters, I guess I just slap on an existential crisis. Huh.)

😀 😀 😀 SAMMMMEEEEEE MY FRIEND. Yila keeps having bizarre emotional crises and I have yet to figure out if that’s her character or my boredom… XD

Niarok

“No,” Niarok said quietly. He’d never met eit…[Read more]

@emily-waldorf

Well, I think he’s less believable, less likeable, and less of a character. So, all around generally worse? LOL. You said something dangerous back there, though; someday I might take you up on your wish to read Quin’s canon story…when I get it done, lol. I’m only 16K into it so far, but, yeah. Have you started Niarok and Yila’s…

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“No.”

The word was not harsh, nor was it meant to be crushing, but it mercilessly extinguished the hope that had, unbeknownst to him, been flaming in Rúan’s chest.

He nearly dropped Leaghadh.

Instead, he lowered his sword slowly, keeping his elbow locked at his hip. He tried to suck in deep breaths through his nose, but instead, whirled arou…[Read more]

@emily-waldorf

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO you should copy-and-paste every so often, so at least some of it is on your clip-board.

See, I always do that when I’m writing actual character entries cuz I’ve lost too many sweet moments between characters and been unable to recapture them. But I never do that when I’m just talking. And then of…[Read more]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO you should copy-and-paste every so often, so at least some of it is on your clip-board. 🙂

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Niarok was standing in front of him, holding a bundle of dry clothes. He looked at them for a minute, wishing he didn’t have to take them. He reached out and his hands closed on the coarse cloth. His fingers felt warmer, just touching it.

He strode past Niarok into the shadows and pulled the tunic over his head. It felt strange, compared…[Read more]

@denali-Christianson @joelle-stone

So are y’all pretty busy?

As Niarok approached Ayden, Ruan appeared in the space between them, his sword bared.

He winced from the pain in his calf.

Niarok winced along with him. He really really really didn’t want to give stitches to the man who clearly felt betrayed already. The needle would just seal that for all of them.

“Assassins,” he said. His voice wasn’t accus…[Read more]

(All right, I’m just going to pretend that Rúan had grabbed his sword)

Rúan felt the ground rumble under his feet, and he jumped nearly half an inch off the ground.

Then a voice that seemed to echo in his head and reverberate around the cavernous room declared, “I’ve been thinking about the next challenge, and it occured to me that sever…[Read more]

NOOOO I TRIED TO POST A COMMENT AND SE LITERALLY JUST CRASHED AND SIGNED ME OUT AND THEN I LOST ALL THAT HARD WORKKKKK

Oh well.

Someone remind me to respond later…

(Whoa, I’m so so sorry, I need a minute to read this all)

*screams extremely loudly and collapses to the floor in a fiery heap*

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH @rose-colored-fancy YOU’VE KILLED ME INSIDEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Niarok

Something was coming. He could feel it, but he wasn’t ready to sacrifice this moment yet. He spun around, where his father was standing. The…[Read more]