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]

https://silverpenstrokes.wordpress.com/ my new blog!!!

Check it out and consider subscribing, because there’s a great new post coming out tomorrow (I post once a month for now)

I’m just gonna tag a few people I know and those who have been active on this…[Read more]

*smoothly swipes the Starbucks and gulps it down*

*smirks angelically*

OK!!!!

Soooo

First, Kimmi!!! @kimlikesart, my angel my Heart my soul!! It was her birthday a couple weeks ago!!!! She has a newsletter too!!! She’s so amazing I could go on and on and on an–*bites lip* *for now*

She’s a nondenominational Christian and likes art, his…[Read more]

@erynne if you want to do it don’t read the answers lol 😂

oooh she’s pretty! sorry I haven’t been on in a while

Thankssss

1) Name: Angelica or something elegant sounding

It’s Isolde Coleden.

2) Age: late teens, early twenties

Yeah…. So uh math, I have to make…[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

soooooo yeah.
i don’t know much about her yet, so…. Yeah…

OH SNAP I REMEMBERED SOMETHING

XD it’s okay I’ll do math and calculate her age later.

anywhooooo

Here she is!!!

Hi, Erynne! Been busy this week and haven’t been on the forum.

I’m happy you’re starting writing while you’re still young. Still in high school, huh?! So happy that is many years behind me. It wasn’t a great experience. I am grateful for all my experiences, though, for they’ve made me the person I am today. Far from perfect, but most…[Read more]

Would not allowing me to tap to Believer at midnight be a sense of pride? 🤔

No. It is called keeping a decent sleeping schedule. Which is taking care of myself. Which is loving myself – which is something Jesus commanded (love thy neighbor as thyself).

For Pete’s sake! I have to get up at 4:00 am!

Which is for my job – I work in the…[Read more]

Yo as someone who is also working on like three things at a time, pft, you can do it. Can I hear about the dystopian?

Aww, thanks. 🙂 I feel sorta like it really is a family now (@obrian-of-the-surface-world) with you guys telling me not to go. Haha

Lol, I love how you say ‘writing life’ and ‘life life’, because I totally know what you mean. 😉 They’re sorta separate worlds for me too, haha.

But ya, I was just gonna leave because of the reasons I gave…[Read more]

Call center work is sooo under rated. XD It has been eating all my creative energy trying to solve other peoples’ near impossible problems. I also had some writer block as I needed to rethink my story’s 1st act. I was forcing myself to cram in too many characters and worldbuilding details. I finally think I am onto something now as it…[Read more]

My other main WIP I’m focusing on is a sci-fi retelling of the prodigal son and Cain and Abel! What about yours?

Yeah, finals start this week for me, but since I have so few of them that means I have a lot of spare time to write, surprisingly. So I’m hoping to get a lot done. Even though I’ve been super duper busy I’ve been trying to…[Read more]

So she believes she’s saved and she comes off as a “Christian” to most, but she isn’t actually saved. Does that sound better, Professor?

What I was referencing was the possible theological/biblical inaccuracy of the statement. I assume you’re now saying that she thought that accepting Jesus saved her (Armenian belief) but that that was fal…[Read more]

However, it is shown as a flaw.

That’s sounds pretty good.

Truth be told, she is not actually saved for about half the book, she’s just able to fool people, including herself.

I’m not sure that’s how it works, but I won’t start my theology talk again. 🙂

I did stay up incredibly late last night and wrote 3,000 words.

Great job! Keep that up!

Oh yeah, I do that with looming (aka loom knitting)

Once you figure out a system and know exactly what you have to watch yourself doing, it’s pretty easy. Then of course you think “wow I am so good at this” and try to do one or two without looking at it and end up with a complete disaster. That’s always fun 🙂

Ohh, that’s so cool! Yesss,…[Read more]

@erynne

As you both may know, my sister, Cathy, created an abomination known as Lord Castle in the original Character Castle. She asked me if we could bring Lord Castle into the chaos, to which I said I would bring a similar character. Here’s what that character has announced recently.

Dear characters, 
I have seen the darkness…[Read more]

Have you two heard what happened at Character Castle 2.5?

I HAVE NOT HAD A TEST IN uhh, 3rd grade….minus seven… twenty- nineteen…. carry the two…multiply by twelve… five, six. SIX YEARS SINCE I’VE HAD A TEST!!! NOTHING! I WAS THE WEIRDO WHO ENJOYED THAT STUFF IN PUBLIC SCHOOL, THEN I GET PULLED OUT TO NEVER BE SEEN AGAIN!

Luckily I get them back next year! 🙂

Look, tests are fun in elementary…[Read more]

How exactly is that crazy?

Music and youtube at once = crazy.

NO NO NO!!! NOAH COCHRAN, YOU LEAVE THOSE VIDEOS RIGHT WHERE THEY ARE!!! IF YOU TOUCH THEM I WILL DRIVE TO COLUMBIA AND SLAP YOU! AND I ONLY LIVE THREE HOURS AWASO THAT’S NOT EVEN THAT OUTRAGEOUS SOUNDING!

🙃🙃🙃Too late.🙃🙃🙃They’re all gone.🙃🙃🙃

However, I do plan on putting out a…[Read more]

Do you want to know what excessive boredom is?

I haven’t experience that in ages. Too busy.

Getting so bored I turn on one of you videos. That is like a new record of boredom.

You’ve gotta be more than bored to watch that rubbish.

 book reviews through one ear (cuz my earbuds broke) and rock music through the other (cuz my mom has the…

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I’ve been working a new job that’s been zapping my energy, lol. It’s not bad work–I groom horses and do some maintenance stuff on an equine farm–but it is pretty draining. On the other hand, having a lot of my time taken up has pushed me to make better use of the time I have left over and I’ve been able to get some platform-building…[Read more]

Adobe Illustrator for the art,  Adobe After Effects for the animations, and Adobe Premiere (or its free counterpart Davinci Resolve 17) for final content arranging and rendering. Have you worked with Adobe much? I know Photoshop is the favorite for many, but I personally prefer Illustrator for art.

Ohhh, that’s awesome! What kind of…[Read more]

A random aside, horses love the taste of beer, as it essentially resembles pre-digested barley / wheat / hops, their preferred feedstock. Horses also have an extremely high alcohol tolerance, even accounting for their comparative size (3-8x the weight of an adult male human), as their gastrointestinal tract is specialized in digesting…[Read more]

@the-inkspiller I agree, talking about difficulties in life can be as strong as the initial step taken to work past said difficulties. I do the same with mental…[Read more]

1. Warmed Up- After maybe one drink (assuming tolerance is decent) not a lot of difference will be felt, maybe a little more talkative.…[Read more]

So, what have we been up to?

Yeah, finals. *Weeps*

I hit the worst writing block I’ve ever had a while ago. Writing felt less like something I did for fun and more like an extremely unpleasant chore, so I didn’t write a word for a week, and finally did all the non-writing things I’d been neglecting. It’s helped a lot, I just started…[Read more]

To write, I throw in a little of this and a little of that, a tanker of chaos, and see what I get.

Writing was a big part of my school, mainly essays and paragraphs. Fantasy is a good genre, because nothing has to be accurate.

As for my sister, have you heard of The Sound of Music? If not, check out this link…[Read more]

I’M SO SO PROUD OF YOU I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU’RE WRITING YOU’RE QUOTES ARE ALWAYS SO BEAUTIFUL YOU HAVE GOT TO TRY ONE OF THE CHARACTER CASTLES!!!!!!!!!!! YOU’RE GONNA TOTALLY ROCK THIS!!!! *😈bowls over with…[Read more]

So, it’s been a while since I drank – I quit a couple months ago, as alcohol was just making me depressed, less productive, and draining my wallet – I had stopped drinking for fun, and had by that point just been drinking as a crutch for mental pain. But that’s its own story.

I cannot say I’ve been black out…[Read more]

*stares at picture*

I LOVE IT!!!!! IT’S ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE HOW I IMAGINED HER!!!!!!

*is happy*

Thank you!!!!

1) Name: I’m assuming this is K’Nika?

It is K’Nika Ceubherna yes, but right now she is living as Annika Black.

2) Age: maybe 20 here

Yeah, around in there. College student.

3) Career/Role in Story: Side character

One of the MCs actually.

You see she’s a scientist at heart, and created this doorway that connects my fantasy world t…[Read more]

(I’ve already done her younger faceclaim, but this is an older version of her after certain things happen…)

hehe

It’s a joke.

I’m kidding.

Mostly. 😉

Anyways, to the point. Character voice makes everything from dialogue to normal scenery descriptions pop off the page, but, for me at least, it is a very difficult…[Read more]

Lolol you should become an astronaut

You know that was once a dream of mine, until I realised that numbers and mathematics was not compatible with me…

@everyone so sent my first newsletter there, I would really love some feedback on where I should improve or where I went wrong if anything 🙂 I hardly know what I’m doing haha

Hi Erynne!
I hope you are feeling better.  I am so sorry you were sick.
Is your brother extorting money from you? 😁
I’d pay him in Monopoly money and tell him to invest in bitcoin.  Sounds like he might be a stock trader when he grows up.  Did you ever see the e-Trade baby commercial on TV?
Let me know if the Voice app works for yo…[Read more]

Just gonna drop in here… It’s not like I’ve been stalking this conversation since day one

Should I be worried hmmmm???😂

I guess my brain works different than everyone else’s. I’ve always pronounced your name like Ne-as-a

*gasp* you MONSTER!!!😨😤 heehee that’s one of the better pronunciations🤣

I like Ness-a the best though!

I do too haha,…[Read more]

Is this the same newsletter I’m already subscribed to or a different one? I just don’t want to double-subscribe XD

I consider the defining features of a vast amount of dystopian novels to be what I call the Big Three:

• An oppressive and autocratic government that is usually lying to its people…

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17) Dreams and Aspirations: to be king over a good Empire

Yeah, he wants to help, but some laws cannot be changed. He wants peace, and no rebellion and he wants Pia happy.

18) Darkest Secret: ohh… he, uh, hm… knows his father’s plan?

He plays the piano. XD (this is scene as like a girl thing, most music, and he’s like this tough p…[Read more]

9) Character’s fatal flaw: he can be rude sometimes

Lol or the anger issue

10) Phrase that this character is likely to say: “I just can’t wait to be king!”

Actually I think he half loathes it. He wishes Pia could tule since she is technically the older twin, but as she said, girls are just overlooked.

11) Character’s favorite…[Read more]

@erynne

Ok! (I’ll probably spell a lot of this wrong but you know what i mean XD)

Lol yup

1) Name: just a guess…Weinik?

Yeppppp

2) Age: He looks almost thirty in the pic, but I’m guessing based on information I totally don’t have he’s in his early twenties?

He’s…. How old is Pia? N…[Read more]

Erynne,

How’s your recording coming?

Were you able to find the one that works for you?

I use the Vocal Recorder Pro to record my vocal track and then I export it (the resulting mp3 file) to my One Drive.

From there, I open the file up in Audacity and edit it.

In Audacity, I amplify the audio and cut the parts where I stumbled in…[Read more]

GIRL.

I. LOVE. IT.

I MUST READ MORE

@obrian-of-the-surface-world

Wow. Remind me what app you use to record this!?!?

One thing I did notice was that the “its” in this sentence should be “her”

bride extending its fingers

You seem to enjoy descriptions (all of which are gorgeous, BTW!!!!!!!), but remember that descriptions can take out…[Read more]

Sword and Scrawls will be a monthly newsletter mainly focused on writing, with some bonus lore and updates from my projects. So far the plan is that each…[Read more]