Inkhorn

@noah-cochran he can watch from the sidelines and make sarcastic commentary lol

Although, if he has any sort of weapon he can probably find a way to participate, if he wants 🙂

@rusted-knight

Guns blazing vs aliens? I don’t know if Hugon will be able to participate in this fight. xD

@irishcelticredflowercrown

A lot of people love the language. Funny thing is the only people who dislike it are the actual Irish themselves. Because we have a terrible education system, as kids learn it in school for thirteen years but still come out non-fluent. It’s awful really    Oh cool! What’s Frisian might I ask?

That’s exactly what it’s…[Read more]

@obrian-of-the-surface-world

Brian,

I’m so sorry about your mother, all of you will be in my prayers. <3

Kongar rolled his eyes, throwing up his hands in exasperation.  “I was kidding. Someone’s missing a sense of humor,” he laughed.  The Shrike shrunk back, arms locked around his knees.

“You do know what a joke is, don’t you?” The words sounded distant, and yet they cut painfully close…

The joke wasn’t even that funny.

Chantara snorted.  “You do…[Read more]

Things happened fast. The man called Misu went from trying to find friends to talking about about being something like a prophet. What caught Klein’s attention was his reference to rifts.

The aliens used wormholes ships to move their fleets. Their biological appearance was practically identical to Earth’s population. The big difference was a…[Read more]

@obrian-of-the-surface-world

I’m so sorry, I promise I’ll pray for your mother and for you and all your family. And I can ask my mom to pray for you too, she’s formation director at the lay Carmelite Order so she’ll probably add you to the prayer requests there! I pray things get better for you soon <3 *hugs tightly*

@irishcelticredflowercrown
@rose-colored-fancy
@bclarke
@joelle-stone
@this-is-not-an-alien

Sorry I haven’t responded in the last few days.  Both my parents came down with Covid. My dad is back home and over it, but my mom is in serious condition in ICU on a ventilator, so I am not sure she will make it.  God’s grace is meeting us here, but we a…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

That’s such an awesome title! I love it and I love how it links to mythology!

Aw thank you so much!

Ooh, I actually had a brief fascination with Irish Gaelic a few years ago! Especially after someone told us he’d found it was almost mutually intelligible with Frisian! It’s the coolest thing!

A lot of people love the languag…[Read more]

@this-is-not-an-alien

LOL *actually notes all those words for future reference there* It’s definitely a good idea to sound like your genre XDD. I’m glad the BLANK of BLANK and BLANK has lost popularity, it’s rather boring XD

It is! And whenever I find a reference to the book people always refer to it by an acronym so I’m left thinking “What is AD…[Read more]

@calidris
I hope you don’t mind, but I did change some of the ending you wrote.  The Shrike is scared, but he’s also very observant and clever.  He isn’t as soft and helpless as he seems lol.  He’s seen too much to be easily fazed.

Don’t worry, I barely even noticed it! The Shrike is really interesting so far! I can’t help liking him, he seems v…[Read more]

Ferran

Something most people discovered about Liorah fairly quickly was that she was allergic to arrogance. It made her break out in disrespect and sarcasm. It was an unfortunate trait for a princess, whose entire life consisted of trying to be polite to people she didn’t particularly like. She was awful at it.

Something rumbled in the distance.…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

Ferran shrugged.  “There was something just before you came, but that might have been you.”  Misu shook his head.

“It wasn’t me.  I don’t have the ability to make Rifts.”  He sighed.  “Oh well.  There’s nothing we can do now.  We’ll have to be careful.  Any Rifts that he left behind were opened hastily and dangerously,…[Read more]

Titles are just the worst arent they? I like yours @rose-colored-fancy, they’re more unique than most book titles. I literally walk into a book shop seeking great fantasy novels – and all I get are copycat titles. A court of this and that. The heir of this and that. Please people, at least try to be creative :/

My series itself is gonna have o…[Read more]

LOL *actually notes all those words for future reference there* It’s definitely a good idea to sound like your genre XDD. I’m glad the BLANK of BLANK and BLANK has lost popularity, it’s rather boring XD.

YAY!

Ooh good idea! I only had a very vague system XD

Oh thanks! I like Firebird too, it looks pretty.

Oooh (definitely getti…[Read more]

11:39 pm

Two seconds and it all goes south, dead in tracks. The moment I recoil it shifts form, turning into a monster. Nails grow long and sharp like spiderlegs, the bastard I promise I’ll rip it apart. The thing looks up at me, without any pupils and its face twisted into some sort of taunting grin

Click in

My gun in its face as it turns b…[Read more]

“Don’t worry. That wasn’t mine.  I don’t have any knives.  They just fall from the ceiling every so often.”  The Shrike gazed up at Kongar curiously.  That wouldn’t be the oddest thing I’ve seen so far…

A small knife suddenly fell.  Kongar cursed as he ducked to pick it up.  Just then, a second knife clattered to the ground, spinning on the cold…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

@obrian-of-the-surface-world

Ah lovely thanks so much for the tips! I actually use audacity as well and I also have Adobe Audition which I use for college 🙂

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“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”

~ St. Augustine

@irishcelticredflowercrown
Awesome! I can’t wait to hear your piece!

You can pretty much use any recorder, I just used the standard recorder app on my phone. Anything you can export is fine!

Oh, your phone might record it in an .AAC file type and you need and MP3 to use Audacity, so I convert it via Convertio which takes literally a few seconds…[Read more]

@irishcelticredflowercrown

Hi Neasa,

To record, I use “Voice Record Pro” on my i-Phone. [The App is free in the App Store]

To edit the resulting file, I upload the recorded file to my MS One Drive and use a free program called “Audacity” to remove background noises, amplify the audio wave, create sound effects and modulate the vocals.  Once…[Read more]