I just wanted to let some of y’all (Texas slang for “you guys and gals”) that Kaytlin Philips has a pretty good monitored Forum type blog site at:
https://www.writers-vision.com/

…if any of you want to try signing up there (yes, it’s free too).

They have writing games and contests, challenges, and writing topics too.

Spread the…[Read more]

@rae

@abrielle

@e-n-leonard

@lady-grace

@inkhorn

@wingiby-iggiby

@mischievous-thwapling

@millennium

@rusted-knight

@jasmine

@backwardslivewriter

@joelle-stone

@rose-colored-fancy

@littlewolf

@sparrowhawke

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@noah-cochran

@irishcelticredflowercrown

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@emily-waldorf

@mamaauthoress

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Hi, Abrielle!

I am Inkhorn (as my username and tag both state xP), and it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance though it is through the Internet.

I’m not sure how many people are still active since SE has been pretty dead lately, but since summer has started, it might kick up again.

I’ll tag some of the others from the…[Read more]

LOL I’m gonna have to wait to tell until @this-is-not-an-alien gets to that episode. I already said my favorite character died! 😭😤

But for my top ten? Hughes. All of Team Mustang. The Elric brothers. Hohenheim. Ugh… The Armstrong siblings… Greed. Ling. Heheh. Help? I love almost all of them?!

How about this?…[Read more]

I will make an educated guess on who your favorite character is! 🤔 LOL

Hi! I’m excited to meet someone new (I’ve been talking to E G for a bit) Quite a username. Lol Nice to meet you too! I have 1 fantasy project in the works but it’s contemporary and allegorical too. Lol Thanks. I like them. The line between fantasy/Sci-fi is so thin. I’m hoping some fantasy writers can give me advice and…[Read more]

I’ll tag some people I know!  I’m not sure how many will respond (since the forum has been pretty quiet) but I’d love for you to get to know some people here &l…[Read more]

Oh noooo you are not alone!!! Lemmie find like @rose-colored-fancy @irishcelticredflowercrown and @calidris – you do dark fantasy right? – and my sister @hannahrenner and @brian-stansell and I think a buncha others. You’ll find tons of people who love dark themes in a Christian light here like any mature thing from lgbtq+ topics to…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

@this-is-not-an-alien

@irishcelticredflowercrown

@lady-grace

@ethan-leonard

@e-n-leonard

@mamaauthoress

@anyone else

Is anyone up for more character castle shenanigans?

What’s your WIP about?  Do you have any favorite books?  What are some of your favorite crafts?
That’s really cool that you’re learning to knit!  I never learned to knit, but it does seem fun (and practical.)

I think that SE is…unfortunately rather inactive at the moment.  I think that…[Read more]

If you are interested in writing, art, or travel, please consider subscribing 🙂 The email goes out on the 22nd of every month, starting this November.

https://writesy-artist-ramblings.ck.page/

If your subscription confirmation email doesn’t show up, just check the s…[Read more]

@ethan-leonard

@joelle-stone

@the-inkspiller

@noah-cochran

@calidris

Okay, from now until 8pm Eastern Time (USA) November 19th, I’m having a poll as to where we want to hold the writing group: over email or on discord? If you don’t reply by then, I will assume that…[Read more]

@emily-waldorf

Agreed. I do prefer discord over regular text messaging, because (1) you can do large groups without using extra data, (2) you can have a dedicated server with separate rooms in it, (3) like you said, you can do mass voice/ video calls (and if you’re not comfortable with video, that’s ok, you can turn your cam…[Read more]

I am trying to get 4-6 people together to form a writing spring group. Basically, we get together at scheduled times to do writing sprints. It could be weekly, biweekly, monthly, whatever. I just think it would be good for me to do sprints, and it would be so much funner and more accountable with others!

I was hoping we could…[Read more]

The truth is that most people, even Christians, are or…[Read more]

I glance back as the wall behind me suddenly creaks, rolling forward with a grinding screech.  “The room’s shrinking!” someone yells.  I stumble, yanking Calix forward as the crowd surges around us.  The walls in front roll back, parting as we flee the room.  It’s so much darker in this new room.  I shrink back as people bump into me, brus…[Read more]

Good, that’s what a gray character starts out as. Character growth should be the main focus of the story (there are a few exceptions, mainly with antiheroes).

While that is what I was trying to point out, I think the Protagonist of Death Note falls better into the fallen hero or antihero category (which would…[Read more]

It’s just my opinion, but I believe a morally gray character should have a reason for his/her actions. These actions should also be in character and not simply there for the sake of having a morally gray character. And in the end, said character should not be the same person they were in the beginning of the story. They…[Read more]

Is anyone else having issues with SE lately?

When I click on the Character Castle 2.0 page, it shows a white screen that says “No matching template found.”  Same with the Fantasy Writers group (which is why I’m putting this in the General Writing Discussions group) and also if I click on people’s profiles.  This has been going in f…[Read more]

I LOVE Mayra already!! It’s so fun to see some other of your characters!

@mamaauthoress

Ahhhh, I love how you wrote that!! AND WHY ISN’T CALIX THERE?? Laura?? I’m worried?? XD

@e-n-leonard

I’m honestly not sure what Frey would say. He seems a little unpredictable XD

Unpredictable is putting it lightly XD It’ll be s…[Read more]

Also…I have a rather cursed idea for the next challenge: the characters have to participate in a very difficult challenge, and if they refuse or fail they have to walk in a fashion show as punishment XD

@rose-colored-fancy was thinking that the challenge could involve making the characters give up something valuable to them – not nec…

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@rose-colored-fancy

@inkhorn

@e-n-leonard

@ethan-leonard

@lady-grace

@irishcelticredflowercrown

@this-is-not-an-alien

@jared-williams

@anyone else I missed

I’m going to go ahead and get started on that new challenge!

Hiiiii!!!! Welcome back! I am only just returning from self-inflicted exile as well! It’s gonna be fun again to start a new arc!

@inkhorn @mamaauthoress @lady-grace

Yayyyy!!! New characters!!!

Also, Laura, LOVE that magic system, it sounds SOOOO cool!!! You’ve really thought it through as well!

Okay so the plan is:…[Read more]

EXACTLY!   See, I think it’s good to show that side of humanity – I think a lot of people who turn to evil do have trauma or a lot of hurt in their past, and choosing to follow these desires give them a sense of control over their lives.  It’s interesting to think about how if circumstances had been slightly di…[Read more]

So, I think I should start this off by saying that in general, people often seem to use the term “morally gray character” to refer to a likeable character with bad morals.  You could have two characters – say, an assassin or master thief – and depending on the way they are written, they…[Read more]

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@irishcelticredflowercrown

@this-is-not-an-alien

@mamaauthoress

@e-n-leonard

@ethan-leonard

@lady-grace

@anyone else who wants to join!

@irishcelticredflowercrown

@e-n-leonard

@calidris

@this-is-not-an-alien

@inkhorn

@ethan-leonard

@lady-grace

Anyone else want to participate in the regret sequence? Last call, I think…. ? We can draw it to a close soon…. if there isn’t any objections? … So we can move onto Saevus attacking the castle. (hehe…. and…[Read more]

hahaha! so funny.

haha. that was awesome!

Okay…. so, this is gonna be……… interesting.

Hopefully this is good with you all, but I’m really going to throw a wrench in the works.

(oh, and just in case,…[Read more]

Thanks! ha, I hope so!

No you were impressively close! If somebody asked me who the Prime Minister (even the current one) of the Netherlands was I would be like:”…??” Anyway, you hit right on it, just your actual guess was off by two (and there’s been 46, so two is small beans).

@irishcelticredflowercrown

Thanks! I hope…[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]

How many characters do you have in your book? (unless that’s also a surprise. 😉 )I have…2 MCs, 3 major SCs, the villain, and a few minor SCs. So that’s like 8. I think it’s the most I’ve written with?? Normally I do two MCs, and a few random side characters nobody cares about.

Also, I have either distinguished or…[Read more]

Thanks, I hope so!!

Absolutely! That’s honestly really cute. It seems so much more fulfilling and healing that it’s a choice instead of a they fall in love scenario. Is this, by any chance…Lorcan and Myra???? Or am I putting two people together that don’t go?

I think she started in ancient Irish history–before…[Read more]

I would say it’s just fine to have characters in a story, or a whole story that is completely uninterested in finding love for whatever reasons.

I think to a certain extent dividing and sub-dividing the question of romance and sexuality isn’t necessary. It’s only been in recent years (relatively speaking) that people…[Read more]

So I think all of what you said sounds fine. I know that you’re just trying to tell a story about Cal’s pain and how she deals with it, and from the sound of it I think your heart is in the right place

Thanks! I’m glad you want her to stay in as well!

I don’t see any of my characters through those lenses but I do know…

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Personally, if it’s because of trauma…I’d be inclined to say no?  I think it depends on what the reasoning is.  If they’re not interested because they’re afraid, I’d say that’s (first of all terribly sad), but it’s also (in theory) reversible if they heal.  But then there’s so…[Read more]

You know when characters develop without asking you first? Well, that happened again, with Calliope specifically.

A day or two ago, I realized Cal is very likely queer (I think bi as well but I’m not positive). I left that idea where it was and thought…[Read more]

Sweet!  I’m not quite sure how to start this, since…well, Valencia has quite a bit of common sense and knows better than to approach intimidating masked men on a whim XD

Or would she?

We’ll need to figure out a way to force them both together!  I think it’s going to be really funny seeing them interact

Btw, is L…[Read more]

I’m probably not going to wait too much longer, since this person is actually has some strong ties to Valencia 🙂

@inkhorn

@this-is-not-an-alien

@jared-williams

@e-n-leonard

@emily-waldorf Avin has some of the same insecurities as Kit – although in his case…they’re far beyond justifiable (I mean an orphaned commoner/outcast/ alleged criminal marrying a princess – no wonder Avin feels insecure about it!)

I’m really…[Read more]

Abirami

The door, if you could call it that anymore, was all but shredded as I pushed it open and entered the room that had previously been infested with Ku’s hive.

I marveled at the destruction that mere bugs could do. Just a few months ago, Ku’s hive had successfully committed what amounted to…[Read more]

Darkness fell suddenly, as if the sunlight had been cut off by a storm. Anika gasped and stopped in her tracks. Natalya came up beside her, her heavy breathing sounding in Anika’s ear. “What happened?”

“How should I know?” Anika started forward again, groping ahead of her in the gloom.

“We’ll get a tanning if we’re…[Read more]

haha. I’m glad you liked it! I thought you might get a kick out of him being thrown. Lol. When I wrote it, scenes from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen were flashing through my head.  I’m glad I didn’t write anything out of character for him.

ROFL! Hahahaha! That’s so true! Oh, that’s sad. He does seem to jump…[Read more]

I bet he’s either in a corner upon his dignity, or shouting at you. (Which isn’t fair, ’cause it’s not your fault.) That was Mr. Trip Williams’s Abirami that threw Lorcan. He’s fond of racing in, saving somebody, and…[Read more]