J.A.Penrose

@j-a-penrose Okies!

@j-a-penrose *thumbs up* Okies!

@obrian-of-the-surface-world ah, got it. 🙂

@ariella-newheart Thanks! I’m glad to be here! #homeschoolsquad

I like Sherlock Holmes, Theodore Boone; Kid Lawyer series, and pretty much anything by Christopher Hart (who has a bunch of “how to draw” books). I write in fantasy, comedy, sometimes sci-fi, and I’ve attempted mystery, but it came off as…[Read more]

Sorry,  @j-a-penrose,

I did not know how this was done and I thought the link you provided was where we were supposed to offer our thoughts or attempts.  I am still getting used to this Blog panel and the multiple threads.

Here is what I wrote before:

I see color dancing.  Where am I?  I feel heavy.  Tired.  So tired.  Jimmie says he’ll go.  Who…

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@calebonline Ooh, cool, I like the idea of having the mystery about what caused the dream! To clarify, when I said the dream should be realistic, I meant we should make the dream seem like a real dream, rather than like events in real life (which would not be a realistic dream). I think it’s important to make it feel like a real dream because,…[Read more]

@steward-of-the-pen Wow, nice. I agree on all of that. *two thumbs up* I hardly ever remember my dreams. One I do remember is a nightmare where I was wandering through a dark mansion which had cages of scary creatures on either side of the path. I kept climbing higher and higher through the mansion, and once I made it to the top floor. (I had that…[Read more]

Thanks! You too.

Here’s a question for everyone… would you do it again? If so, what would you change?

@julia @j-a-penrose @taylorclogston @silverclaw-bonnetfolly

@julia @sarah-vdh Woah! Y’all’s were good! (@j-a-penrose Yours was good also!!) I’ll try my hand at this as well as soon as I get a little time. But @sarah-vdh, I must correct your grammar… When you say “As if it were to blame for the lack of young pirate beyond it’s wooden frame.”… Wrong kind of “it’s.” “It’s” is a contraction of “it is”, w…[Read more]

@j-a-penrose *thinks how to seem mysterious* Thanks! I hope I will be able to be an active member. I have so much stuff going on outside the Internet and writing, lol. I’m homeschooled, so I have more time than some people I guess, but I’m just a really busy person 😀

@obrian-of-the-surface-world I must say, I’m not quite sure how to answer other…[Read more]

@j-a-penrose YASSS DREAMS

I’m on it

How about this?

“Father had always told her that there were only two things in this world–light and darkness.

When she dreamed she saw neither.”

@steward-of-the-pen

Wonderful/insightful post!

I’m terrible at comedy 😛 and I prefer to view dreams as visions with deep meaning. And I think what our Master Sith 😉 @j-a-penrose said about symbolism is great – since visions/meaning is closely related to symbolism.

@j-a-penrose

How do guilds usually appoint the writer of the prompt submission? Should one (or a few) of us, like, volunteer to write it?

Newbie here, so I haven’t a clue. 😛 Thanks for putting up with me!

@j-a-penrose If we’re counting word wars, it’s Guild War 8. 😛

Well guys, we came SO close to winning a prompt war twice and we managed to win a word war when we were the smallest guild, so WE CAN DO THIS!! *fires starting cannon late*

From my experience, dreams can go one of two ways: weird, random, and generally emotionless or dark and filled…[Read more]

@j-a-penrose A dream sequence? Oooooh, I read a post on this recently! It’s really helpful! Here’s a link:

5 Ways to Successfully Start a Book With a Dream

Thank you to everyone who welcomed myself and all my fellow newbies! I feel very at home here already 🙂

Oh, it’s a good thing time zones aren’t an issue, @j-a-penrose. I’m not in Australia, but I know I’m a few hours behind a lot of people here.

@ariella-newheart My favorite book is actually three books. Yeah, the Lord of the Rings trilogy.…[Read more]

@j-a-penrose Woah this one is HARD.

Not so good one:

I drew my sword. Our swords met, and after only a few strokes, I could feel myself becoming weaker.

Everyone had been right about me. And I was going to die for it.

“I thought you were better than this,” my oponent said. He lowered his sword. “And I didn’t even expect much from you. I…

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@j-a-penrose You really should wait a super long time every time we write these things cause wow. I just got goosebumps from reading MY OWN WRITING. Which is now proceeding to almost make me cry because I JUST DID THAT. In the past. With weird tenses.

@j-a-penrose Thanks! I think so? You’ve told me to read so many books over the months that I can’t remember what they all are. xD I have been reading them though! I just finished Songkeeper last week.

Great job, @steward-of-the-pen @j-a-penrose @silverclaw-bonnetfolly @ariella-newheart @sarah-vdh !

My total (counting my Creative Writing and my NaNoWriMo novel) is… 53,105! I honestly didn’t think I would make it; this my first year ever finishing NaNoWriMo. :3

@j-a-penrose I forgot to factor in everything that wasn’t part of my nano!! My real word count is 8207. Good job everyone on their word counts!