Princess Foo

@princess-foo

I love those songs too! Have you listened to Peter Hollens’ other LoTR songs? I’ve been listening to them obsessively of late.

@karthmin @princess-foo @morreafirebird

This is such a fascinating discussion! To be honest, I’d never really thought about the difference between the ways Tolkien and Lewis dealt with women, but having read a few biographies of both of them and analyses of their works, I’ve got a few points to add.

One is that Tolkien was Catholic and he had a…[Read more]

@princess-foo Oh, yes! Characters really make or break a story for me. I seem to really love the characters who are complex and difficult to understand. I am particularly thinking of Jane Austen’s Fanny Price in Mansfield Park, and also Frodo Baggins. One of the big reasons I get so mad at people who watch The Lord of the Rings movies (without…[Read more]

@princess-foo thank you so much for the warmest of welcomes!

@tashah-claymore I’ve actually never experienced encountering one of my characters in real life. 🙁 That must have been fun. XD

@hope-ann I believe it! So many people, and for some reason you see the biggest cross-section of characters when they’re congregating in one place and are All Very Hungry. XD

@emgc *laughs* I’m totally the same way.…[Read more]

Love all of these quotes so much, @princess-foo! These are all definitely in my top favorite LotR quotes.

Speaking of which, I wrote a thing about Lord of the Rings (and C. S Lewis) the other day. Seems like an appropriate place to share it, even though it’s basically an essay. XD

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I recently got to thinking about the differences between…[Read more]

Hello everyone!

Let’s all welcome @bree-dawn to! She is our FINAL ADDITION to Erekdale! That’s right, this guild has ceased expanding and we’re now on cruise control, so to speak.

Anyway, let’s give Bree a warm welcome today, and get her accustomed to our craziness. 😀

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@bree-dawn @caserola @michael_stanton @trallion @catwing @hope-ann @alli…[Read more]

@caserola Here’s a link to where you can sign up for NaNo: https://nanowrimo.org/sign-up

I meant the link to your story. 🙂

@kelly-lundgren Yeah I’ve had that happen. 😉

@tashah-claymore Great! I hope you do well in the competition. 🙂 And that’s awesome! I’ve been playing around 3 1/2-4 years as well.  Have you ever played for…[Read more]

@hope-ann Great! Sounds like a busy week.

@caserola Yeah, I could probably do that. 🙂 Are you looking for more general critiques, or would you like me to critique grammar/prose/pacing as well?

@devastate-lasting That’s good then! Hope school’s been okay. 🙂

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Okay, guys!  Time to once again post your goals for the week.  I hope this has b…[Read more]

*appears on a random box* Ereki! The results are in in! If you haven’t seen already, here they are…

New Wessex: 50,445
Erekdale: 26,232
Knaphollow: 22,499
Parami Alca: 6,854
Meraki: 3,379
Rillumen: 1,340

We came in second! Good job Ereki! *throws feathers*
Somehow New Wessex crushed it with twice our word count. Wow.

w-o-holmes wrote the…[Read more]

@tinuviel I’m glad you’ve had success with worldbuilding! It’s always exciting when everything starts falling into place. 😀  My goals have been going pretty well, thanks! I had a significant breakthrough with my world building as well, and while I wasn’t really able to finish my other writing goals, I’m happy with the progress I made. I didn’t…[Read more]

@princess-foo I also love Beauty and the Beast!! I wrote a novella a few years ago combining several fairy tales, but it ended up being 60% Beauty and the Beast XD. Now, the Disney cartoon…not so much. I mean, I DO like it, but they definitely had some problems they didn’t think through. In most versions of the story, aren’t the servants either…[Read more]

@princess-foo Wow, nice job! I’m new to the whole critique thing on this forum, so hopefully I wasn’t out of line :).

@princess-foo I’ll try to get to it this coming week! 🙂

@tashah-claymore @kelly-lundgren @devastate-lasting Excellent quirks, all of you! Personally, I have to say that my favorite quirk is dry humor delivered with a dead-pan expression.

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Today’s Weekly Wondering is……

Has your job ever given you writing inspiration?

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@tinuviel @tashah-claymore @caserola @michael_stanton @trallion @catwing…[Read more]

Sounds like a unanimous decision, then! I’ll create a document (link below), and because she asked, we’ll give @princess-foo the first place in the critique queue. Go ahead and create a separate topic and we’ll do our best to give feedback!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dOPPNVJ0Kd0DtkwZYJFnjDioDVBuKsYtS8Xrkklzy4s/edit?usp=sharing