I’m thinking about writing some articles and submitting to different websites. What are your favorite sites for this?

Obviously I will send some to Story Embers!

Thanks

My youngest brother could really use some prayer. He suffers from chronic migraines, which eventually we got mostly under control, but the last few weeks they have been at the worst they have been in years. Thank you all for your prayer.

Rebecca

Yay!!

@catherine roche Also an amazing idea! Hmm I wonder if they could go together…

Thank you so much!

I’d like it to be something that he could use to solve the crime (not fight the baddies), so it would likely be something cerebral, but I don’t want its use to be to obvious, like being able to tell…[Read more]

What is another way we could raise the stakes? Would it be cliche if the character was on the verge of doing something awful? Or what if it…[Read more]

I would say, however, that some authors take it too far and make their main character so flawed that they aren’t really a good guy any more to make it realistic. Some stories do really well, but I just think their are too many of them.

So don’t be afraid if your main character’s flaws do not make your character…[Read more]

I use the gouache with my watercolors where I want a dark, opaque mark. It blends in well wih the watercolor.

I have been drawing a very long time, since I was pretty little, so I would go with about 15 years now. My favorite part of fashion design is designing things and then being able to turn them into actual garments which I can wear.

Welcome!

@the-fledgling-artist

There is something vaguely amusing about a cat named mouse. 🙂

His name is Aneirin. He is named after a medieval bard. What is your dog’s name?

Nice! Those are some great role models 🙂

I have great respect for people who can write rhyming poetry, as whenever I try it always ends up pretty cheesy.

I haven’t really found a good way. I’m pretty new to writing, though, so hopefully I will someday!

I have no dogs or cats, but I do have a pet snake. I love snakes.

@christieaton

Sounds cool!

Do you have dogs and cats?

Ooh copic markers! I’ve never had the opportunity to use them but I’ve heard they are nice.

Do you do portraits of people you know or characters?

Depends on the kind of art. I view fashion as art, and that is what I am going to college for, so I am very serious about that.

I get paid to teach art (and fashion, but I’m talking about painting drawing type right now), so that is a kind of serious.

I would say mostly serious, though I do not intend to make a living selling…[Read more]

I tend to write free verse (mine has rhythm but no rhyme). My favorite poet is Tolkien, but I also like Brian Jacques and Andrew Peterson. I’m a fantasy poet fan 🙂

How about you? Do you have a favorite poet? What kind of poetry do you write?

Do you ever put your poems into your other storytelling?

Thank you!

I’ll try to share mostly typical art but maybe the occasional bit of fashion art here then.

OOh a graphic novel! Sounds exciting. Landscapes and animals are fun too. I wish I was better at drawing characters… Eh. Practice. 🙂 Do you tend to draw wild animal or pets/ farm animals?

Once in a…[Read more]

Gouache rocks. I like to use in combination with watercolor.

I draw nature, fashion, and geeky/fantasy stuff mostly. How about you?

This week I read about 550 pages of So Sang the Dawn.

I wrote very little, but came up with some new ideas.

@the-fledgling-artist

Thanks! I have been practicing maps for a while.

I tend to try anything but my current favorite mediums are marker, acrylic paint, watercolor, charcoal, pen and ink, and pencil.

What do you work in?

1- They have to be deep

2- They should exhibit the theme

3- They should drive the story

What are three things you’d like to know about characters?

1- But how  do you really accomplish the above?

2- How to create characters if you don’t understand people very well

3- If you never start with th…[Read more]

I’m a fashion design student. I also like to draw, paint, write, learn (or just work with or make up) weird languages, walking around in the woods, plants, and daydreaming.

Here is a map (I like to make fantasy maps) I made of Middle Earth.

Does fashion count as art here?

This is a sea monster/ pirate/…[Read more]

Shiv paused, and glanced down the white hallway. It was so different here than outside. So much cleaner and bright almost to the point of blinding. He shrugged. He wasn’t here to view the scenery.

He took several wrong turns before finally landing at the the door the he thought must be it. Shiv pushed it open.

“You have finally…[Read more]

Who are the other characters? What are they like?

Does she have family? She needs a name (so we can start differentiating characters easier. we can always change it later if stuff changes). Let me come back with ideas.

Keaya, Faine, Krista, Jin, Kat, Dael, Bryka…[Read more]

She could pick up the wildly cheery attitude from watching others, but only near the end of the book does she really understand it. Before then it is just an act.

People could slowly realize there was something not right about her cheeriness and then eventually figure out what it is.

She could realize that being sad all the time…[Read more]

Prose is my favorite, I’m so excited!

We could have a character that is super bright and happy, but it is shown that inside she is actually super cynical. Like bright and happy all the time except for…[Read more]

This world is really cool!

Steampunk and fantasy are totally my thing!

I have a few ideas to add:

what if there were living dragons trying to pretend they were ordinary mechanical (perhaps because in the past poachers hunted them for their scales, so now they are all but extinct and hiding)

Should we create…[Read more]

I like world building best, second to that, first drafts.

What about you?

@andrew

I do use them, but most of my knowledge comes just from curiosity rather than direct research (I only have great knowledge NTs anyway). I’m also really bad with characters.

Yes I have been creating creatures!

One of my creations is the Evrue. Tall, shaggy with thin arms and large hands. They were accidentally let out of their dimension.…[Read more]

Nice! That is a great setup. 🙂

I make all of my own patterns, but this wasn’t even exactly a pattern (just used a yardstick from a set point), though the hood took quite a good one.

My brothers are having their sister move away…[Read more]

@wordsmith If ESFJ is what you are, you are the exact opposite of me! Even if you are a T, same though. How about both perfect games! I have absolutely no clue what kind of karate. I don’t hve enough knowledge to answer that. That’s quite a lot of siblings! Fun though (I like having brothers). I have made rectangular cloaks for…[Read more]

So, what particular skill are you working on the most right now?

For me it would be characters. Also putting things into practice, rather than just knowing things theoretically.

Welcome to story embers!

I’m also an artist-writer!

Nice to meet you.

Your superpowers seem pretty cool. I have never written a superhero story, but then again I’ve only been writing a short time.

Hello extrovert! I’m extremely introverted (the I in INTP). The N means I am more in my head than out of it (and see the world through that), the T…[Read more]

My name is Rebecca.

I write fantasy mostly, with some sci-fi (namely a dystopian I’m writing now. I never thought I would ever write a dystopian, but here goes…) I once even tried to write a mystery.

I have been ‘on’ this forum for many months, but I have never actually said anything till today (I find…[Read more]

@elizabeth (I sincerely hope this will tag you. I’m not very familiar with forums)