Hey Scoutfinch!

This is a pretty familiar question to me, I’ve been there XD

So, I currently use an Intuos pressure-sensitive tablet without screen display. I’ve used a Wacom Bamboo in the past and it also worked great, it’s just smaller.

I was saving up for a big display tablet, but I ended up not getting one. My dad got a…[Read more]

Hi Kristen!

This sounds right up my alley, it’s similar to the story I’m writing! I’d love to beta read it, I have some experience with writing and critiquing short stories, and fantasy is my main genre.

My email is rose (dot) everdeen (dot) author (at) gmail.com, please do drop me an email to discuss the critique you need!

You know, I had just assumed I was bored, but … what if you’re right? What if it’s that paralysis thingy that weird-brains do when we’re trying to brain something it doesn’t want to brain?

*Nods sagely* I know exactly what you mean. For me, boredom and “I don’t know what the next step is so I can’t do it” often feel the exact sam…[Read more]

Hey Book Dragon! (Awesome name btw XD)

I am absolutely still looking for advice, it’s always welcome! Thank you so much for it, that makes a lot of sense! Thankfully I am definitely an outliner, so that part comes naturally to me at least XD

Thank you, and nice to meet you!

Heya Natalie, it’s Rose again!

 I’m positive I’m undiagnosed ADHD, but whatever. Would ADHD make a difference in optimal writing method choices?

Well, short answer, yes XD I’m neurodivergent myself, and it DEFINITELY affects the way I write and my process. On the ADHD front let me drag Cath out of the shadows… @this-is-not-an-alien…[Read more]

YAS YASSSSSSSSS MY ARCH NEMESISSSSSS!!!! ARISE FROM THY COFFIN!!!!!!

*coffin where I was taking a nap bursts open in a shower of pink glitter and I emerge carrying coffee and eating a cupcake*

Your days of ruling this city are over, my personal supervillain!!!

So often my ideas come to me in a single glimpse of a single scene. When I sit down to describe the scene, everything else before and after that scene suddenly appears. The more I write it out, the deeper it goes, and more unfolds.

It’s like a true pantser way of doing things. For YEARS I’ve tried to train myself to plot and wri…

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I have been summoned from the depths of school-induced digital hibernation!!!!

@nataliecone

Hi Natalie, I’m Rose! I’ve been very inactive here recently, but it’s lovely to meet you!

Welll… Gilded Blood jumps wildly between a fun, light “Chaos teenagers on an adventure” fantasy and some extremely dark subjects XD…[Read more]

Hellooo!!

So, I’m not super well-versed in comics, it’s actually something I’m looking into because I’m going to apply to a comic design course later this year.

But, I do want to recommend Haikyu! It’s a manga and an anime, the writing is AMAZING and so is the art. (That anatomy and perspective, BEAUTIFUL) I love the way the…[Read more]

Okay, everyone’s advice so far has been great!

Do y’all know of any complex, yet immersive and suspenseful battle/skirmish scenes? Any problems you’ve run into and fixed?

So… none come to mind, except maybe the battle scenes in Skyward, I know you’ve read that one. Brandon Sanderson had a lecture about battle scenes iirc… Som…[Read more]

Whoo! Coolio, I signed up!

Count me in! I’ll try to join in!

Also, tell Merie over on discord about this, it sounds right up her alley, and she’s a great beta-reader!

Random but today was my 18th birthday!

Congratulations!! I hope you had an awesome day!! Also, this is hilarious to me, it’s my eighteenth birthday tomorrow, you’re exactly one day older than I am XD

Also @emily-waldorf

I LOVED that Tullian entry with Frey! It’s so fascinating that Tullian can feel what Frey does, I can’t wait to…[Read more]

Frey

My regular joke has never worked this well. Mara looks as though she’s seen as ghost. Usually, people just laugh and ignore it for the rest.

”Isaias always talked about miracles. He said they were still possible, but I didn’t believe him. But —“ Mara’s eyes are wide with shock as she gestures toward my legs. They still ache, t…[Read more]

HIIII WELCOME BACK!! Oh no!! I hope your ankle feels better quickly!

@everyone

Whew sorry about the long absence y’all I had an absolute chaos of a weekend, in a good way XD

I’ll try to write Frey later or tomorrow! Also, I’ve been SORELY tempted to bring in Malcolm, for those of you who remember him being mentioned. He’s just…[Read more]

Lolll that was so funnn!!

This isn’t like Isaias or Rosemary at all. They really mean their philosophical nonsense. I bet Frey wouldn’t even if he swore before the Benevola Wolf.

Completely true XD

Frey

Mara seems to have had enough of our little game. What a pity, I’m just starting to enjoy myself.

“You don’t have to do tha…[Read more]

and Calidris’ : https://spireandcompany.ck.page/daff3b0198

Okay cool, just wanted to make sure you were comfortable 😅
Yesssss ikr? I think it was finding out about ADHD and learning I had it that made me pursue psychology :)))

Thank you, I really appreciate that! That’s so cool! I’ve definitely gotten fascinated by it through finding out I was autistic XD

Coryn is the only one  of my…

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CASTLE COMMANDMENTS:
I: Thou shalt not yeeteth the innocents
II: Thou shalt change the Castle Commandments at thine own will XD

LOLLLL Exactly XD

Pardon me if this is insensitive to autism in any way, but I find autism and neurodivergence in general just so intriguing, so it’s fascinating to me that you have autism.

Nonono it’s t…[Read more]

He’s awesome but we don’t want him yeeting the innocents of the castle anymore 😂😂

Think we should put “Thou shall not yeeteth innocents” in the castle rules? XD

YEAH!! ADHD, WHAT ABOUT YOU??

Asdfghjkl this is hysterical to me, I think ND’s are the majority in the castle at this point XD I’m autistic! I’m not diagnosed but I’m like…[Read more]

Also I keep having irrational desires to allow Sasha back in Spire but I know that’s an extremely bad idea so I won’t do it XD  Remember how he Y E E T E D  Quinn?!!

Keep him in the storage cabinet Calidris, I will never forget that awful moment XDDD

I’ve been experiencing the same problem, and so has @this-is-not-an-alien

When I click on the Character Castle 2.0 page, it shows a white screen that says “No matching template found.”

I get the error message too, it looks like a website bug.

@daeus-lamb ?

You absolutely nailed Frey, I laughed out loud reading that because it’s exactly the kind of cryptic nonsense he’d find amusing!

Frey

”Mara Gobey-Hanad.” She tosses her head back, the frown still between her brows. She throws the next question at me, “Is this not a dream?”

I mostly said the dream part to start the conversat…[Read more]

My shoulders feel heavy, a deep ache settled in them. I can’t do anything about it, as always. I just hope this won’t last all day, if I have to do too much now, I’ll get a flare tomorrow, and I’m in the middle of a big assignment. If I get a bad grade on it, I’ll have to work harder elsewhere to catch up, and I don’t have the capacity to…[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]

As an additional note here, it’s a good idea to set aside the book for a while if you’re in the latter camp when you finish.

Ah, great suggestion! I do that as well, I just forgot to mention it XD

@wingiby-iggiby

As for my WIP, I am farther along in it than any other book attempt before! I’m over 50,000 words *squeals in delig…

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*Hurtles into the room surrounded by a cloud of pink glitter*

BROOOKEE!!!! WINGIBY!!!! I MISSED YOU!!! *Gives you a huge hug*

I missed you so much, it’s so amazing to hear from you again! You have to tell me all about how your project is going!!

Your characters are not talking back, are they?

… It’s Liorah, what were…[Read more]

I feel ya, but just sayin’, that is not a big deal at all. Worry about that when you’re line editing and in between books. Of all the problems to have, free-flowing, but mediocre prose is an awesome one.

Honestly, that’s very encouraging XD I’m going to enjoy it while it lasts XD

I’m over here wavin’ goodbye to 10k words a week be…

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Thank you! I can’t blame you XD

Also I loved your piece! Cahira sounds like quite a character, I can’t wait for her and Frey to interact XD I think he’ll annoy the heck out of her.

Okay time for Frey to meet his future self I guess! Also going to attempt to write this in second-person present because that’s… the weirdest tense I…[Read more]

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I grip the steel rails of my wheelchair and push, the motion as familiar as breathing by this time. It’s too cold for an April morning, the fog bunching thick around the tall…[Read more]

Yessss awesome!

@everyone

I suggest we ‘resurrect’ Lord Castle so we have an antagonist again, so he just reappears in the form of the castle again, shuffles the rooms around and has all the existing characters reappear in a new room! That way all the new characters get a fresh start. Will that work or are there any other…[Read more]

Hey Joelle!!

Have you tried writing in a genre so astronomically different from your preferred one?

That’s an awesome idea, I’ll be working on that! I actually have a book like that currently in the outlining phase, so I think I’ll start spending some more time on that!

A ton of editing, lol. It’s really great to hear from my story-embers peeps again! How has character castle 2.0 been going?

Oooofff s a m e so many revisions 😭😭😭

Ah yes, CC2.0. There has been a changing of the guard of sorts, I am the only member left of our old group back when we wrote iirc😢 (Excluding Cathy/ @this-is-not-an-alien  wh…[Read more]

*Happy gasp* JASMINE!!!! I MISSED YOU!!!

It’s been so long since I saw you around! How has writing been, how are your characters, what have you been up to!?

Okay, to slow down… XD Lemme see, for situations like these I never quite know what to do but I am very partial to exaggeratedly dramatic insults like “I hope a jackal pees on…[Read more]

(my Canadian blood cries out in pain at the spelling of the second word in your username every time I type it )

Nothing gives me greater pleasure than horrifying people with my alternate use of British and American spellings XD

Also, Frey sounds so absolutely amazing (and I hekkin love his name so much) and I cannot wait to have Eve…

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Name: Frey Spurling

Age: About nineteen.

He’s a Fine Art student at the same school Ophelia and Malcolm go to.

Appearance: About 5’8″, pretty slight and looks younger than his age. Curly blond hair and blue eyes. Light skin with maybe a few freckles. Probably wearing dark brown slacks and a green sweater.

Frey has a chronic…[Read more]

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]

Thank you so much for your reply!

Sometimes we writers can feel a little stagnated or even drained because we are either only taking in, or only flowing out and the content of what we take in, may affect what flows out of us.

That’s a very interesting point, and one I hadn’t really thought of. I have been reading and…[Read more]

Not in the way you’d probably think, it’s not the dreaded writer’s block. Rather the opposite, I’m in that blissful state every writer longs for where word counts are being hit, the words are flowing, the story is taking shape, and writing is fun.

However, in the…[Read more]

If y’all want to finish the battle with Lord Castle first, I might wait to drop in Frey until after you’re finished. Frey is from a contemporary story and he’s also disabled, so it would end up with him on the sidelines, probably eating popcorn and giving snarky commentary, with not much character development involved XD So, I can drop…[Read more]

Hello hello! It’s awesome to see you around again!

@everyone

I kinda want to drop in a character as well! Frey my boi has been talking to me for months now and he’s more than ready to get out into the world.

BRILLIANT FABULOUS FANTASTIC I copied the entire thing into a writing file for future reference for Ophelia XD Thank you so much for that!

It’s also fun to me how the neurosparkles have quite a bit of overlap.

Like the rejection sensitivity, “Everyone in this store hates me” phenomenon, masking, and this bit!

Oh and the…

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Hey Emma, I tried to get a message to you a few months ago, but you must have missed it. Sorry it took so long, you must have been worried about Erynne.

Erynne hasn’t replied because she’s having some trouble at home and isn’t allowed to contact her internet friends, even though she really misses them.

It sounds like a pretty tough…[Read more]

Aydin is my favorite XD Oh no!!! That is seriously sad, but I think it’s interesting the way you portray their two different reactions to it. I think I would probably be reacting like  Liorah – in terms of just plain panicking. *sigh* Poor girl!!  So if you had to choose, which one is the worse case?

Hmm… I don’t think I can categ…[Read more]

Ummm girl you NEED TO!! XD (If you join, my username is @queen_of_alvastia and by nickname is Queenie )

Epic, I’m working on it! I sent in the request, now I’m just waiting for them to get around to it!

There’s actually several PTSD charries in the castle I’m in XD By the way, have you ever noticed, it’s like authors are roughest on the c…

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Of course, I’m happy I could help! And yeah, injuring characters is tough XD

@scoutfinch190

As for your first questions, that’s quite beyond me XD But I can answer the latter!

Does anyone also know if there could be a pain-killer strong enough to ease physical wounds in pill-form?

Yes! Painkillers that work on the central nervous…[Read more]

Okay I can kinda answer a few of these! I have no medical experience in this, but I do have some personal experience with both, besides some historical research for the same kinds of questions in my WIP!

So I have a character who fell maybe a couple feet of the ground and then got hit in the head by the pulley system she built and I…

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I did?

Ok it sounds vaguely familiar but I’d forgotten all about that XD

Yes honey you absolutely did and it was honestly such brilliant advice that it stuck with me XD

@lady-grace

Wait.. that ain’t normal?
*reads through everything* hmm… *goes to looks up symptoms* Wait a minute… I’ve wondered if e-n-leonard was “neurospark…

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*Oops got super sidetracked and forgot to reply*

Thanks so much for your answers! I do like to categorize things, but I was a bit concerned about not wanting a label to wind up defining a character. Which isn’t really an actual issue for me because my characters are themselves and categorizing them other ways doesn’t change that. So…

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