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Hi everyone! (and sorry for the late response)

@neutrobolt nice username! I’m probably going to start calling this place Emberia now 😀

@evelyn another crazy homeschooled logic lover??? *gasps* Have you studied both inductive and deductive? Which do you like better? I think I like deductive better, but it is really fun to find logical fallacies in advertisements and conversations 😉 Have you learned about the Square of Opposition?

And yes…I’m constantly finding my failed attempts at stories. I also used to be horrible at names. One book was about a world where there were giant birds that lived in tree houses. The main characters were goldfinches and their names were Goldy and Finchy. The first and only sentence was “In your yard if you like birds you will find a lid covered with grass and moss.” There were many such stories. Some were just a blank document on the computer with the title “Bobby and Jane” or something like that.

Hmm…I think if I were given that choice, I would rather the sheep. However, if I was stuck in a room with a wolf, I could throw a book at his head and knock him out. Then I’d tie him up and when he wakes up tell him that he was a disgrace to the wolf kind, and that if he continued to act so abominably I’d send him to Yelodria where he would be charged for an attempt at murder.

I haven’t run into any flabbits, but a group of thwaps did try to take my lorvilberries the other day 😉

@ajaj2000 Yes, you can call me Pen! It must have been a crazy experience, trying all three types of schooling. The Key of Solaris sounds really cool. I’m considering writing a time travel book later on in the Alpha Saga where the characters try to go back and change bad things that happened in previous books.

Here’s my rough draft of a synopsis. It’s not very good yet, and the story itself is susceptible to major changes. I basically know what happens up to the end of the following summary and I know how it will end, but I’m not exactly sure about the middle. I have a lot of work to do!

Lotro’s only brother Dayetra is the pride of the Dahop pack and is ready to become the Alpha when his father Yerectoa dies. Because Lotro is a runt who walks with a limp and is afraid of almost everything, the rest of the pack either makes fun of him or pities him, but does not think he will ever be capable of anything but gardening. Everyone loves Dayetra and is excited about him being Alpha, but doesn’t seem to notice that he keeps sneaking off to the southeast end of the territory alone. 

Suddenly Dahop is attacked by the Loklab pack, an old and dreaded enemy. No one knows exactly how the Loklab wolves made it onto their territory, because the Yetut territory lies between them. The Yetut pack was originally a part of Dahop, but split off because of a feud. Because of their bitterness against Yetut, most of the Dahop pack assumes that their old rivals have allied with Loklab. 

Then Yerectoa takes Lotro on a long walk and talks with him. As they near the seashore, three Loklab warriors leap out of the bushes and attack Yerectoa. Lotro hides trembling in the brush. The Loklabs leave Yerectoa fatally wounded, and Lotro rushes out of hiding to get help. Yerectoa stops him to tell him one last thing. Dayetra has fallen into evil and betrayed them to the Loklab pack. No one but Yerectoa knows it, and he commands Lotro to do what he can to stop them before Yeath, the Alpha of Loklab, takes over Dahop and their ally Dalow. 

Yerectoa dies, and Dayetra is made the Alpha. No one will believe Lotro that Dayetra is evil if he tells them, so the burden of rescuing the pack is laid on him. With no one to help him but his deaf friend Dagi and a secret friend from the Yetut pack named Loya, he must find a way to prove Dayetra’s betrayal and Yeath’s plans, all the while struggling to accept his father’s loss of life and his brother’s loss of light. 

@ariel-ashira Oh wow, I didn’t know I could make people cry! I was so excited to find so many people who were passionate about the same things I am. My friends are supportive (i.e. they’re always begging me to let them read my books) but they’re not exactly enthusiastic. When I told one of them about KP, she said, “I’d suffocate.” No one I know seems to love writing just for writing.

Did you draw your profile picture? It’s really good! Don’t you worry about rambling. If anyone’s a rambler around here, it’s probably me. One of my assignments was to rewrite a story in three paragraphs (how in the world do you write a story in three paragraphs, anyhow?) and the paragraphs were two pages long each…

Speaking of which, I’d better quit now, or else I’ll never stop and it will take you a week to read my post.

So long for now!

~Steward of the Pen

P.S. Sorry if the tags didn’t work. I’m not exactly sure how to do it.