Silver Shadow

@w-o-holmes that sounds like a great idea!  I need to work on my dwarves more, anyway.

@emgc thanks!  I’m going to be waiting on the edge of my seat for a few months now.  Winners for the short story contest will be notified in December.  Whether that’s early December, mid-December, or late December I have no idea.  I’ve never really had the chance to play in an orchestra.  There is an orchestra group near me, but I just don’t have…[Read more]

@emgc it’s all been going pretty well!  I’ve been able to read a decent bit of the book I wanted to, and I finished Rainbow Moon’s story!  I’ll edit it a little, then I’m sending it in for a competition either tomorrow or Monday.  I did a little bit of art, but not much.  With music, I was able to play piano a bit, but I didn’t have time (or ene…[Read more]

@emberynus-the-dragonslayer thanks!

@emgc goals, yay!  Mine are:

-finish Rainbow Moon’s story

-read (or at least skim through) the books on language I checked out from the library

-keep up with school including giving at least one (dreaded) speech

-play at least cello and piano a few times if not also violin and guitar

-draw anything outside of art class at least once

@kari-karast

You better. XD

@kari-karast

Oh, you know NOTHING about Tony if you’ve only seen that.  oof

@kari-karast

Because you don’t like Tony.  Steve doesn’t like Tony either.

@kari-karast

Yeah, we’ll see what happens with the Drithens.

You must be related to Steve Rogers/Captain America.

@w-o-holmes

That’s fantastic!  Did you do something to earn the nickname Stark or did it just sort of happen?  It’s a cool nickname though, regardless.  Tony Stark/Iron Man is probably my favorite Avenger.

Yeah, I was thinking Drithen-Keeper was a tad cliche…but a Drithess that takes care of Drithens…it’s not weird, but those words are ma…[Read more]

@kari-karast Pirates of the Caribbean is really good.  Well, the 4th one isn’t, but 1-3 and 5 are fantastic.  You should watch them sometime.

I’m glad the food pyramid idea helped!

@w-o-holmes it’s awesome that your name is the same as my bro.  Do you ever go by Will (or some other nickname)?

Chikelu Citlali Annegret is a great name.  I’m usi…[Read more]

Oh, also @w-o-holmes is William your real name?  Cuz that’d be cool.  My bro is named William.  I usually just call him Will, though.

Well.  I missed a lot.

@w-o-holmes

Yeah, Kalypso is quite a bit too similar to the Calypso in Pirates of the Caribbean.  Are there any names in that list that stand out to you, though?

When I hear the word dwarf . . . I don’t know exactly what I think of.  Then again I’m currently functioning on maybe one hour of sleep and the tail end of my ca…[Read more]

@w-o-holmes works for me! KD XD

Your idea of the jungle dwarves is really cool!

I like the name Drithens for the dragon/chickens.  Thanks!  I have a few ideas for a name for the Drithen-keeper (if anyone has an idea for a cooler title please let me know).

Kalypso Gili Riya

Amalie Albina Annegret

Chikelu Citlali Anina

Kyriaki Nataša Ch…[Read more]

@emgc I’ve been doing pretty well on most of my goals.  The map making goal and the language goal are the ones most lacking.  Everything else has been at least mostly achieved, though, which is good.

Not completing the map and language goals are mostly due to not having enough time.  Especially for the language, because I’m working on a rune la…[Read more]

@hope-mcclellan thanks!  I definitely will need to do some volcano research for sure.

Jungle dwarves . . . I suppose it might depend on what kind of jungle they’re in.  Rainforest jungle?  Tropical jungle?  Some other kind of jungle?

Chicken-sized dragons on a farm like that . . . nice!  Maybe they’d be called Chigons or Drackins or some…[Read more]

@kari-karast

Your worlds sound really cool!  Maybe your futuristic one could be Earth in a parallel universe or something like that.

Hmm, maybe I’ll do a cross between a dragon and something else for them to ride.  And then there will be giant lava lizards that live in/on the volcanoes that they hunt and eat.  What should I cross with the dr…[Read more]

@kari-karast it’s not bad at all that you don’t have those Races in your stories!  If a Race doesn’t fit, it doesn’t fit.  It’s your world (or worlds, as the case might be) so you’re not required to put anything in.  Heck, you don’t even have to have gravity if you don’t want it (Gravity…..don’t mean to much to me…[Read more]

@w-o-holmes

Actually, you’re right.  I had to go re-read some of it to remember, but yes some of Tolkien’s Elves lived in a network of caves.  Talking about the Elves: “In a great cave some miles within the edge of Mirkwood on its eastern side there lived at this time their greatest king.  Before his huge doors of stone a river ran out of the he…[Read more]

@hope-mcclellan yeah, @kari-karast and I know each other from homeschool choir where we live.  Hilarity is bound to happen.  Plus, we’re both crazy writers and have other crazy writer friends. XD

Your swamp dwarves (Can I call them that?) sound really cool!  I love the idea, especially since it’s SO DIFFERENT from the typical mountain dwarves.  I…[Read more]