Tinuviel

Hello everyone! So, for real I’m Laura–I’m twenty years old, and as of this year I have officially been writing for over half of my life. I began when I was nine. Two years later, I became a Christian, and since then I have striven to write all my stories with prayer and wisdom drawn from God’s Word in the Bible.

Up until 2017 or so, I wrote…[Read more]

Writing goals for this week:

Edit 4-5 hours on fantasy novel

Do some worldbuilding/plotting for my NaNoWriMo project

Finish 1-2 short stories

Find another book to read

Ho do you all set realistic goals and stick to them? When do you find time for writing?

Thanks for the welcome, @karthmin!

@catwing Why hello again!

Guys, I am totally clueless as to how this whole guild thing works. I’ll probably take a few days to get my feet under me, but I’m pleased to meet ya’all and I will hopefully be a fully functioning Ereki within a week or so. I am, alas, childless and uninsured. I promise to be careful…[Read more]

@emberynus-the-dragonslayer Thank you so much!

@valtmy Ooh, definitely Laura Ingalls Wilder! How about you?

@august-grace Oh, it wasn’t a matter of forcing myself. It was just that there were some major things going on in my life, (and looking back, I see I was facing some spiritual challenges as well), and I simply had no inspiration for that long!! DEFINITELY not an experience I’d like to repeat.

Laura Waldorf is my real name. Tinuviel is the name I…[Read more]

@selah-chelyah thanks for the welcome! I am currently writing fantasy. I also have a sci-fi romance that I have been studying on from different angles. His-fic is definitely the one I keep coming back to, though!

@seekjustice hello again! Oh boy…favourite time period like, to write in? Or one I’d want to live in, or…? I’ve been researching…[Read more]

@banana-peacock-warrior good question! The short answer is that I am still looking for the answer myself. Magic can be problematic from a religious point of view, I guess. It is an extremely touchy subject, since the Bible condemns “magic” as wrong, and there are some kinds of fantasy magic which is seriously disturbing and downright shady.

I…[Read more]

@august-grace I am so happy you are back on track with your writing project! I have definitely experienced the drop in productivity because of a lack of faith in your plot and/or a lack of direction. It is rather depressing :(. I had a time when I was editing that I didn’t write any new material for two whole years, and it was terrible. I am…[Read more]

@banana-peacock-warrior thanks so much!

That is pretty much exactly my idea when it comes to his-fic/fantasy…it was a story that actually was set in the real world (since I firmly believe that dragonlike creatures once existed), but it just…had a really strange flavour and I didn’t know EXACTLY where I wanted it/what time period I wanted it…[Read more]

@august-grace oh wow! That sounds like it could be really epic! I am newish to fantasy, so mine is a bit less fantastic than some, I guess. Like I said, it might be a bit of a fantasy/historical fiction cross…if that even works…How long have you had that story in the works?

Hard question! Tolkien is by far my favorite author, but I don’t…[Read more]

Hey guys! I’m new here. Reverently, I have been branching out a bit in terms of genre, but I’m still an historic fiction writer at heart. Nice to meet you all!

Thank you @seekjustice

Oh, dog training? That sounds like a very fun and interesting line of study! Any ideas on what to do with territorial fear aggression towards strangers? :). It is the only thing I absolutely have been unable to get my dog to cooperate on.

Nice! I will probably see you at the historical fiction thread, then! My favourite…[Read more]

Thank you @emberynus-the-dragonslayer Oooh, I’ll have to look into the thread! I just love the research and everything that goes into historical fiction. Do you have a favorite time period to write in? I just recently set aside a book from the Elizabethan era. I’m definitely coming back to it, because it was a ton of fun to write in that time,…[Read more]

Thanks for the welcome @august-grace !

I’m editing right now! It is a dreadful mishmash–I started with historical fiction and ended up writing fantasy :D. So I’m now trying to make it into fantasy, or maybe a sort of fantasy/historical fiction crossover…we’ll see. Anyway, very briefly it’s about a normal girl, living a normal life in…[Read more]