Grace H.

Oooh hey, I’m actually a Loyal Sidekick! I get why SE removed the post count (it bugged me too for a while) but it really does give us (introverts) an incentive to post more 😛

@devastate-lasting 你好! 我真的很高兴发现这个地方有另外一个华人! 😀

I’m hailing from Taiwan, so about 20% of the simplified Chinese above is impossible for me to read… but thanks Google Translate 😛

Anyways, even though I’m about 11 pages late, it’s great to meet you! I’m an INFJ and also a student. I think it’s super cool that you’re writing some in Chinese, and…[Read more]

@valtmy Farewell 🙁

Best of luck in your new job!

@jenwriter17 It works now! I don’t know why that happened… but it looks great, overall 🙂 🙂

(Also I’m with everybody else: your picture looks amazing. As does the rest of the site, of course.)

@jenwriter17 Congratulations 😀

You must still be working on it, as the link leads to “A New WordPress Site, Coming Soon”. Can’t wait to see it, though!

@dekreel I can resonate with many of them (also an embarrassed laugh, but none of the faces had that) but I definitely think I’d agree with you on Josiah’s middle face xD

@dekreel YESSSSS 😀 😀

@princessfoo Congratulations! 😀 😀 I also appreciate your breaking-of-cliches in your WIP. Good luck with the contest!

@seekjustice I’m sorry!! I’d never really been involved in a forum before, and didn’t realize what I was doing when I just entered one of the usernames I use online.

If you want a memory tip, it’s g-h, 2-4-6-8 (even numbers) twice, then 9-9-9.

@seekjustice *grins* I live in Taiwan, and I believe it’s @valtmy who lives in Singapore. And… that’s right, Australia is only two hours ahead. Keep forgetting 😛

That’s great! Keep it up 🙂

@seekjustice Oh, okay. Thanks!

At the moment I’m looking towards a transition to the USA for a half-year furlough. (That means I may actually be able to interact live with you guys more often, instead of posting while everybody is sleeping :P)

Writing-wise, I’m thinking about my goal of finishing my first novel by December (I’ll do NaNoWriMo,…[Read more]

Pops on here (I’m not writing, sorry) to ask @seekjustice a random question:

Do you get a lot of WordPress followers that are from @outlook.com? What do you make of them? Because I think I have like 20 of them now, but WordPress often doesn’t recognize them as followers.

@daughteroftheking I actually do something like that while I’m writing. Not just while writing, though, but when I’m imagining scenes in my head, I’ll adapt facial expressions, body language, and have to be careful not to let anybody see me… xD

@seekjustice @rochellaine @jenwriter17 @kaya-young @daughteroftheking @all-the-remaining-kapeefers Even though I’m on a SE guild, I’m also here :/ I’ve been busy recently, so I haven’t even been spending time on either this place or SE. I agree that it’s sad that the Kingdom of Pen has been abandoned. AND (lol) I also know how to both knit and…[Read more]

@kaya-young I’m at the moment sort of experimenting with poetry once in a while. I like to write beautiful, graceful free verse rather than structured stanzas, although I do enjoy poems with structure as well.

Some great poetry tips I’ve heard include using imagery/metaphors as much as you can and aiming to make the piece beautiful.

Does anybody…[Read more]

@alia Oh no!! xD Finding names is the worst for me, and is an excuse for why I don’t like creating a large cast of characters. Did the book end up being useful, though?

@sarah-anson I struggle with this, too. In my limited experience of struggling to understand the MC of my novel premise, I would say something that’s important would be to get to the heart of this character, to feel their brokenness in the pit of your stomach and be able to relate to that. The main impression I got from your description was that…[Read more]

@markkamibaya This is so not a full year later (haha), but I really needed to hear what you said about every scene, every act, and so on being like that. Thanks 😀

@inkling-for-christ Mmm, yes, try to meet my characters, instead of creating them. I think that my biggest problem is that I tend to squish characters into plots I create (since I get excited about plots more than characters) but it might have to be the other way around, as mentioned above “character driven writing”. Thanks!