- This topic has 125 replies, 28 voices, and was last updated 6 years, 8 months ago by
.
-
Posts
-
@daeus :O Stan needs one of those as a pet. Right. Now. Teedletiden… XD XD 😀 😀
*Giarstanornarak tries to melt chair*
Also, Daeus has 22 turtles in his signature.@sam-kowal *bursts into laughter* You’re right on spot there with the hit and run synopsis.
Unfortunately for Stan, teedletiden are sentient beings and tend to run away when you try to keep them as pets.
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
@Daeus Whoa, you mean I actually remembered the name correctly? That’s an unexpected plot twist.
Anyway. I love those things. I hardly even know what they are, but I love them.
(*sighs* Now after this admission of adoration, they’re probably going to end up being cannibals or something…)
INTJ ➸Your friendly neighborhood mastermind. ➸https://thesarcasticelf.wordpress.com/
@ethryndal Nope. They’re probably better behaved than humans, actually. 😉
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
@SeekJustice *head swells at a prodigious rate* Well that made my day. Not to jeopardize the awesome-soundingness of it or anything, but I do feel obligated to mention that it sounds a lot better in theory than in actual writing…. *drops face-first onto desk and groans* The curse of all authors.
I shall save you a spot on the beta-readers list. Which only just now came into existence. This is the greatest day of my life.
INTJ ➸Your friendly neighborhood mastermind. ➸https://thesarcasticelf.wordpress.com/
@daeus XD 😛 It’s my trademark to describe WIPs 😀
*swallows* Okay. Of course, I imagine they wouldn’t to associate with dragons too much anyway, being tree people… at least not proper fire-breathing ones. Flames around wood, and all
*Giarstanornarak tries to melt chair*
Also, Daeus has 22 turtles in his signature.@dragon-snapper 😀 You’ll certainly be welcome to beta read it if you’d like. In the interest of full disclosure though, you should know it probably won’t be ready until the end of the year. Sorry, it’s going to be a long book. 😉
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
This book, I like it. Another! *smashes cup*
I might just take you up on that beta reading offer; I’ve never had one before, so it will be a new experience 🙂
*whispers aggressively* "The HONOUR!"
You people are all adorable.
People fighting over cereal with lots of high-tech armor.
Best. Description. Ever.
That’s hilarious. It was so weird at first I couldn’t figure out what you were talking about, and then I remembered your topic about your book, and realized that, however weird, that’s actually an accurate description. 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
"Sylvester - Sylvester!"
*bursts into room, bubbling with joy* *proceeds with the gusto of a mother asked to describe how amazing her children are* (Even though the children can be spoiled brats that never do with I want and are constantly deviating from the plot)
*ahem*
My currant WIP is about Katie, a 12-year-old who loves in the land of Unmagik. Where there is no magic. My naming skills are unparalleled! There is an enchanted river that blocks off a corner of Unmagik, and everyone who tries to cross it is swept away. But… *dramatic pause* Katie’s family built a bridge across the river, because… reasons. Across the river is a magical place called Fairyland. Small, magical creatures sometimes cross the bridge, and, in his younger days, her father went on adventures there. But, the days of just crossing the bridge when you feel like it are over. There’s something malicious, evil, cunning, and all those kinds of words moving in the Fairyland. One day, when the rumors are just too scary to ignore, Katie’s father crosses the bridge to investigate. He doesn’t return, and it’s up to Katie, a grumpy fairy named Brant, and a weird old man called Rumpelstiltskin to find him and basically save the world.
The theme is “Bravery doesn’t mean never being scared, it means facing your fears.”
So yeah, no plot as of yet, and nothing’s set in stone, it’s just a jumble-bumble of ideas.
Reading about everyone else’s WIPs is so awesome! It’s fun to know what other people are cooking up. *disappears in a puff of smoke*
Blog: https://weridasusual.home.blog/
@waterlily
Wow this is a great discussion!
My WIP is about a queen that falls from grace, joins the theater, becomes a celebrity and proceeds to wage the historical equivalent of a Twitter war with her political enemies.
@kate-flournoy a series about the importance of the past? We don’t see that often enough anymore. I mean, we all know it’s good not to be sentimental and dwell on some (made-up) version of a part era which was perfect, because there wasn’t one except for a very little while before snakes got the power of speech, but it seems like the vast majority of people nowadays are trying too hard to rush forward without either consulting the past to learn from its mistakes or stopping to think whether they should be going the way they are. And while I am a bit biased, since I like studying distant and obscure historical periods, and know more about how to get a job in 11th-century England than in my own day (wait, what’s my own day again?), we should have a balance and some of both sides, neither exclusively forward-looking nor backward.
(Do I spy some Tolkien influence in that idea? Probably?)
Oh, this got long. Still, it’s under 400,000 words. . .
You will draw water joyfully from the springs of salvation. (Isaiah 12:3)
@Northerner *pounds table* AMEN, AMEN, AND AMEN.
Well, Tolkien has undoubtedly influenced me, but when I try to trace my intentions for this project back to wherever they’re rooted he actually doesn’t come into the picture much. I think… my whole life’s experience so far has been the influence for that idea. 😛 The storyworld began disgustingly close to a Middle-Earth ripoff, but as I’ve grown and started thinking for myself it’s shifted and shifted and shifted again, and now I’m not sure what it’s like.
I think I chose that theme because a long time ago I noticed the world I’m in today rejecting the truth of the past (evolution, anyone?) and have grown up watching the chaos that ensues. I just feel like I have to tell them that without the past the future doesn’t even make sense.
It’s going to be a tough project. I want to do allegories that no one else seems to think of much— the Fall, and the Tower of Babel, and the giving of the Law, and stuff like that. I do have a Christ story in the middle of the series, but I want to set it up properly, as our history set up Jesus’s coming. I want to tell the whole story of Christianity, not just the middle and the end.
*coughs* I’ll stop before my post rivals yours for wordcount. XD
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.