Anatra

@lorelei-writer

*gasp* IS THAT LORELEI I SEE?????!!!!!!!!!!!!! *waves excitedly* Heya, girl!!! SO awesome to see you here!!!! *sends welcome chocolate*

Adverbs. Like happily, cheerfully, sarcastically — especially on dialogue tags. I thought this made my writing more beautiful and descriptive, but then I learnt that you should use string verbs and nouns instead of adverb and adjectives, where you can.

Like, for example: “I can’t believe you betrayed me!” Tom said angrily. If he’s saying tho…[Read more]

Hi @jodi-maile 😁! It’s great to meet you!

My ocarina is also a Zelda-themed Ocarina of Time. It’s dark blue with the Triforce emblem on the mouthpiece guard. I think it’s epic you have a whole collection of them! Don’t you just love all the ocarina tunes from Ocarina of Time? My favourite tune to play is Song of Time, and my favourite tune to…[Read more]

Thanks, @kathleenramm 😊

I taught myself to draw when I was little, it was my greatest passion before I got into writing. I watched a lot of YouTube tutorials by a guy called Mark Crilley to get me started, and then gradually practiced more and more, using how to draw books and stuff. I used reference pictures to create the Arslan image, obviously…[Read more]

@scripter-of-kingdoms Here’s some more of my art😊

Hi, @sarah-anson

I love your idea of making clean manga! I would also love to do this with my WIP novel series too!

And your drawings are soooo good! I love the mask on the first guy (or is it a tattoo?) And the pose of the third one with the girl makes me feel so wistful and mysterious! And the coloured one is just downright gorgeous! Love how…[Read more]

And second:

This is a design for one of my characters that I’m working on. He’s nowhere near finished, though😅. I’m hoping to have a whole section on my website (when I manage to finally crack down and get it web worthy to put up) devoted to art of my characters. I think that’d be fun! Have you guys ever done stuff like that on your websites?

Hi there everyone! I’m a new manga/anime artist on the forum, and I thought I’d share a couple of my pieces.😊 I have a lot of trouble staying on track as an artist, because I’m always writing instead, but these are a couple of my works:

First:

This is fanart from the Heroic Legend of Arslan.

Aye, (oh dear, this is what happens when I start thinking medievally) I understand about the username thing. We are all varying degrees of our pen names. Truly, someone else on here can’t really be a dark-furred, fluffy snake-eating creature. It’s the thought behind it all …

About being a twin, let’s see. First of all, there are different…[Read more]

I know right? It’s nice to meet you too!  @elishavet-pidyon, I think I pronounce Iertan like this: (Ier [like in ier in heir] tin.) Though sometimes I do slip and say it like (Yier-tin)

My tale is about this —

A Usurper’s Heir. A True Prince. Two Families, One Kingdom …

… But What If Each So-Called Prince Were the Hero?

What If Neither We…[Read more]

@scripter-of-kingdoms Hi!

YOU HAVE AN OCARINA?! WHAT ARE THE ODDS?!

*Ahem*

In answer to your questions😁:

1. I wrote things when I was little, but I’d only get a few pages in, if that. I really hated long-term writing until I was about 11, when I became obsessed with the storyline of Super Paper Mario and wrote a whole fan fic series about i…[Read more]

Hi there, @trahia-the-minstrel, it’s very nice to meet you!

That is so funny, what is your tale about, and how is lertan pronounced? Here’s a bit more on Eirtan:  [eeir tahn(r is flapped with EIr said farther back in the mouth)]a country, the head in the two brother-nations of Eirtan and Yartas, main enemy? Dorwin.

I would be glad to help, if I…[Read more]

@melancholic-writer
Oohhh! We call that Nationals. I’m not sure about other districts,(Alaska Yukon sent only one team this last year.) but Texas sent 4 Senior Experienced teams to the 2021 Nationals. (I don’t remember the number of teams for the other divisions.)

Hi, Madelyn!

I love a lot of those authors too! The knights of Arrethrae series made a huge impression on me when I was younger, especially Sir Dalton’s one.

I think your WIP sounds really cool!

I love the stories about royalty.

I love writing stories about royalty😂

This is the hook for my current MS:

A Usurper’s Heir. A True Prince. Two Fam…[Read more]

@anatra23

Are you familiar with or know Russian? I’m still learning, but it’s a beautiful language!

@power

Thanks?

@anatra23

Otto’s accent is supposed to be German influenced, but my more recent book is Russian and may have bled over in the rewrite. Both German and Russian have a ‘v’ sound instead of a ‘w’, and no ‘th’ sound. I don’t speak German, so I’m not as familiar with it. They do sound similar to most people. Russian is spoken from the…[Read more]