Ariel Ashira

@jenwriter17 Hi, Evie!

Uh, well, at this moment in time Casse is not exactly yelling at the king, but it’s one of those quiet anger things. The king is yelling.

@skredder Yeah, I’m nervous and excited at the same time. At first, I wanted to try a literary agent, but this being my first novel that I wrote since getting serious about writing, I wanted to wait a little while.

How’s Casse? 😉

By the way, Evie is here, sharing a bowl of chocolate ice cream with chocolate chips and chocolate syrup with me (we…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 That would be awesome!! 😀

@skredder Awesome! 😉

I’m working on my dystopian WIP, hoping to finish the first draft and edit before the Realm Makers conference. I hope to get an editor to take a look at it there. 🙂

@jenwriter17 In that case, I’m here!

@skredder I think so 😉

@jenwriter17 I’m writing notes for school. Does that count as writing?

@alia @rochellaine @seekjustice @skredder Anyone on for a bit?

@rochellaine

Sorry I went to sleep before I could get back to you. 🙂

This is the WW1 short story/novellette thing I was editing a little while ago and telling you about.

Thank you so much!! That would be brilliant 😉

annnnnd I’m signing off now

@jenwriter17, @rochellaine, @seekjustice, anyone on?

@rochellaine Yes, @seekjustice will simply have to visit us here in the States so we can show her our ways. 😉

@seekjustice, I like Out of Sight, Out of Mind

@rochellaine, I think the handshake/hug is weird, but that might be because I lived in Asia for so long

@jenwriter17 Yup.  Apparently it’s only an American thing.  No, I don’t think it’s weird, it was @seekjustice who originally said she thought it sounded weird.  But I guess it would be hard to picture if you’ve never seen it.  I know that it’s actually hard for people from other countries to get because we had a family from Canada stay with us a l…[Read more]

@rochellaine You mean the thing guys mostly do, they handshake then use their free arms to hug? If that’s what you’re talking about, I don’t think it’s weird. A lot of people do it. I think it’s kinda a guy thing. 🙂 very American @seekjustice 😉

@rochellaine I haven’t set up myself for the author account thingy (yet!), so I wouldn’t be able to tell you exactly how it worked. But I copy/pasted this here for you, maybe it’ll help:

Follow these steps to apply for the Author Program:
1. Sign in or create an account, and then search for your most popular book via ISBN, ASIN, or title.
2. On…[Read more]

@seekjustice Oh yeah, I was thinking about young people a bit older, I guess.  Kids up until they’re about sixteen or seventeen don’t shake hands with each other, though always with older people.  (The older initiates, though, unless there’s a precocious youngster. 😉 )  When they get to their late teens they start shaking hands with each ot…[Read more]

@rochellaine

If you’d rather not though, that’s fine. 🙂 I just thought I’d ask since you seem knowledgeale on the process.

@Rochellaine

Hand shaking just isn’t a thing with youths here, which is a shame because I like shaking hands (it makes me feel powerful since I can make grown butchers wince. I just have to remember not to crush the old ladies). But you can always go for the high five if they initiate it. 😛

I was stalking Jen’s self publishing thread and saw…[Read more]

@ariel-ashira Thank you! 😀  I was so sure, but then, trying as one American to state a fact about our huge country was kind of intimidating and I wanted to make certain. 😛  @seekjustice needs to come to America to see just how normal and not-awkward the handshake hug really is. 😉