Ariel Ashira

@clairec Thanks for the welcome! Y’all make me feel so at home, and I love it. 🙂

@jenwriter17 Thank you! I was really excited and surprised that I was in the newsletter. 😉 Yes, writing has definitely made much more of an observer. I love it.

@emilyd Oh cool! I love an Australian accent. 😉 I’m not really into mystery, so not many. XD When I…[Read more]

@itisastarrynight Please do use them, and please do tell us if you do! 🙂

@waterlily I love Kirlas!  She sounds like a strong but sweet girl.  I’ve been imagining her with brown hair and green eyes, but is that totally different from how she will be in – um – unreal life? 🙂  Let me know a teeny bit about your story, because I feel like a mo…[Read more]

@livgiordano Aaah! Just saw your writing advice got into a KP newsletter!!! Congratulations! 😁I like the idea about an ‘idea jar.’ I love to observe my surroundings too. I notice more of the little things since I became a writer.

@perfectfifths  Glad I could help 😉 XD

@jane-maree XD So am I. There’s some cool things later on that help to lessen the pain of it, too

You know you’re a writer AND a fangirl/fanboy when you include names, cameos and/or easter eggs in your stories of things you love

*blinks away heart eyes….*

@atisastarrynight I personally love flashbacks, and I think they can be great if done well. I’m thinking of a certain person who is really good at doing this, but isn’t on KP, unfortunately. 🙁

But yes, have something trigger a memory. Keep it short. You definitely don’t have to info dump. Just let your character remember something, but not all…[Read more]

@itisastarrynight Okay, thanks! Did you have any thoughts on #6? I posted that one later on.

@waterlily Oh wow. This sounds so awesome. I would totally read this.

@waterlily 😀 Yeah. That sounds like a pretty neat idea.

The seawyrms sound quite interesting, too. The crests confused me at first, but I realized you could do something like having a way in the story to manipulate pigments in their scales and cause certain colors to bleed through, and to make the crest, the colors are manipulated in a certain…[Read more]

@overcomer Great. 😀

Here’s a doc for you. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BIHK8v-ag07-tPraj6QWrbf_BVN2P_PjySIw87Ljfyg/edit?usp=sharing

@sleepwalkingmk oh HEY ADORA!!! So cool to see you here! And you’re an MK? Somehow I totally missed that before. XD

@itisastarrynight that sounds way too awesome! I love that idea!

Ohh @itisastarrynight you cannot imagine how helpful this is for me. It’s like the biggest AHA moment ever. Okay. Thank you, thank you, a million times over. Everyone’s advice is finally making sense. That MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. Seriously. You’re totally awesome now. 😉 (not that you weren’t before, but I just got a taste of that awesomeness for the…[Read more]

@dekreel @jadamae Hmm… So I can see in the “Character Name Exchange” thread that the edited post was marked as spam. What happens if you try to edit the first post of the thread? Does the whole thread disappear?

@ingridrd I really like Mern.  It sounds unusual, and would make a character unique, I think.

@daughteroftheking Driana is really pretty and I LOVE Larik!  I hope someone writes a story with someone named Larik just so I can read it and relish in the name. 🙂

@dekreel Um, I’ve never met a Whovian, but my brother is a Trekker…

@sage-g  Since SeekJustice commented, I might as well comment, too:

Your sister is AMAZING! WOW! If I ever get around to those illogical children’s books that I started when I was thirteen, I am SO asking her to illustrate them!

@daughteroftheking  @ingridrd  I love those names!!!!!

@rochellaine  *talking to self* She likes Adric…. SHE LIKES ADRIC!!!!!!!!! Sorry, Adric is a Dr Who character’s name, and you know how we Whovians are……..

@rochellaine
Hmm Idk. Names are kind of a weird thing. Like they have a large impact on how you perceive the character but then also I feel like one name could go to so many completely different characters. Y’know what I mean? although for me its the kind of name I would give to a hero. (or heroine)  🙂