Ava Blue

@sarafini

XD You got around to doing this for I did, congratulations! I’ll be attending this. =p

@lightoverdarkness6

I can’t tell you how much your writing has improved since I first roleplayed with you, like girl! You should be so proud!! <3 Love the descriptions of Asher trying to keep the smoke at bay!

@freedomwriter76

I’ve got time now!

@lightoverdarkness6 If you have the time to rp, we’re ramping up the one with Tony Tauren Lesli Mathew and the other two rn.

Tauren hesitantly walks over to (insert bad guys name I can’t remember XD!). (insert bad guys name) looks up, glaring stiffly at Tony.

“Can we uh– get that key?” Tauren says, crossing…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

OOOOO this is a very interesting discussion!

I agree that positive parents are desperately needed in fiction. I also agree that positive parents doesn’t mean flawless parents.

I have some positive parental relationships and potientally (I haven’t decided yet) some toxic parental relationships. I would think if you were going to…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

Thank you so much for  making this! XD

I have a couple instances of bad parents in my story, but also some good ones.

I’ve noticed the exact same thing in books for ya these days. It’s pretty tempting to go that way because it’s really hard to give characters actually moral flaws, because we love them and want them to be perfect!…[Read more]

Hi!! To all the writers out there who are graduating this year, congrats!

@whalekeeper

Not losing any friendship here. I love people who want to talk about important things like this and who aren’t afraid say what they think is true. Please keep reading your dialogues and bringing up great topics to discuss.

@whalekeeper

Don’t stop, conversations like this are fun!

I need to stop doing this, I am going to lose some friends

@godlyfantasy12

This isn’t something you have to apologize for, kay? <3 I am not the high and mighty word of wisdom. This is just something I wanted to talk about, and foster consideration. And your charries’ role models sound great!

@everyoneingeneral

I read all your posts, and thank you for spamming me, I enjoyed it, and am glad that people…[Read more]

@starshiness

You might find it interesting that npr did an article on why teens are drawn to dystopia novels. You can find it here:…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

@starshiness I’m pretty sure you are right. One interesting thing is that there is no overarching rating board for books like there is for movies or video games. Instead books are placed into the sections that they are by publishers, libraries, and bookstores. When trying to decide where to place a book (either the children’s, you…[Read more]

@keilah-h

Aw, thanks!!

@whalekeeper

I totally agree! There’s nothing wrong with writing the occasional bad or deceased parent of course, but it seems like every book I read (and even more so with tv shows) has a bunch of characters with parent issues.

Have you read the article on here called “Navigating Family Stereotypes”? It talks about this a bit and has some reall…[Read more]

@esther-c

I might jump in here if I have time… is it just one group currently?

@whalekeeper

Ahhhhh nice parents!!!!!

I’ve noticed this too, and it is a little disturbing. It’s not that we shouldn’t address abuse etc. in our writing – we should – but we need to be careful about what we portray as normal. The words we write are powerful.

Also, that note on character flaws is Soo true and pretty much a personal writing…[Read more]

@godlyfantasy12 @freedomwriter76 @esther-c @keilah-h

If you guys don’t mind, I’m on pause for like, an entire week 😅 I might touch here in Monday – dunno – I’ll try – there’s like, end-of-year school drama, graduations, old friends, all that amazing stuff.

@kyronthearcanin

I’m behind on the reading, just finished chapter 5

So…Dune looks like a cat??? XD I went the entire first four chapters thinking he was a bird. *facepalm*

AAaand now I’ve finished chapter six.

Okay, I love this group. They’re hilarious, this is going to be fun.

I’m tired and so don’t have any suggestions for you, I’m sorry.