Lady Bella

Thanks @bella-d ! I’m glad I made you laugh! I had fun researching and writing about Nero. He was… interesting, and slightly crazy.

@bella-d   Well, to start with, the major event of Nero’s reign was the great fire, supposedly started by… Nero. It is said he played a fiddle while Rome burned! Then he blamed Christians for starting the great fire, and Paul and Peter were both martyred. I think it’s safe to say Nero was evil.

In his first five years of rule Nero was very g…[Read more]

@bella-d Dark ages = The plague. Dirt floors and poor peasants.  Farming. And medevil.. Elegant rich princesses sitting in castle towers.
And also, stained glass!!! Like, seriously, though. whispers stained glass. And the endless arguments over popes and kings over whos more powerful /rolls eyes.

@bella-d I second all the comments above! 🙂

Something I think is interesting about Medieval times is that back then very few people knew how to read, and so almost all news was carried from castle to castle by minstrels who would make up songs about the famous deeds done, and would learn songs from other minstrels to carry the news of those…[Read more]

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Castles. Knights. Towers. Dragons. Princesses. Towers. Renaissance festival. The Honor code. Robin Hood. Jousting. Daring quests. King Arthur and the Round table. Swords. Special swords. Forests. Woodland creatures. Fairy tales.

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Mud. That’s what comes to mind first: mud, and lots of it. ;P Other than that, fancy family crest thingies on flags, knights in shining (or muddy!) armor, guys with longbows, big battle horses, and those ice-cream-cone shaped hats that princesses wore.

And mud. 😀

@bella-d  Dark Ages…

Surfs, Dukes, Black Death, peasants, stone castles, black knights on black horses… and everything that @skredder said

@bella-d When I hear “Dark Ages” I think of the plague, grey stones, monks, Bibles with the really intricate hand-drawn colored pictures and font, and marauders. When I hear “Medieval” I think of knights with swords, jousting, rich women in dresses, castles, peasants in a town or village, and forests and rolling hills.

And for the record, I…[Read more]

@Bella-D *salutes* Happy to be of service! 🙂

@Bella-D it would appear I have been summoned. Thank you @daeus.  🙂

Let me see… there are a number of potential answers to this question. The one that ended up being the answer for me isn’t so much about changing the side of the character that is reserved, brooding, and unresponsive, but about developing a second side to balance it— the one…[Read more]

@bella-d I think the first way people learn to make relationships is when someone else forces them out of their shell into a relationship.  I know this may seem cliche, but I think the reason it works so well in fiction is because it is like that in real life.  I have seen traumatized and withdrawn people who opened up after a lot of patience a…[Read more]

@bella-d I could answer this, but I’m most interested in what @kate-flournoy would say since I know she’s faced something similar and overcame it.

@bella-d Yeah! The YWW is great. I’m technically a part of it just not active on the discussion threads very much. 🙂

@bella-d Welcome, welcome, and for the third time, welcome! Everyone else has already said everything I would have said, so… yeah. Good luck on your historical fiction.

@bella-d  ;-D Glad to be of service *bows*

@bella-d Hello! Me and my assistant, Aberdeen the Authorosarus (he’s an ink-drinking, book-eating dinosaur), greet you! 🙂 🦖

What is your favorite color?

@bella-d We’ll ignore that I’m a little late to the party.

Welcome to Kingdom Pen! Ummm… question that no one has thought of yet.

Aha! Do you like mushrooms?

@bella-d Hi Bella! Welcome, welcome 😀 Are you in YWW? If so, I’m Adora from YWWC.

@bella-d Hey welcome! Glad to see new faces on the forum! How did you hear about Kingdom Pen?

@bella-d  Oh, yeah, the rank under your name depends on how many times you’ve posted.

Once you have made…

• Your first post, you are a Bumbling Henchman
• 20 posts, you become a Charismatic Rebel
• 50 posts: Wise Jester
• 100 posts: Loyal Sidekick
• 300 posts: Knight in Shining Armor
• 1000 posts: Eccentric Mentor
• 2000 posts: Chosen…

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