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				<title>Joy replied to the topic Art challenge(s) in the forum Art</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 03:38:40 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, this was fun</p>
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				<title>Joy replied to the topic The Chat Chat in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:30:23 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/beth-torres/" rel="nofollow ugc">@beth-torres</a> It&#8217;s something akin to fantasy with some steampunkish elements and a dash of magic</p>
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<p>Yeah I have too many ideas to pay attention to it&#8217;s very frustrating lol</p>
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				<title>Joy replied to the topic The Chat Chat in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:20:25 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/whalekeeper/" rel="nofollow ugc">@whalekeeper</a> <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/keilah-h/" rel="nofollow ugc">@keilah-h</a> <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/beth-torres/" rel="nofollow ugc">@beth-torres</a> Nice to see/meet you all ^.^ Basically I have a world that functions as an aquarium for my OCs to swim around in, and my current project follows the story of one of them. A girl is born into slavery but ends up escaping as the government crumbles and starts a new life in freedom. There, that&#8217;s your blurb lol.&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-210803"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/the-chat-chat/page/607/#post-213546" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Joy replied to the topic The Chat Chat in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:20:56 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hlo peeps, hope you&#8217;ve been well 🙂</p>
<p>I started a new writing project a month or so ago so I may pop in to talk once in a while</p>
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				<title>Joy replied to the topic Character Interviews in the forum Characters</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 21:00:04 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here we go, introducing Peri, Hazel, Mabel, Ester, Sebastian and Julia, my characters from various universes! I&#8217;m using a handful of questions I picked up from the archives. These aren&#8217;t even all the answers but I don&#8217;t want to make a post that&#8217;s a mile long and I&#8217;m gonna wait to see if people want more. Feel free to ask me or any one of these&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-201603"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/character-interviews/page/28/#post-202538" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Joy replied to the topic Character Interviews in the forum Characters</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 05:29:33 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;I may or may not have liked this idea so much I spent three hours writing answers from the POVs of <em>six</em> different characters&#8230; I&#8217;ll share when it&#8217;s not the middle of the night haha.</p>
<p>Also <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/rae/" rel="nofollow ugc">@rae</a> Silvanis&#8217;s full name is <em>awesome</em> ^.^</p>
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				<title>Joy replied to the topic Is there a trope you don&#039;t see very often that you love? in the forum Topic of the Week</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 00:35:19 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If I may add my two cents: an ACTUALLY MATURE romance story with TWO ACTUALLY MATURE human beings who respect each other through and through and even if they break up they&#8217;re as courteous as can be</p>
<p><em>But that&#8217;s <strong>boring<br />
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<p>Ah&#8230;.. so that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so rare&#8230;</p>
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				<title>Joy replied to the topic Want me to draw your character? in the forum Art</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2025 11:53:37 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/grcr/" rel="nofollow ugc">@grcr</a> Love your style! To be able to detail hair and faces like that&#8230; *insert starry eyed emoji*</p>
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				<title>Joy replied to the topic Art Sharing For All :) in the forum Art</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:09:28 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love all this art so much &lt;3</p>
<p>(also hi you probably don&#8217;t know me but I stop by every once in a while to see what&#8217;s been happening ^.^)</p>
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				<title>Joy&#039;s profile was updated</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2024 02:05:18 -0400</pubDate>

				
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				<title>Joy replied to the topic The Chat Chat in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2024 02:01:42 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello, poking my head out of the void to say I hope everyone is doing well and that your creative projects are flowing smoothly ^.^</p>
<p>I was active years ago and have been feeling nostalgic over the past few days haha. Glad to see the forums still alive and kicking!</p>
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				<title>Darik Swisher replied to the topic Whazzap!!!!!! in the forum Start HERE</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:09:01 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/ellette-giselle/" rel="nofollow ugc">@ellette-giselle</a><br />
Yes we&#8217;ll its not every day that the court jester turns up at the gates after being missing for 6 years and everyone just excepts it and let&#8217;s him in&#8230;<br />
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<p><a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/raxforge/" rel="nofollow ugc">@raxforge</a></p>
<p>God made you special! And he loves you very much!</p>
<p>Especially with him being a kid when he vanished. It&#8217;s doubtful anyone could recognise him. But stranger things&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-185518"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/whazzap/page/3/#post-186938" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Darik Swisher replied to the topic Whazzap!!!!!! in the forum Start HERE</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 08:29:45 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello there&#8230;</p>
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<p>This is me reappearing after 5 plus years&#8230;</p>
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				<title>Mallory O&#039;Bier replied to the topic An aggravation over Stained Glass in the forum Poetry Critiques</title>
				<link>https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/an-aggravation-over-stained-glass/#post-170925</link>
				<pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2023 03:08:43 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love the imagery the words create! Your style is very different from mine so I don&#8217;t know how helpful I can be, but I&#8217;ll try! 🙂</p>
<p>What meter are you using? (I&#8217;m not very familiar with meter so I have to ask.)</p>
<p>The rhymes are slant rhymes I think? They&#8217;re not exact. But it&#8217;s pretty consistent until it gets to the last stanza. I don&#8217;t think that&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-167983"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/an-aggravation-over-stained-glass/#post-170925" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Mallory O&#039;Bier replied to the topic The Moonlit Sea and Me in the forum Poetry Critiques</title>
				<link>https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/the-moonlit-sea-and-me/page/2/#post-169293</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2023 14:50:55 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love the freeverse (that isn&#8217;t freeverse) poem! 🙂 Absolutely! Tag me when you post that poem that&#8217;s giving you grief. <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/koshka/" rel="nofollow ugc">@koshka</a></p>
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				<title>Mallory O&#039;Bier replied to the topic The Moonlit Sea and Me in the forum Poetry Critiques</title>
				<link>https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/the-moonlit-sea-and-me/page/2/#post-169264</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2023 03:54:05 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Goodness me, I thought I replied to you ages ago, <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/koshka/" rel="nofollow ugc">@koshka</a>! Sorry! Now that I think about it, I went down a rabbit hole of web searching and trying to figure out what sort of poem it was, and I think I started to write a reply but must&#8217;ve never posted it.</p>
<p>Essentially, it&#8217;s a rhyming poem, but not a metered one. Some sources consider it free verse,&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-166090"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/the-moonlit-sea-and-me/page/2/#post-169264" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Mallory O&#039;Bier posted an update: Lately, I&#039;ve been brainstorming a very important question to [&#133;]</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 03:59:52 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been brainstorming a very important question to my WIP: Why do the aliens attack? While I&#8217;d been kinda hoping to leave it as simply random and kinda comical, lately I&#8217;ve been wondering if I&#8217;m not just being lazy. Shouldn&#8217;t the aliens have a reason or purpose? I have some ideas of my own already, but I&#8217;m curious. What do y&#8217;all think?&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-161387"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/activity/p/161387/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Mallory O&#039;Bier replied to the topic The Moonlit Sea and Me in the forum Poetry Critiques</title>
				<link>https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/the-moonlit-sea-and-me/page/2/#post-165014</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 03:46:35 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now that I think about it, I&#8217;m really stuck on the edits so I might as well share what I&#8217;ve got here and see if you guys can&#8217;t help me get unstuck. I&#8217;ve made a few small changes that you may notice, but the main thing that I&#8217;m struggling with is settling on an ending.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve written several endings that all have slight variations in words and&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-161379"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/the-moonlit-sea-and-me/page/2/#post-165014" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Mallory O&#039;Bier replied to the topic The Moonlit Sea and Me in the forum Poetry Critiques</title>
				<link>https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/the-moonlit-sea-and-me/page/2/#post-165009</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 03:13:01 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/karissa-chmil/" rel="nofollow ugc">@karissa-chmil</a>! This is definitely one of my poems that I find myself going back to a lot and rereading. The atmosphere and imagery of it really draw me in, and I like pondering the meaning of it. 🙂</p>
<p>One of the edits I&#8217;m considering is possibly connecting some of the shorter, broken lines in the part of the poem you mention. It&#8217;s supposed&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-161376"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/the-moonlit-sea-and-me/page/2/#post-165009" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Mallory O&#039;Bier replied to the topic The Moonlit Sea and Me in the forum Poetry Critiques</title>
				<link>https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/the-moonlit-sea-and-me/#post-165008</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 03:03:46 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/koshka/" rel="nofollow ugc">@koshka</a>! I love the layered meanings of words too. It was funny because I drafted it so hastily and impulsively that I didn&#8217;t even realize the full depth of meaning I had woven into the poem&#8211;until I was reading and rereading while editing. It was intentional and yet much of it was subconsciously done.</p>
<p>I just let all of the mixed-up&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-161375"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/the-moonlit-sea-and-me/#post-165008" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Mallory O&#039;Bier replied to the topic The Shabby Guitar Poem in the forum Poetry Critiques</title>
				<link>https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/the-shabby-guitar-poem/#post-165007</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 02:31:37 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/koshka/" rel="nofollow ugc">@koshka</a>! That would be great. 🙂</p>
<p>I wrote this poem after my uncle&#8217;s passing. He was self-taught on guitar and left a few of the instruments behind (as well as many people who loved him).</p>
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				<title>Mallory O&#039;Bier replied to the topic Why was my post marked as spam? in the forum Questions and Support</title>
				<link>https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/why-was-my-post-marked-as-spam/#post-164225</link>
				<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2023 05:06:10 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, I just deleted the old post from my feed, redid the post and reposted it. It worked. 🙂 <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/kathleenramm/" rel="nofollow ugc">@kathleenramm</a></p>
<p>I think it must&#8217;ve marked it as spam before because I edited it a few times? Not really sure. Weird.</p>
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				<title>Mallory O&#039;Bier started the topic The Shabby Guitar Poem in the forum Poetry Critiques</title>
				<link>https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/the-shabby-guitar-poem/</link>
				<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2023 05:03:48 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’d appreciate any and all feedback on this one! It’s an older poem of mine that I really want to polish and improve. Thanks! &#x1f600;</p>
<p><em><strong>The Shabby Guitar</strong></em></p>
<p>&#8212;-</p>
<p><em>Silent is the shabby guitar </em></p>
<p><em>Locked and put away</em></p>
<p><em>Faded are the songs it made </em></p>
<p><em>Folded are the hands that played</em></p>
<p><em>&#8212;-</em></p>
<p><em>Silent is the shabby guitar </em></p>
<p><em>Slowly losing its tune</em></p>
<p><em>While people come a&hellip;</em><span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-160494"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/the-shabby-guitar-poem/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Mallory O&#039;Bier replied to the topic Why was my post marked as spam? in the forum Questions and Support</title>
				<link>https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/why-was-my-post-marked-as-spam/#post-164223</link>
				<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2023 04:57:07 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/whalekeeper/" rel="nofollow ugc">@whalekeeper</a> ! 🙂</p>
<p>Hi, <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/kathleenramm/" rel="nofollow ugc">@kathleenramm</a> ! I haven&#8217;t tried reposting it yet. It&#8217;s still hidden so far as I can make out. I see on my profile that I made the post, but it&#8217;s still marked as spam in the thread section.</p>
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				<title>Mallory O&#039;Bier started the topic Why was my post marked as spam? in the forum Questions and Support</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2023 03:06:11 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I posted a new post in the poetry critiques, but I had to edit a couple of times to make the formatting right. Suddenly, it was marked as spam and hidden? I&#8217;m confused.</p>
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				<title>Joy replied to the topic The Chat Chat in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2023 18:53:36 -0400</pubDate>

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				<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2023 03:05:54 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Awesome, <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/acancello/" rel="nofollow ugc">@acancello</a>! I prefer that one too! 🙂</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll think about it for sure, <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/light-warrior-pen/" rel="nofollow ugc">@light-warrior-pen</a>. 🙂</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2023 02:33:36 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@avancello, your comments made my day! I&#8217;m so glad you like my poem! 🙂 It really makes sharing it worthwhile! I was seriously thinking about just burying this poem after editing it, but maybe I&#8217;ll publish it somewhere after all.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually considering altering one of those lines slightly, so I&#8217;m curious about what you think.</p>
<p>It would be&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-151722"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/the-moonlit-sea-and-me/#post-156135" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:10:54 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Endings are tricky, aren&#8217;t they? <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/light-warrior-pen/" rel="nofollow ugc">@light-warrior-pen</a> ? Sometimes they come naturally and effortlessly, but most of the time they take a lot of staring at the WIP, then staring off at nothing, then staring at the WIP again, then writing gibberish, then&#8230;</p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:07:26 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/elanor/" rel="nofollow ugc">@elanor</a> ! 😀</p>
<p>You grasped the concept of my poem perfectly! I&#8217;m glad you enjoyed it and found it relatable. 🙂 Because it&#8217;s very personal, I really wasn&#8217;t sure if anyone would be interested in it. I&#8217;m glad I decided to share it!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m still working on those last lines. I&#8217;m torn between fleshing them out and changing them a bit to better&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-151653"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/the-moonlit-sea-and-me/#post-156069" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 19:28:49 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/light-warrior-pen/" rel="nofollow ugc">@light-warrior-pen</a> ! I&#8217;m glad you liked my imagery. &#x1f60a;</p>
<p>The subject is me, the author, and the boat and sea is a fictional, metaphorical dream I used to describe the feeling of living in myself, I suppose. (Although I was next to the sea and I have been in wooden boats many times. My da is a fisherman, so.)</p>
<p>I&#8217;m glad you pointed that out&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-150795"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/the-moonlit-sea-and-me/#post-155287" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2023 02:28:34 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, everyone! This is my most recent, completed poem. Please critique it and let me know what you think! I&#8217;m looking for feedback an all aspects of the poem (including the name, and consistency of imagery), so don&#8217;t be shy if you have any thoughts to share. (I&#8217;m working on sharing my poetry more often and seeking regular feedback.)</p>
<p>Thanks!<br />
<strong>The&hellip;</strong><span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-150324"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/the-moonlit-sea-and-me/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Mallory O&#039;Bier replied to the topic Does anyone here write poetry or haiku&#039;s ? in the forum Poetry</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2023 23:00:41 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice poem, <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/acancello/" rel="nofollow ugc">@acancello</a>! And I like yours, <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/mineralizedwritings/" rel="nofollow ugc">@mineralizedwritings</a>, and the <em>Masked </em>and <em>Victory </em>poems, <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/elanor/" rel="nofollow ugc">@elanor</a>. 🙂</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t written any lately, I&#8217;ve been so busy with work. Maybe I&#8217;ll write one this weekend.</p>
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				<title>Joy replied to the topic Art Sharing For All :) in the forum Art</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2023 14:18:09 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/keilah-h/" rel="nofollow ugc">@keilah-h</a> The <em>what???</em> Time to look back at my old posts&#8230;.. 😛</p>
<p>OH. That&#8217;s not mine that is <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/power/" rel="nofollow ugc">@power</a> &#8216;s. Mine is the one above that</p>
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				<title>Joy replied to the topic Writers&#039; Corner #1 in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2023 01:33:58 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/seekjustice/" rel="nofollow ugc">@seekjustice</a> YOU&#8217;RE HERE!!! 😀 Yeah I totally understand haha!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not too bad. I&#8217;ve been focusing my energy on drawing and other things instead of writing over the past few years, although I do have an idea for a writing project that I just need to get over the writer&#8217;s block for haha. How&#8217;ve you been???</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/euodia-vision/" rel="nofollow ugc">@euodia-vision</a> Yeah, it&#8217;s a place to&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-143489"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/writers-corner-1/page/7/#post-148069" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Joy replied to the topic Writers&#039; Corner #1 in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2023 06:55:25 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would like to bring this back once again. Good place to chat while you&#8217;re working on stuff. It&#8217;s supposed to help people be motivated to write if they know someone else is doing it with you while also chatting with you&#8230;&#8230;. emphasis on *supposed to*, I&#8217;m notoriously bad at focusing when I&#8217;m talking to people haha, but I&#8217;ve always loved the&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-143253"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/writers-corner-1/page/6/#post-147826" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Mallory O&#039;Bier replied to the topic Does anyone here write poetry or haiku&#039;s ? in the forum Poetry</title>
				<link>https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/does-anyone-here-write-poetry-or-haikus/page/5/#post-146896</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 14:56:52 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s fun, <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/elanor/" rel="nofollow ugc">@elanor</a>! 🙂</p>
<p>This is my most recent poem. Most of my poetry is brief in length. Usually, I get out an idea or a feeling and then stop.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><em><strong>Forgottenings</strong></em></p>
<p><em>Sediments of nostalgia shape a place:</em></p>
<p><em>Like icing on a cake, wrinkles in a face</em></p>
<p><em>Aging, changing, but ever the same feelings,</em></p>
<p><em>Nameless emotions, memories stirring</em></p>
<p><em>Like ghosts,&hellip;</em><span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-142333"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/does-anyone-here-write-poetry-or-haikus/page/5/#post-146896" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 14:28:17 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sure! 🙂</p>
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				<title>Joy replied to the topic Art Sharing For All :) in the forum Art</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 04:47:05 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/artsy-dragon/" rel="nofollow ugc">@artsy-dragon</a> Oh that robot is so cool</p>
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				<title>Joy replied to the topic Character Castle! in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2023 04:00:49 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/keilah-h/" rel="nofollow ugc">@keilah-h</a> Hi um I am so so so sorry I&#8217;ve been unfaithful with posting here. I&#8217;m gonna go ahead and withdraw Hazel for now so Feather can do their own thing.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve always been like this in roleplay-like situations&#8230; I&#8217;ll be super excited about it, prepare a character, brainstorm ideas, write the first segment&#8230;. and then immediately lose&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-141963"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/character-castle/page/401/#post-146524" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2023 18:10:04 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m doing good! I&#8217;m working a lot between my jobs as a photographer&#8217;s assistant and a clerk at the library, and writing in between. I&#8217;m working on finishing a draft of my WIP within the next three months and getting my blog up. I&#8217;ve been writing some poetry and song lyrics too. I&#8217;m also trying to do and learn as many new things as possible because&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-141811"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/activity/p/129678/#acomment-141811" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Mallory O&#039;Bier replied to the topic A Place to share/write whatever we’re working on: Worldbuilding, plot, etc in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2023 17:59:14 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, @freedom. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m slaying a dragon, I&#8217;m just writing a book. How dangerous can it be?</p>
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				<title>Joy replied to the topic Art Sharing For All :) in the forum Art</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2023 04:25:13 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just finished a storybook-ish style piece featuring my &#8220;adopted&#8221; charries from a fan story I&#8217;ve been working on. Fun to work on 😀</p>
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				<title>Mallory O&#039;Bier replied to the topic A Place to share/write whatever we’re working on: Worldbuilding, plot, etc in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2023 02:51:13 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/esther-c/" rel="nofollow ugc">@esther-c</a> and <a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/lightoverdarkness6/" rel="nofollow ugc">@lightoverdarkness6</a>. &#x1f601;&#x1f44d;</p>
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				<title>Mallory O&#039;Bier replied to the topic A Place to share/write whatever we’re working on: Worldbuilding, plot, etc in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 23:01:19 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m working on convincing my writing to become a book and not just random scribbles. I&#8217;ll let y&#8217;all know how it goes. 🙂</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 22:54:02 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Only the nice ones. I agree with you there! How are you doing these days?</p>
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				<title>Joy replied to the topic Talking about are Fanfics in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 17:45:38 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://kingdompen.org/members/keilah-h/" rel="nofollow ugc">@keilah-h</a> Miitopia is a game, Hermitcraft is a youtube series of a bunch of people playing Minecraft. It&#8217;s more interesting than it sounds, trust me haha.</p>
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				<title>Joy replied to the topic Fanfics Charries in the forum Characters</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2023 04:05:55 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For some reason I feel embarrassed talking about my adopted characters aaa-</p>
<p>Right now I have two, but I had soooo many during childhood from kids TV shows.</p>
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				<title>Joy replied to the topic Talking about are Fanfics in the forum General Writing Discussions</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2023 20:32:41 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just started writing a fanfic the other day. I&#8217;ve had this idea stewing in my head for months which means now that I&#8217;m finally trying to write it down I have no idea where to even begin because I have sooooo many ideas and details packed into my brain that I MUST GET OUT ALL AT ONCE BUT I CAN&#8217;T-</p>
<p>Plus I admit I haven&#8217;t done any creative writing&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-140779"><a href="https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/talking-about-are-fanfics/page/7/#post-145406" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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