calidris

@devastating-lasting

So true!!!!

I love ducks!!! they’re good pets and would make very innocent looking spies, and also information carriers if you trained them…

Chickens!!! yessss. They’d make good traveling companions! push comes to shove eat the chikcen… muahahaha  They’re also good at catching mosquitoes and other annoying bugs!! so…[Read more]

@hallie-jean

oooo great point!!!

*gasps * Ladybugs! Perfect! You gave me an idea!

and GIANT grasshoppers! For my dragon people!!! They get on their grasshopper and it jumps and flings them on the air and they get a jumpstart flight!!

thank you! You gave me ideas!!

Moths would be cool too… I mean Gandalf used one…

ohhh what if the…[Read more]

@godlyfantasy12

ooo my friend loves those critters!! Good choice, good choice! That must be so fun! Do they talk? O.O

what did you name it?

yeah… that is a great idea when I need some critters! Thanks!

i have an albino deer and elephants and a ferret and a cottontail rabbit in mine, and the ferret is named Lokee  XD

@joy-caroline

wow I would say YES but I really like adding a  traumatized person to my stories and then tying in their story with the plot!

I would say as long as you make sure to keep it tied into the plot, do it. Like maybe they just miss each other or something…

anyways yes!

@hallie-jean

yesss! That’s great! 😂 love it!

@joy-caroline

Good point… I like zebras too! That’s a good idea! 😃

@daisy-torres

cool! Haha sounds perfect for unsuspecting mischief… and a talking one at that!

my dad had a pet ferret at one point named Loki 😂 it was a cheeky critter; it loved to hide under the couch and then when peo…[Read more]

@kathleenramm

mine is so secret identity!!! I have at least two people in each book of my series; sometimes the same and sometimes new ones. Not intentionally

i love the chances for discovery and adding layers

“well… we’re like onions.”

“So… they smell?”

“Yes— no! We have layers! Onions have layers!

“Well cake has layers!

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@keilah-h

cool cool! I haven’t seen many Star Wars, and only two Marvel, and the last ones listed I have never heard of… they sound cool! that’s a fun idea, combining two fandoms! 🙂

@keilah-h

don’t get me wrong, I think it’s really cool you do those!

@keilah-h

Ahh ok. that sounds fun! what movies/books have you done fan fics on?

You know… the ready-made part is probably what makes it hard for me; I love making new things, and trying to replicate artistic works (except accents and voices) really doesn’t work for me, be it characters or drawings and paintings.

@keilah-h

sounds cool! Good for you! I have never succeeded at fan fics, but everyone is different and I appreciate writers who can take a character and make their own fan fic and it turn out really cool. From what you’ve described here and other topics, I’d say you must have lots of fun doing them! Keep it up! 🙂

I must admit… I love doing…[Read more]

@kathleenramm

thank you!

i do like those kinds of characters as well. After all, no one is perfect.

In this case it’s the villain’s fiancé/soon-to-be wife who  defends him and yet criticize him. She loves him fiercely and the two are rather a funny pair, but it works XD. She’s got a quick temper and trust issues but once you have her trust,…[Read more]

@kathleenramm

I have unwittingly written many XD. I admit I automatically do that with characters. Maybe too much. I have two favorites.

The main antagonist, who I mentioned in the topic of the week, is the one I’m currently doing. I debating a few endings… but I decided on a positive character arc instead of him staying locked up in the far…[Read more]

@hallie-jean

I do the same as @daisy-torres. Although, I do keep my first draft in a separate doc in case I reread later and don’t like my 2nd draft. I like to end a chapter mysteriously as possible and pick up on a different POV if there’s more than one. I like stories where the chapter ends in one charrie’s POV, and starts in a different one;…[Read more]

@hallie-jean

Alrighty! So abt the draft thing: I have basically the ideas of Jodi Maile, so thank you for putting this into words.

So for book beginnings, I have opinions very similar to Ted Decker’s. To begin a book, it depends on the writers style and choice of course, but I’m just throwing options and things I typically use. Jumping into the…[Read more]

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In it. Yup it do.

@joy-caroline

It’s power of the mind, my friend. Power of the mind… XD

and also some do look a lot more classy than others…

@joy-caroline

Well….. I am pretty basic with fonts… but as said by @writerlexi1216 changing fonts is like magic!!! It has helped me get past writer’s block, too.

@nova21 I wonder if it’s because it’s easy to do and something simple to control. It usually doesn’t take a lot of brainpower like story plotting does.

For all my books: Arial for…[Read more]

@daisy-torres

thanks!! I actually just finished the first draft for the last book in the series…

gimme til August and I plan to have it polished enough for other eyes…

@not-so-secret-secret-assassin

idk what that tag at the bottom of your last response was, but if it’s a gang other than me and friends gang writing stories I ain’t  in…[Read more]