I’ve been trying to improve my art so I can draw my fantasy characters (I at least need some character art for marketing on social media) and it’s…a process😅😂

I’m interested to see him now. Who is he? What connection does he have to our characters? Why is he so evil?

Meet Sergei Mikhaylov, Soviet Officer (haven’t decided if he’s Stasi or KGB (I think they were operating then??) yet) and former Soviet Soldier during WW2. I’m not completely sure about his background yet but I know he a…[Read more]

*Screams*!!!!!

I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!! This is going to be so cool! I have waited so long for this!!!

Ahh yesss, I am so excited. There are so many things in Book 3 I’m looking forward to and UGHHH I can’t wait.

I wrote one of those types a little while ago. The nicknames and insults thrown at him were glorious! 😂

No one h…[Read more]

Ari

He nodded and picked up the rod.

“Arm.” Ari quickly measured Ellis’s draw length and went back to the rack of bows. A slightly longer recurve would do.

“Here. This one’s about fifteen pounds too. I don’t want you two shooting me with a bow you can’t control. If you’re going to shoot someone it had better be on…[Read more]

And I just asked Ellis a question. XD

He can answer or not or just shrug.

*Ahem*

@loppylin @whalekeeper

I love the cat. Such attitude, such floof.

Ari

Rythmic thuds of broadheads into targets pulsed as a heartbeat. Only a handful of students were practicing, their vows a range from graceful limbed recurves to longbows as tall as their archers. High windows some fifteen feet up the outer wall let in…[Read more]

Is that different? And I think so…

Colleges focus on undergraduate degrees (Associates and sometimes Bachelor) and certificates. Universities typically offer all of those plus Graduate degrees (Masters and PH.Ds).

College are smaller, so smaller class sizes (20 to 30 student), more personalized attention, a tighter-knit e…[Read more]

*Gasp*

I have fans! I have fans that will stalk me!!! Must hire an entourage of security guards!!!! Must buy a purple sequin suit!!!!!

👮😎👮

They have a 20% acceptance rate though.😭😭😭

I may end up taking a gap year and doing the same so I can earn some money and also more credits to hopefully increase my chances at a scholarship.

It sounds like you are going to a university?

Something you may want to consider, check and see if there are any community colleges around you.…[Read more]

I work at (and am writing this from) the front desk of a college’s registrar’s office (The unofficial helpdesk of the college). What Elishavet and Koshka is pretty dead on.

I will add first of all that. . . it’s rather confusing. 🤣

We (College Admission and Registrar folks) expect students to know very little about the process…[Read more]

You haven’t gone to college, have you?

I’m left out! *sulks*

Tagging some old people

Oh my gracious. XD

What Elishavet said and also:

From the perspective of someone who’s both attended college, is attending college, and has worked in college admissions offices…Remember, colleges want students. Colleges need students. They will be looking for reasons to make you pick them, not reasons to…[Read more]

but also working on Leon and Riker’s 3rd book🤭🤫

*Screams*!!!!!

I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!! This is going to be so cool! I have waited so long for this!!!!!!

…Tho my main villain is a creep and I don’t want anyone to feel sympathy for him, unlike Hans

I wrote one of those types a little while ago. The nicknames and insul…[Read more]

Annnnddddd I disappeared again😂🤪

I am doing well. Tired, working a ton, squeezing writing in where and when I can. I’m bouncing between projects, with writing my Fantasy Series… (that I don’t quite know how to describe without spoilers atm bc a lot of things have changed since I’ve last…[Read more]

I pronounced that Moth-er and that is somehow quite fitting.

Ari

The tension in his shoulders eased slightly. He nodded and pushed away from the table.

“Come on then.”

Students still meandered around the courtyard. Clumps of them stood followed various instructors like swarms of bees. Ari headed straight for the…[Read more]

I tried typing Moth and it autocorrected to Mother and I almost started laughing very loudly to myself in public

*Snort laughs in a very public but very empty hallway*

Ari

He slowly nodded. Linguistics wasn’t for another three hours–not till after lunch, and of course Choir this evening. The school had tried to saddle him…[Read more]

I like Lucian.

I honestly don’t know who would

Ari

He looked back at moth, curious, but let that remark pass. Could whistling be heard in the void?

“What were you two up to before you decided to come and ruin my swords practice?” Not that he liked swords. The interruption was almost welcome…but he’d definitely not say that outloud.

Thank you Whaley, I am now concerned for Ellis and Lucien.

Ari

“I don’t know. What makes you think they would?” Frustration boiled up, clenching his nails into his skin as Moth continued to stare at him. “They’re my half-brothers. Some fighting is normal, but inheritence isn’t determined by a few scuffles. Maybe they…[Read more]

Moth: *Wants to protect Ari*

Ari: *Is practically twice his height, and is older and tougher*

XD

He needs it, Moth. He needs it.

Ari

In competition? That seemed to light a word.

“Me? No.” He looked down as he pulled off the padded sparring gloves. “My father has four sons older than my brother and me. And besides, what with his brothers gone, there’s plenty of land and titles to go round.”

Don’t be an idiot. He slapped the gloves against the…[Read more]

Ari

His attention snapped back to Moth.

“Just…wondering. Family traits tend to run strong with us.” Black hair, dark eyes, murder. Yes, family traits.

Ari

Moth would be keeping watch as well. But what exactly did a fairy mean by watching?

It didn’t make much of a difference. Ari pushed away from the table.

“If you like. I was going to head to the archery targets once I was done here…” His voice trailed off as his gaze turned to wards where Jasper was still gadding…[Read more]

Ari

He nodded. He wasn’t sure what a mood was or why it would be damapened, but he had heard about visions. Just none within the last two centuries.

Brother’s or no, tonight was going to be an… adventure. If this kid was telling the truth.

“Good, good.” His spreading smile kindled the light in his eyes. “Finally…[Read more]

Sure, he needed it to live and all, yet he could not have himself loudly beeping around medieval royalty.

BRYCE NO. What are you doing??? XD

Joshua, Everett, and Raynen all sound cool (my phone tried to “correct” Raynen into ramen…*dies*). As a short slightly chaotic individual myself, I kind of lean towards Raynen, but toss…[Read more]

O_O

Ari

He absently ran the end of his tongue over the seaping cut in his lip.

“Thoughtful of you to tell me.” This could be interesting. “You saw this? Where, and what exactly did you see?”

His bedchamber. Well, perhaps he might just have to stage an ambush of his own. Anticipation pooled in his stomach.

Who would try…[Read more]

Y’all I just got out of class and there’s a weather front coming in that just made the temperature outside drop to 78° and cloudy. This is beautiful.

Ari

Stillness crept down his spine. He watched Moth’s friend, wary. I need to warn you. Even his own patchy social record said those weren’t the usual first words out of s…[Read more]

My brain feels like the Energizer bunny and Eeyore are in an argument about tamales.

Let me go find it. XD

Ari

Pale Moonlight and Tread the Dawn …and Anywhere… (Gray Havens)

Constellations (Oh Hello’s)

Wolves of the Revolution and A Benediction (Arcadian Wild)

May It Be (Enya — Lord of the Rings Soundtrack)

Light in the Dark (Violin Sky) Instramental

Troubadour (George Winston) Instramental… except my p…[Read more]

Ari

“Ah, right.”

He leaned against the weapon table and folded his arms. After a moment of studying the fuzzy golden fairy, he looked over at the boy beside Moth.

“And I thought humans were strange.”

Poor Remi. He’s a magnet for trouble.

Or maybe a generator.

“Ari. He tries to spook people with his eyes. Ignore that.”

*Snorts* XD

Ari

The best thing about training with Sir. Drimel was his near silence. What the man did say was never more than a few words at a time and purely for instruction.

Neither of them had time for anything else.

Blood thrummed in his veins. Breath cam…[Read more]

Oh. Oh my.

XD

This could be fun.

hahahah…..!

Not all of them 😈

……

@whalekeeper

Wolfgang will fight if there’s a fight, and if he doesn’t know the sides, he’ll just punch everyone, especially the bigger stronger kids, just for the thrill of it. XD

That kid’s going to die young.

Oh chocolate gravy, the poor boy could have been caramel glazed by now.

I believe we left it at LeQoi waiting for Callum to wake up. Let’s say he’s currently standing to one side of the main kitchen tasting a fresh pannatone bread.

Which is actually one reason Ari likes him.

Oi, what book is this darling from? I’ve read a book titled Glitch but I’m assuming this isn’t the same book (which I could be wrong but this doesn’t look like a middle-grade sci-fi/time travel book).

Ok so first of allllll, sorry for replying an entire month late 😭

Second, I think Jonas made some really great points! I totally agree with him.

I’d also add that there’s a reason cliches and tropes exist–and that’s because they work. Oftentimes they can be overdone and end up boring and predictable, but they can also be…[Read more]

Remember the dance. Steel met steel. Blades in parley. Feet flit over sand. Sweat began to bead and trickle in the morning sun.

The dance of a swordsman.

Every step reflected years of focus. Each attack and defense discipline and training. Years upon years of his life had been–and were yet to be–dedicated to the mastery of this…[Read more]

Wolfgang 

“Humbling! Not I!” he laughed cheerily. “No one has the right to humble a Von Hienz. But i’ll fight you anyways!”