Karissa Chmil

@kathleenramm

Hmmmmm. . . a brother-to-brother relationship (or just a close friendship that makes it feel like brother-to-brother) is definitely up there. Not sure exactly why. . .

I also love the master/apprentice-ish relationship (or noble and servant, or mentor and mentee, or whatever. . .) just because having on character clearly in…[Read more]

@lewilliams Of course. <3

@lewilliams (‘Ello!) Oh. . . Thomas mentioned you to me, a long time ago. <3 I’m definitely praying for your family.

@lewilliams Indeed I am! Same name, and I’m a CA, so there’ll be a green badge next to my name.

@lydia-s Heheh, thanks! <3

@madelyn XD Yep! It’s both very exciting and slightly terrifying at the same time.

Let me know what you think when you do! And most definitely agreed.

@godlyfantasy12

Oh, goodness. XD Whoops.

*GASPETH* THAT’S BRILLIANT! WHOA, THAT’S SO COOL. 😍

Heheh, yep, drawing parallels is so much fun. The wolf in mind is the brother of Maid Marian, and since the girl’s name is Scarlet I had Will Scarlet play around with different last names before finally settling on Hunter and filling that role. . .…[Read more]

@madelyn

Aww, thank you! And I will. XP Planning to get it professionally edited next year. . . still not sure if I’ll be pursuing publication with it, but I haven’t ruled the idea out yet.

*salutes*

XD

Yesssss, they’re amazing. It’s good! I don’t think I enjoyed it quite as much as Dust and Shadow, but it was still wonderful. And the cover is…[Read more]

@trahia-the-minstrel XD I’m much more comfortable with most accents due to being bilingual, but then I accidentally throw something in there and my readers just go “WHOA WAIT WHAT”.

Thank you. <3

@annabelle Heheh, yep.

@trahia-the-minstrel Awww, thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

@devastate-lasting Thanks so much! <3

@annabelle Thank you! Yep, lots of perfectionism as far as the design went. XD

@trahia-the-minstrel (again) Ooh, nice snippet! Very fantasy-esque names. XP

@lavenderbookling Thank you. <3

@mkfairygirl Highly appreciated. <3 Thank you.

@madelyn

Awww, thank you! The connection was actually pointed out by a friend, and I latched onto it at once. I’m almost done outlining (just need to run it by some friends and get the chapters sketched out), and then I’ll plunge into the first draft. 😀

Mhm! I feel like I’ve read something recently that had to do with Rumpelstiltskin, but I’m…[Read more]

@devastate-lasting Aw, thank you! It’s thestorylight.com. 😀

@annabelle Mm, yeah, it really was. 💔 But thank you! Yep, it’s the link I shared just above.

@annabelle Congratulations on that spotlight! Looks great!

@power Goodness, that accent. XD Have a pirate character in any WIP

@lavenderbookling Heheh, join the club as far as wandering-around-KingdomPen goes. XP

Past few days have been anything but normal, since the aforementioned Young Writer’s Workshop just had a tragedy, so, especially as a…[Read more]

(@trahia-the-minstrel ‘Eyyyyy, that’s a rare mixture of book-reading right there. XD Yes, we definitely need to get together to nerd sometime. XP)

Ooh. . . interesting question. Honestly, it’s probably the plot – which I find a bit strange, since my writing is so character-driven.

I think that I usually start with just a whisper of a plot, but then the characters develop much quicker than the plot – like they need that tiny whisper to bring them to life before they can take the…[Read more]

@power o.O That’s intense. But also awesome.

@madelyn

Ooh, sounds exciting! Fairytale retellings are awesome. 😀

My current WIP is actually a fairytale retelling, so let me summarize that real quick as I’ll likely be drawing on that a lot in this answer. . .

It’s a novella that draws on the what-if of if the shared last name between Robin Hood and Little Red Riding Hood was no accident at…[Read more]