Lavender Bleu

I’m a sucker for found family. I really enjoy characters going from friends to friends-that-act-like-siblings. One of my projects is basically about nine people from different worlds all becoming close like that (and saving the worlds) and because of the dynamics, it’s one of my favorite projects.

@karissa-chmil

Oh dear… I hope you and the students can handle it okay.

@devastate-lasting

Thank you. *accepts your offer* I do love a good cookie.

Thanks for tagging me! I’ve been kind of wandering around, not sure where to go. But now here I am.

I don’t always have one that comes to me before the other. However, in general, characters that come before their plot are usually inspired by artwork or specific names. Plots that come first typically come from wanting to develop or use a specific concept/trope. Sometimes setting ideas are the first part, and can be inspired by pretty much…[Read more]

@kathleenramm

He’s really good at writing more mature stories that I would call YA without forcing them to be anything in particular.

I don’t remember how many heroes he made personally, however, I do remember that he was the one who made Spider-Man. Spider-Man was the superhero that I watched as a kid. (Sadly, I watched a really old version…[Read more]

I can’t particularly think of any one person, but there are multiple authors and friends that have definitely made their mark.

There are certain elements that I’m more inclined to include in my stories because of my friends. They got me interested in these things or re-awakened my interest. So I have to give them credit for that. If it wasn’t for…[Read more]

@kathleenramm

That’s a great point. We as readers can much more relate to the feeling of pain rather than a specific type of injury. Unless it’s like twisting your ankle or something like that lol.

I think the point is to not explain something that people already understand.

But yeah, stories that take injuries seriously are way more intense and…

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Something that I saw somewhere (I can’t remember where) is that when you’re writing about pain, you don’t want to write about the pain itself so much as how it affects the person. Looking back at scenes that I’ve written, the ones where I put more effort into conveying how the injuries physically and mentally affect the character have more of a…[Read more]

@kathleenramm

I definitely think that given names have more expectations attached to them because people get to know you, and your family, and that results in… expectations. (Unsurprisingly.) And pen names make it much easier to dodge those expectations, I suppose. They also have the advantage of allowing you to live a sort of secret life if…[Read more]

Yes I have. I chose a pen name when I joined the National Novel Writing Month website for internet safety reasons. I also think that my pen name is more interesting than my legal name, and the origin is also way more nerdy. (It’s a nod to both the sci-fi graphic novel NewsPrints and the song Lavender’s Blue.)

Another reason I like using a pen…[Read more]

I love it. It’s a really good read, and some of Gordon Korman’s best work, and I highly recommend it if you’re partial to sci-fi. I would say more, but I don’t want to spoil it for you.

Yeah! I love Steve’s cello pieces especially. Celloopa and Me and My Cello are two of my favorites.

I’m always happy to suggest books! ^-^ I have some…[Read more]

Yeah, I can’t stand the smell or taste of it. I’m sensitive to smells. I actually recently discovered that they have some really good cocoa mix, so they’ve won me over for now.

I miss it sometimes. That’s great! Tae kwon do is awesome, it exercises pretty much your entire body, plus you get to punch people sometimes. I don’t have one favorite,…[Read more]

No, we’re not. XD Just cryptids, far and few between.

It’s nice to meet you, too.

I was messing around with a character creator I found and decided that the character I had made was just too good to waste, so I put her in my arsenal for the time being. I actually keep a Google Sheet of characters for future projects.

Mere Christianity, Words of…[Read more]

Nice to meet you Annabelle!

I like to read, knit, and draw. I just finished Gordon Korman’s Masterminds trilogy (highly recommend, by the way). I’m also knitting a scarf for a friend, and don’t have any art projects going at the moment, but I’m sure that’ll change once my art class starts up again.

I like a variety, as mentioned before. 80s,…[Read more]

I think it could be interesting to talk about how people we know have influenced our writing. I know my friends’ interests have influenced my interests and thus resulted in parts of my stories being a way that they wouldn’t have been otherwise.