Liberty

It snowed yesterday!!!

@whalekeeper @ellette-giselle

Fabulous. Ok, should I make a separate thread for this? It’s entirely about sharing art…

Basically, those in the circle would need to post new art when designated others posted. For starters, it can be Whaley, Ellette, and Myself if y’all want to participate…. Ellette and I need to post art since Whaley did just…[Read more]

@hybridlore

*Sigh*

And yet, things were moving full-swing a few years ago. They were opening a publishing house of sorts.

I joined around 2021, several years after that Hiatus notification. I think the KP I saw a was a little different from what was then, but I wouldn’t say it was on Hiatus. (Plus, Story Embers has turned into a fabulous…[Read more]

@theducktator

Not this year. I’d like to, but time is not my own.

@esther-c

Yay!! I’ll be joining YDubs too! Still a KaPeefer at heart, but I do want more professional feedback and stuff seeing how I’d like to publish mainstream.

@theducktator
I am! I don’t know how active I’ll be though since this is the first week back to school since break. 😂

(Side note… I’m also joining YWW next week and I’m so excited!! I can’t remember if any active Keepers are currently on Ydubs tho)

I guess we never really noticed or cared until their absence started causing problems

@hybridlore
Yeah, I feel like it was still relatively active after that. I stalked the website before I was old enough to join (and that was 3 or 4 years ago) and it never looked “shut down” to me. New articles, new members, and Kathleen was still active until recently (I can’t even remember when that was lol 😭).

@esther-c

Whoa, weird!

@everyone

This article may give us some more context… https://kingdompen.org/kingdom-pen-goes-on-hiatus/

My browser recommended it to me when I searched up the website. What I don’t understand is why there were so many people able to join after this?? And we still had submissions occasionally for years, right?

@theducktator

I forgot about that! I’m probably going to be on vacation this week though (assuming my family doesn’t keep getting sick) so I don’t think I can!

@elishavet-pidyon

imitating styles is something I can do very well, so that is an option. I’ve never read either of those books, but a few illustrations is what I had in mind. I planned to do them like the pictures on retro sewing patterns and books from the time period.

@power

love it!!! 😂

@ellette-giselle

Great!

I think… It could go either way. I think something like Scout: Secret of the Swamp would be good.(Also Nancy Drew did the same thing) Occasional illustrations, half or full page, but never two pages. It would be fun to imitate a drawing style of the time.

@whalekeeper

awww! So cute!

@elishavet-pidyon

I’m game. I have a book I should probably get around to illustrating….. oh my word. You actually know the book. You just read it! Ha, you could give me illustration feedback! Starting with question number 1, is it better without pictures? Some books just need to be left to the imagination…….

@loopylin

Haha! the second one of the new batch is peak!!

@whalekeeper

The lady of memes returns.

Loll the first one really got me!

*totally not plotting to see more art*

*cackles*

@loopylin

She looks protective of her friends. And they’re so fuzzy… I love the big kitty expressions.

@whalekeeper

Aw, Marcel! I like this. Sweet and relaxed. Precious!

I’m terrible about not sharing art too.. and about not finishing art. I’m tempted to suggest a challenge group where I have to draw and share if you draw and share……[Read more]

@keilah-h

right, lol, I almost died.

@rae

I had an idea today. One way you could also help his death at the end to be really meaningful, is if you have the fact that just because we are saved, we still face consequences for sin here on earth. If you have that be a sort of recurring theme that shows up in small ways throughout the book, it would pan out really nicely in the end.