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Haha… lovely topic @rolena-hatfield. I don’t know that I have any just rolling-on-the-floor-laughing hilarious, but one I had that is probably copyrighted 😉 is a world where everyone is born with a particular gemstone that belongs to them, and the properties of that gemstone leak over into the person’s personality. For instance, if your stone…[Read more]

@bluejay That would work fine for me. I would make regular exceptions for Saturday and Sunday nights, and occasional exceptions for other days, but most of the time I think I would be able to do that. I would prefer to do it from 8:30 – 9:00 since sometimes I’m not ready that.

You know you’re a writer when you visit the US Air Force Museum and spend your entire time wandering around reading the plaques about the pilots instead of looking at the airplanes. 😛

Yes @anna-brie and @hannah-c and @faithdk, don’t be too hard on yourselves starting out. Don’t be afraid to acknowledge your mistakes, but don’t be afraid to keep writing either. The only way to write better is to keep writing, no matter how terrible your first attempts are.

Seriously guys, my first attempts… heh-heh… to call them junk would…[Read more]

@bluejay you seem to be an animal lover— do you like my donkey? 😉 😉 😀

Yes, that was one of the reasons I dropped watercolor for oils and acrylics. It took for-ev-er to get enough layers to make shadows and textures realistic. So glad you like the painting @David! 😀 Here, let’s see if I can get another one…
This one is a classic example of the difficulties of doing vibrant watercolors— notice how streaked and…[Read more]

People. Beyond a doubt, people, which is odd, since I have trouble drawing them as well as I can draw some things. But what’s so fun about people is that no two are alike— I love trying to capture their personalities in paint almost as much as I love trying to capture them in words.
I do love humor, as well, though I seem to be better at…[Read more]

Alright, got a chunk of work to do. I’ll probably be working for an hour or so. Let me know if you’re on.

Umm, @bluejay, this is terrible, but I just realized I actually can’t do it tomorrow.

If I’m available Monday (which I should be) I’ll let you know

Yep, @Daeus got pretty much everything I was going to say. 😉 So… yeah. What he said. 😛

!!!!!!!! What do you know! It worked! 😛 😛 😛

The sky doesn’t look too terribly blended to me, @david. 🙂
My thing is, I can tend to stress too much about details, and my paintings end up looking kind of crowded. I tend to ignore the forest for the trees, you know what I mean? I think that also explains the tendency I have to over-describe things in my writing. 😉

Here… I’m going to try…[Read more]

Birds and fish, @david? Ugh. *shudders* I cannot draw either of those to save my life. Awesome for you that you enjoy them! 😀

The most painful, I think @aella (and what I’m having to do now as I edit 🙁 ) is cutting characters completely and totally out of the story. It’s not the same as killing them— it’s like you get to know them, and then you’re just like ‘Sorry, you guys have to go because… whatever’. And then they’re gone. Boom. Just like that. Nonexistent. Not…[Read more]

Oh yes, @aella, the dragons are the WORST!
And yes, I know characters don’t like being killed off, believe me. Villains especially. The worst part of it is when you go back and edit— and technically they’re already dead, but you’re having to work with them again while they’re still alive and able to complain about what you did to them at the…[Read more]

@hannah-c I can see how just cool names wouldn’t keep you motivated. Perhaps there is an opportunity there though for you to find some motivation. Character is what is really important, but names mean a lot to character. You might want to just set all your daydreaming aside for one day and dedicate it to dreaming about all the unique character…[Read more]

What made you love it in the first place, @hannah-c?

That’s awesome @rolena-hatfield. I love having sudden inspiration.

Solid concentration and half a chapter edited. What were you working on @rolena-hatfield?

Welp, that’s what I get for creating characters with a more dominant nature than my own @Daeus.

The especially bold one I mentioned above is actually somewhat justified, though— I mean, I wouldn’t feel too happy about it either if someone made me lose my hand. 😛