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@rolena-hatfield Or, um, that would be for 45 minutes.

Yeah @rolena-hatfield, I’m still editing. You want to work till 11:30?

@kate-flournoy Silly characters. You need to show them who’s boss.

@Daeus it hasn’t gotten quite that bad yet, though I do make sure I have a dagger or two about me when I work with my villains. For the most part the better-natured of my characters stand guard over me against the wilder ones, though that may change when it comes time to write their stories. 😛 They can’t seem to be able to grasp (or else don’t…[Read more]

@bluejay I liked that thing when we were writing at (what for me is evening) a lot of the time. I looked, and it seems like 8:30 in the evening for me is something like 10:00ish in the morning for you. Would that work for you? It would be nice to do that on a regular basis.

By the way, I’ve got to do some editing now, so if anyone wants to join…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy. You gotta watch out for those characters. Have you thought about wearing chain mail to bed?

Sometimes I consider myself to be more of a chronicler than a storyteller, who answers to the rather bossy demands of her characters to write their stories or be haunted forever! (Yep, now you all know how crazy I am.

Um… hellooooooo— that’s ME ALL OVER!

@overcomer, they can be quite bossy can’t they? I’ve even had them threaten me…[Read more]

Ooh… that dolphin is gorgeous.

I find that when I work with pencils it’s more to sketch out a rough, quick idea than actually finish a polished piece of art, so most of my pencil drawings are pretty messy with a lot of unnecessary lines just marking out where I want things to go if the drawing ever translates into a painting. But the few…[Read more]

I use acrylic— I actually prefer it to oil just because I work very fast and in many layers, which is difficult to do with a slow-drying paint like oils. Oils I like because they don’t change colors (whereas watercolors fade and acrylics deepen) but for quick paintings I prefer acrylics.

I love the colors in that painting, @David. I also like…[Read more]

Nice— yes, ink definitely has its problems. 😛 It’s kind of like woodburning— have you heard of that, @david? Basically you take a really hot metal pen and burn a drawing or words into wood. It’s really fun, and the end results can be awesome if you know what you’re doing.

I’m an artist! Welcome to the forum, David! I do oils, acrylics, watercolor, graphite, ink (to a small extent) and digital art. I prefer acrylics, though oils isn’t too bad either. It’s just they take for-ev-er to dry!

I hate colored pencils. 😛

@overcomer, @hope is going to hate me for saying this, but she let me read the first draft of Rose of Prophecy’s sequel (cuz I do her cover art), and let me just tell you, you are in for a real treat.

In as much as it is always nice to have someone else around and in as much as the art topic hath suffered grave seclusion, I do welcome you.

I’m afraid I’m not an artist really, but I think its pretty cool stuff.

I’m not a discouraged writer, but I’ve got an interesting situation with this novella of mine. I wrote it, loved the plot, and then figured out I needed to seriously improve the writing. Now I’m keeping the plot and totally rewriting it. Seriously, I’m completely rewriting the majority of it. I’m so glad it’s a novella and not a full-length…[Read more]

@ivy-rose I love editing stories! Send it to me right away.

You can contact me here: http://www.thescratchingquill.com/contact/

No, it was genuinely helpful @overcomer. Even if I didn’t end up using any of the corrections (which I am— I’ll probably do what you suggested with the shattered shield and snapped bowstring) it makes me step back and look at my work in new ways, which is always good.

Yes, I have written the story— my WIP, actually. Or more like a WIE—…[Read more]

Oh, I’m having plenty of fun, actually! All those character introduction scenes I had a blast with starting out? I get to do ’em all again! 😛 And improve them!

I. Love. Working. With. My. Characters. It’s probably the number one reason why I write. 😀

Thanks, @overcomer. 🙂 I really appreciate your meticulousness. 😉 I’ll definitely take all those corrected lines into consideration.

Yes… I had so much fun with this poem, because it was special to one of my main characters. His mother used to sing it to him when he was little— scared of the dark and of thunderstorms. Near the climax of the…[Read more]

Ooh, nice topic! I can just ramble without worrying about whether or not I’m being coherent… COOL!!!
Right now I’m working on mopping up the mess of a beginning my WIP has… or had, would now be a more accurate word. It was really, really, really slow and rambling getting started, so I’m working on streamlining it and pushing it off strong on…[Read more]

Anybody open? If not, at least I’ve made a public announcement that I’m about to work so I guess I’d better go do that. Tag me if you want to join.