Mark Kamibaya

Ah, well have a good night @kate-flournoy. Don’t go swallowing your glasses anymore.

@dragon-snapper @anyone-else I’m still gonna write tonight.

@kate-flournoy: I like the Gothic scripts, too. I often go searching for fonts to use in my stories. My favourite site is FontSpace. Everything is free, and I always download the ones that allow for personal and commercial use.

@Daeus @Dragon-Snapper I won’t be able to write tonight. Good luck if you guys go without me.

@PerfectFifths yes, I had loads of fun teaching myself all the different old fonts I could find… in fact I probably should have learned the basics first, but I wanted to learn those other fonts so badly I plunged right into the advanced styles and mastered the basics on the way. 😛 I especially like the Gothic font— the one used most in old…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy: Wow, that’s awesome! I can have fairly nice handwriting (when I really, really try!) but most of the time I specialise in cacography. 😉 My mum has reeeeallllly nice handwriting, and she makes amazing looking fonts. 😀

@PerfectFifths I am so jealous… 😛 I actually taught myself calligraphy simply because I loved the font Tolkien uses for his maps so much I wanted to make maps the same way. XD

@kate-flournoy: Yes, Maps are so epic! We have a huge poster map for Middle-earth from the Hobbit that my brother got for his b-day, and I like to look at it sometimes and find all the places I know – Lothlorian, the Shire, Rivendell, Minas Tirith.

@PerfectFifths yesssssss. I love maps. Both drawing and looking at them. It’s my dream to have my own ‘office/study’ with the walls simply covered in maps. 😀

@kate-flournoy: You like drawing maps?? 😀 😀 I love maps in books, especially Fantasy, because it helps you kind of follow the heroes’ journeys.

*pops in from random swirl of crazy life to shriek* MAPS!!! YES!!! *pops out again*

@PerfectFifths

*pops in from random swirl of crazy life to shriek* MAPS!!! YES!!! *pops out again*

@Perfect-Fifths

@dragon-snapper Thank you for the helpful questions.
@sierra-r & @kate-flournoy & @emma-flournoy Don’t stress. Children stories are hard. (And yes, there is a deadline, but not till Feb.)
@mark-kamibaya Yes, it is for a competition and yes, I did read your post. Rambling is alright. Sometimes your ramblings can be inspiration for another person.…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper: I like drawing maps (I use a PC program called GIMP) I once made a map for a friend’s story, which she loved, I’ve made a few maps of my own worlds, too.

@emma-flournoy: Yes, YouTube is great for things like that! And I do agree with you; Lindsey’s style is a little strange – and uncomfortable-looking.

@Gabrielle: Thank you! I…[Read more]

@Bluejay *seizes head and groans* I am SO sorry but I have nothing to give you! *curls into miserable ball*
It’s so awful, ’cause I’m always picking apart childrens’ stories for being dumb, or too generic, or badly done, or whatever, but I guess that makes me kind of a hypocrite since I can’t think of anything better myself. 🙁 If I think of…[Read more]

@Leumeister ever painted textures on 3D models? Nope. Probably because I’m extremely uncivilized and disorganized and prefer going free-hand with everything. XD

And yes, Emma and I are sisters.

@Leumeister I like it! It’s got the bones of a great story. One thing I would say is you tend to tell sometimes where you should show. For instance,

She sauntered over, still trying to display an air of authority, coming in closer to examine him.

is pretty good, but it would be stronger if you simply described what she did and gave us the…[Read more]

Hey, if you’re on KingdomPen, you probably do digital art too! Writing a story in a word processing program! XD

@Leumeister Heh, I s’pose that’s true. 😉 (So I won’t be misleading in any way though, I’m not exactly a writer; I write reports sometimes but not books. I know and love the writer stuff though (and being around writers 😀 ) because I…[Read more]

@Dragon-Snapper GOT IT! 😀

Balin: “You don’t have to do this, laddie. You’ve done honorably by our people, making a home in the Blue Mountains worth more than all the gold in Erebor.” and something-something-something I can’t remember…
Then Thorin says “From my grandfather to my father, this [the key] has come to me. It’s not a choice. Not…[Read more]

@PerfectFifths Oh, I’ve seen some of their stuff. They’re really talented, though Lindsey Stirling can be…a little weird. 😛
I’m forever indebted to YouTube (and the people who make the videos of course 😉 ) for violin, because I learned mostly through YouTube, and with some help from a friend. 😀 FREE VIDEOS!!!

@Leumeister Great!