Merie Shen

@akbaer Hey there! Welcome to the forum! I’m Linyang, though you can call me Lin as well.

A fellow fantasy writer! How lovely. What can you tell me about your current WIP?

@keilah-h Oo I like these! You’ve got good proportions!

Hello and welcome, @akbaer! 😀

@kathleenramm Ah, I’ve heard that the best stories are all written by people who’ve suffered. So, well, I guess when we’re going through trials, we can see it as something good for our writing.

Me… I’ve had times where I didn’t write, usually burnout. But never really fallen out of love with it, like I do with piano. I mean, maybe there have…[Read more]

@elfwing Glad it made you feel something, heh. I’m quite excited for this short.

@keilah-h Thanks for the tag! Yeah, most of the time I do fantasy. Nice scene! Very dramatic indeed.

*thinks for a very long time* Yeah, I really don’t remember or know what scenes I write are dramatic… Here’s a prologue from a short story that I’m working on, though:

“If you don’t tell me the information, lady, I’m afraid I’m going to have to…

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@faith-q Well, I’ve handdrawn really bad maps before…just to get an idea of what direction my characters are going. But yeah, there are online map-makers that you can use.

@e-k-seaver I honestly don’t have much or any experience with writing or reading Christian fiction, so I honestly can’t be of much help, besides giving you, like, y’know, a regular reader’s perspective. You have my email already, so if you want to send it to me, I’d be happy to give it a read.

@nova21 XD Plenty of adventures to choose from!

I love your lines as well! Dylan sounds like he’d be quite hard to work with.

@writerlexi1216 Felicity sounds like what you described her as. Nice job!

@daisy-torres I’d want to be Catherine’s friend!

@lewilliams I want to meet Horace, like, right now. He sounds so proper.

@elfwing She sounds…[Read more]

@nova21 Ay, good luck! Glad I could be of use.

@nova21 Oo, fun! Hard time to find which MC though, haha…

This is for Nan Jinqi, who’s, um, what is he like… He’s quiet and dependable, I think. Quite observant. Hard-working. I don’t know that much about him yet.

1) “Run!”

2) “It was your stupid machine that crashed and burned, [action tag omitted], And who said I was here to stop you?”

3)…

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@writerlexi1216 Ah, yes, the first time I won NaNoWriMo I didn’t write another word for 4 months. Not worth it lol. But since then I’ve built up my writing muscles.

For me I just keep floundering around in water like I’m about to drown. I tell myself I’m gonna keep writing, but in reality it’s so painful I can only get out 100 words a day. But…[Read more]

@nova21 I like this idea! Unfortunately I never plot out my character arcs so I can’t help you with that. Best of luck, though. I believe one time someone told me that an overarching theme for a series + individual themes for each book is good, so I think that could work the same with arcs. Maybe for the next book focus on something more…[Read more]

@lewilliams It’s been pretty good! Working on a lot of things right now, started a new web serial, watching some anime, getting ready for some big changes…

@kathleenramm It was helpful that in the canon they also appear together.

@daisy-torres Chaos is a good word for it XD

@kathleenramm Probably a weird one that I never finished where I had some of my characters in some strange situation… My extraterrestrial was doing math homework, my villain was playing baseball (more like hitting the foundation of the house with a baseball bat) and another was getting hyper off of chocolate covered raisins. And then there was…[Read more]

@ben-dykes Hi there, welcome to the Kingdom! I’m Linyang, though most call my Lin here. Lovely to have you!

My advice? Always check the recent topics tab, and comment on whatever recent threads you wish. Oh yeah, and when replying to people, copy and paste their tag from underneath their name on the left. It helps.

On that note, do you think…[Read more]

@maryg3 Whoa, I would totally read all of these! Especially the last one!

That meme is quite relatable, haha.

I like to write in the morning. I feel more productive then. *glances at the clock, realising it is late afternoon and hasn’t finished work*

What about you?

@maryg3 Your WIPs all sound so interesting! I would love to hear more about them!

Hmm…what has driven my desire to write? Perhaps it’s to get the stories out of my head onto paper, or maybe because writing is like breathing, and I can’t live without. Maybe it’s after I realised that my writing could make others feel things, and I want to do…[Read more]