RainyEmily

@anatra23 Welcome, welcome! Please, do have some of the brownie cookies I made!

Anyways, as you may have well gathered, we’ve planned a surprise party for you! So without further ado, I shall bombard you with my usual set of welcome questions.

Ready?

1. What are some of your hobbies?

2. What genres do you like writing?

3. What’s your current…[Read more]

@anatra23

SUUURPRISSE!!!

Happy birthday, and Welcome to the kingdom pen forum, in case you didn’t already know, I am the host of this party, although it didn’t go completely according to plan…. I’m glad to have you here.

want some fruit from my epic fruit bowl? And here is your birthday present.

What’s it called when someone gets salt thrown…[Read more]

@joy-caroline

lol yeah I guess there’s that 😂

(AHH that makes me so happy! 😁 )

@godlyfantasy12

Heya!!!! Ooo, yeah, so that was a plug-in I found. The site I’m using is a wordpress.org site and not a .com (I don’t know if things change for different platforms… yes there is a difference. 😉 ) but I had heard about this free plug-in that you can install and activate on your WordPress site. What I did was go under the section…[Read more]

@joy-caroline
Ooh I like it! 😍 Since I haven’t written much fantasy, I’ll leave that up to others. But awesome job!

@molly

Those genres are all really fun! Do you usually write short stories with them or longer-length projects?

Your WIP sounds quite interesting! What stage are you at with it right now?

Vanilla ice cream is indeed supreme. As well as cheesecake.

Eyy, pineapple on pizza gang!

@joy-caroline

There’s not really any secret. I just put letters together until I’m satisfied with the name. Another thing you can do (which I learned from Jennifer A. Nielsen) is to take a name–let’s say Alabama–and then you just keep replacing the letters in that word until you’re satisfied with the result. So for Alabama, I might first change…[Read more]

@elfwing @daisy-torres

I think the forum moderator can delete posts….

But it should be fine.

oh wait i need to add a joke…..

JOKE!

@sparksaraabbott11 Yup. Got that right.

RULE UPDATES

1. Introduce yourself one at a time

2.  The “lol”s must come naturally. So you know what that means….

3. WAIT FOR THEM TO INTRODUCE THEMSELVES FIRST!!!! It’s a surprise party after all

@e-k-seaver @devastate-lasting @nova21 @ribbonash @lydia-s  @issawriter7 @daisy-torres @sparksaraabbott11 @abigail-m @mkfairygirl  @elfwing [Read more]

@elfwing
Stop whistling innocently and hit her with the stick already. SHE CAN’T KNOW. SHE CAN’T.

Good idea.

RULE UPDATE: ONE AT A TIME PEOPLE.

I’ll add these rules to the main topic.

@daisy-torres

To be honest, I wasn’t too sure about the sound of that cookie recipe either. I just didn’t say anything to be nice. Let me know when you think of a new recipe to bring to the party. And maybe test it first this time?

Oh yeah, keep that cheesy joke in the bag. Keep it secret. Keep it safe.

@gracie-j @sparksaraabbott11 @writerlexi1216 @devastate-lasting @joy-caroline

Okay everybody, that was a great practice round. Put away all your foods and gifts and sweep up the confetti.  We can’t exactly all come out and yell “SURPRISE” when they haven’t even walked into the room yet sooooooooo. Remember, I said the next HUMAN to join the…[Read more]

@sparksaraabbott11

I’m glad you think so.

@sparksaraabbott11

epic.

@joy-caroline

Heeeyyy! Wait, are you writing a fantasy?  Let’s go Joy! ;P

Well, let’s see…  When I come up with place names, I like to use fantasy name generators.  I don’t always use exactly what they generate, but it gives me a jumping off point to create and combine different styles according to each of the worlds’ traditions.  Som…[Read more]

@writerlexi1216

I have a pen name for privacy reasons only, although I’ll probably change it to my real name if/when I publish.  I’m all for pen names, though–they’re fun and creative and can draw a reader in just like your cover and title can (in a way).  If you want to, I think it would be fun for you to come up with one.  That may just be me…[Read more]

@ariel-f I remember one of my favorite manga artists saying that if the story he’s writing doesn’t surprise him, then he stops writing it. And I am always surprised and astounded by his work. Truly wise words.

To be honest, I struggle with this a lot. I honestly really dislike the characters I made back when I started writing (well, not dislike,…[Read more]

@not-so-secret-secret-assassin Curse these tags.