Riah Black

@devastate-lasting FYI, the text on your About page disappears after the first Q&A. Your site is lovely, though! ^-^

@william-starkey Whoa, how did you change your tag? That’s so cool. Anyway, welcome back, my dude. Nice photo.

Oh, and I may have, uh, made my website on a whim And since links are working again, here it is.

https://zhanglinyang.weebly.com/

@gracie-j I like to think I have a fairly healthy relationship with criticism, overall, but after I’ve gotten critique from betas and sensitivity readers and editors and I’ve published CG… I don’t want to hear bad things about it. It’s my baby. Once I’ve fixed it up to the best of my ability I just want to keep my warm fuzzies about it. XD

@godlyfantasy12 I’ve had to experiment a good deal to figure out what method works best for me with writing down worldbuilding (and it differs between worlds, for some reason). Strict templates work for some people, looser templates work for other people, just throwing random thoughts onto a page works for others… (I’m in that last camp with my…[Read more]

@gracie-j Yep. I might cease reading reviews when I publish a book I’m really excited about (I… don’t want to read negative reviews of Calligraphy Guild when I publish that one XD), but for now there’s no harm done and I learn things, so it’s cool. ;D

It’s up to you. I might save Short Story Collection vol. 1 for last, since it’s probably the…[Read more]

@gracie-j No, I haven’t seen Leon (or William, as his new name proclaims). I hope he’s doing well, though.

@godlyfantasy12 Nice.

I always like to spend the New Year outlining projects I want to finish in the year.

@hobbitchild Memory Lane Was Moved sounds really interesting! I’ll have to check it out!

Thank you! ^-^

@godlyfantasy12 That sounds like a lot of fun! I wish you luck!

Hmm…after my tests next week I’ll probably spend November working on another idea I had, and hopefully be done with it by the end of December.

@gracie-j I’ll have to keep a look out for reviews. ;D (I’m one of those authors who does the thing you’re not supposed to do and reads their own reviews, lol.) (I just realized this could be taken as incentive to write a positive review… I’m also an author who appreciates honest reviews even when they’re not favorable, so please don’t feel bad…[Read more]

@kathleenramm Not really, haha. The closest would be a few days ago when I dreamed I was watching Makoto Shinkai’s new non-existent anime. When I woke up I really wanted to write it down, but I forgot the ending, unfortunately.

@devastate-lasting

Haha, I never imagined someone could get story ideas from memes. XD

Oooh, why didn’t I think of dreams? While falling asleep is one of my favorite times to create or play out story ideas. Have you ever gotten a story idea from an actual dream?

@gracie-j

Yes! Lengthy story discussions! I’ve spent hundreds of hours with my…[Read more]

@gracie-j Ah thank you for your advice! I’ll definitely keep that in mind.

My Goodreads page (where you can also find all of my books, but for adding to bookshelves and/or reviewing)

My Amazon page (where you can find all of my books for purchase)

@gracie-j I am in awe of your short-term planning skills. XD

An interview sounds like a lot of fun! ^-^

I currently have three published works: Lost Girl (short story/novella), The Mirror-Hunter Chronicles (short story series or novella, depending on how you want to look at it), and Short Story Collection vol. 1 (self-explanatory XD).

Lost Girl…[Read more]

@gracie-j You have sisters who want you to read to them? Can’t relate, haha… Do you have any tips on blogging? I’m currently being tempted by the “blog” button that my website creator has…even though I told myself I wouldn’t…

@gracie-j I’m not sure if I count because I only publish web fiction, haha. I really like this idea.

But in the case that web fiction does count…I’ve posted a short story and a novella on Webnovel so far, and am hoping to work on much longer works some time. You can read basically anything I write for free here….…[Read more]

@gracie-j Though, to be honest, sometimes I’ll pull out some of my more recent (better writing) and I’ll flip randomly to somewhere and start reading, and I actually kind of enjoy that. I usually have no memory of writing whatever it is, and then when a character says something it’ll make me laugh a little. Only the recent ones, though. The old…[Read more]

@gracie-j Yeahhh, that would get loud. My brother is consistently loud, and my youngest sister is often loud in response, so they make up the most consistent noise. And then there’s the younger sister who occasionally screams/screeches at the top of her lungs when she’s upset… But yeah, several toddlers all at once would be the more consistent…[Read more]