The fledgling Artist

@mnvalentine I cannot read it as of right now because I have to go, but I just wanted to tell you that I’ll beta-read the first chapter for you and get back to you on this. 🙂 If I’m writing tomorrow, which I hope to be, I’ll read it. 😀 But I liked the newspaper magazine article you included!

@jenwriter17 (And everyone else on here obviously) COME OVER TO CALIFORNIA OVER SUMMER!!!!!! PLEASE! I need to meet Kapeefers!

I mean, I might be in D.C. next summer, but it’s not for certain yet so don’t plan on it.

@itsastarrynight Thank you!  @daeus Do you have a little time to give me some advise on this?

@jenwriter17  I guess I just describe every scene in detailed, sensory language, and I have been working on adding more subplots.  I do struggle with creating complicated plots!

@alia @bekreations  *beam*  Thanks for bringin’ this back, guys!  I don’t know what to add, but…  🙂  *thumbs up*

@ariella-newheart  Why thank you.  🙂  And I love your version of Aspen!!!

@daughteroftheking
Kay would rather relive it.
She refuses to tell me what it was though…

Alexandria Evergreen (Alex) would rather talk about it.
Sneaking to the Northern part of Evergreen forest.

@sarah-Anson
Kay would sit in the cell with her worst enemy, Alice, and hope she doesn’t go insane. She doesn’t want someone she likes to hate her…[Read more]

@sarah-Anson I agree with @skredder @gh24682468999 @ariel-Ashira . Interview your character, write him in a different scene, flesh out your character.
But in edition something you could do for fun (though it will probably help) is to make a collage for him. I had to figure out somethings when I made my collages. Also got me excited about my book. 😋

@notawriter I finished Aspen!!! I just felt that her picture needed to be colored, so I did! It was super fun. It’s the first colored picture I’ve done on here. 😀 I hope you like it.

@ingridrd Your picture of Aspen is lovely! 🙂

@sarah-anson Oh my GOODNESS!!! :O Is that watercolor? Those are exemplary. I love the picture of Toothless. :3

@sarah-anson  One thing that helps me when I am having a difficult time picturing and understanding one of my characters is to write out a bunch of questions about them.  Like, what makes them cry?  What makes them laugh?  How do they react to different situations?  How do they change from the beginning of the book to the end, and what makes…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 @seekjustice Okay, here’s part 10. It’s a bit longer than the other parts.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fS232ZUp6_bsr8rv9Kges7IuARkHBbbsClfn342Sufo/edit?usp=sharing

@seekjustice Haha, Hooray! 😀

Got to go!  Goodnight!

@seekjustice And in the past few minutes I’ve completely changed my ideas of what those names sound like to me.  So forget that whole list, I guess. 😛

Like I said, though, whatever you choose will end up being great, because the readers will like the character and probably end up liking the name.

But still choose Adelaide and “Ladle”!

@seekjustice I think it can depend on what type of girl she is.  Florence makes me think “Florrie” and so I think of a delicate flower of a girl.  Adeline is a bit harsher, because of the heavy “d” and “i”.  Violet again is delicate.  Harriet sounds like a bit of a stiff, motherly sort of person, and Charlotte hits me the same way.  Flora is beau…[Read more]

@seekjustice Yes, but when you’re speaking it you can’t tell the difference between Frances and Francis.  It’s sort of like Aaron and Erin.  Though those two are pronounced with a very slight variation, most people can’t tell the difference.

Nicknames for Adelaide?  Adele, Addy, Addie, Lady, Aida, Day, Dae, shall I go on? 😛 (I’ve thought of se…[Read more]

@seekjustice Well, I really don’t like gender-neutral names, since there’s already too much of that going on in the world lately, so I don’t like Francis much at all. 🙁 sorry, sister of SeekJustice. 😀  Angelica is very nice, but almost too pretty, isn’t it?  I like Adelaide a lot! (Not personally, but in comparison with Augustine, I mean. 😉 )…[Read more]

@seekjustice Yes, I knew a girl named Tabitha too, and she was nice.  I just don’t happen to like the name.  But it’s just my preference.

I do like those better, but…what station were Mr. and Mrs. Quillon?  Augustine sounds pretty grandiose, while Tabitha, Abigail, and Bethany all sound like calico and sunbonnets.  Augustine sounds more lik…[Read more]

@seekjustice Cool!  One of my brothers plans to be a missionary pilot.

I’ll do that!  Thanks. 😉

Well, I really don’t like the name Tabitha, but I guess you’re trying to get an old-fashioned, not-so-pretty name to match Augustine, right?

(Oh, or do you actually like the name Tabitha?  I hope I didn’t just horrify you by calling it unpretty!  Sorry…)

@seekjustice Do you know a lot of pilot jargon? 😛  I think you said something about knowing a pilot, but I don’t really remember.

Chara is, but Uncle Bill isn’t.  I can’t tell when he’s going to be out of the hospital until I know what’s wrong with him, and at present I have no idea what’s wrong with him. 😛  Poor Uncle Bill!  But anyway, he’…[Read more]

@seekjustice Well, during WWI the pilots could see each other pretty well since the planes weren’t as sealed in as they are now, right?  I’ve read of dogfights where the pilots saw the expressions on their opponents’ faces sometimes.

Well actually right now it’s going okay.  I think. 😛  I’m at a kind of boring part so I’m hoping I can get th…[Read more]