The fledgling Artist

@seekjustice I’m not sure whether that’s a good or a bad thing… 😛  Does that mean you just don’t remember spoilers people tell you, or does it mean you can’t discuss books after you read them…? 😛

@alia I like to write sci-fi when I don’t have to do much research. 😉  I love researching history, and everyday – or non-everyday – things, but I…[Read more]

@seekjustice Oh no!  If you read our conversation…wow, that contained MAJOR spoilers!! 😛  Hopefully you can still enjoy the books. 😛

@seekjustice Haha, yes! 😛 By the way, speaking of Alia’s story, you should definitely read the Mars Diaries by Sigmund Brouwer.  Seriously.  They’re amazing. 😀

@alia 😉  You like The Princess Bride?

I’m very interested in how you make your new story different from Brouwer’s.  I love the premise, because of course I love his books and I lov…[Read more]

@seekjustice Oh, oh!  I scrolled up a bit and saw the end of your long post to @catwing where you said “to sum up.”  Immediately, this flashed into my brain:

@valtmy Hi!  How’s it going?

@alia @jenwriter17 Hey, hey!  Who’s talking about me staying up late??

😛 I’m here for a little bit, Alia, if you’re still here.

@alia okay have fun!

I think I’m going to leave and take a break too. 🙂

@rochellaine okay bye!

@catwing @alia I’ve got to go now for a bit.  Hopefully be back in a little while or later tonight.  Bye!

@seekjustice Sorry, I forgot it was Sunday for you. Oops… Thank you!
(You’re right it was. I don’t think I said I invented the term did I? …)

@alia It’s really good. 🙂

@alia I can see… whoa. That is a very very cool collage. I almost want to go off and make a collage. XP I’ve made some for my characters. I put them all on my blog. Finding Secrets Collages
There’s also one on there for me. ;3

@alia Yes, I can see it!  Cool.  Which one is this for?

@alia That’s okay. 🙂
@rochellaine Well, that is sort of what I do so. 🙂 but not much help. Oh, well. @seekjustice what do you know about character arches?

@alia Hahahaha!! 😛 😛 😛

@alia Cool!  You have to save the collage to your computer as a JPEG or whatever file it saves as, and then you click the little landscape icon at the far right of the “Visual” panel here on the forum.  That’ll open up a little lightbox, and you click on the “search” icon which will open up your documents so you can select the picture from your c…[Read more]

@alia You haven’t read the Viking Quest series??!!  That may be the best his-fic series for teens ever written!!!

😛 Well, anyway, I like it a lot.  Love it a lot.  Adore it from the depths of my heart and my imagination.  Something like that.

In other words, yes.  You should look into them. 😉

@catwing That’s something I’m not very good at myself, since I had several people tell me one of the guys in my last book had a really quick change of opinion which should have been explained better.  That was two years ago, though, and I think I’ve gotten better, but I can’t tell yet since I haven’t finished a book yet.

However, I would assume…[Read more]

@alia Okay. Basically a character arch is how your character changes through the book. So I’m trying to figure out what some of my characters faults that can change or need to change. But one of them progresses negatively so I’m calling hers a slope. 😛
Just trying to put down on paper some things… 🙂
Make sense? So I’m asking if you have any…[Read more]

@alia Yeah, I never had any trouble seeing them grow up.  It was only three years, and that’s not as much as Bree, Devin and Mikkel grow up in Lois Walfrid Johnson’s Viking Quest series (ever read those?) which is also only five books long.  I understand that it wouldn’t be great if you can’t see them as older than 14.  We have another series wh…[Read more]