The fledgling Artist

@notawriter I think @dragon-snapper really nailed it.  My head was nodding up and down like a hammer as I read her post.

@notawriter I agree with @skredder and @dragon-snapper about sounding boards. 🙂  Once I was brainstorming for a part of a book that I really didn’t want to write, but had to you know, because that was part of the story, but since I didn’t want to write it I couldn’t think of anything to write.  So I sat down with one of my sisters and told her t…[Read more]

@notawriter I tend to run on inspiration too, but when it doesn’t happen, what I do is sit down and write about it. If it’s a plot issue, I like to split it up into different ‘plot layers’ that have to do with different characters, story lines, etc. and write out everything I know about each one. For world building, I recommend making an atlas of…[Read more]

@notawriter A lot of my best ideas come at unusual places.  Like at night in bed, while singing, or while researching.  Then at my writing times I will collect those ideas and build on them.  I hardly ever think of new ideas for my story when I sit down to write.  That time is just when I write out an expand on what I have been thinking about.  A…[Read more]

@notawriter Well, I begin by doing it in my head, then I start to write down those ideas all at once. Usually, it’s a big jumble of scenes, and I organize them later.
Oh goodness, all the time. I made the mistake a year ago by writing a trilogy without planning the whole thing out first. So a few months ago, I had two finished books, and…[Read more]

@notawriter Usually, I brainstorm just by building off that idea. Asking questions in my mind. Adding characters to a concept. Actually, most of it is imagining it as a movie, and what kind of plot twists build off of it. 😛

@notawriter Wow! I just had this problem two days ago. What I did was take two major scene that I knew for sure and wrote one at the top and one at the bottom of a piece of paper. Then I went, with some help, and listed a few smaller events in between. Then I noticed where in the story there was stuff lacking and focused on figuring out what the…[Read more]

@salome01w4g

I’ll definitely be praying for you *hugs*

@notawriter

I’ll be praying for you too *more hugs*

@alia

Congratulations on getting so far! I’ll be praying for your tests 😀

@daughteroftheking

I’d forgotten about that :/ but it’s good news!

@alia *gasps* Taekwondo is so cool!!! I’ll be praying for your testing.

@salome01w4g I’m praying for you! No matter what God’s will is about your writing, I pray that He will give you peace with it.

@notawriter I’m definitely praying! <3

@notawriter The last one I read was Secret Origins. Still waiting for Pick the Plot… I may buy it. 0.0 (I hardly buy books. I use the library)
I’m rereading them now! XP
Nowen is great! 😉
Then there’s Fowen. XP
That was a great one!

@notawriter I’m sorry. I know how you feel and it is not fun. I’m praying for you.

@notawriter Don’t worry about it. 🙂

@notawriter 🙂 Yeah, my sister likes to carry her sketchbook everywhere.  She doesn’t care about mess-ups though and just leaves them.

@notawriter I just like individual sheets to work with.  Then if it doesn’t turn out or I want to give it away or something I don’t have tear it out.  I like being very organized, and sketchbooks seem messy to me a lot of times. 🙂

@notawriter I write a lot in my diaries.  This year I had a pretty thick diary that I figured would last half the year…it lasted three months.  Still, my answer is to buy more diaries, not stop writing.  🙂  I go through my drawings and get rid of a lot, but I always keep my diaries.

And my I don’t do drawing in my diaries, just writing.  I…[Read more]

@notawriter I don’t save all my old art, but I just keep several folders of the ones that were my best at the time, or that have some special memory attached to them.

Do you keep a diary?  I have kept diaries since I was at least eight, and I am really glad.  I know of friends who kept diaries, and then threw them away and now they really regret it.

@notawriter I have been drawing since I could hold a pencil. 🙂  Oil painting scared me for a while, but now I am so loving it!  I can get it to do what I have always tried to get watercolor or acrylic to do.

Me and my sisters have fun looking at some of our old drawings and laughing at them.  There was one I drew years ago where I tried to pu…[Read more]

@Notawriter 😀
The last one I read. They are all very nice. 😛
Let’s see, Bethany, Earth Girl/Gwen, Charm, Owen, Monica. 😀
What about you?

@ariel-ashira @notawriter I’m glad I was able to encourage you! 🙂

@dekreel That is hilarious!  So…do you think the rest of the people in your dream got attacked by the terrorists after you woke up?  They’re like the people on the holodeck…oh, you haven’t watched enough TNG yet for me to explain. 🙁  When are you actually going to watch som…[Read more]

@rochellaine @alia @seekjustice @dragon-snapper @aislinn-mollisong @notawriter @jenwriter17 @warrenluther04 @dekreel @skredder
*grin appears* *Vanishes in* I’m writing… Anyone else?