Mallory O'Bier

Welcome to the forum @kaya-young! I was homeschooled myself from Kindergarten through high school. Afraid I’m not familiar with Jeff Bridges. :/ What other authors do you enjoy?

Hey @aviantrail–welcome to the site! Love that Wodehouse quote in your signature! Are those short stories fan-fictions for Homer’s Odyssey, or something different?

Hey @kaya-young! Welcome to the bestistest place on the internet. Yeah, yeah, @seekjustice, I know you said it first but, *shrugs*

I’m Australian, like @seekjustice, Where in the States are you from, assuming you’re from the States?

Hey @aviantrail! Welcome to the bestistest place on the internet! 🙂 Hope you really love it here. How long have you been writing? Where in America are you from?

@Jenwriter17 Alrighty, book recommendations coming your way. 😛

– The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
– Divergent (Veronica Roth)

These trilogies are both fairly well known. They’re not favourites of mine, and some of the content is a bit iffy, but they’re good for researching the genre.

– Out of Time (Nadine Brandes)
– The Lunar Chronicles…[Read more]

@sage-g Thanks.

@jenwriter17 Ah, thanks! 🙂 The archer one was really hard to do, but I love how it turned out. 😀

@alia Oooh. This is a really cool question.

There are a lot of approaches you could take with this. Most importantly, I think you need to think outside the box. Maybe that means reading more widely within the fantasy genre for inspiration. It definitely means asking yourself what if questions.

One suggestion is to make God an antagonist for a…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 I love manga style! 😀 I like drawing in it, but it can be rather challenging.

Here’s an example of my most recent attempt at the manga/anime style. 🙂

@jenwriter17  For good measure…….

I drew this one (below) for a character Xchange:

And finally, one of my absolute favorite villains of all time…

I do have better examples, I just happen to not have pictures of them 😛

@dekreel I haven’t really tried manga before.  The one time I tried it, he kind of looked like a Roman monkey….

I like mine to be the most necessary lines and nothing more. Like this:

I drew that for the Leumeister a while back.

@jenwriter17  YES I LOVE DRAWING MANGA STYLE!!!!!!

I’m still learning proportions and stuff, but I really enjoy it!! 😀

Other artists: @catwing  @dragon-snapper  @sage-g  @ingridrd  @my-mind-is-blank…

I don’t know if they draw manga style but……..

Well, I do anyway 🙂

Can I see some of your manga? 😀

@Seekjustice

I’m happy saying that I live in Australia, rural NSW because there is a lot of rural NSW so the chances of anyone tracking me down is quite slim.

Oh my word. XD True though. No one is going to scour all of rural NSW for you. XP

@Jenwriter17 Pen names are tricky…I personally gave up thinking of one and just went with my first na…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 Ooh boy. Pen names? Welllll…

To get ideas you could always find a name from one of your stories–whether obscure or not.
I don’t think you need your pen name to be completely random either. I mean, if you want it to be, by all means let it be. XD However, I think your name could have more significance if it had some attatchment…[Read more]

@epicaddie2  I can’t believe I didn’t see the Beast until now!! I saw the Catwing, but not the beast! *smacks head*

Huh! O-O

That’s pretty accurate, actually. And, I must say, pretty good!

@mariposa  @cloudy  So where do you guys find your pictures for your typography?

XD Haha, how unfortunate! @jane-maree

Annnnnd I got distracted reading blogs. I finished reading the haikus XD

You know you’re a writer when you are riding in a car, and you look over to the person driving the car right next to you, and you start brainstorming who he or she is

@mariposa  @cloudy  @daughteroftheking  :-O Those are AWESOME. Why aren’t I on this topic more often…?