R.M. Archer

@devastate-lasting Go for it! The worst that can happen is they don’t take it, but then you still have a short story to work on and keep in your back pocket for a later submission opportunity. 🙂

@godlyfantasy12 That’s awesome! 😀

I just finished another draft of Calligraphy Guild! 😀 😀 I’m planning to take a break and focus on a couple of other projects for maybe a week-ish before I dive into the next one. I have two more drafts I want to get done before March, and then I send it off to sensitivity readers to get feedback on the…[Read more]

“I’m not invested in it.” Which I’ve found out is a legitimate issue that there are ways to get around, so yay! (A Teen’s Guide to Getting Stuff Done by Jennifer Shannon is a really handy book.) But yeah, I usually just don’t sit down to do it because “I don’t feel like it,” and then… I never feel like it, lol. But once I sit down anyway and get…[Read more]

I just want to throw this into the love square conversation… Conflict is great and all, and it drives stories, but stories where the dudes both love the girl enough to realize that the other is good for her (I mean… assuming they’re both actually decent guys, which is way more compelling imo than a love square in which one guy is clearly a…[Read more]

@gracie-j Ahhh, gotcha. That makes some sense.

Hm. I personally love both the movies and the books. But, as always, the books are better. ;D

*nods* That also sounds like a pretty good approach. 🙂

@gracie-j I don’t remember which one I preferred, out of the two. I really need to reread them, lol. I think I read them… prior to keeping track of my reading, it looks like, so at least four years ago.

I didn’t watch a whole lot of Disney princess movies growing up. I watched a lot of other Disney movies, but the princesses weren’t a big…[Read more]

@seekjustice I wrote a post and then when I edited it it vanished. O-o

My mom was really careful when I was little about anything that featured daughters rebelling against their dads. She didn’t let me watch The Little Mermaid for the same reason (which I don’t mind; I’m not a fan of Ariel now that I have watched the movie, lol). Once I was a…[Read more]

@seekjustice My mom was really careful when I was younger about things that featured daughters rebelling against their dads. I wasn’t allowed to watch The Little Mermaid for the same reason (which I don’t mind; I’m not a huge fan of Ariel now that I have watched the movie, lol). Once I was a little older (10-12-ish, maybe?) she thought I’d be…[Read more]

@gracie-j That seems like a strange divide. I wasn’t allowed to read The Horse and His Boy for several years, but that was the only Narnia book I wasn’t allowed to read.

Yes! I’ve read his Cooper Kids series (4-6 are my favorites; I’ve reread 5 many times) and his This Present Darkness books. I’ve been meaning to reread This Present Darkness for…[Read more]

@gracie-j *gasp* Nancy Drew was my childhood. I read so much Nancy Drew, Boxcar Children, Happy Hollisters, Mandie… But I was also given pretty free rein of my family’s library, ’cause I jumped straight from reading those to reading certain (parent-approved) adult fantasy when I was seven. XD

I totally forget what my first rambly paragraph was about, but it was rambly and probably not all that important.

Second paragraph was also rambly, but it was about my books. I have three:

• The Mirror-Hunter Chronicles
• Short Story Collection vol. 1
• Lost Girl

They’re all under R.M. Archer. Short Story Collection vol. 1 is the most…[Read more]

KP ate my post. -____-

@lewilliams *squints* What writing forum? ‘Cause this is something one of my writing groups does every year, too, lol.

@gracie-j Thanks! ^-^ Congrats on 100k! 😀

Oh yeah! I have a space to ramble about my WIP! So I got back into editing Calligraphy Guild (my favorite project in the history of ever)… by procrastinating, of all things… XD But anyway, I worked on the end of a draft to procrastinate on worldbuilding, lol, and then I kept seeing things that just made me think “I NEED TO FINISH CALLIGRAPHY…[Read more]

@godlyfantasy12 This is totally unrelated, but I love your signature. XD

I was going to say the exact same thing Linyang said. XD

I also got Agatha Christie. I think it’s biased. XD

@gracie-j Would your character rather sacrifice themselves for their friend/relative or die for strangers in a dangerous situation?

Ooooh… Duyên would rather sacrifice herself for a friend or relative. So would Raiden. Sairsha and Ryuu would die for strangers. Zen… would probably die for strangers. Tora could go either way, but she’d…[Read more]