Elizabeth

@Catwing hiiii. *waves* ooh nice, that sounds fun.

@That_Writer_Girl_99 Apologies. XD I’m quite well, actually. Life is good, writing is plowing along nicely, summer heat hasn’t managed to fry my brain yet…all those good things. xP

@that_writer_girl_99 I am talking about lefts instead of rights. 😛

@jane-maree hi! I’m working Catwing Christmas!
@that_writer_girl_99 What series were you thinking?

@That_Writer_girl_99 hmm….not intentionally, nope. 😛

Working on a Catwing Christmas. What are you working on? @that_writer_girl_99

@that_writer_girl_99 indeed. I got distracted. *nods*
And I started a comic with some friends. *throws feathers*
But I’m back!

@that_writer_girl_99

I’ll remember to tag you when I start. 🙂

@that_writer_girl_99 *sees everything on bows and archery and swords* I have a compound!
Yes, I’m still learning and I haven’t fired it much recently (It is cold here.). But I have a few things to say from what I learned.
!. Hold the arrow with three fingers, not your pinky. It will throw the arrow off, if you do.
2. Right handed people hold the…[Read more]

All of those are awesome! @mariposa @cloudy @that_writer_girl_99

@that_writer_girl_99 Thank you!

@supermonkey42 Thank you! I’m glad it sounds original, and I really hope it is. 😉

@jenwriter17 Thanks for the welcome! I can  tell that I’m really going to love it here. 🙂 I love all of Chuck Black’s books, the Ilyon Chronicles, and Lord of the Rings. My favorite genre is fantasy, though I also really enjoy…[Read more]

@that_writer_girl_99 Okay, thank you!

Also tagging @that_writer_girl_99 @radically-surrendered @kballen

@that_writer_girl_99 thanks for the tip! I’m still figuring out how to use this site, so that should work much better now.

And yes, I’m writing a novel called Pure Starlight now! I started it November first for NaNoWriMo, but it’s still going, because it’s probably going to end up pretty long.

Here’s the synopsis:

Crystal had always longed to…[Read more]

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I agree with everyone else, but I’ll add one thing: Look up Turkish composite bows. Those things were used by ancient Turks and are just about the best bow you can get. They used layers of animal horn, sinew, and wood to make the bow snap. As a result, they could shoot huge distances, like 400 meters. Of course that required…[Read more]

@aratrea @that_writer_girl_99 Thank you both! Another blogger I know has read Scythe I think, and she loves it!

@That_Writer_Girl_99 aaah yes yes my sister read Scythe and O-O it sounds amazing. I haven’t gotten around to reading it but I 10000% plan to.

@daeus Go England!

@that_writer_girl_99 If you research the Battle of Agincourt, I think. Or just the One Hundred Years War you’re likely to stumble across mentions of longbowmen prowess.

I think it is worth mentioning the crossbow as an alternative to the bow. I don’t know how much you no about them so. Rather than arrows they use short bolts.…[Read more]

@that_writer_girl_99 I agree with @daeus that the English longbowmen were amazing.  This is my favorite description of a demonstration of the use of the longbow.

It is from a book by G. A. Henty called By Right of Conquest (About the conquests of Cortez) and is in the public domain, so I copied it from gutenberg.org to a google document.  An Eng…[Read more]

@that_writer_girl_99 Research English longbowmen. They were the best of the best and traditional bowmanship was a bit different than today. Like English bowmen sometimes used 100lb draw bows, which just makes us all look like epic wimps basically.

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I also forgot to post this:

https://www.sword-buyers-guide.com/support-files/trueswordsman.pdf

This is a good starter ebook on German Longsword. Hopefully this helps!

Jackson E. Graham