TheLobsterLover

@eliasg

Welcome to Kingdom Pen! I’m a writer of middle-grade fiction and poetry, a full-time university student, a historical clothing/culture/language nerd, and a hand-crafting enthusiast.

Finishing stuff is hard. I think that’s easy to forget sometimes, but it’s no less true.

As far as screenplays go, closest I’ve gotten was a stage play, so…[Read more]

This is awesome! Congrats to Whaley and Koshka for becoming mods (I already congratulated Ellette on being the Queen of KP)

@quicksilverwyvern

Welcome to Kingdom Pen! I’m a writer of middle-grade and youth fiction, sometimes poet, full-time university student, history/culture nerd, and hand-crafting enthusiast.

Congratulations on finishing a draft! That’s a huge milestone. I declare you deserving of cheesecake (if you like cheesecake. Otherwise I’ll eat it myself,…[Read more]

@theducktator @liskaboyce @elishavet-pidyon

^ Tagging y’all for this quarter’s book club. ^

@loopylin bruh

actually a random monster in soldier’s room actually makes sense y’know? not that his room is anything more than an alleyway or some cave most likely lol

Don’t think I’ve bugged this person @lillian yet.

BZZZZZZZZZZ 🪰

@whoeverthekpmoderatersare

We can keep this one ( @quarterstaffgirl ), and you can return the others.

@beth-torres

That Mongoose has offended Bilbo, thus I must have roasted mongoose tonight 😔

You can have the little stinker! 🤣😂🤣 (He has been on a bath strike for about 2 weeks. . . Though it feel like an eternity. 🙄  🦨👃💀)

I haven’t bought his royal lowness his chocolate milk (somebody was getting rather chunky 😏) and after a failed threat to…[Read more]

we should get back to ours, whose house are we invading next

i know it’s one of my guys’ but whose exactly

@whalekeeper oooh that’s a good idea, totally do that

@quarterstaffgirl

Soooo. . . based off your name, have you “sparred” with a staff and therefore now its amazing amazingness? (Perhaps have had the bruises to prove it?)

@reaganramm

@liberty

I’ll be praying, Liberty.

@liskaboyce

Ah yes, the middle act, the fun and games part, the exhaustive what-are-we-even-doing-right-now pile of pain.

What I’ve recently found to help me (being myself in the final stages of plotting a novel) is to think of this part of the book as when the characters face two big obstacles to reaching their goal, and the aftermath of either…[Read more]

@liskaboyce

Whaley’s response is lovely and says quite what I was going to, so I’ll only add:

Ugh. Yes, there are so many different styles of plotting that it gets hard to find one that will work for you. I’ve tried several and have eventually ended up with one that’s a sort of mix between three-act and beats, but using bullet points.

okay that…[Read more]

@whalekeeper @loopylin

*Hides behind textbooks*

Oops, I missed this.

Ari

A small smile tugged one side of his mouth higher than the other. No magiked arrows this time–just a nearly perfect shot.

“Alcarna, Firefly. Well done.”

Froilán had taken a week to even hit the target. But then, the boy had barely been strong enough to draw the bow.

@lillian

Ryuu sounds like he’ll fit in just fine around here. XD Go ahead and pick a place around the school to drop him in, and we’ll see who’s around to interact!