Rosey Mucklestone

Kate, he’s from OYAN. He knows the meaning of insane all too well. I was like the only one professing to be sane on that forum. I seem to be starting a pattern here…
Well, hi Mark! Welcome to Kingdom Pen! Always nice to have another active member around. 😉 If you haven’t noticed, we’re a bit of a ghost town.

Doesn’t look that bad, actually. How far are you through it? What part got you bored? Please, tell us what is boring so we may give it a makeover.
The part that I think I’d have fun writing would be the whole disappearing thing. It’s not a curse and she gets captured or something, right? Just follow the logical progression of the story and find…[Read more]

Make something blow up or someone die. Add a few plot twists. What’s the plot of the story? Maybe we can help with the plot twists.

Petrichor, as Hannah W said. 🙂
Crumple is a good multipurpose writing word.
Fog
Privateer
Defenestration. The act of throwing someone out a window. I adore this one, but I’m still waiting for a chance to use it. Thankfully, I have a character who likes to use big words. 😉

Has anyone read the book “Ounce, Dice, Trice”? Perfect book for word lovers. 🙂

Not only Orrock. Hammond does it too. It’s funny, since I’d never really heard much of an Irish accent before Hornblower. I’m not sure how one would write down an Irish accent, other than to mention how they accent the letter R.
This was actually pretty interesting on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English
In a series I read…[Read more]

Sorry, I don’t think I can be the one who doesn’t like writing dialog. It’s one of my favorite parts and one of my only strong points in my first book. 😛 But I can ask some questions.
Ever say the conversation out loud?
What do you think of different spellings for people’s accents in dialog?

Stop it, guys. You’ll scare her off.

Anyway, *waves* hello and welcome, Hannah W!
If you need help figuring out the comment coding or anything, I’ll be happy to help. 🙂

Ah, there we go.

Eh. Too small.

Let’s see if this works…

Let’s see if this works…

You could make the stuff password protected and only send out the password to subscribers on WordPress. I can do that, and I only have a free account. As far as other sites go, I believe Blogger is free.

YAY! *confetti and balloons* *general party noise*
You guys are definitely awesome! Everything we ever need in a writing site. 🙂 Advice, stories, podcasts, t-shirts…. the list goes on.

@Hope Yay! So glad I could help. 🙂

Awesome! Someone actually went and read them! 😉 Glad you liked them, Jada. 🙂
Hmm… I’ve heard a lot of people say the geography and all was hard to follow. Maybe I had it a bit easier because mom read them out loud to our whole family, so we were able to kind of get the whole image together in our minds better.
Oded is so sweet and funny. I…[Read more]

Maybe bury the father before the fight? That way it shows the cost first, then the resolution. Think HTTYD 2. Then it ends on a bittersweet note, but you get the bitter before the sweet.
With the mystery man… I don’t think I have enough details to properly recommend a good resolution to that. As far as putting it in place, maybe have everything…[Read more]

But Henty did a good job with his side characters. Peterkin and that sailor from Martin Rattler (Can’t remember the name) were great. Martin Rattler is actually a lot like Tintin. Tintin is a really extreme role-model perfect character. But if a little kid goes “Oh, I want to be like Tintin!” It’s more a question of where to start. I mean, he’s…[Read more]

I read through that sentence a few more times. There are actually a few ways to read that I guess, and I accented the wrong words. What I was thinking was that you had hit a midway point between
“Some of the inkwells broke, spreading puddles of greasy ink on the black granite and the scattered parchments.”
and
“Some of the inkwells broke and…[Read more]

Just a couple corrections the other guys missed:

Some of the inkwells broke, and spreading puddles of greasy ink stained the black granite and the scattered parchments.

Read that again. You probably deleted that and rewrote it, but forgot to take out the previous wording. I do that all the time. 😛 Just decide on one to keep.

…catching up…

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