Creative Corner

Last Nanowrimo, @LadyRowyn and I started a writers' chat thread in the Wind forum. Since we left Wind to join Earth back in June, we've created a writers' chat here every month, to (a) meet new writers! and (b) keep in touch with all our Windy friends. (Hi Windies! We still love you all!)

Some purposes for this thread:

• Talk excitedly about your current awesome writing project!
• Whinge about your current project which no longer seems so awesome and you don't want to work on it any more but YOU WILL anyway. Because REASONS.
• Show off snippets of your writing
• Cheer your fellow writers on as they write!
• Commiserate with your fellow writers as they complain about not writing, or about not being happy with their writing
• Ask other participants to pick one of your dragons for you to write something about in the dragon's bio
• Show off dragon bios
• Admire one another's dragons and new hatchlings from time to time (because this IS Flight Rising)
• Any other writerly activities you want to chat about

"Dragon Writers" is a reference to this being a chat on a dragon site; there is no requirement that you write about dragons in order to participate. (Okay, there really aren't any requirements at all).

This is intended to be a general chat thread and not a critique group. Now, it's absolutely fine for a writer to post a link to their work and ask people for feedback and/or criticism! But it's also fine for people to post bits of their writing just to show off and with no desire to have it critiqued. And it's fine if you participate in the thread without ever sharing anything you write, or giving feedback on anyone else's writing.

Unless a writer solicits critiques, please only respond to their writing with supportive comments (or don't respond at all).

We summon the pinglist!

@Amut, @benalene, @blaireau, @BombSwan @Catberry, @chalcara, @chaosheart13, @Elfnextdoor, @encarmine, @Erratic, @IvoryMuffin, @Jane13, @JiggertyPokery, @kanashiiichigo @Kazaera, @Kelwyn, @KittyHamilton, @LadyRowyn, @LadyRowyn, @LucklessLady, @Metamochi, @micahjaguar, @MischiefSword @Mistwalker, @mwingzero, @mysticsongbird, @nano, @Nemera, @Paintminion, @pixeltune, @PocketTheSaurus, @Pookasaur, @purplpeanut, @Pyrasaur, @Rabbithearts, @SadariEvenstar, @Serpenthyne, @Soleil, @Steffon, @Suraya, @Syrinx, @The13Inquisitor, @VioletWhirlwind, @Wisecakes, @Yukino @Beacon

Link to add, edit, or remove yourself from the pinglist: http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=outbound&loc=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MgBhbV0tZai8TO20VNURz5y8_toxSN4xLCamseq7ICs/edit?usp=sharing

Welcome to October, everyone! Here's where I am:

1. Three-quarters done with Book 2 of the fantasy trilogy I want to have done this year... I anticipate having Book 2 complete by mid-October so I can be hitting stride on Book 3 in time to finish it during NaNoWriMo.

2. My third children's book (second in the Vinny the Armadillo series) is also about three-quarters done and I hope to have it polished off this month.

3. I have plans for my fifth coloring book, but I'm not sure when I'll get to it; ditto the short story for the anthology I've been invited to contribute to.

Royalties are good! Every month, they float up a little higher. I am The Pleased Writer.

What about y'all? How are your projects going? @LadyRowyn, we should organize our NaNo prizes! Anyone want to contribute some? I was thinking about a 5 or 10-pack accent, but we'd have to pick a breed/sex....

@Suraya Oh, that's a great idea about the mixed skin/accent and making the accents based on people's characters! You are brilliant. :D And hooray, someone else doing NaNo!

As for my stuff, what's your interest? I generally suggest Mindtouch or Earthrise (soft relationship science fiction), but people who like fantasy sometimes prefer The Worth of a Shell or Flight of the Godkin Griffin or the Kherishdar books. (I have an Amazon author page here that gives a 'quick start' guide: http://www.amazon.com/M.C.A.-Hogarth/e/B00448EEPQ/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1, but you can buy the books at B&N/Apple/etc/etc as well.)

Avatar change again for a while because I found this accent for 250 gems, so Tempest got a makeover. [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=1344413] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/13445/1344413_350.png[/img] [/url]

@micahjaguar Finally got back into bios last night and wrote a continuation for Nuala. Hope I did her justice. [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=5261871] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/52619/5261871_350.png[/img] [/url] I've got a couple more floating around my head that will hopefully make it to the computer over the course of the month. I can't wait for Nano...a perfect excuse to set aside some time to write.

Wooo, new month, new chat!

I'm finally getting more free time between classes and homework to work on my novel again. I think I'll be too busy, yet again, to do NaNoWriMo this year. Seems like I can only ever do the camps.

October! I'm finally getting back into the writing swing, wrote something 29 days last month. :)