Hi Flamie!! Yay, we get to talk more with each other! :D

Yep, I'm deep in creative endeavors... I'm writing two novels at once, which basically means I'm working quite a lot on one, and very little on the other ;) And I'm going to try to start or join an RP in Kyngdom as soon as I finish figuring out what it's all about, and in a few days our magical horses RP will start, so I'll be working on writing stuff for that too! Conlang calligraphy script sounds wonderful. I've tried doing ordinary calligraphy several times; it's so much fun. I love the feeling of creating elegant letters and words. Illumination can be fun too, have you ever tried it?

Books... I love all kinds, basically! Except I will NOT read anything that's at all dark or gory, which means I don't like a lot of young-adult novels - but other than that, I'll read anything! I especially like fantasy and realistic fiction as a rule, but I tend to like particular authors more than particular genres. Some of my favorites are Elizabeth Enright and Michael Ende (you may have seen me talking on the CB about Momo, by the aforementioned Michael Ende, which is like one of my favorite books ever - it's fantasy but with a little bit of realistic fiction mixed in, and really fun to read). I also like C. S. Lewis and O. Henry and Rudyard kipling and...but I'll stop there. What books do you like to read?

Another question: what kinds of music do you like?

I'm excited to talk with you too!

You're writing two novels?! That is so awesome! Do you mind telling us what they're about? I have lots of smaller stories that I work on at different intervals, but I'm not very far with any of them. I'm excited for the RP! And interested in Kyngdom too, but it's so complicated! I have not tried illumination, but it sounds interesting. 

I don't like reading violent things either, and you're right, I haven't gone in my library's young adult section for several months. I feel disappointed that novels catered to our age group tend to be so gory. I like C.S. Lewis too. I've read all the Narnia books except The Last Battle, which is on my everlasting reading list for this summer. I love Lord of the Rings and The Green Ember. Also, have you read The Penderwicks? It's realistic fiction but one of my favourite books/series ever! I don't usually read sci-fi, but last summer I read a novel called The Last Cuentista that was actually really good as well. I'm currently reading James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small. And in English we're reading Macbeth! Have you read any Shakespeare? 

I like soft-sounding songs, lofi, elvish lullabies, movie ambience, and a little pop music. Idk, my tastes vary with my mood. I don't like jazz or rock though. I play clarinet in band and used to play piano, but not so much anymore. One of my irl friends plays cello, which I think is such a pretty instrument. Do you play an instrument? 

Here I am :) Gosh, threads in DtE do go down quickly, don't they?

A half-day! How nice! Poinsettia and I are homeschooled, do we don't get half-days because of weather, though sometimes our family goes out somewhere just because we all feel as if we need a break. That doesn't happen too often, though, and at the moment I think we're both a leetle bit behind schedule :/

Closets full of notebooks... I know how it feels. There's almost all of a shelf on one of my bookshelves jammed full of notebooks, some of which have a lot of finished stories in them and some of which have only a few that I got actually got around to finishing. In one notebook I actually started, and didn't finish, exactly fifteen different stories... Oh well (it was when I was starting to get my writer's block, as you can probably guess) And oh yes, the thing of not being able to write for a while, and then writing a lot all at once, has certainly happened to me too. I feel as if I just let my inspiration build up for however long it takes, until I can let it all flow out.

So you write in notebooks too!!!! It seems as if nowadays a whole lot of people just write stories on the computer, but I find that absolutely uninspiring. On a computer there's just a blank page, and you type for gracious' sakes, while notebooks have lines, and margins, and you can actually write, and in general I just find it much nicer. Furthermore, on a computer you can never be sure if you're going to delete something by mistake :0

Ah, guinea-piggies - Poinsettia and I did have a guinea-pig once, but she died - three years ago already?! No. Two and a half - two and three-quarters - er - two and seven-eighths - no, actually just two years and a few months. Her name was Cookie, and she was adorable :) We got her when she was very very small, and she used to like to sit inside her food bowl. Do you have any pets, or have had any?

How come this comment is enormously long again? Oh well.

Hi again :)

Yep, I'm writing two novels! The first one (the one I'm not working on so much) is about a woman (Alyssa) who runs a horse-riding school, and the challenges she faces with her students. It's actually a sequel to another novel I wrote years ago, about Alyssa's experiences when she attended that same school as a girl. It's fun to come back to the same setting and characters after so many years :) The other one, which I'm working on a lot more, is a romance set in one of my imaginary countries. I got inspired for it when I was thinking about Alexander the Great and wondering whom he married, so it's very slightly based on him, but other than that it's All My Own Invention. I'm adding in some political intrigue, because I always like stuff like that; right now the heroine's home country is in grave danger from another neighboring country, although she doesn't know it.

Yeah, I'm also really disappointed that I can never find any interesting books for my age range. I tend to just read older books (like from the 1940s), some of which are quite well-written, and books by well-known authors like Dickens. I haven't read the Penderwicks series, but I have read some Shakespeare! Every year, for school, I read a play of his. So far I've read The Tempest, Twelfth Night, and The Merchant of Venice. And I haven't actually read Macbeth, but I've seen a live performance of it, which was lots of fun. It's such a good play!

I play piano and ukulele, but I don't do it so much anymore; I really should get back into it. It's really fun. I agree that cellos sound lovely! I think some of my favorite instruments to listen to are flutes and fiddles, though. Do you have any favorite instruments?

Whee, getting your biology test postponed sounds great :)

Running out of ideas happens to me too, I must say... although more often it's not so much that I don't have any ideas, as that I just lack the motivation to put them down on paper and make them into a story, especially toward the end. Idk, I used to finish most of my stories, but a while ago, like Amethyst, I went through a Stagnant Phase (which I'm done with now, thank goodness) and now I have a couple of notebooks with unfinished stories...

Pets. Hmm. Amethyst told you about our dear departed guinea pig :/ Officially we don't have any pets, but there are lots of wild rabbits in our garden, mostly in the spring and summer. Sometimes we get to see a baby or two and they're so CUTE. They're quite tame, too, once they get used to us. So they kind of count as pets... I hope you can get a rabbit soon! They do make good pets and they're so sweet and fluffyyyyyy

My favorite animals are horses, and I saw from your form that you like horses too! Do you have a favorite breed?