Have you ever tried to write a play or a book in Lusternia only to stop because you couldn't translate the idea from your mind to the computer screen?

For example I wanted to do a ballet on the relationship between Mother Moon and Mother Night, at least how I understand it. It started from Moon’s Awakening all the way to the current standing between the two. I stopped working on it three sentences in because I couldn’t get the opening scene the way I wanted it to be. Floating in a dark night sky should not be that tricky


Also this might be the wrong fourm for this, if it is could someone move it?

I have about fifty or so wordfiles lieing around, all in various states of being done. If I am not satisfied with something, I drop it. The only bardic I ever submitted, I hated because it didn't, and doesn't, meet my standards, but I wanted to see how it does. My main problem is my lack of mastery of the english language. I wish I could submit in german.

"Separate Lives" (my big-production-number musical romantic comedy) died a dozen deaths before it was finally completed for that very reason. I was never satisfied with my attempts to convey the song and dance of Broadway production numbers in text, until I finally came up with the reincarnation angle that let me have new-yet-not-new characters each scene. (I still think it would work better as a real musical than in text; there's a lot of little moments in it that don't really have the impact in text that they do in the visual in my head. Nevertheless, I'm happy with it.)

Most of my things that got started and never finished were too topical, or too sarcastic, or both. For instance, never plan a satire of a sitting government in Serenwilde; the administration always changes before you can finish it.

I have the same problem as Ashteru. I no longer need to attend English courses (the teacher proclaimed that she has "nothing more to give") but I am far from an adept, native user. I will probably end up studying English at the University and (eventually) find myself teaching grammar to some high school kids who could not care less.

I get random ideas every so often that are just bleeding awesome, then I just get a new one and the old one barely gets started.

I have very vivid pictures in my head of various characters, but lack the artistic skill to actually put them on paper, and it bugs me endlessly. I mean, I can draw ok, but the little sketches I do for tabletop RPG's in lieu of character descriptions and the crazy paintings in my head of Arix and other people are barely comparable.

I also suffer from a lack of English mastery and it's my main language There's always so many words to choose and none of them put what I want to say correctly. I'm just a terrible writer

Forget about Lusternia, I have notebooks upon notebooks of things I have written. Some of them good, some of them bad, and most of them unfinished. Many of them I plan to rewrite and finish. I do have a couple of books I want to publish in Lusternia, but they are long and it will be a while before I can finish them.

Arix a couple of things you might want to look up. At your local library look up Ed Emberly's Big Orange Book in the kids book section(his other books are good too). Yeah, I know it's kid like, but it's a lot of fun and will help you start going from the circles and lines to making things look more realistic. Here is a link to his site: http://www.edemberley.com/pages/main.aspx And to the amazon site which has a page of his book:http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0316234192/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link

My absolute favorite book is "Drawing the Head and Figure" by Jack Hamm. This will make it easier for you to learn proportions. You most likely wont be able to find it at your library, however it only costs about $10 US. You can practice tracing or going free hand the drawings there.

After you know the basics you should look for reference photos to work from. Family and friends can be great if you can't find the right photo you might get them to pose for you. Look up reference Photos on google or look for some Illustration Reference books at your local library.

Jeeze, just submit the novel you wrote just now.

Ba-zing HEYOOOOOOOOOO!

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I would but it's not Lusternian. I thought you knew more about the Library, but maybe not.

Now I get your <3

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