April 2008
First Guest Post!
Posted by 
Aywren on April 30, 2008 in Blogging
Welcome to Wayfarer Wings! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I just wanted to announce that my very first ever guest post was published on the blog Fighting With Writing yesterday. I can’t thank Tam enough for the opportunity to spout out my thoughts and [...]
Darkstar Drafting Complete!
Posted by Aywren on April 30, 2008 in Writing
I am pleased to announce that today — April 30, 2008 — the final drafting of Coming of the Darkstar, the story that I first began posting on the net nearly a decade ago, has now been completed. I still have editing and updating to do, so that’s not completely the end of my work [...]
Silver and Gold: When Your Characters Age
Posted by Aywren on April 30, 2008 in Character Development
Make new friends, but keep the old.
One is silver, the other is gold.
It’s a children’s rhyme talking about friendship.. but it can be relevant to fictional characters as well. Afterall, characters that authors become close to are like internal, personal friends.
Some writers enjoy taking their characters for the long ride down the path of [...]
Wayrift Hosts the Design a Pilot Contest
Posted by Aywren on April 25, 2008 in Web Comic
And now for something a little different (from the Mini-Nano, at least). In the spirit of last year’s Design a Red Wing contest, this year, Wayrift is hosing a Design a Pilot Contest. Readers and members of the Wayrift online manga community are invited to submit a design of their own character or small flying [...]
Handcrafted Goods for Video Game Geeks
Posted by Aywren on April 13, 2008 in Artist Inspiration, Gaming
When I was very young, I would sometimes stay over at my aunt and uncle’s house on summer days. And my aunt would teach me how to cross stitch. She was incredible at handcrafted arts — a woman who made sprawling stitched scenery for house decor… a well as adorable cartoon character hang-ups and pillows [...]
Final Fantasy IV DS US Release Date Announced
Posted by Aywren on April 10, 2008 in Gaming
I promised I’d update as soon as I heard word on this, so here it is. It was announced officially on RPGamer that Final Fantasy IV DS will be released in the US on July 22. The site mentions that there will be full voice-over cut sceens, just as the Japanese version, but there’s no [...]
Finding Motivation Through Goal-Oriented Writing
Posted by Aywren on April 9, 2008 in Writing
What Motivates Your Writing?
We have lots of little terms for states of mind in the writing world: inspiration, muse, writer’s block… But when you strip all of that away, writers who keep writing have to have two important things:
Love
Motivation
Love and motivation may seem like the same thing. But they’re not.
The What and Why of Writing
Love [...]
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