Lockpine

Are you starting a story? Do you have an incomplete, flawed, or no character at all? It's happened to me many times and in my struggles to perfect my creations, I have learned a few things. I present you with seven easy steps with a challenge each to get you thinking. Grab a piece of paper and a pencil. Let's start… Step 1: Past When creating a character, you must first establish a past. Even a person with amnesia has a past, they just don't remember it. Pasts are important, they show what shaped the person and why they are the way they are today. If your character has a scar, why? If they have amnesia, why? If they have a phobia of

I watch her sleeping The gently sigh she breaths The slight rufflle of her blonde curls So at ease In her peaceful world of lullabye It makes me think of other times Happier times Different times But still she smiles I would do anything for her to keep smiling For her to be strong I stroke her gently Wanting so much to tell her how much I love her That I will always be there for her Even when I'm not Because she's a part of me The most important part When she grows up into a beautiful woman Young but not too young She will understand And whisper affectionately to her child And the next child... When I have gone I rema

Drenched in mud and more exhausted than he'd been in days, Hiccup dragged himself to the hill that led to his house. It had been a good day. He'd gone flying with Toothless and that was something they both loved. It was wonderful, effortless even with the metal that took the place of his foot. Of course now he wasn't flying with a massive dragon trying to eat him which was a definite plus. It was easy now to make the quick changes Toothless needed to fly. Gobber had made some actual improvements to the fin he'd made, this design working even smoother than his original had. Toothless didn't seem to mind the new design, but Hiccup imagined th