Um, on second thought, I'll just throw coconut flakes. *throws coconut flakes in the thread*

Chicken... Just kidding.

Yay! The glitter is still important!

Welcome, Fyrstar! *hands piece of chocolate cake with blue icing, glitter and sprinkles on top*

Haha, thanks! So do you raise dairy cattle?

No, not now. But awhile back we had a milking cow, and a couple of calves.

Ahh, very cool. I asked because I live on a farm and I love everything having to do with agriculture =)

Ah, right. My auntie had a dairy farm, and when we went over visiting her, we'd get up early and milk the cows and feed the calves and pigs.
We've got a bit of a farm at our place: sheep, alpacas, dogs, cat, chooks(hens), geese, and a goat... Farm life is good.

You just made me incredibly happy...what breed of sheep do you raise? I've been raising, showing and selling sheep for more than ten years, please, tell me more =)

*grins* Sometimes being a chicken is safer than exploding the forum, you know.

*coughs*
Especially with ACP access.

I have a feeling that you're referring to the slight... incident that happened when you got promoted.

Not really.

...can't argue there...some of the council members have told me to be more careful about where I aim my CRPGs. Apparently I almost broke the whole forum by hitting the wrong thing! jk

Wow. How do you keep track of them all? An idea notebook?

Um...well...on my PC, I have a folder for "My Stories" (about 50) a folder for potential, a folder for bad, a folder for ideas, and a folder for plots. So...yeah.

Genius.

Hah...not so much when you're trying to focus on one and you have 300 more that are "awesome" =)

Hey, at least you're organized (I'm not so much).

But yeah, to tell the truth I can't imagine having so many ideas...I think you'll never suffer idea shortage.

I never suffer from new idea shortage...it's the old ones that mess me up.

Yeah, I'm still at the point where all my old ideas are so...crazy, that I don't really consider them as possibilities, I have a hard time coming up with ideas...well, really good ideas anyway.

I usually just wait till inspiration strikes. Sometimes in the form of a hairstyle, the wind, or even a plastic bag. All true stories! Though the plastic bag one is exceedingly odd and I will probably never write it, though I fully intend to write the hairstyle and wind ones.

That's awesome!...I think I can relate, but I don't remember how I came up with the idea I've worked on most recently. I think I mostly thought of it because I wanted to see earth become almost empty again, and people be closer to God again. Thus the Pandemic story idea was born.

How do you come up with so many ideas, Fyre star? Do they just come to you randomly?

For me, it usually starts as a name that I create (I like to just create names for future use as fantasy characters...) and then I build a story around their personality. For my most recent story, I just started to draw a map and then built the story from the map. I've had a good number of stories inspired by dreams...either the emotions that I feel while I'm in the dream or something I saw. The story that my username "Fyrstar" is based of off started as a dream...strangely enough.

Wow, that's awesome! We're raising Dorpers for eating, and we own, I think, about eight sheep and one ram. We're hoping to get a milking goat soon that I'll be able to milk, too, so that'll be heaps fun!

Wow, those are neat ways to find ideas!

Thanks

I would use a computer file, but I lost my computer recently, so I'm suspicious of saving things on it.

I've had inspiration from dreams, other just sort of grow on me.

Hi Fyrstar! Welcome to the sight! I'm Bethany, or whatever you want to call me...

Glad you've joined us and I hope that we can help and encourage you in anything and everything!

God bless,
Bethany