Direlda

Welcome back! ^^ *Direlda bows in re-greeting*

Hiya, bro! *Direlda glomps and then offers you some Korean snacks*

Nice to see you around, Nathan aka Ronin! \^o^/ *Direlda bows in greeting* I hope you had a fantastic birthday!

I like to remain somewhat mysterious!

There are two ways of doing haiku in English. The first is to keep the same numbers as Japanese haiku--the 5-7-5 structure. Cattle herded down ramps to packed cars—a mad rush hour on Seoul's subway (one of two I posted here: http://direlda.deviantart.com/art/Two-Haiku-361841914) The second is to keep the same brevity as Japanese haiku by using something like a 3-5-3 structure (this is because Japanese on or morae are not the same as English syllables). barren trees— unmoving soldiers stare across (written after visiting the Korean DMZ) Haiku generally have a kireji or 'cutting word' that serves to cut the stream of thought and juxtapose the two halves. Because there isn't really a direct equivalent in English, punctuation such as the dash or ellipsis is often used as the kireji. Hope this helps!

I'm rather busy to participate right now, but if you want someone to look over your idea for accommodating anthropomorphic beings in D&D, do let me know. I've managed to run some variation of an anthropomorphic character in almost every campaign I've been in for the last 5 years and across various game systems (D&D 3.5, D&D 4th, Shadowrun 4th, Neverwhen, Over the Edge and while I haven't played it yet I have done some looking at how to make it work in L5R 4th).

Using reference images is another good way to improve. You'll want both pictures of tigers and pictures of humans to help. Live references are even better, though harder to come by. If you have a zoo nearby with tigers, then go there and study them, otherwise just use pictures. And for people you can study your friends or, if that doesn't work, yourself in a mirror.

A riddle poem whose answer seems to be Maltese tiger.

Welcome to the forums! *Direlda bows in greeting* I am a crazy fox who really should get back around to leading Bible study for this place. What forms of poetry do you write? Free verse? Alliterative? Haiku?

Welcome to the forums! *Direlda bows in greeting* Were they small comic conventions or one of the big ones? I wanted to go to Emerald City Comicon this year, but remembered it way too late to have any hope of buying tickets.

I've heard good things about Watership Down, though I haven't gotten around to reading it. Bambi was a novel written by Felix Salten years before Disney adapted it into a movie. White Fang and The Call of the Wild are good. The Tale of Despereaux is a Newbery Award recipient, which is a children's lit award. The Wind in the Willows. Winnie-the-Pooh. The Velveteen Rabbit. The Jungle Book. Fantastic Mr. Fox. Animal Farm by Orwell. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Otters in Space is YA, but I haven't read it so I can't give you an assessment. Calvin and Hobbes counts, I suppose. From what I can tell the comics by Balto (aka Albert C. Peña): Orville, Critter County, and Hodges Pond. Julie of the Wolves might fall into the furry category. Charlotte's Web. Buying Mittens and Gon the Little Fox, which are two Japanese children's stories by Niimi Nankichi.

Welcome to our part of the internet! *Direlda bows in greeting I was at AC in 2010 and 2011. Were you there those years?

Welcome to the forums! *Direlda bows in greeting I'm glad God was able to get your attention through that wolf. ^^

An anthology is a collection of works published together. This anthology is a collection of short stories by different authors. However, it is possible to have an anthology of works all by the same author. Also, anthologies are not limited to short stories--there are also song, poetry, and essay anthologies, to name a few. Thank you everyone for your congratulations. \^o^/

Woo! Blessings on your artistic endeavors.

Fascinating.

So FurPlanet sold out of copies of the anthology at the con sometime between when I saw they had them last night and when I went in to buy some today. Which means you'll have to buy through them if you want a copy. The bright side of this is that it might make them have to do a second print run (depending on how much of their stock they took with them to the con).

I'm published in the Rainfurrest convention anthology! Yay! The anthology is called Furtual Horizons and contains 11 short stories plus some accompanying artwork. But there were complications... First, Nova's artwork got lost somewhere in the process after I sent it to the anthology submission staff. ã… .ã… I'm really bummed about that because I was both excited to have her art accompany my story and to have an artist friend get published. Nova, of course, is also rather bummed. Second, there was a bit of a formatting glitch at the end of my story, which resulted in the story that follows mine getting reproduced, without any gap, at the end of my story and labeled as mine in the header (that story is also properly attributed, titled, and presented following the end of "my" story). So the second to last line on page 112 of the anthology is where my story ends (last word of the line is "restaurant"). This sort of error happens from time to time and it will be fixed if they ever get enough demand to do a reprint. The cost of the anthology is $10, plus tax. I was mistaken about the charity--this year's charity is the Cougar Mountain Zoo, so proceeds from the sale of anthologies will be going to them. I haven't had time to read through the anthology in its entirety, so I can't tell you about what they all are about or the age-appropriateness of all of them. There are at least a few that are definitely PG-13, possibly bordering on R (for language, violence, brief mention of genitals in dialogue, and/or allusions to sex). But there are also some that are PG. Also, the publisher the convention went with to publish the anthology, FurPlanet, does publish adult books in addition to books suited for the general public, which might be an issue for some of you. If you want a copy you can either PM me tomorrow and I can try to pick one up on Sunday (and then we can arrange repayment) or you can order one off the FurPlanet website.

Well, "come [time expression]" is an idiomatic way of saying "when [time expression] comes." So I was saying, "when it is the 25th of September, I'll be able to give you more information." The place where you can buy the anthology is at the Rainfurrest 2014 convention, which is held in SeaTac, Washington. I will be going; so if anyone really wants a copy you can PM me and we can work out how you'll pay me for picking it up for you and how I'll get it sent to you (I would suggest waiting until after I've posted the additional info on the 25th, as that would tell you how much the anthology will cost).

The 2014 Rainfurrest convention anthology is being released on the 25th of September and I have a short story in it! Whoo! \^o^/ And NovaWulf did an illustration for my story, which should also be showing up in the anthology! My story is called Neural Enrichment. Here is a blurb-in-progress: After saving for months on his hagwon English teacher's salary, John finally had enough to afford a cybernetic implant. He had hoped that his new Rycorp implant would allow him to fully enjoy all that the Korean Technocracy had to offer. Instead it turned him into an anthropomorphic fox and now bombards his mind with adverts. John is desperate to shut the world out of his head and is willing to seize any opportunity to do so even if it risks what humanity he has left. I don't know the cost of the anthology, but I do know that all proceeds will be going towards The Clouded Leopard Project. I also don't know the content of the other stories, but I do know that the anthology I'm in has a content rating of G to PG-13. Come the evening of September 25 I will be able to give you more information.

I'm one of the ones who receives the messages sent to the Christian Furs group on Facebook. The one of which you said:

Welcome to the forums and sorry about not getting back to you on facebook--I was rather busy at the time and not really on facebook (or anywhere else online). *Direlda bows in greeting* I'm a wacky kitsune who tells stories.

Making a game requires a lot of time and effort, which many of us don't really have to spare. I've tried a few times to work on games with people from this forum and they never worked out. The last one was partly my fault for failing because it was hard to work on writing a story to give the setting of a potential game world when the likelihood of anything coming of the game was low and I had other writing projects to work on, namely one that is now being published in a convention anthology and another that I'm trying to get polished enough to query literary agents. My wife has, however, convinced me to finish the story I began for that game project, so my "few days" is more like a year later. Though, I don't really feel like committing to a game project that is going to have to rely on me to push it forward, as I already have a lot I'm responsible for. It would also help if the game dev had a definitive goal in mind, especially one that was more than help the dev get more experience in making games. Myself and others have interest in making games, but that doesn't get a project very far. Starting by asking if people are interested isn't exactly the best way to get collaborators--you ask if they are interested in a specific project you just spent time describing. So I recommend trying again, except provide a proposal for the project that states what the finished game will look like (so type of game, what sort of art and music assets are required, platform, etc) with as much specificity as possible. Then list the challenges you foresee and how they will be addressed. And then provide a rough time frame for the process, what positions are needed (artist, writer, programmer, etc.), team structure (such as whether everyone is working directly under the lead dev or if there are sub-teams, such as an art team and a programming team that have heads who report to the lead dev), and what you hope to do with the finished game. By doing this you can prove to us who have interest, but are hesitant, that you have a plan and are willing to put in the effort to make this work. I was able to convince the honors project selection team at my undergrad university to allow me to write three connected short stories instead of a research paper for my honors project because my prospectus proved to them that I knew what I wanted to do, that I was aware of the challenges I would face and had a plan to deal with them, that their potential concerns were being addressed, and that it would be just as academically rigorous as a research paper. So your job is to do something similar and convince us that we should join you in making a game.

Many welcomes to the forum! I'm Direlda, a silly kitsune who's studied thousands of pages of Japanese folklore and wrote about anime for a university paper. So which anime and manga do you like?

And welcome you back! ^^