I'm always finding stuff!
When I was creating the Rosenite Lore (which making your own unique race is super hard been working at this since I was 12 so :O 12 years now!) I didn't know exactly what I wanted. First I was like oh you know what combining plants and vampires would be cool and slowly I developed a name and making them much different then their undead counterparts (Rosenites have heartbeats! thanks to how much of them is actually living. It's just slower than most)
I also got the inspiration for most of their names being Natural from LJ Smith's Nightworld series. Natural born vampires in the books or Lamia have all Natural names like Ash, Oak, or other floral names. I thought it fit very well with what I wanted to do.
Angela has always had lore around her. I think she actually started off being the Goddess of Life in a short story I wrote before I started to rp as her.
I chose the desert for Arri because I thought about safe places women would go if they wanted to escape the world. A paradise in the middle of a harsh desert made the most sense to me.
I also wanted them to have something tragic because all races tend to and that's where their lack of having males came in. Putting it in pokemon statistics Rosenite women probably only have a 25% chance of having a male child since they miscarry most. :P
I also designed them heavily off Amazons cause it sounded cool when I was 12 and slowly I've been trying to make it my own.
I would delve into the lore more and more. When I was 15 I had a notebook full of words I made up for the Arriese language sadly I lost the notebook :(
Angela is iconic to me because unlike the vast majority of her siblings most of her children have gaelic or greek names.
I couldn't bare to change most of their names so I gave them a reason to be so different compared to most of the others. Angela is named after the woman who helped Willow escape into the Harena Desert (Rev lore). Toya is named after one of Serenity's(their mother) favorite poets. Cathrine is named after her grandmother who is named after one of the elves who helped deliver the first born daughters of the Rosenites. Lily and Cyprus are natural names. Kyoto the girls' father was named after a man in Ayaito who Cathrine(their grandmother) met when she was pregnant, I want to hint that most likely he is named after his father. Rosenites don't tend to keep their mates as most men have a hard time dealing with them.
I've always made sure to connect everything together. A good story always has that in the end. A really good person to watch is Daniel (Century) he takes years foreshadowing things before bringing everything to a close. I enjoy reading his writing.
One thing that I would watch out for is that I constantly was writing new short stories for the Rosenites and my creative writing teacher scolded me for making things so sad. Don't listen to people like that. I think that tragedy as long as its not cliche is wonderful.
The story I happened to write is one that I will eventually put up on the site as a fairytale from the Rosenites. It is about a mother who lost one of her twins to a lake spirit. The other one I wrote is called the Valley of Sleeping Lillies. A curse was placed onto a valley who made an entity angry and all the people there fell into a deep sleep. The curse spread by white lillies. Think of the poppies from Wizard of Oz.
Try not to worry about word count. I personally never look at it unless I have to hit something to get an item. Stressing over word count makes your writing seem very fluffed. A thread can move quite well on just 200 words. When I'm not lazy I write super well and I always love when I find myself writing like this
Calanthe's last post. It's not that I don't think you guys are worth my wordsmithing but I just can't bring myself to overly fluff things when people have constantly complained about my wordy birdyness.
Mind you when I was 14 I was the only one in a class of 30 who understood what the teacher meant when she said add on to this story. She gave us a paragraph and told us to use imagery. I turned it into 3 pages. I think it was about a castle with a wooden bridge that had a moat around it. I think that was the year I joined an rp site and began to write as Angela.
I actually did a piece where I changed everyone's names and the desert and did something different called "Hourglass" oddly enough :P This was how I started it.
"Three years had gone by since that day. Dried blood clung to her crispy flesh. Thankful for her cloak Claudia clung to it to protect her from the sun's death curse. Death had a funny way of repeating itself. Death seemed to want to plague the young vampire. Her reddened eyes stared at a piece of grass for the first time in a while. The Arilli desert was an unforgiving mistress. Three months it had taken her. Three months to survive and live in the damn heat and dryness of the desert. Now after all this trouble she had finally seen real life. It was only a piece of grass. One single blade that symbolized freedom to come for her. After all her suffering and misery here was the one sign Claudia had been waiting for. "