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It's a great idea! It's just what I was looking for.		35.2%	[ 31 ]
It's all right. I don't see any reason I'd want to buy one though...		15.9%	[ 14 ]
I don't like reading! Words are bad!		1.1%	[ 1 ]
I'd prefer to write descriptions myself, thank you very much!		11.4%	[ 10 ]
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a writing shop
(bump, chat, & hangout)

Welcome aboard the WordLove Express, a shop devoted to the written word!
We sell stories and descriptions!
We host events!
We're a place for you to hang out and meet other people who love words and stories!
So, hop aboard, dears. heart

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And blow a kiss to our adorable shop mascot.

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~Table of Contents~

Conductor's Box
Passenger Cart
Create-A-Passenger
Dining Cart
Bake-A-Story
Festivities Cart
Poetry Contest
Storage Cart
Ticket Gate

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~Current Orders~
(q) Remi-chan (story) (x) 30% complete

Waiting List
(2) Radiant Rain (shop descriptions)
(3) Kyuupii (story) (x)
(4) -- no one yet --

Note: Just because you are on my waiting list does not mean I have agreed to do your order! Sorry, but I am too busy to accept all commissions. >.< If it is interesting, though, most likely I will accept it. (I DO accept all description orders, though!)

Also, I don't complete the list in order of when you put in your order. I will do descriptions and shorter assignments first!

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Rules

- follow Gaia ToS
- be respectful while in the thread
- do not steal my work!

There is confusion over this last point, so let me be very clear about what you can and cannot do.

biggrin You CAN post my work (descriptions, short stories) in RP thread, OC threads, siggys, Gaia journals, guilds, and other places on Gaia.
scream You CANNOT post my work anywhere outside of Gaia.
biggrin You CAN post my descriptions without giving me credit (such as in an RP profile, journal, OC thread, etc). But if someone asks if you wrote it, you must tell them you didn't. (Refering them to my shop would be a nice gesture, too, though it's not necessary.)
biggrin You MUST give me credit for a short story, regardless of where you post it.
scream You CANNOT adjust my short stories in any way, shape, or form. (I am flexible about descriptions. You can crop descriptions, change a few details such as hair color, and make small adjustments of
that kind. If you want me to make them for you, I will make them for free, if the changes are minor.)

If you have any questions, ask in the thread. If my work is spread without my permission (whether or not you make a profit off of it), there ARE legal consequences. My writing is protected by international copyright laws, and you WILL be fined real money, if I choose to pursue your copyright infringement.

How To Order

1) Fill out Form and Post in Thread
2) Send Trade. Wait for me to offer. Accept the trade.
3) I will frantically type away. When it is ready, I will PM the first draft of your order to you.
4) You reply with what you'd like added or changed.
5) I rewrite and send you another draft. Only when you have a description/story that you are satisfied with will I accept trade (and get paid!).

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About the Owner

Name: secret! ^_~ Freel free to call me Kela!
Gender: female
Age: secret! but each year, I get older. what a shocker. (here's a clue... Reagon baby. yes, I'm old. at least, for Gaia.)
Occupation: freelance writer (this includes playing and reviewing video games!)
Interests: video games (any WoW players? i also love final fantasy), anime (favs include Full Metal Panic!, Scrapped Princess, FMA, FMoS, and many, many more), writing (no duh, haha), looking at beautiful arts on Gaia (I'm so jealous! I wish I could draw!).
Likes: friendly and kind people, humor, cute art, chibis, pixels, FOOD, quirkiness, creativity, helping people when approached with respect, Disneyland.
Dislikes: people who pride themselves on their rude personalities, snails (except to eat! they taste okay. i just don't like accidentally stepping on their shells), traffic.

Current Quest

I need something fluffy and soft to keep me warm all those cold, cold nights typing away at my computer.
If you would like to help this starving writer, you can donate or just chat in the thread to keep me company!
Much appreciated. *hug*

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Create-A-Passenger

Shhhhh!
Look around. Passengers are snoozing in their snuggly chairs.
But they are gray and lifeless, oh so dull.
Why not give them some life?

Here's how!
Buy a description for your Original Character or your Avatar and he/she will magically transform into one of the passengers.**

**Disclaimer: The descriptions are for your personal use. I will not post them here (unless you'd like me to). The "transformation into a passenger" is strictly metaphorical. Really, you are just buying a snappy description for your beloved character.

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There are two kinds of descriptions you can buy: Traditional or Tableau. Take a look at the samples.

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Traditional: Aki is an assassin of the highest caliber. Raised by the Amber Order, she is adept with all manner of ninja blades. Her luminous skin and curvaceous body allow her to coy her way into the inner chambers of most marks -- but if seduction fails, she can always rely on her agile stealthiness. Her black eyes gleam with focus, for she is only three kills away from being promoted to squad leader. Aki never smiles, but surprisingly, when crossed, she often responds with compassion. She keeps a cloak of the goddess always close to her -- it is useful in her disguises. But more importantly, it is the only heirloom from her unknown childhood.

Tableau: Trained in the strict codes of the Amber Order, Aki is an assassin of discipline. She balances on one leg atop a stage in a dark nightclub. Her other leg is lifted, folded at the knee, a delicate toe touching a milky thigh -- her costume skirt does not cover nearly enough. Her hands are raised. One bare arm reaches for the ceiling; the other holds a silky scarf seductively across her face. Her gaze is fixed upon a man in the back of the room. When the moment is right, she will reach for the shurikens hidden in her hair.

Price: 300 gold
Slots Open (4/4):
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Ordering:
Fill out the next blanks with what info you want me to include in your description. If you include too much information about your character, I will pick and choose what I think works best. If you provide too little information, I will make things up.

[b]Create-A-Passenger Order Form[/b]

[b]Your Name:[/b]
[b]Traditional or Tableau:[/b]
[b]Who Your Order is For:[/b]
[b]Tense:[/b] past or present?

[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Pictures:[/b]
[b]Physical Traits:[/b]
[b]Items:[/b]
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]Profession / Background:[/b]
[b]Situations:[/b]
[b]Five Adjectives Describing Your Character:[/b]
[b]Other Things You Want Included for Sure:[/b]

[b]Other Comments:[/b]

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Bake-A-Story

MmmMMmmm!
Can you smell that?
The scent of baked goods fresh out of the oven.
Scones, buttery biscuits, warm cookies, egg tarts.
It's making me hungry.
Doesn't it make you hungry?
I know! Let's bake a cake!
A story cake!

Here's how!
Order a story (three kinds: Original Character Only, Fanfic Only, or Mixture of Both)
and I will slave away in the kitchen and bake it for you.
Doesn't it sound delicious?**

**You can't really eat the story! It is for your reading pleasure, only. Though, if you want to lick the screen, that is your choice. ^_~

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Step-By-Step Guide to Cake Baking

|1| Choose what kind of story you'd like! Each kind has it's own first steps, so pay attention!

|a| Original Character Cake:

Provide a detailed description of each of your characters. (If you need help fleshing out your characters, you can buy some descriptions first. See: Create-A-Passenger.)

|b| Fan Fiction Cake:

Choose which anime/movie/etc to base it off of from this list:
Final Fantasy 7, 8. 10, 12
Firefly / Serenity
Full Metal Alchemist
Full Moon o Sagashite
Full Metal Panic
Kodocha
(I've seen more stuff than that, so just ask if you don't see your fav show on this list!)

|c| Mixed Cake:

Provide a description AND choose an anime/movie/etc.

|2| Choose your Ingredients: Romance, Fighting / Battles, Humor, Death, Dragons, Science Fiction, Robots, Alternate Worlds, Horror, Sorrow, Etc. (You can think of your own!)

|3| Choose how you would like your Ingredients whipped. Heavy or Light. Heavy means I do a lot of creative "whipping" of my own to put your story together. Light means you've done most of the "whipping" already and I just put it all together into a tight story. (This is basically how much you want me to make up of your plot, and how much you want me to follow YOUR pre-made list of events.)

Heavy: You provide a brief stetch of events, if you have any.
Light: You provide a detailed, elaborate outline of events.

|4| Choose how many Layers you'd like:

1 Layer = 500 words or so (1500g)
2 Layers = 1k words or so (3000g)
3 Layers = 2-2.5k words or so (5000g)

|5| Choose your rating:

PG: No curse words, violence isn't shown, no mature themes.
PG-13: Artistic use of curse words, some violence may be shown but it will not be explicit, mature themes may be touched upon but nothing graphic will be shown.
Anything higher: Against Gaia terms! If you are curious about this, PM me and we will take it to interactions OFF of Gaia. You will also have to show me proof of your age. ^_^ Yeah, most likely, this ain't happening.

|6| Fill out the Order Form and Post your Order in the Thread: I will look over your order and tell you whether or not I am able to write a story for you and how long it would take. If I reject your story because I am too busy, I can put you on a waiting list. Or, you can repost your order in a bit and see if I'm more free.

Bake-A-Story Order Form

[b]Type of Cake:[/b]
[b]Character Descriptions and/or Anime/Movie/Etc:[/b]
[b]Ingredients:[/b]
[b]Heavy or Light Whipped (provide plot outline):[/b]
[b]Number of Layers:[/b]
[b]Rating:[/b]
[b]Other Comments:[/b]

[b]Payment:[/b]

Samples

A Fantasy / Action Story
{x}
A High School Drama Story
{x}

A Snippet of Description

The sand crickets chirped under a star-filled sky. In the faint bask of moonlight, with the hot winds as their guide, the desert sands lifted, shifted a few paces, and settled, only to repeat their dance moments later. But the most beautiful rhythm of the desert didn’t come from the sands or the crickets, it came from an interweaving stream of colors – each color made of glittering particles that weaved through the others like a complicated French braid – that flowed a few feet above the sand and stretched like a sleeping snake across the desert.
~From "Time Weaver," commissioned by Bluemusic44

A Snippet of Dialogue

As one, the scorpions leapt, claws ready to clamp off her face. Crystalia closed her eyes, grimacing. It was too late to look for a weapon. She had nowhere to run. There was only one thing to do, so she reached her hand backwards…

And was shoved to the ground by rough hands.

The scorpions encountered metal instead of flesh. Zalago was there and his sword was drawn. Crystalia watched as, with elegance and ease, Zalago twisted his body out of the way of the scorpions’ claws, making neat, and deadly, slices as he did so. With his red cape flaring, Zalago looked more like he was dancing than fighting. Crystalia watched, awed.

By the end of the skirmish, the scorpion corpses littered the floor, and not one mark was on Zalago. He looked sternly at Crystalia, “I told you to call me if there were any disturbances.”

Crystalia shrugged. “I just wanted to see what – ”

Zalago shook his head. “I will not be taking you on any more patrols.”

“No! Please!” Crystalia cried. “Please, I won’t do it again. You have to take me on your patrols. I’m learning so much!”

“If I hadn’t stopped you, what were you going to do?”

Now, Crystalia looked a little ashamed. “I had no choice. They were going to kill me, and I’ve learned enough already that I’m sure I could’ve handled just a tiny bit of the Time Stream. It was an emergency.”

Zalago lifted Crystalia up by the shirt until they were face to face. His jaw was so tense and his eyes so black with anger that Crystalia paled. Zalago said, through gritted teeth, trying hard to make his words comprehendible through his fury, “Better they kill you than you touch the Time Stream. Next time, let yourself die.” And he dropped her.
~From "Time Weaver," commissioned by Bluemusic44

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contests, events, and so on

Poetry Contest

date: From 4/9 til whenever I get enough submissions!
entry fee: Free! Please give it a shot! ^_~
poem contest: I choose five words. You must use at least 3 of them in a poem. (If they are
words that can be used in more than one form, you can choose whatever form you like! For example, "love" can act as a noun or a verb.) Extra points if you can use all five!
The words are: train, word, pig, love, easy
rules: Up to two entries per person. Poems can be any length. Please post them in the thread.
prize: The poem I like best will receive 500 gold (or two free descriptions).
hints: I like creative and unusual poems. I like humor. I like wittness and intelligence. I hate cliches. I am "meh" toward emo.

current contestants:
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My Pretty Toys!!

Remember not to take any of them.
If you'd like some, go to mini-shops in my links and buy them yourself. xd

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Ticket Holders!
- Shadow772Craig (x1 description) heart
- bluemusic44 (x5 descriptions, x1 story) heart

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Other writing shops!

In case you don't find what you're looking for here.
Or if I'm too swamped with orders. =X
Or if you just want more people to write stories for your reading pleasure!
Writers should stick together, cuz it's a hard life! =)
(Note: Some are joint art-writing shops!)