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Kaitlyn Connor wrote: 6 Dec 2025, 22:52

Scout Fu-Hai wrote: 6 Dec 2025, 22:31

Kaitlyn Connor wrote: 6 Dec 2025, 22:23 I’m glad you had fun with your friends! Oooof. Good luck with the projects, Scout!

we had to run around the city tryna find posterboards and i stole glitter pens from the dollar tree on accident..... so my hope is that everything bad already happened and the project will be great!!!

emi!!!!!!!

*snugs* I hope so!


It feels so weird to refer to Kaitlyn now as 14. XD

Angel O'Connor wrote: 6 Dec 2025, 22:28 its just my dad always took me to my friends partys

Avery Gray wrote: 6 Dec 2025, 23:07

Kaitlyn Connor wrote: 6 Dec 2025, 22:52

Scout Fu-Hai wrote: 6 Dec 2025, 22:31

Kaitlyn Connor wrote: 6 Dec 2025, 22:23 I’m glad you had fun with your friends! Oooof. Good luck with the projects, Scout!

we had to run around the city tryna find posterboards and i stole glitter pens from the dollar tree on accident..... so my hope is that everything bad already happened and the project will be great!!!

emi!!!!!!!

*snugs* I hope so!


It feels so weird to refer to Kaitlyn now as 14. XD

No way! Happy late birthday to her!

Angel O'Connor wrote: 6 Dec 2025, 22:28 its just my dad always took me to my friends partys

*hugs again*

Thomas Baines wrote: 6 Dec 2025, 20:55 I don't return to HIO as often as I probably should, but it's been amazing to watch this site grow and improve throughout the years. Every time I log on, it's like a totally new experience!

I want to get back into writing here, but I'm honestly not super sure how yet. If any of y'all have any tips let me know

Hi Thomas! I'm so sorry for the lateness of this reply. Here are a few tips, which personally help(ed) me a lot:

Start slow. It'll just burn you out or push you farther away from h.io to immediately start doing a lot of threads at once. One or two threads to get back into the rhythm of writing would be ideal, at first, and then as writing more often becomes a habit, don't be afraid to take on a few more; as many as you're comfortable with and can handle. Furthermore, don't worry about taking time to reply. As they say, slow and steady wins the race!

Find your muse. It's not easy to immediately jump back into something you haven't done in a long time. Especially when it comes to writing, finding your muse and inspiration is a key pointer. Creating a character pinterest board is always fun, and having a few banners that you like to use as headers in your posts is a good way to give you more motivation to write!

Develop your character. Writing in itself is fun in general, but having an idea of an actual storyline that your character undergoes — a plot to follow — can be much more fun. Having character development helps a lot- how does Thomas change over time, how do his interactions (threads) etc (solos) influence his character arc? *Identify your characters' wants. What do they want truly? Next, identify their needs. What do they need to do to get there? Is it physical growth or mental growth? Maybe it's a need they don't realize yet!* ( *->* originally written by Emily Shephard! )

Don't judge yourself. No one's writing is perfect, so don't kill yourself to become a better writer 24/7. It's important to write from the heart, and if you do that, the writing will automatically be very in-depth and fun to read! Judging yourself and feeling like you're a bad writer after reading someone else's well-written post will never help you on your writing journey. Be proud of your own writing!

And most importantly of all... have fun!!! There are a lot of lovely people to roleplay with here, and this is a place to thrive between commas, spaces, and exclamation points Find your place in the community and add your brick to the house that many people call home!

I hope this helps, and if you'd like to talk further, my owls are always open!

Helen Aletheia Doukas wrote: 6 Dec 2025, 23:40

Thomas Baines wrote: 6 Dec 2025, 20:55 I don't return to HIO as often as I probably should, but it's been amazing to watch this site grow and improve throughout the years. Every time I log on, it's like a totally new experience!

I want to get back into writing here, but I'm honestly not super sure how yet. If any of y'all have any tips let me know

Hi Thomas! I'm so sorry for the lateness of this reply. Here are a few tips, which personally help(ed) me a lot:

Start slow. It'll just burn you out or push you farther away from h.io to immediately start doing a lot of threads at once. One or two threads to get back into the rhythm of writing would be ideal, at first, and then as writing more often becomes a habit, don't be afraid to take on a few more; as many as you're comfortable with and can handle. Furthermore, don't worry about taking time to reply. As they say, slow and steady wins the race!

Find your muse. It's not easy to immediately jump back into something you haven't done in a long time. Especially when it comes to writing, finding your muse and inspiration is a key pointer. Creating a character pinterest board is always fun, and having a few banners that you like to use as headers in your posts is a good way to give you more motivation to write!

Develop your character. Writing in itself is fun in general, but having an idea of an actual storyline that your character undergoes — a plot to follow — can be much more fun. Having character development helps a lot- how does Thomas change over time, how do his interactions (threads) etc (solos) influence his character arc? *Identify your characters' wants. What do they want truly? Next, identify their needs. What do they need to do to get there? Is it physical growth or mental growth? Maybe it's a need they don't realize yet!* ( *->* originally written by Emily Shephard! )

Don't judge yourself. No one's writing is perfect, so don't kill yourself to become a better writer 24/7. It's important to write from the heart, and if you do that, the writing will automatically be very in-depth and fun to read! Judging yourself and feeling like you're a bad writer after reading someone else's well-written post will never help you on your writing journey. Be proud of your own writing!

And most importantly of all... have fun!!! There are a lot of lovely people to roleplay with here, and this is a place to thrive between commas, spaces, and exclamation points Find your place in the community and add your brick to the house that many people call home!

I hope this helps, and if you'd like to talk further, my owls are always open!

Angel O'Connor wrote: 6 Dec 2025, 22:28 its just my dad always took me to my friends partys

hello hio!!