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@skredder Yeah? Well I have written NOTHING so far! XD
Then again it hasn’t been an hour XD
You can pronounce it however you want.
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I have been fighting valiantly to finish my Latin translation and have prevailed! Now I am writing…care to join me?
A dreamer who believes in the impossible...and dragons. (INFJ-T)
Well, I’m here, writing a late blog post. Any one still awake? I have no idea what time it is for you Americans.
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@seekjustice It’s only a little past 11:00 here on the East Coast. I’m working on a (very short) law school writing assignment. (Does that count for writers’ corner? It’s not fiction or anything.)
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@rochellaine Oh okay then.
I’m sure it counts! what’s your topic?
INFP Queen of the Kingdom commander of an army of origami cranes and a sabre from Babylon.
@seekjustice Oh, just a short statement about what I learned this lesson, and a question about something I didn’t understand. A few paragraphs long. Just have to decide what to write about – then it’s easy. 🙂
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I hope it goes well for you! I’m just wrestling with my blog post (which is about why I personally can’t stand Jane Austen). What are your feelings on Austen?
INFP Queen of the Kingdom commander of an army of origami cranes and a sabre from Babylon.
@seekjustice How silly of me. I forgot to answer your actual question. I’m studying Criminal Procedure, which we joke is “how to proceed as criminals” but is really how to proceed in things like searches, arrests, and criminal trials.
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That sounds quite interesting! Are you enjoying it?
INFP Queen of the Kingdom commander of an army of origami cranes and a sabre from Babylon.
@seekjustice Okay, I figured out what to write, so now I’m just trying to put it on paper – um – on the computer screen. 🙂
Austen. I can tell in reading her books that she was a good author, but I didn’t really like them, either. I liked Emma okay when I read it about two years ago, but now that I think about it, I probably wouldn’t like it much anymore. I really don’t like how much scandal is in the books. It’s like every single book has some naive girl tricked by a handsome rogue and he ruins her. That wasn’t exciting for me, it was sad and annoying.
I remember telling a couple of women my dislike of Austen’s scandals once, and they kind of laughed and said I’d enjoy it more when I was older. (I was probably sixteen.) However, I don’t think that’s the problem. 🙂
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@seekjustice Goodness, our posts are getting tangled up. I’m replying at the wrong times, since I can’t see your next post until I’ve posted. Let me fix that: Yes, I’m enjoying it. It’s very interesting.
There. If this gets posted before you post in reply to my last one, there should be no more tangles. 🙂
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I’m finished with my blog post and I’m doing some research now for my novel.
Yeah that really annoys me too! I generally just found the characters and the plots annoying and superficial. They all do seem to revolve around scandals don’t they?
Hmm, that’s weird. I find that sort of thing interesting too. I’ve always thought I would enjoy studying sociology or psychology.
INFP Queen of the Kingdom commander of an army of origami cranes and a sabre from Babylon.
@seekjustice Finished my assignment. Now going to work on my Contemporary Western again.
Speaking of research, I just thought of something else I dislike about Austen. I have read that she actually had no idea what society life was like, since she was raised in a poor family, and her novels were basically fantasies about a life she had only heard about. Because of this, she wrote what she guessed life was like, but did not do her research, and a lot of her facts about life in that period, which many people take as history, are just not true. I get the same feeling I have when watching a movie and an actor who is clearly carrying a six-gun kills eight men with it after firing ten shots. 🙂
An author who I think is much better at writing about the same period is Georgette Heyer. She did extensive research and when I read one of her books it felt much more realistic than Austen’s works. Have you heard of her?
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I’ve never heard of a Contemporary Western before!
I’ve heard people say that too, both about Austen and the Bronte sisters as well. I’m a big history geek, but I know barely anything about Regency Enngland, so I wouldn’t know. She does make the life of the English gentry seem very dull though.
I have heard a lot about Georgette Heyer but I haven’t read any off her books yet. I might go and find out if my library has any of them right now.
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@seekjustice Yeah, well, I got the idea when my family toured Western America last August. I am planning on posting the beginning of it and a synopsis for critique soon – maybe tomorrow – so you’ll see what it’s like then. I am going to try to make the plot similar to one of the old Westerns, but since it is set in the modern day it’ll be a little different.
The only Contemporary Westerns I have heard of are romances where a girl who is traumatized or something finds healing in horses and the man who cares for them. That is totally not what I’m writing. 🙂
History geek – I am totally that, except my brother says that it’s really called “Wonk”.
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