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@jenwriter17 I think it still is. 🙂
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@jenwriter17 @rochellaine @alia good night.
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Hey, are you around?
INFP Queen of the Kingdom commander of an army of origami cranes and a sabre from Babylon.
@seekjustice Yup, yup, yup! I’m around! I just finished a poem for the comic poem topic, and am now about to continue my western.
What are you working on?
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I’m working on my novella again. I’m getting close to the end, so that’s exciting 😀
INFP Queen of the Kingdom commander of an army of origami cranes and a sabre from Babylon.
@seekjustice The Beauty and the Beast one?
Oh yes. Getting to the ending is always exciting! 😀 Congratulations!
Am I going to get to read it once it’s done? 😉
BTW I watched the first half hour of ATOTC. It’s great so far!
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Ah, no, I needed to put that one aside for a bit. This is a his-fic one set in World War 1. But you can still read it when I’ve finished. You’ll probably like it more than the Beauty and the Beast one anyway because it has no magic. 😀
The movie? I don’t think I’ve actually seen the start, I can’t remember. when I saw it on YouTube I skipped to the end, because I wanted to see how well they did the end.
INFP Queen of the Kingdom commander of an army of origami cranes and a sabre from Babylon.
@seekjustice I Love, love LOVE WWI! 😀 Oh, there’s magic in the B&B one? 🙁 too bad. Yes, I probably wouldn’t want to read it then. But oh, I spent a very extensive period of time studying the years surrounding WWI! Not learning about the war itself, but more of the homefront type of things: slang, fashion, music, mannerisms, and a whole bunch of other stuff. I like reading about the war too, though. I can’t wait to read that. 😀 😀 What do you like most about that period?
Oh, haha. 🙂 I sometimes do that when I have a limited time, but I wanted to watch this one from the beginning so I just put it on my “Watch Later” list when I had to take a break.
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Yeah, there’s a little bit, mostly in the form of curses. And ultimately magic makes everything worse, instead of better, but there’s still a little bit. I’ve spent a very long time researching the war…too much time probably! I’ve written a lot of short stories about it, and this novella, but I’ve never actually tried writing a full length war novel, though I’d like to one day. I’ve never read much about the fashion or music, but I do like seeing the way the war affected people and how it changed culture. I particularly like reading people’s personal stories from the war, because military strategy I don’t really like (or understand).
I was a tiny bit disappointed with ATOTC though, because I felt it made the story so squeaky clean that it lost a lot of it’s impact, but I did appreciate the fact that the violence was very minimal and that it was (fairly) faithful to the book.
INFP Queen of the Kingdom commander of an army of origami cranes and a sabre from Babylon.
@seekjustice Sorry I dropped out for a while. I had to try on a dress one of my sisters is sewing for me to wear on Easter. 🙂
Ah, I don’t mind magic as long as it’s portrayed as bad. There’s magic in the Bible used by the evil people. I just don’t like it when the good guys use it.
Nope, military strategy details are not for me. 😉 I skip the parts in the Henty books that talk about the battles and move on to the stories. My brother thinks that’s horrible, since those are his favorite parts. 😀 I read a lot of fictional books published during that time to get an idea of the culture, because at the time they were written they were contemporary fiction, so they would have the culture written much better than modern depictions written by people who, however much they may research, really don’t know what it was like to live back then. I guess you’d get the same thing from memoirs.
A website I found which has an Amazing collection of songs from the Great War is firstworldwar.com. It has a whole bunch of other information too. I know you said you aren’t able to watch as many YouTube videos where you live, but are you able to listen to the audio files on that website? I love the way music can really tell you the feelings of the people.
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Oh cool!
Well, the way I used magic was…I don’t know…the servants, for example, are cursed to be invisible, because they’d treated an outcast girl as invisible, and they wouldn’t become visible until they’d had to weep for an outcast. That sort of thing. No one in it uses magic for their own ends and has it turn out good.
I find it super hard to understand all the details and there’s so many names!! So my stories tend to focus more on individual people and their emotions. I’ve read some poetry from WW1, like Wilfred Owen and Sigfried Sassoon, but I’ve never read any books. Probably because I find the books tend to be more jingoistic and use a lot of propaganda, whereas the poetry tends to be harsher and more realistic.
I think I’ve used that website before during my research. (the problem with YouTube is more that we only have very limited internet, and youtube uses a lot of internet. but there are some videos that are blocked. Like half the Camelot recording, for instance). I probably would be able to listen to those audio files though, I’ll try next time I’m at the library.
Music and songs are really good that way! I think they capture a really good snapshot of someone’s emotions in a very short space of time.
INFP Queen of the Kingdom commander of an army of origami cranes and a sabre from Babylon.
@seekjustice Yeah, since that uses magic to teach a good lesson, that of compassion, it’s using magic to exemplify a good purpose. And I couldn’t agree with that, so I’ll just stay away from it and read your other stuff. 🙂
My absolute favorite wartime poem is All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight from the American Civil War. Have you ever read it? I think I’ve read a few poems from the Great War, but I don’t remember now. Most American poetry I’ve read was about the Civil War. Oh, by the way, I did read a little bit of Banjo Patterson and enjoyed it! 😀
Oh, cool! Well, the audio is from really old recordings, so it’s very scratchy. I’ve “built up an immunity” to it, so that I can usually understand nearly every word the singers are saying, but for people who are unaccustomed to the fuzziness some of the recordings are pretty hard to understand. I often have to interpret when showing my siblings songs I like even from later improved recordings from the 40s. If you do get a chance to listen to them, and can understand them, I’d love to know if you found any you enjoyed! One of my favorites is “Hello Central, Give Me No Man’s Land” about a baby girl trying to telephone her soldier father.
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@rochellaine Yeah, I thought so, that’s why I didn’t think you’d like it. However, I’ve been having some problems with it so I’ve put it aside for now, I was getting really frustrated with it.
No. Like I’ve said before, I know barely anything about America/American history, and I haven’t read anything about the Civil War. I’ve had Red Badge of Courage on my shelf to read for ages, but I still haven’t read it yet. Oh, Banjo Patterson is great! I’ve always loved his work. Have you read The Man from Snowy River?
Okay, I’ll give it a try soon. I do find it hard to understand things without really clear recordings though, so I might have to call on you for translations 😀
INFP Queen of the Kingdom commander of an army of origami cranes and a sabre from Babylon.
@seekjustice I’ve actually never read The Red Badge of Courage. 😮 😀 That’s partially because I prefer lighter reads to the classics, (you’re much braver than I on that score, 😉 ) and partially because I’m a Southerner. Did you know that there are still people on both sides in America? There are a lot of people who still believe the Confederates were in the right. Anyway, that shouldn’t stop me from reading it, since it is a classic, and I do believe there was some right and some wrong on both sides of the War, though I believe there was more right on the side of the South. So I probably will read it someday. 🙂
How’s your writing going? Mine’s pretty slow… 🙁
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I have no idea about the Civil War. I know that one of the things they were fighting about was slavery, but I imagine that wasn’t all there was to it. I’ve only not read it because I’m not that interested…but yeah, it’s a classic and I have a list of classics to read this year, and it’s on there. So I’ll hopefully get around to it before the end of the year.
I had a break from my editing to rearrange my bookshelf in the hope of clearing it up a bit, so now I’m dividing my time between looking through my books and editing. What are you working on now?
INFP Queen of the Kingdom commander of an army of origami cranes and a sabre from Babylon.
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