Hannah

Okay, when I read ‘if you think of any other kind of futuristic technology’ I got this crazy image of us all walking around with shock-collars on and some sadistic governmental committee hovering over a glowing panel of instruments and monitoring our every move… which is weird, since I’m not a conspiracy theorist.

But let’s not pursue that…[Read more]

I’ve written scrips for small movies my siblings and I have made. Can’t say they were very good, but we used them. 🙂

You know you’re a writer when you drive past a harvested corn field, see one stalk somehow standing tall in the surrounding stubble, and immediately start thinking of story ideas.

Also, when you have a cloak that you made for a movie and you really want to wear it to church sometime (though I don’t know how much that longing actually has to do…[Read more]

I like Dr. Lorry too, but Sydney Carton completely blew me away.

Miss Pross is another great character, and Lucie too, only Lucie and Charles Darnay were sort of… ideally perfect. Sydney was the personification of flawed, struggling humanity who rose above every mean and petty thing in the end and found the strength to sacrifice himself for…[Read more]

Toxicology. 🙂

Hahaha… yep, I know what you mean.

@Mark-McGuire— yes! They did it without any of the fancy modern computer stuff, and in consequence it looked amazingly real. That’s a win for the cinematographers, though, not the storytellers! But yes, it’s great. It definitely contributes to the overall quality of the experience.

Hey, what are your thoughts on C3PO, guys? He’s a droid— not…[Read more]

Good, Hannah! So… who was your favorite character? 😛

And wasn’t the end scene absolutely mind blowing?

You know you are a writer when you hear a song and go, “Oh! That would go perfect in that one scene I am working on!”

YES! YES YES YES! Absolutely!

Yes! I completely know what you mean. It can actually be annoying to think of something new every time you go somewhere different. 😛

@Kate
YES. Totally! It’s like your own personal fanbase. 😉 My 10 year old brother seems to be my agent. He’s constantly saying I should get my books into Costco and all the libraries. To quote him: “Why go through all the little stores first? More people go to Costco!”

You know you’re a writer when all your little brothers come to your for help…[Read more]

Right! Exactly. I think the thing is just to give their thoughts enough of an odd, twisted, different feel, that you kinda get the idea of what they look like just from being inside their minds. Also you could write a vain dragon— always preening over their beautiful scales, their wings, their tail, their claws… actually it would be pretty fun…[Read more]

I agree, Hope. There isn’t a difference that I’m aware of.

I don’t think you should probably use an assassination to start off a rebellion though, just because assassination without declared war is little more than murder.

Yes, definitely. Not a whole lot of foreshadowing with anything— a few vague, disquieting hints here and there, but otherwise you’re left on your own and the discovery is all yours when it comes.

@Rosey— yes! My siblings and I do that ALL THE TIME! When I first started writing it was just me all alone in my family, and no one else really interested in it (thinking, no doubt, ‘Oh boy, another one of Kate’s crazy projects— it’ll blow over in time’ 😀 ) but now that the novels have been getting progressively higher quality, we can talk…[Read more]

And, for the writers and readers here (basically, everyone) this one is so good.

I love Doctor Who; I’ve seen all the new ones…and while we’re on the topic, here’s a Studio C ‘deleted scene’ of Doctor Who.