Alia

@rochellaine

Was it only the instance you mentioned that you thought was too out of character for Justice?

The problem I found with Kendall and Rain is that honestly who would have a crush on Kendall? No one is supposed to like Kendall!

No, I didn’t know! I must go find out!

@catwing Well, by all means!  Please give me your ideas!  One condition, make them as absurd as possible, and they aren’t supposed to work in real life.  That’s the entire point! 😛

Yes, I know the papers would burn, and I know that doctors would not be that incompetent in real life.  These faking death sequences are supposed to be in the ima…[Read more]

@rochellaine *clears throat* *raises eyebrow* Have you been faking deaths without me? Me, the person with crazy theories. The person who when watching BBC’s new Sherlock series thought up how Moriarty could have faked his death, even though he died by shooting himself in the head. The person who when eating cherries wonders if they could make a…[Read more]

@seekjustice 😛

Yes, I agree.  Your characters are the most important parts of your book.  My biggest issue in the second draft was with Justice’s character, remember? 😉  And actually the Rain thing is specifically about her character.  I feel like now that she’s “in love” with Justice instead of having a flirty kind of crush on Kendall she is…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Well, it hurts my pride, my honestly my pride is rather…I don’t know…large. And I could do with some humility. That’s why God made me a writer 😛

Fair enough. That makes sense. Honestly, I think the uniqueness of my story lies not so much in the plot, because the plot is…well, fairly average, but more so in the characters.…[Read more]

@seekjustice And thanks for not being offended. 😀  I know how hard it is to write, and I know how hard it is to have people say they don’t like something you’ve written, so I’m always worried when I say I dislike something about your writing, especially since for the most part I absolutely adore everything you write, so I don’t want you to get…[Read more]

@seekjustice I’m sorry! 😛

I’ve started part 4, and I do agree that Caderousse makes a bit more sense here than she did in the first draft.

The biggest thing I am worried about is that I think you are an amazing writer, but I am afraid that if your book is too similar to Les Mis people will not realize what a good writer you are, but will simply…[Read more]

@rochellaine

So I’ve been agonising over your post for w ay longer than is normal and I’ve come to this conclusion:

Writing retellings are a balancing act between original content and not. For example, I think the changes I made with Caderousse (have you started P4 yet?) were good because someone would expect that of a story based on Les…[Read more]

@seekjustice But please remember that this is just me, and you have a whole bunch of other beta readers. 😉

Aaand, I fell asleep on you again. 😛

Anyway, I found the Sherlock Holmes parodies (the ones I was talking about) on the Australian Gutenberg.  I didn’t even know there was such a thing!  But I did find them, and they’re really short, so you can read them easily whenever you get the chance.  Here they are:

The Adventure of the Cl…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Hopefully!

I do quite like parodies if they’re done right 🙂

I didn’t change that much, did I?

@seekjustice Okay, cool.  We’ve already established that you like both Gordon MacRae and Hugh Jackman as actors, so you should get at least some small enjoyment out of them. 😉 Even if you don’t like the musical in general.

Well, as I said, it’s not just Sherlock Holmes, as I didn’t know Holmes had faked his death that way but I have heard of…[Read more]

@Rochellaine

Well, I have the 1955 version in the house currently, so I’ll watch that first but I know our library has the 1999 version so I might watch that one later.

Yep its definitely a classic one. I’m a bit of a Sherlock Holmes nerd 😉

Well, yes, I am overly obsessed with Les Mis and have listened to so many different versions and I have…[Read more]

@seekjustice And there’s another version of Oklahoma I’ve watched which is a 1943 restitution, supposedly as exactly as possible to the original production.  They copied the costumes, the sets, the choreography and the original script exactly, and called in those who were still alive from the original production to help them figure it out.  I a…[Read more]

@seekjustice There are different things I like about each of them.  Oh, and by the way, the Hugh Jackman version was from 1999, so it’s technically a “19-something version” too… 😛 The Jud character in Hugh Jackman’s version is much scarier than the 50s Jud is.  I prefer Gordon MacRae singing “Oh What a Beautiful Morning” and I definitely very m…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Ah, that’s unfortunate. My family tends to stick the rain out and make us all miserable 😛

I’m not sure how many I’ve seen, I’d have to count. By the way, do you like the 19something version of Oklahoma or the Hugh Jackman version best?

I guess so, she just struck me as really naïve and not at all smart.

She’s in her forties, but…[Read more]

@valtmy Haha!  Thanks!!  I actually do need one partially reasonable death faking idea, because they do need to truly fake a death in the story.  So it’s okay if you thought of reasonable ones.

I like them a lot!  My brother came up with a boat one, except he said they should explode the boat.  Probably because he’s a guy, right?  Guys like explo…[Read more]

@seekjustice We don’t go camping very often.  And unfortunately, it started to rain so we had to pack up and hike back up the trail pretty early this morning.  At least we had one good night there. 🙂

Well, that’s two out of what, eight?  You haven’t even seen eight old musical films, have you?  So the percentage isn’t all that low if you thi…[Read more]

@dekreel I have to use the phrase all the time when talking about sci-fi with my brother. (which we do all the time, since we’re fans of Star Trek, Stargate SG-1, and a few other sci-fi movies/shows.)  So to describe any character I’ll either say “sentient being” or “humanoid.”  Just not all sentient beings are humanoids, so I have to use b…[Read more]

@dekreel

Sorry I keep missing you! I was at church this morning you see 😀

@rochellaine

Welcome back! Does your family go camping much?

Yeah, I didn’t like that, and it’s generally not my style (Oh, I love Brigadoon! Its pretty much the only exception to the old musical dislike. And I don’t mind Mary Poppins. But other than that…)

I did…[Read more]