Alia

@rochellaine

Why, yes, I am indeed. What are you up to?

@seekjustice @valtmy @jenwriter17 @alia Are any of you around tonight?

@rochellaine

Sorry, I just was doing some cleaning, I’m having my quiet time now, but I’ll probably be on later.

The editing isn’t going as fast as I’d like, but I’m getting there. 🙂

@seekjustice I dropped out for a bit to eat dinner, but now have a little bit of time before going to prepare for the guests we’re having tonight and tomorrow. 🙂

How’s your editing going?

@rochellaine

Oh, righto 😛

Well, yes, it is cool…especially in stories. very useful 😀

Well, by synopsis, I usually just scribble a sentence which will help me to remember it, or a quote or something. But it is annoying when you don’t write it down and you know you had a brilliant idea…but you can’t remember what it was. 😛

@seekjustice Oho!  What kind of “situation” do you think it is? 😛  It’s actually just guys talking about guns, mostly.  Probably not what you were guessing, right?

But hm, now you’ve given me an idea.  Eavesdropping is cool, isn’t it? 😀

When I try to write a synopsis I usually get carried away, so instead I try to keep them in my head.  And…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Eavesdropping is always good in those situations 😛

occasionally I write scenes beforehand, but usually I just write a synopsis of the scene and then stick them together like puzzle pieces 😛

@seekjustice Yes, I think so too.  I’ll either have to find a way to make the story work with out that scene, or have Chara watching or something, so she can describe it, or else just find a few more scenes that I can do from Derek’s perspective.

I think I might be able to have that scene from Chara’s POV if she’s watching it happen or listening…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Yeah, I did. But I think it worked okay, and like you said, it wasn’t for long.

And that would be a bit weird. So either you’d have to leave that scene out or put some more scenes in his pov beforehand.

@seekjustice And yet you used Zac’s POV in When Infinity is Empty which made it three. 😉  But that was only for a few pages.  And it was pretty necessary.

I’ll consider it.  Most of the scenes I have planned will very much not work with any POV but Chara’s.  I thought if I did a second it would probably be Raelyn for a few scenes, but I just…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I used to write books with heaps of povs as well, but lately I’ve had to limit myself to about two, because otherwise I get overwhelmed. Two’s my favourite though, enough variation without being overwhelming. I think you could try doing some scenes from Derek’s pov, but it would be completely fine if you just did it exclusively with…[Read more]

@seekjustice Hm, I guess you’re right.  Besides, she’d probably love to have something in common with Derek, huh? 😛

It was an empty threat anyway, since I don’t intend on using Derek’s POV except as a last resort.  All the scenes I have planned work best from Chara’s POV, and I’m trying to experiment with using only one, since I usually have s…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Definitely 🙂

It depends…some characters are so self-centred they want all the povs, some don’t. I feel like Chara wouldn’t mind. In fact, I think she’d be more than happy to share with Derek.

@seekjustice Yes, I’m sure it’ll take me a while, too.  I’ve done lots of kinds of writing, but this is different from all of them. 😛

Ohh, no.  Not fun.  I have no idea what’s going on inside Chara’s head right now, and she’s not letting me see it.  Think if I threaten to switch to Derek’s POV she might behave? 😛

@rochellaine

It took me quite a while to really immerse myself in the style of blogging as well, its kind of different to other kinds of writing.

😛 Have fun with that!

@seekjustice Since I’ve only written about three blog posts, I’m still having quite a bit of trouble figuring out the style of that. 😉

I’m opening my western now to see if my characters remember me or if I’ll have to introduce myself to them all over again.  I’ll let you know how that goes.

@rochellaine

Awesome! Do I dare ask how its going?

@seekjustice Hi, I’m here!  Possibly working on a blog post, possibly working on my western. 🙂 Neither of which has been touched in weeks. 😛

@jenwriter17

No worries 😀

@dekreel @rochellaine @catwing

Anyone around? I’m editing.

@Dekreel You have revived this! Yay!
To me they are the six stages of agony…
Disbelief: Wait? Huh?
Confusion: No, that can’t be right.
Pain: This is aweful.
Regret: How did I ever wrote this monstrosity?
Bargaining: Maybe it will be okay if I change this little thing?
Destruction: No! It must burn!

The life of a writer… We gets six stages of…[Read more]