Alia

@seekjustice going well; I forgot how much fun it was to write in this quirky character’s POV 😉

how’s your editing going?

@jenwriter17 I approve whole-heartedly!!

How’s your rewriting going?

@seekjustice yeah, same here. *raises pen (and knitting needle)* We must break from this cliche and change the world of contemporary fiction! 😀

@jenwriter17

Well, thank you 😀 And yes, its not so much the character trait, but more the normalisation of it. That’s what makes me mad.

@seekjustice Yes, I see what you mean. Yeah you handled that well about Chessy 🙂

@jenwriter17

Yes, its crazy! I hate it very much. 😐

Well, I don’t necessary have a problem with her being disrespectful or disobeying her parents. My problem comes when the character never changes and its shown to be okay. After all, Chessy can be pretty disrespectful and disobedient toward her father, but I hope that I portrayed that to be bad…[Read more]

@seekjustice Oh I know! Those kinds of characters are everywhere, like it’s necessary for contemporary novels.

Actually, that reminds me, I was gonna probably post the first chapter of the novella for people to critique. The reason being that the MC Danni can overreact and all that, but I don’t want her to sound disrespectful to her parents and…[Read more]

@jenwriter17

I always liked reading those stories! The more modern ones tended to get on my nerves though (an excuse for disobedient and rebellious girls to one-up everyone else), but I’d love to see a Christian version of those sorts of stories.

Nice pinterest board, by the way.

@seekjustice kinda 😛 knowing me, it’ll probably turn into more of a horse story then I planned 😉 But yes, the character learns to not be afraid of horses and eventually learns to ride. 🙂

We inherited a farm.

I could hardly believe the news my parents gave me one not-so-sunny afternoon. They seemed totally ecstatic about the idea of living on a farm like they used to when they were growing up, but in my opinion, city life was the only way to go. Forget about fresh air and wide open spaces!

Once we finally make that dreaded move…[Read more]

@jenwriter17

Cool! It sounds interesting. 😀 Is it a “horse story”?

@seekjustice WHOAH that came out weird! I’ll try to repost it…

oh my yes Pinterest can be so deadly 😉

@seekjustice here’s the blurb (written in first person; my first time, so tell me what you think 🙂 )

 
<p style=”text-align: center;”>We inherited a farm.</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>I could hardly believe the news my parents gave me one not-so-sunny afternoon. They seemed totally ecstatic about the idea of living on a farm like they…[Read more]

@jenwriter17

Cool! I’ll check it out (pray I don’t get lost in the murky depths of Pinterest)!

@seekjustice Yup, you definitely have a ready street-team when you’re published 😉 <3

gimme just a moment and I’ll come up with a blurb 🙂 Here’s a link to the Pinterest board for it: https://www.pinterest.com/jt0651/wip-d-a-n-n-i-s-d-i-l-e-m-m-a-1-2/

@jenwriter17

I didn’t know you’d written a contemporary. Do you have a blurb for it?

@jenwriter17

Okay, I’ll do that then.

😀 Sometimes I want to recommend my own books to other people (can’t you see what a humble person I am?). Its nice to know that I’m already being promoted though. I’ll have a lot of fans by the time my books come out. 😛

@seekjustice Actually a contemporary novella 🙂

Well, I wouldn’t say I’ve changed a lot  and I wouldn’t say I hardly changed anything. 😉 You can take a look at the first part if you want and decide if you want to read it again. 🙂

I don’t know if I’ve ever told you this, but several times things have come up where someone would ask me if I h…[Read more]

@jenwriter17

By the way, have you changed it much from the first draft? I’m just wondering whether I should read the second draft you posted a few days ago. If it isn’t changed much, I’ll leave it and maybe read the next draft, but if you’ve changed it substantially, I’ll have another read.

@jenwriter17

Awesome! Your dystopian novel?