ClaireC

@seekjustice The Haitian revolution is very horrible and very interesting.  It has many similarities to the French revolution.  I first heard about it in a G.A.Henty book.  (Have you heard of Henty?  He’s extremely popular as a historical author among U.S. homeschoolers)  I later watched a movie about it, and absolutely loved it.  (It didn’t hurt…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Yep, its after Napoleon was exiled and Louis XVII (maybe? there’s so many Louises I get them mixed up) is on the throne. No, I’ve never heard of the Haitian revolution.

I don’t necessarily mind people getting married young, say if the girl was seventeen and the guy eighteen or nineteen, and I don’t necessarily have a problem with…[Read more]

@seekjustice Well, since I’ve never read Les Mis fully, I guess I didn’t notice the time period much.  I probably would be able to tell if I read it in-depth, since, as you say of yourself, I am also a history nerd. 😛  Okay, so this is after Napoleon, right?  I actually don’t know much about Napoleon, either, except as he has to do with the Ha…[Read more]

@Rochellaine

You aren’t alone in thinking that 😀 The June Rebellion, which was what it was called, happened in 1832 and it was mostly led by students. See, after the French Revolution, the monarch eventually was restored to the throne and things got even worse from then on (for the poor at least. For everyone else, things were dandy) and there…[Read more]

@valtmy Yeah, sorry, I really haven’t been on top of my beta work for a while.  SeekJustice sent me her part three several days ago, and I haven’t even read half of it, while I usually read her stuff straight through day of or next day.  And I didn’t get to Jen’s book until a couple of weeks after she finished it, I think.

So, if I don’t get to i…[Read more]

@seekjustice Haha, okay.  I thought that it was set during the French Revolution.  I don’t know a lot of French history, mostly where French history interconnected with the history of other countries.  What exactly happened in the 1830s that Les Mis was set during that period?

Okay, so about Jean leaving Chessy in the trench, yeah, he should pr…[Read more]

@rochellaine

The 1830s. 😛 My inner history nerd must correct you.

Very true, but our culture is hypocritical in the extreme. We still see prostitution as a bad thing in the present day, and a shameful thing, even if we don’t have any morals regarding pregnancy and children out of wedlock like we did back then.

I can see that Jonas, Quillon and…[Read more]

@seekjustice Um, yeah, but children’s rights hadn’t been discussed yet in the 1700s…

Setting your story in the present day/future means that the cultural things won’t all match up with the circumstances in Les Mis.  Such as the thing I talked to you a long time a go about, with Sapphire being looked down upon, which is not so much a thing…[Read more]

@valtmy No, you weren’t making it too obvious, it worked fine for me. 😉

Oh, oh!  Haha, I’m so sorry!  I just realized how that sounded.  I didn’t mean that you don’t understand jokes unless they’re explained to you.  I meant that you prefer more realistic circumstances, as you were pointing out how the nurses and doctor didn’t act prof…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Actually, I’m surprised by the inconsistencies and problems you guys have pointed out to me, when it seems that you missed the two that have bothered me the most.

a). Jean leaves his daughter all alone in the trench in order to rescue Justice who he doesn’t even like.

b) Justice was originally seven years older than Chessy.

And…[Read more]

@rochellaine

True.

It has to work with the story, okay? Eponine is fifteen/sixteen when she goes to the barricade, so there we go. 😛

Poor Kendall. No one cares about him.

I’ll try to fix it up. In another draft. Not now.

@valtmy I’m not sure…I think it was the part about the party where she was talking to all her brother’s friends and embarrassing herself by not knowing the meaning of the poetry. 😉

Anyway, we’ve already established that we enjoy different types of humor, right? 😛  You need to have your humor carefully explained and diagramed, while I prefer…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I truly think that Justice doesn’t care. Not necessarily that he doesn’t care about her, but that he doesn’t care she’s underaged. Revolutions aren’t usually made of people of military age after all, especially people’s revolutions and since most of them are students, even the people they’re riling up are going to be quite…[Read more]

@catwing Goodbye!

@catwing Goodnight!  Oh, you’ll be here tomorrow?  I hope so!  I’ve been missing you. 😀

That reminds me, @dekreel I’m so sorry to have missed you earlier!!!  I wish I had been here at the right time to chat with you a bit. 🙁  Hope to see you soon again.

@seekjustice I’m starting chapter 20 now, and in the opening of that Justice is telling Chessy she is supposed to be at home, as usual. 😛  Then Jonas looks at Justice to make him shut up, also as usual. 😛

However, I was wondering, of course Jonas would tell Justice not to be so harsh, but Justice is just trying to protect Chessy, so why is he…[Read more]

@valtmy

Ah, maybe that’s where we differ. I don’t find it hard to write using I because my characters are often quite similar to me. I just fill in with imagination in the bits where they are different 😀

@catwing

Ah, romance subplots are so pesky! They turn up when you least expect them and suddenly, whoa, that guy’s a love interest.

Starting Fires? Oh, I wonder why it’s called that 😛

@rochellaine

It does sound very dramatic, doesn’t it? Cool, I can’t wait to see what you think of the rest 😀

@seekjustice I’m here now!  How’s it going?  I think I’m finally going to read the rest of the third part of the second draft of your first book…I love the way that sounds…before I get back to my own book. 😀

@catwing Your WIP sounds interesting, but I’ve been waiting for three years for you to write Firebird… 😛

Just kidding, though.  I…[Read more]