ClaireC

@rochellaine

Okay, I’ll be sure to tell her that too!

Well, I’ve heard the saying before, but only in American movies. But…wait…aren’t you from the south too? *frowns again at map*

@ariel-ashira

Dog-sledding in Alaska sounds really cool!

Um.  We call them “Police men with dogs”. Okay no, it’s called the Dog Unit, or the Dog Squad, I just looked it up.

@seekjustice I’m not back. 😀  I’m just popping in to say give that advice to your sister, sure, but tell her to take it with a grain of salt, since it comes from a writer who can’t possibly kill her own characters. 😛

Also to say that I’ve never that I can remember heard @catwing‘s saying. 😉  America’s a big place, and we have a lot of di…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Bye! (I’ll pass that advice on)

The Scarlet Pimpernel is a fun book! Nowhere near as deep as A Tale of Two Cities or anything, but it’s a light read and that’s sometimes the best thing.

@catwing I don’t know, but we don’t say that! Does it kind of mean, “that’s just the way things are”?

@seekjustice Tell your sister that I understand the problem, but from everything I’ve read with advice on writing that’s considered a very bad reason to kill a character.  If you need to kill them off, have a good reason to do so.  Don’t just do it because you can’t think of anything else to do. 😀

random marquis that Marguerite accidently d…

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@catwing Completely off topic, but that is basically the weirdest saying ever. No one says that in Australia ;D

@catwing I might cause my readers less pain if they did take death escape classes. Though, I mean, they’ve had some pretty good escapes. One of my characters was executed, and then I resurrected him.

@rochellaine

My feelings on Jane Austen are not complimentary. For the amount that the guillotine features in the Scarlet Pimpernel books, people rarely ever die. In fact, I don’t think anyone dies in the first one excepting that random marquis that Marguerite accidently denounced before the start of the book. And, like…um…I can’t think of…[Read more]

@catwing Your brother got you a sword?  Well, my brother got me a Civil War style Colt Navy revolver.  Top that!

😛 😛 😛 😛 😛

Seriously, though, I read your blog post about it and the sword sounds really cool!

(Especially since the range we normally go to won’t allow black powder guns, so I rarely get to shoot the revolver anyway. 🙁 )

@rochellaine I’ll find you all one day 😛

Nope, I put it up the other day when I was talking to you about all the things I wanted to do in America, because I realised I literally have no idea where anything in America is. So it’s up there now, and I have some sort of mental picture of all the states in relation  to one another. It’s up there…[Read more]

@seekjustice Thank you!  Bless you!  I will survive.

And think of the many great authors who didn’t kill characters in every novel.  Even C.S. Lewis didn’t.  He only killed characters in some of his books.  Jane Austen, of course, but you don’t like her, so that’s not really a good argument.

Can’t you all think of any more?

@alia Thank you f…[Read more]

@seekjustice Nevada is very far away from me. 🙂  I’m on the East Coast, and it’s nearly on the West Coast.  However, I go out there in July or August every year to Lake Tahoe for a conference my law school holds there.  *sits back and waits until I can breathe again* You seriously have a map of the US for us on KP?  What do you do, put pins in it…[Read more]

@catwing *gapes at catwing’s brother*. You, sir, are awesome.

@alia

Well, I think writers like @rochellaine are an endangered species and should be protected at all costs. after all, what sort of writer does not like killing characters? We should make an effort to preserve those who don’t break our hearts with every book.

Oh cool! We have those in Australia too, but we don’t call them K-9.

@alia Yes, they would be.  What I was saying is that the majority of her characters seem to get themselves killed, so rather than waiting till the book is done and just fading out of her charge like most writers’ characters do, they get suddenly cut off in the middle of the book.

@alia  Well, as @rochellaine said, they usually get out of my charge when they die. And I still have another book of pain and agony for (some) of them to live through…so I don’t know how they feel about reaching the end of this book.

Rochellaine, what’s a K-9 officer? *squints at map of USA which she has put on the wall since joining KP*…[Read more]

@alia No!  SeekJustice’s characters get “out of her charge” when she kills them!!!!

That would possibly be relieving for some, if they were Christians, I guess.  Except characters aren’t real, so when they die, they just die.  They can’t actually go to heaven.

@seekjustice Go ahead and defend yourself if you like.  I’m just stating facts. 😛

@seekjustice Haha!  I’m actually working on a blog post right now.  You have nothing to worry about when you compare your frequency of posts to mine!  My last post was nearly a month ago, while yours was only eight days ago.

Well, I do have a cousin who’s a police officer.  He’s a K-9 officer, actually, which is pretty cool.  But he’s reall…[Read more]

@alia

My novel. I’m getting very close to the end and getting a bit teary.

@catwing Congratulations 😀

@rochellaine

What sort of things do you need to know? Do you know anyone who’s a police officer?

@alia Hey!