ClaireC

@bluejay I’m working on another beta reading project at the moment, and I won’t be able to take another one on for a while. Sorry! 🙁

But I’ll tag a bunch more people for you 😉 @rochellaine @alia @ariel-ashira @daughteroftheking @kaya-young @warrenluther04 @valtmy

@valtmy

Thanks very much for your thoughts! I’ll definitely keep all those things in mind as I start my outline again 😀

(I would write a much longer reply, but my brain is super fuzzy and honestly not working that great 😛 )

@valtmy I put it in another post.

I was planning for it to be 90-100k.

@valtmy And I didn’t put the link in. *sighs*

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r6o7qfNjHWGPEhU2XHHEU75aILwtQc61okrxZGZ6nJg/edit?usp=sharing

@valtmy

Here’s the link. If you want, I can add more chapters when you’re done.

(Also, this is actually most of the stuff I wrote before NaNo. And it took me a while to pin down a good way to write Courageous’ stammer, so it is incredibly annoying in the first few chapters and I haven’t bothered to edit it yet).

@valtmy

If you’d like, I can put the first few chapters or so in a google doc for you to have a look at.

Only if won’t distract you too much for QoD.

@valtmy

….All of the above?

Seriously, I feel like it has every problem under the sun.

@valtmy

That’s good news 🙂

I’m currently planning out all the scenes on my corkboard, trying to get something to kind of work.

@Valtmy

Well, the phone screen was spattered with foam once I finished 😛

How’s QoD coming along?

@valtmy

I’m currently in the throes of washing up (😝 ), but I’m sure I’ll end up back here eventually.

@rochellaine

At least your able to laugh at your country 😛 I greatly admire that 😀

@seekjustice Here are some lyrics I think you might find amusing.

This is the chorus to a song from WWI that I learned a few years back.  Obviously, it was written by an American and shows just how much we tend to think of ourselves. 😛

The Russians were rushin’ the Prussians,
The Prussians were crushin’ the Russians.
The Balkins were balkin’…

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Hey guys. Sorry I haven’t been around much. I’m trying to make more time for writing. Still tag me if you’re keen to write, and I’ll hopefully be around. 🙂

@seekjustice @valtmy I am here now.

@seekjustice 😛

I see.

There are a few from the same people.  I think the series is titled “The Perfect Aussie Christmas.”

In this one Americans come to Australia, trying to do an American style Christmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmmxqRwHAfA

In this one an Australian style Christmas is brought to some Scandinavian c…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I guess I’m a bit of a Grinch, to be honest 😛 Six weeks is a long time.

No, we don’t really do Santa Claus, though my dad used to have a work party where there’d be a guy dressed up as Santa and he’d give us presents 😀

I’m not entirely sure what constitutes a hilarious Australian commercial, but it sounds fascinating 😛

@seekjustice Well, at least it’s only for about a month and a half out of the year, right? 😛

As for there being only eight…I’m pretty sure I know at least a hundred, especially if you count Christmas hymns. 😉

Do you do Santa Claus in your family?  We never “believed in” him, but we did pretend and we sing all the Santa Claus songs,…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I’m sorry to disagree, but yes, they are annoying. I’m fairly sure there are only eight Christmas songs in existence and…they’re repetitive.

There are very few Australian Christmas songs, and songs about sleds do not really make sense in summer.

Maybe that is part of my prejudice against them.

@seekjustice Well, that’s a good thing I guess. 🙂

Christmas songs are not annoying!!! 😛

Do you dislike Christmas songs because they talk about snow on Christmas?  (Bigger question I’ve been planning to ask you: do you have Australian Christmas songs?)  My family starts singing Christmas songs on Thanksgiving, though this year we started on t…[Read more]