Emma Flournoy

Well, I was going to tell you I’ve been doing well, but since you asked, sickness has hit, along with a bunch of hypersensitive achiness and a cracking headache. Sooo, I’m technically not doing too well. 😛 But OTHER THAN THAT, I’m doing pretty well, all things considered. Enjoying the switch to long-sleeves and being thankful for fireplaces. ;)…[Read more]

Great.

I just finished Animal Farm last night. It was depressing, and disgusting, but still worth the read. I could tell exactly what was going on the whole time, but the animals were painfully unaware. And in the end, they were no better off than when they started, if not worse!

I KNOW. It’s so painful. *ascends soapbox and yells at the world* COMMUNISM IS HORRID FOR EVERYONE!
What’s ironic is, George Orwell was something of a socialist himself, though not Communist level. Maybe he didn’t realize the hypocrisy in writing something like that, or just didn’t see it the same way. But it’s quite sad.

Maybe he believed in the ideals, but only saw the corruption, so was sending a message to fellow socialists? I don’t know much about all the isms. 😛

Suffice it to say, all the isms are mucho flawed.

I figured that much. 😛

Yup, that’s me. So no, instead I get to sit around and congratulate myself that I’m just a bibliophile and not a writer, and so need not go through the pain of NaNo. XD
*shudder* Seriously, it sounds like a ton o’ work. Are you doing it? Have you done it before?

All right, is Kate participating in NaNo? 😛
Yes I am, yes I have, and yes it is a lot of work, but this year I’m using it as the way to start writing consistently again.One of my good friends is helping me by doing word sprints with me every day and keeping me on track. 😛

No…I don’t know if she’s ever considered it seriously, but I don’t think it’d fit very well with our schedule anyway. We have a cabin rental business which we handle as a family, so I don’t know if the busyness of NaNo would work out quite right. 😛 I dunno though, maybe she’ll try it out sometime.

Ah yes, sprints and accountability are very good. 😀

Ah, fair enough. It is busy. But at the rate I’m going at the moment, I have a week’s wiggle-room up my sleeve, which is nice. 😀

Sweeeeet. I love wiggle-room. And I hate pressure. Naturally.
What genre is your story?

Um, I don’t know what’d you call it. Speculative fiction, but that’s a very wide genre. It’s about some kid superheros (about 11-14 in ages at the beginning) who were implanted with technology in their brains to give them superhuman abilities (super-speed, flying, breathing underwater, things like that) and their fight against villains, great and…[Read more]

Definitely within the genre of speculative fiction. 😀 I don’t know what it would be called specifically either, but it sounds cool.

Yeah, it’s fun to write. It’s actually a rewrite of a previous series I did about 4-5 years ago called the Crimson Angel. It has the same characters, but I’ve added a few more as well.

Ah, rewrites. I know a little about those. From semi-personal experience, ya know. Amazing revamped second drafts and that sorta thing, at least, by the author my sister. 😛 They’re kinda fun. (Aside from all the old stuff that ends up getting cut that I loved. :'( At least it’s semi-made up for with awesome new material.)
And I bet the addition…[Read more]

Very fun. I’m taking several elements from the originals, and just making them better in the rewrites. It was mostly the plots that needed help. 😛

Those stodgy old plots. XD
I just finished the third book of the Mistborn trilogy, and if I wasn’t convinced enough before, it’s now undoubtedly proven: that guy’s strength is SO the plot. Good GRIEF. It’s very, very insane. I don’t know how anyone can think up such twists and un-cliche things. Amazing.

Sounds amazing. And inspiring, at least to a writer. There are only so many plots you can write when you’re rearranging the same 26 letters, and finding a way to twist the cliché is hard.

Yupper dupper.

XD

Have you ever tried writing, or is it definitely 100% not your thing? 😀