Emma Flournoy

I have a love-hate relationship with fantasy so consider this an outsider’s view. Also, last time I read Eragon was five years ago (12 yrs. old). And I haven’t read your comments so . . .

I hated it. No, I didn’t. Not the books. The movie. And rightly so.

As far as the books go. I read Eragon. I was obsessed with it, but, by the end of the book…[Read more]

Alright @emma-flournoy, I’ll have my eyes peeled for this mystery person.

Right now I was thinking either Sloan or Katrina for my favorite.

*Patiently waits*
tick… tick…

@emma-flournoy How did you guess? 😉 Yes, Peter Hollen’s does have a version I like, which you can listen to here. Then there is a group, Zyrah, who sings the song in a really cool way. It’s more dramatic and ‘epic’ then most versions. You can watch that one here.

@Emma-Flournoy Indeed. 😀 I still won’t swim in the ocean though; I’m a bit paranoid about sharks. Not really technically afraid of them, I think I’d be willing to swim with them in an aquarium, but I’d much rather stay out of the ocean where I might be accidentally mistaken for a meal. 😉

@emma-flournoy, I guess I was one of those babies. We used to have a pool in our backyard, and I’ve been swimming since forever. I still do summer swim team every year. 😀

@emma-flournoy What? I like I See Fire. Though, to be fair, I didn’t like it for quite awhile. The credit version is ok, but there are other versions of the song itself, by better voices, that I really like.

@Emma-Flournoy

I totally agree with you that that is just plain ridiculous. My example was very over the top and exaggerated. A realistic version of this would merely be the modern convention of writing he/she in place of just he or just she. The he/she thing is just tedious to read throughout any work of writing. Another real example would be…[Read more]

@Emma-Flournoy Not quite… 😛 We have access to a decent indoor pool at a nearby hotel, and when I was younger we went over there quite often. Now, life prevents us from going very much, but we still go every once in a while. 😀

@anne-of-lothlorien @dragon-snapper @emma-flournoy @kate-flournoy

Ooh, soundtracks! I loove the How to Train Your Dragon soundtrack (literally nobody hates it, though). And personally I like The Last Goodbye better than Edge of Night but whatever. I keep on hearing about this Beyond the Mask thing and I feel so left out 🙁

Some of my favorite…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy @emma-flournoy Ah, I see. Well… maybe someday you’ll have the opportunity to fix that. Really, once you get used to it it’s quite fun. 😀

And I’ve been swimming for as long as I can remember. I think my earliest swimming memory was when I was… I don’t know, 4? Something like that. 😉 😀

@Corissa-Maiden-of-Praise @Emma-Flournoy also has spinal problems, so I’m sure that doesn’t help either.

One more thing @emma-flournoy: how does swimming hurt? Is it the actual swimming, or the life-jacket? (sorry, but swimming is one of my favorite things, so I like to try and help other people enjoy it too… 😉 )

@emma-flournoy Basically what @kate-flournoy and @daeus said is how I feel. I’m constantly thinking about who’s going to approve of what, and I know as I write certain things that some people simply aren’t going to like it. I have so many friends with so many diverse opinions that I really think it would be impossible to please everyone, so I…[Read more]

@emma-flournoy I’m a little that way, but not to such a degree. I guess just remember (with writing) it will probably be at least a month before they figure out you didn’t take their advice, and then you probably will have forgotten about the whole thing by then and they may have too.

And then too, just… just… you gotta do that stuff. Put on…[Read more]

@Emma-Flournoy yeah, I guess you just have to accept that you can’t please everybody. I’m used to it by now. Maybe I did struggle with it starting out; I don’t remember. But ultimately you know what’s best for your work, and you choose the opinions that help most, and that’s your responsibility as a writer.

It’s really not all that complicated,…[Read more]

@Emma-Flournoy ummmm… you deal with it. *toothy grin*

@anne-of-lothlorien Oh my goodness. As I was reading your post (fellow ENFP here), I kept going, “Yes… yess… double yes…” I talk to things, a lot of times my reflection (which can get super creepy). Yesss! The multi tasking. I love to do other things at the same time if one activity doesn’t engage my full attention. Yes, the artsiness.…[Read more]

@anne-of-lothlorien Oh my goodness. As I was reading your post (fellow ENFP here), I kept going, “Yes… yess… double yes…” I talk to things, a lot of times my reflection (which can get super creepy). Yesss! The multi tasking. I love to do other things at the same time if one activity doesn’t engage my full attention. Yes, the artsiness.…[Read more]