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@alia @rochellaine

It just means I forget books about a week after reading them. 🙂 which means maximum enjoyment in rereading. I’m not so good at forgetting people’s names though, so I will remember that something terrible happens to Ashley. 😉

@alia

Cool! I’ve yet to read Ender’s Game but I’v heard a lot of good things about it.

In that case, I think the situation would be quite traumatic, but they wouldn’t necessarily be isolated. Though they do lack parent and adult figures which could potentially be problematic.

@rochellaine

When it comes to spoilers in books I have the memory of a walnut and so by the time I actually get around to reading it I’ll have forgotten 🙂

@rochellaine

I hadn’t heard of the Mars Diaries before your conversation the other day but I’ll definitely have to look them up now 🙂 they aren’t in the vein of what I usually read, but every now and again its good to read something out of your comfort zone 😀

@alia

No worries. I just rolled with it.

Oh yes! I was stalking the topic the other day and saw that. It sounds pretty cool and reminds me a bit of Ender’s Game.

I definitely think that sort of isolation would be damaging, but maybe not as much as complete isolation. Are they allowed to be friends with each other or do they just exist with each other?

@alia

Awesome 😀

I’d do some research, but I’d hazard to guess that the consequences wouldn’t be good. I think it also depends on what sort of isolation it is. Is it isolation from absolutely everyone? Isolation from everyone but one or two select individuals? Isolation from everything except a group (say, a church)?

I think each of those w…[Read more]

@rochellaine

That’s pretty much how it is 😛 It reminds me of when I try to explain musical plots to my family.

@alia

Awesome! What are you outlining?

@valtmy

Oops, I forgot your new job! Maybe I’ll see you later then 😀

@rochellaine Got your tag wrong 😀

Anyone around I’m editing my novel/reading a short story for a friend. 😀

@catwing @jenwriter17 @rochellane @valtmy

@alia

I find that writers know how to write the least when they can’t hide behind their characters. But I’ll keep praying for you and I hope God brings you through this time soon. 🙂

@catwing

All right, Catwing, I am here to give you instruction in the way of the glorious character arc.

I’ll try to keep this concise:

So, I feel the trick to Character arcs are these two things. Basically, a character arc can’t just be the character going from A–B. I’ve read books/seen movies where the characters are one way at the start,…[Read more]

@alia okay have fun!

I think I’m going to leave and take a break too. 🙂

@rochellaine okay bye!

@seekjustice Sorry, I forgot it was Sunday for you. Oops… Thank you!
(You’re right it was. I don’t think I said I invented the term did I? …)

@catwing

I’m currently getting ready for church so I don’t have time right now to answer your question, but  as soon as I get home I’ll give you a whole lecture on Character Arcs (hey, wasn’t slope a term invented by Daniel??)

@alia It’s really good. 🙂

@alia I can see… whoa. That is a very very cool collage. I almost want to go off and make a collage. XP I’ve made some for my characters. I put them all on my blog. Finding Secrets Collages
There’s also one on there for me. ;3

@alia That’s okay. 🙂
@rochellaine Well, that is sort of what I do so. 🙂 but not much help. Oh, well. @seekjustice what do you know about character arches?

@alia Okay. Basically a character arch is how your character changes through the book. So I’m trying to figure out what some of my characters faults that can change or need to change. But one of them progresses negatively so I’m calling hers a slope. 😛
Just trying to put down on paper some things… 🙂
Make sense? So I’m asking if you have any…[Read more]