The Impossible Girl

@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 😀

@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 😛

@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.

@valtmy

I see, 😀 We’ve got a few shift workers in our church and we have two services (both on Sunday though) for that purpose.

Bye for now 😀

@rochellaine

It was pretty discouraging to keep going with it, honestly, so I’m kinda happy to be starting again 😛

Yes, I’m prepping for Christmas, to my chagrin. (that sounds dramatic). My overexuberant brothers and sister have already put up the Christmas tree and mum’s making us do lists…

And every time I walk into a shopping centre,…[Read more]

@valtmy Is there a particular reason you have Saturday services? Is it a denominational or cultural thing, or is it just practical?

so yeah, I was busy Sunday and then I was up in Sydney all day yesterday, so I didn’t really get anything done then.

@valtmy

Saturday was a long time ago.

Like…a whole three days ago.

@rochellaine

NaNo went fairly well. I got the 50k (just)…

but as I was telling @valtmy the other day, I’m going to…uh, start my novel again?

@rochellaine @valtmy

Hellooooo!

I feel like it’s been a really long time since I’ve talked to you two 😀

(Congratulations on 10k, Rochellaine!)

@valtmy

I need to go too 🙂

I’m not sure whether I’ll be on tomorrow or not, since I’ll be at church and may end up doing other things as well, we’ll see.

Bye for now

@valtmy

A lot of people said that they wanted more descriptions of the settings, in particular. They had trouble visualizing what they looked like.

I think so 🙂 but of course I can always be surprised.

@valtmy

Ah, no…I was still thinking about abrupt endings. Apparently the conversation had moved on 😛

Me too, as my astute betas have continually pointed out. I obviously need to work on it as well 😀

😛 I can always use a good dose of humility. I can get a bit up myself on occasions.

@valtmy

I could just be imagining things, but that’s the impression I had 🙂

Yep, I understand. I think it helps keep us humble and reminds us that we really aren’t as great as we think we are 😉

@valtmy

I don’t think I literally meant mid sentence, but I didn’t have the sense that it was complete. I guess that can be dealt with next draft though.

That’s really disappointing. I’ve had that a few times so far and its also very frustrating 😣