Grace H.

@seekjustice

All right. I read it and liked what you have so far. 🙂 Here are some thoughts I have that may help you. I think this may be more suited to assist with refining a first draft to a second draft but hopefully some of it can apply to a Draft 1.5 as well.

#1: Word count is about 9k which I think is fair for the set-up of a 90-100k…[Read more]

@seekjustice

I can’t find the link?

By the way, just to get an idea on the proper pacing, can you let me know how many words you’re planning to have for this novel?

@seekjustice

All right, a few chapters won’t take too long. Not sure how much insight I can glean from that but I’ll do my best. It’s in my interest to help you get Wattle Fire done as soon as possible after all. 😛

@seekjustice

Hmm… tough. I’ll offer to help if you let me take a look at your 50% NaNo draft so that I can try to see what exactly are the issues here… (An excuse to ask you to let me read some of Wattle Fire early!) 😛

But since I don’t know the full extent of your outline and what you have planned, I’m not sure any advice from me would be…[Read more]

@seekjustice

I see. What’s the main issue you’re facing on that? The pacing, the logical flow of events, the scene structure…?

I realised that I have jumbled up the sequence of one or two scenes for QOD in Part 2 so the story does not necessarily progress in a linear fashion and am wondering whether I should change that. But that’s an issue…[Read more]

@seekjustice

Can’t wait for Part 3? 😉
I have tidied things up and filled in some of the blanks I had initially left but I think I have to write a few more scenes for Chapter 9.

How’s Wattle Fire coming along?

@seekjustice

I would ask how exactly you’re able to come onto the forum while “in the throes of washing up” but considering that I once played the character game with you while soaking in a pool, I guess I’ll refrain.

All right, see you later. 🙂

@seekjustice

Hello I have the day off so I’ll be here today. Are you around? I know that it’s still Sunday for the others so you’re probably the only one who might be. 😛

@seekjustice @rochellaine

Hey I’ll be off on break in about half an hour. Not sure if you guys are still around but if you are and still want to chat, let me know soon…

@seekjustice

It began as an outreach thing. There are lots of foreigners who come here to study and work. One particular group my church reached out to several years ago comprised of nursing students from abroad who are now working. Since they work in shifts, they can’t attend regular Sunday services so now my church has services ok both Sundays…[Read more]

@seekjustice

😛 Aw… Did you miss me that much?

I spent much of Sunday (like, almost all of it since I found myself waking at 2.30am for some strange reason) on KP but you didn’t turn up and I know @rochellaine dropped by but we missed each other. 🙁

Haha it’s ok, I know Sunday’s for church. (I think I’m the only one who has service on Saturdays).

@seekjustice

I just talked to you last Saturday. 😛 But it has been a very, very long time since all three of us were on the forum at the same time. Man, what I’ll give for a more flexible schedule.

@rochellaine

Ah, yes. Last-minute panic is an excellent motivator. 😛

Haha I have absolutely no idea how many parts there will be for QOD. I am…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Do I get a prize for guessing which is claiming more of your interest? 😛

(Gives Rochellaine a round of applause)

As I told Seekjustice, I’ve been readying QOD Part 3 for upload.

@rochellaine

Hi! I won’t be here long but it’s been a while since we talked, hasn’t it?

What’re you working on? 🙂

@rochellaine

Are you still around?

@seekjustice @rochellaine @jenwriter17

I’ve woken up way earlier than planned so I suppose I should make use of the time to do some writing. I guess I’ll be here today. 😛

@seekjustice

Ah, I see. I guess that might also tie into your worldbuilding as well.

All right then I shall aim to meet your expectations and surprise you at the same time. 🙂 (That was a very weird sentence that I think only makes sense in storytelling).

I will need to make a move now. Do you think you’ll be on tomorrow?

@seekjustice

Oh. I must have misunderstood then. 😛

As one of your betas, I don’t think I gave you any feedback regarding your descriptions. Because I am the last person who should be doing that. Was that a common issue the others pointed out?

Yes, it’s amazing how these stories are as much of a learning experience for our characters as it is…[Read more]

@seekjustice

Oh dear. You got an impression of my extreme discomfort with descriptive writing just from reading some of my writing? I really need to improve. 😛

It’s just that I see everything so clearly in my head so it’s hard to figure out how to convey all that to the poor readers who don’t see. I’m the sort of reader who skips descriptive…[Read more]

@seekjustice

All right. I’ll just leave myself a note there. I’ll have to think of how to make it less abrupt since I really had nothing else planned for that scene. The first idea I have is to just put in some description of the ambience and zoom out into the night sky but that works better for movies, I think. I always get the feeling that I’m…[Read more]