Grace H.

@seekjustice

Hi good to know you enjoyed yourself at Les Mis. 🙂

So how inspired are you now for SFI/Wattle Fire? 😛

@seekjustice

Oh dear. In that case hopefully it’ll be a bad production and you wouldn’t feel inspired at all!

(Just kidding. Please enjoy yourself). 😛

@seekjustice

Well, hopefully you’ll leave the show feeling even more inspired! 😀

Nope, no daylight savings here. I think it is an obsolete concept. It started out as a way to conserve energy right? (More daylight, less energy used for lighting). But I think people will be wasting energy regardless nowadays.

@seekjustice

All right. Talk to you another time. 🙂

How exciting! I know you listen to the soundtrack but is it your first time watching the musical live? 😀

Ah, yes. Daylight savings. That explains why the time stamps on this forum are different. The whole concept of it escapes me though. 😛

@seekjustice

Looks like we both missed each other yesterday. 😛 But I can probably come on again in about five and a half hours if you want. Let me know if you are free to chat today.

I think you are actually three hours ahead of me? (Which is weird because I could have sworn it was two last time). So that’ll actually be 3.30pm for you? I’m not sure. 😛

@seekjustice

Hey so are you around now?

@seekjustice

Sorry will be working so won’t be able to join. 😛 However, I should be able to chat during my break (in about 4 hours which is about 2.30pm for you?). Let me know if you want to.

@jenwriter17 @catwing

I would invite you guys too but I don’t want to promote the bad habit of staying up late on the comp. 😛

@seekjustice

Good to know that my comments have some basis then 😀

@seekjustice

Why not? The retelling is modern (written in modern times) though the setting is not. 😛

@seekjustice

I thought you were going for ‘a modern retelling of Les Mis’? 😛

@seekjustice

Haha no pressure. As I said, I have no right to torment others so long as I am tormenting them with my slowness with QOD.

Right. It goes back to what (I think) I said before about whether you really want to market your book as a dystopic novel (though you can certainly set your story in a dystopic setting) because the term brings…[Read more]

@seekjustice

Ah, I thought that may have been the case. Guess it fits with the rest of the backstory.

But I suppose you’ll be working on NaNo instead of SFI now. 😛

@rochellaine

Haha stupid fugitive characters right?

I suppose a way to justify it would be to have the government ban/restrict people from going abroad. So going to another country would be just very risky. He would definitely be flagged out and arrested during the border checks.

And maybe he did relocate to another city (where the Verde family…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Oh, and regarding the Sapphire and Caderousse interaction thing… It does not make sense for her to be on the lookout for some pretense to arrest Jean. In this Fugitive!Jean situation, she should already think that Jean is guilty of some crime and she would be going straight to arrest him once she’s found him. No pretense necessary.…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I agree a letter would be the most appropriate form of communication in that situation. It’s not about that. It’s that letters appear to be the only form of communication available in this supposedly futuristic society. Even when people are talking about safe, non-revolutionary stuff (which granted, the characters don’t often do but…[Read more]

@seekjustice

Oh, speaking of the odd lifestyle of the Verde family, it randomly occurred to me why you might be struggling with wordbuilding more compared to other dystopian writers.

Most dystopias use an average Joe type of character as a POV to show how life is like for an average person in the dystopian society. But since your POV characters…[Read more]

@seekjustice

Re Sapphire’s mother: If Jean is a fugitive, I do think that the circumstances of her leaving her husband should be different and not so simple. But hey, if all else fails you can always just say that she is dead and thus won’t be complicating the issue to increase your parent body count. 😛

I’m still amused by how dependent this…[Read more]

@seekjustice

You’re probably asleep now so I’ll just post my response here for you to see later.

Yes, there’s something really off about the notifications for some reason.

Oh wow the thought that there’s someone out there who is eagerly waiting for the next part of QOD is really terrifying. 😛

Anyway, regarding your idea for Jean’s…[Read more]

@seekjustice

Oh no! At this rate, I won’t be able to read Wattle Fire for a long while!

But I suppose I have no right to complain, considering my own progress with QOD. 😛

But what problems are you pondering? I am curious to know. You got feedback from all your betas already right?

@seekjustice

Hey sorry I disappeared. Was at a home visit. It’s getting late for you but are you still around? 😛