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@gh24682468999 This may sound ridiculous, but I get really excited about my characters when I imagine them doing stuff in moveie form. 🙂

Actually, the newly launched website storyembers.org has a downloadable character questionnaire. K. M. Weiland also has a more extensive character form she fills out. You can get that on her website,…[Read more]

@celticcailin Hi! I love music, but I don’t write lyrics (I play cajon.)

I think @dekreel , @sam-kowal , and @alia write songs, though. (Tell me if I’m wrong, guys!)

Good luck on your music!

@gh24682468999 *squeals* Characters are the best part of writing/storytelling for me! Don’t ask me how to create intense plots or even good pacing.. But characters? 🙂

Disclaimer, I doubt I know as much as I think I know about characters, and i’m pretty bad at explaining the stuff I do understand.

Okay so I think with character development t…[Read more]

@gh24682468999 Hi Grace!  This is a cool question. 🙂  I’m going to answer it for myself, but I have no idea if my methods are the same as everyone else’s. 😀

Well, I read in the front page of every book where the author has the disclaimer which says something like “any resemblance to any persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental,” and I w…[Read more]

@seekjustice
Im unable to access wordpress at the moment (our household has a add blocker thingy that interferes with certain websites sometimes) but ill have to remember to check it out at some point!

Don’t worry! Long posts don’t scare me! (as long as its a topic as interesting as writing 😀 )

A while back I had an idea for a retelling of…[Read more]

Hey! @celticcailin I’m pretty clueless when it comes to music but I think @jess-penrose does music? (maybe??)

@jess-penrose Hello!  Cool!  What kind of music do you compose?  My brother is a classical style composer.

Seekjustice recommended that I read poetry by Banjo Patterson and Henry Lawson. 🙂

@seekjustice I’m going to get off now, and I guess you won’t be here when I get back.  Jess, I might be back in about an hour for a little bit if you’re sti…[Read more]

@seekjustice Hello!  Okay, I’ll be getting off pretty soon too, anyway.  I’m officially working on my western and unofficially on a short story. 🙂  How about you?

@seekjustice @jess-penrose Well, I’m back!  Are either of you Australians around?  Because I’m afraid most of the other Americans have gone to bed by now… 😛

SeekJustice, I finished A Little Bush Maid this morning, and got so into it that I had read half of the second book, Mates at Billabong, all at once before I realized how far I had got…[Read more]

@seekjustice Thank you so much for asking! Unfortunately, there’s been basically a complete hold-up in the adoption process and we have no idea when we will again start moving forward.  It’s much more complicated than it even was when I wrote my original post on the problem, and we’ve come up against several more road blocks.  It’s really sad b…[Read more]

@leumeister It was Mach 11, I think.  It was because the same four notes kept repeating over and over again in the bass.  I wasn’t able to listen to all of it, so I could be mistaken, but I listened to a good deal of it and skipped through portions of the rest and it sounded like it was that way the whole way through.  In Cannon in D the same ei…[Read more]

@leumeister I’m sorry. 🙂  As I anticipated they weren’t much to my taste.  I will say that the second one was much more interesting than the first, as the first one reminded me somewhat of Cannon in D. However, I do actually like Cannon in D, so that is not necessarily a bad thing. 😉  The real reason I didn’t like them is because I don’t lik…[Read more]

@waterlily I have done a few different types of planning for my stories, but I never can plan the ending first like Sam and SeekJustice do! 😀  In a way that’s cool, because I can have the same anticipation that the readers will have in that I don’t know how the story will end.  On the other hand, that also means I usually have no idea how to c…[Read more]

@seekjustice Hi!  I’m here.  It’s a little earlier than usual, but are you ready to write yet?

@seekjustice Ah!  It’s great!!  Only I almost wish I hadn’t watched ATOTC 1958 since it’s more fun to read something when it’s all going to be a surprise. 😀  But poor Justice!  Why didn’t he get rid of those papers when he had the chance?! 🙁

I really don’t like his cousin at all.  He’s annoying in the bad way instead of the good way. 😉  I lik…[Read more]

@rochellaine 😛

@jenwriter17 Oh, I’m so jealous!  But last time I got to read it before you did, so this time I guess it’s your turn. 😉

@seekjustice Oh my goodness!  I wish I had seen this before!  Now my brother’s birthday party is in progress, so I absolutely have to join in downstairs.  (I was going to put a sad emoji here, but I can’t really be sad for my…[Read more]

@seejustice Okay, so ya know how I said I’d start reading it tomorrow?

I finished it.

I literally put off studying for a test to read it 😛 (you should be proud and concerned) 😉

It was awesome! 🙂 I can’t wait for more.

@seekjustice No problem. 🙂

@seekjustice Yay! I think I should be able to start reading it tomorrow 🙂