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Jane Maree posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
@perfectfifths heyo! (no I’m toootally not going around the forum and hunting up the Aussies) *offers hand* Pleasure to meet you. I’m Jane.
Jane Maree posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
@perfectfifths heyo! (no I’m toootally not going around the forum and hunting up the Aussies) *offers hand* Pleasure to meet you. I’m Jane.
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(Yeeeeah, totally not creepy at all! XD) Hello, nice to meet you, too. I won’t give my name (I hope you understand) but you may called me PerfectFifths 🙂 Are you new here? Do you live in Australia?
That’s fine- I totally understand.
Yeup I’m new! Joined yesterday to be exact, although I’ve been stalking Kingdom Pen for about half a year or so.
I do indeed. New South Wales. 😀
Nice! Welcome! Have you been told this is the bestistest place on the internet yet? 😀 I live in Western Australia 😉 What are some of your hobbies and passions? 😀
I have once or twice. XD Four times in all, including yours. ;P
Hobbies of mine are reading, playing music, doing active stuff outdoors, and writing (obviously).
I have a passion for serving Christ through using the gifts (writing, music) he’s given me for his glory. I love writing and helping others with their writing also.
Yeah, so do I. I play the violin and have started to become very active in my writing. Do you play an instrument? And what genres do you like to write in?
Ooh nice! I play violin too! (as of March last year, and I’m almost up to grade four) I also play flute, guitar and piano.
Generally I like to try out a heap of different genres. Currently I’m writing a dystopian trilogy though, and it’s been really fun. (because I like blowing things up apparently XD)
Wow, grade 4 in 12 months? I’ve been playing for about two years and am only starting to work on grade 3 (yay, someone who knows what I mean when I say that! XD) Have you done any exams, like AMEB? Last year I did prelim and grade 1, because I’d never taken any kind of exam before, so we thought I ought to start easy-peasy.
My main genre is fantasy, though I’d love to write historical fiction and possibly sci-fi (though I’m not as interested in that)
What exactly is in a dystopian story? 🙂
I still have no idea quite how that happened! But it’s really exciting. (Yesss. :P)
I haven’t really done any of the exams officially (because it involved paying to be part of some such and such violin place) but I’ve unofficially done them with my teacher.
Dystopian is basically set in the future, officially described as futuristic after a big disaster (like some apocalypse or something). It’s almost a sub-genre of Sci-Fi because it can have super technology and things like that.
Ahh, very cool. Yes, the exams can be pretty expensive, but I don’t think we had to pay be to part of something for them, we just did AMEB exams.
Ah, right, disaster stuff. And aren’t a lot of dystopian societies disguised to be utopian?
Ah yep yep. AMEB exams would do it.
Yes! Often (like in Divergent, for example) it looks like Utopia until you find one little hole or look from a slightly different angle and it really isn’t. I just like the idea of setting it in the future and thinking about fun tech stuff to include.
Do you like to write robot characters? 😀
Actually I haven’t written a proper ‘robot’ yet but I’m hoping to soon! I’ve got several scenes sketched out that I think will be pretty fun to write.
I think robot characters are really cool, especially ones that start out completely robot and as the story progresses they develop character and emotions
Yes! That’s super cool. I’d like to have something like that but then there’s the whole ‘but now that’s kinda cliche’ problem…
Yeah, but if it’s done really well, no one’s going to care about the clichés. I’ve written a story that is full of clichés (can’t say it’s done really well, but it was fun and the people who read it seem to enjoy it 😉 )
Cool! Yeah, that makes sense. I may just have a shot. 🙂
Yay!! 😉
So, do you homeschool, or go to regular school? (just tryin’ to think of conversation topics 😛 )
Yep, I homeschool!
I went to public school for six weeks of kindergarten before my mum pulled me and my sisters out and started homeschooling us for good. 😛
How about you?
Homeschooled!
Also went to kindy, but that was it. My brother got to grade 1. Best thing ever. Technically finished, but we’re still goin’ strong, we have so much interesting stuff and curriculum we want to finish 😀
@jane-maree, Hello!
To start with, I apologize that I have stalked your and @perfectfifths conversation. *hee hee!* Will you forgive me? 😉
I’m also an Aussie! 🙂 And homeschooled…
Looking forward to seeing you around!
@perfectfifths ooh cool! 😀 Home school is the best, definitely. Those people out there who think we’re weird…well, they’re right. XD We are weird. But we’re a cool sort of weird, and I love it. 😛
@clairec howdy!! *waves* Ho humm. Should I forgive you? *thinks hard* *takes a council for twelve days* Yep okay. You’re forgiven. 😛
Oh yayyyy! Epic to meet you! 😀
@jane-maree Yessss the “cool” weird 😉
@clairec I’m not going to pretend to not be not creeped out by you right now, not 😛 And to be perfectly honest, I don’t even know if that sentence is a positive or not 😉 So, yes, I forgive you too 😀 I’m just gonna check to make sure we did the friending thing, a’ight?
Why, thank you! for forgiving me, that is. I am humbly grateful 😛 i apologize I didn’t get back to you sooner. I’m doing year 11 this year and it’s pretty full on, so I am generally only on on Tuesday nights. But as you can see there’s an exception this time as it’s Thursday. 🙂 @jane-maree.
And yes, @perfectfifths, i agree that I am thoroughly and utterly creepy. I think I’m friends with both of you now. According to my profile page…and you generous forgiveness. 😉
@clairec *bows* You’re welcome. 😛
I know how it is. *gives you motivational pizza* Balancing your time wisely can be so hard sometimes when things are like that. (for me, anyway)
@clairec Yeap, we’re friends 😀 Hello fellow Aussie gals! 😀 How’s life?
@perfectfifths my life is actually really busy and this week has been super hard. But God is good, and I’ve been doing pretty well. 🙂
@jane-maree Praying it gets easier 🙂 That’s good to hear.
@perfectfifths, ugh, school work, mostly. And a lot of piano…and a bit of writing thrown in somewhere. Thankfully I enjoy most of my subjects and really enjoy playing piano. I have a grade 5 AMEB exam coming up in May. I’m quite nervous, but also pretty excited. I’ve never done a music exam before. I did the same thing as you, @jane-maree, and did quite a lot all at once. I did grade 1 over two years, didn’t have access to a piano for 1.5 yrs, and then finally started taking lessons again and loved it so much I couldn’t put it down! *contemplates* Well, its not like I was lifting the piano to start with, but you get what I mean. 🙂
And of course I love writing. I always try to make time for that. Who wouldn’t? ;P
Ooh, good luck for your exam! 😀 The next one I’m going to take for violin would be grade 3. lol, Yeah, I wondered about putting down the piano 😉 XD