Jane Maree

@rochellaine I can’t be on right now; too busy at the moment…

@seekjustice @valtmy @ariel-ashira @alia @catwing @kaya-young @dekreel

Just letting you all know that I’ll be leaving for a trip Sunday, so I probably won’t be on here really at all until Friday. You can still tag me for things if you’d like, and I’ll try to respond as soon as I can. 🙂

@Rochellaine

Good plan. I would be better off never knowing of its existence.

Its mostly a romance between Gladys and a half-Chinese half-Dutch (and yet so thoroughly white and American) colonel, Gladys with bobbed blonde hair (rather than long and black) and about two Asian actors. Its 1958, I believe, and no wonder she hated it.

I love your…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Hello! I’d like to have a word war with you soon!

Have you seen the movie The Inn of the Sixth Happiness? I just finished reading a book about Gladys Aylward, who’s one of my very favourite missionaries and it mentioned an old movie about her, which I looked up. I’ve watched about five minutes and I’m already horrified.

@rochellaine Thank you so much for reading it over! 😀 I hope to submit it to SE maybe late November. 🙂

@rochellaine

😛 I do things like that all the time. Sometimes, if I’m actually talking, I’ll just say a word, which may or may not have anything to do with it 😀

@rochellaine

Ah yes. I remember it now. Goodnight!

@rochellaine

Anything to keep you going on Daughter of Judas 😛

I believe I have read the synopsis before, or you’ve at least told me about it.

@rochellaine

I got 267, which is pretty much my normal count for 5 min. How did you go?

@rochellaine

Certainly 😀 Shall I put on my timer?

@valtmy

Yes. I usually do retellings of things I like quite a lot. And usually, it’s not so much that I think I have a better way of doing it, but just that I have a different way, which I’d like to explore.

No, I don’t think you should be. 😀 I also fail to see how Lancelot and Guinevere are romantic and not just plain selfish/stupid.

@rochellaine

I will more than happily word war with you, if you’d like that.

@valtmy

Well, I’d be happy to let you read it before then.

Oh yes. that’s because I’m a brilliant writer and often read things and think “I could do so much better than this”. 😛

But yeah, I do a lot of retellings. I think I enjoy the challenge of taking something that people are familiar with and changing it. It’s kind of fun. 😛

Well, I…[Read more]

@valtmy

I find the Arthurian legends very interesting, and I especially enjoy playing with the older versions, which a lot of people have forgotten now. I haven’t seen Merlin but it does sound interesting.

Certainly! The competition deadline isn’t until March, I think, next year, but I tend to be a procrastinator, so I thought I’d get in early…[Read more]

@valtmy

Not the Lady of the Lake but the nymph/hand/creature that gives Arthur the sword.

Not all that many. 😛 this is only a short story that I’m planning on entering into a competition. Those are the sorts of things I work on in between drafting or editing big novels.

@valtmy

I know what you mean. I’ve hardly had any time for writing lately (partly my own fault).

A writing retreat sounds like a really cool idea. I’d love to do that myself one day. It’d probably help me focus on editing a little better 😀

I’ve actually been going pretty well with that. I got lunch made for my brothers and sister and a few…[Read more]

@valtmy

Sure! How’s things?

@rochellaine

Would you like a Word War? I know you’ve been dying for one for ages.

@rochellaine

I finished The Comic History of Britain 😛

@valtmy Oh, Singapore! We have kapeefers all over the world! (it’s an awesome thought) 😀

@ariel-ashira

Bye then 😀

(Yes, I do sometimes read books on Gutenberg :D)