Jenna Terese

@rochellaine

It’s about King George VI, who had a severe stammer and his speech therapist, who helps him with all his speeches. It’s set in the thirties, which is why I thought you might like it. It’s pretty clean too (though, the speech therapist is…well, Australian. Thus, some of his methods are also very Australian. IE, “Swear at things when…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 Aw, too bad! 🙁 See you later!

@seekjustice No I haven’t.  What’s it about?

@jenwriter17

(a tad is a very long way in Australia. Just down the road is open to interpretation) It’s lovely! I’m listening to the Porcelain album now. I have a young friend who I’m going to mention Helen Jane Long to, because if he hasn’t heard of her, I think he’d like her.  Bye!

@rochellaine

Hello! Now, I have to ask you, have you seen…[Read more]

@jenwriter17

Well, I’m a bit obsessed with it at the moment. If you lived a tad closer I’d invite you over to watch it with me.

I have no idea. I don’t have Netflix so I don’t keep up to date with what they’re doing. Though I did hear Amazon was making a LoTR tv show about Aragorn or something.

I just listened to The aviators by Helen Jane Long…[Read more]

@seekjustice @jenwriter17 Hello, I’m here!

@jenwriter17

I find doing sort of “mini-plots” on sticky notes and just tossing ideas around is really helpful for pushing through the uninspired bits.

If obsessively rewatching Prince Caspian and The King’s Speech counts as prep, I’m doing brilliantly 😛

@jenwriter17

Cool! I’ll check those out. How’s your NaNo prep going? Are you doing any prep?

@jenwriter17

By the way, do you have any suggestions for good instrumental soundtracks to listen to?

@jenwriter17

😀 And you reminded me, I really gotta sit down and write some posts too. I’ll do that once I’ve put the washing away so I can actually sit on my chair 😛

@jenwriter17

Hey! I’m folding the washing but I’ll join you anyway.

@jenwriter17

Hey! I’m folding the washing but I’ll join you anyway.

You know @dekreel don’t you?

To answer your question, @rochellaine, since Xonos obviously missed it, yes, we know each other on another forum. (Although I think we met each other on Kingdom Pen once or twice beforehand. . .)

@seekjustice

Ah, that’s the self-criticism talking, isn’t it?

FYI: My WIP is about a queen that falls from grace and goes into hiding… and does that by hiding in plain sight as a rising star in the local theatre scene and waging a propaganda war with her enemies. Ridiculous, yes, but I suppose whether it is lame or not is a matter of preference. 😛

@valtmy

I’m the opposite. I can’t get anything finished without planning. Though I still have days when I have no idea what’s happening next.

Well…I do believe there’s a difference between purposeful ridiculousness and lame ridiculousness, which in all likelihood is what my stories are.

@seekjustice

Ah, well. For me, I will never get anything done if I sit down to do careful planning and plotting (e.g. I have planned out quite a few things for my adventure/fantasy story and written about 7 chapters but it’ll take forever to plan out the rest because it’s quite the sweeping epic). The trouble is in getting myself to actually…[Read more]

@valtmy

Self-criticism has got to be the worst thing about being a writer…or being a human really.

I’m a bit of an obsessive plotter for that very reason. I tend to get lost otherwise and end up with ridiculous plots. Or lack thereof.

@seekjustice

Well, maybe I’m just being too critical of myself. All part of being a writer. Once I get the scenes done, I’ll post them for review to see what you guys think.

But for now I am stuck with these problematic scenes. It is not about me having trouble resisting the urge to edit but more that I haven’t planned everything in my plot out…[Read more]

@valtmy

That is unfortunate 🙁

@rochellaine

Goodnight.

@seekjustice

I think I’ve told you this before. The scenes that were cute in my head don’t seem to turn out as cute when I write them. 🙁

@valtmy

🙂 how’s your current WIP going?

@Rochellaine

Goodnight.