Kaya Young

@ariel-ashira I wouldn’t say “finally” as I have been working on Daughter of Judas for a quite a while.

Research is such a huge subject covering such diverse topics that your question cannot be answered. 😛  I mean, all I can say to your general question is that I use Google and books.  And that’s what all researchers do.  Of course, some go to…[Read more]

@rochellaine Are you working on Daughter of Judas?!  Finally!  I think about that all the time, even though its not my book.

How or where do you do research?  Anything you would recomend?

@catwing Sorry that I can’t like or comment on anything.  I’m not on Facebook.  But I did see it, and congratulations again. 🙂  Hope you get lots of visitors who are signed in, so you can get likes. 😉

Oh, okay.  It’s so hard to keep track. 😛 Especially when it’s not a real book yet – just a beginning.

All right, there you go.  Vanish.  Disapp…[Read more]

@catwing Congratulations! 🙂  Is this specific to writing/business or is it personal?

Yeah.  I’ve been trying to find out more about the town my protagonist lives in, but there’s hardly any information about it.  I might have to just go with general info about the time period.

You haven’t read it, have you?

Okay.  It is late. 😉  (You migh…[Read more]

@catwing Cool. 🙂

I’m doing research for a my biblical era novel.  And hitting a lot of dead ends. 😀

@alia *sighs* Oh well.  Good luck on your test!

@valtmy @alia @dekreel @catwing Anyone around?

@rochellaine @seekjustice @dekreel @dragon-snapper @catwing @alia @ariel-ashira

Hi, all! Just letting you know that I will be going out of town, so I won’t be on here until probably Tuesday. I hope you all will have a nice Labor Day weekend. See you next week! 🙂

@seekjustice Ah, sorry. 🙁  Hope you can get some rest later.

College textbooks – no, ALL textbooks – with a few (very few) exceptions, are horrible, boring, uninteresting, nasty, unappealing, confusing, useless, depressing things.

😀

Do you get a clear enough picture of my feelings toward textbooks?

Well, it’s almost two o’clock, so…have…[Read more]

@seekjustice Well, you could fall asleep for an hour, couldn’t you?  Doesn’t seem like you’re the kind of girl who needs half an hour to get ready, like me. 😛

There’s a really easy and fun Greek language study guide that I used once.  I was too easily distracted to get all the way through it, but it was so simple and well written that I very m…[Read more]

@seekjustice Well, I’m not actually falling asleep yet.  I’m just a bit sleepy.  But, as always, I might randomly disappear on you. 😀

Ah! 😀 😀 😛  Why in the world would you think that?  Think of all the jokes about putting ministers of different denominations in the room together.

Personally, I would rather not look at what people have to say…[Read more]

@seekjustice Hey, I’m awake…barely. 😛

Whatcha doin’? (Proof that I am half asleep: I am using improper English) (proof that I am half awake: I am using the correct spelling and punctuation for the incorrect English) (proof that I am a writer: I am giving a long explanation of what types of words I use).

@rochellaine @seekjustice

Christian Amish romance novels? *gags* Please tell me you don’t read that stuff!

This conversation is great, BTW.  Both of your views are interesting.  In Missouri we lived near many menonite communities, so this came up sometimes with friends we had.

@skredder Awesome, thanks so much! 🙂

(and if a lot of time passes and I haven’t started reading your book, feel free to remind me 😉 )

@seekjustice

I read the blurbs

Haha!  That reminds me of a quiz I took a few days ago.  It was one of those things that says “we’ll guess your education level by which books you’ve read.”  You know what I mean?  Well, anyway, I had possibly read two or three of the fifty or so books on the list, but I was able to answer something like 95 per…[Read more]

@seekjustice All the Christian Amish fiction?  I thought you didn’t read romance. 😛

Ah, I see.

Actually, most of the people I know who wear head coverings aren’t Amish or Mennonite, though.  Usually they wear them I think because they read the head covering passage and decided that was what they should do, just like my mom.  So it’s not just fo…[Read more]

@seekjustice 😀

Even though we go to a Baptist church most of the circles we move in include very traditional reformed Calvanist(ic) type churches, so that might explain some of it.  Another explanation could be that we live very near “Amish Country” which is what we call Lancaster Pennsylvania and areas surrounding it.  Did you know of the l…[Read more]

@seekjustice Yes, that makes sense. 🙂  Here’s a funny story with a similar sort of idea:

I have an unmarried friend who wears headcoverings constantly, not just in church.  We were talking about it one day, and how the Bible says a woman should wear a head covering to show that she is in submission to her husband, and we told her how we b…[Read more]

@seekjustice

I think a lot of Western culture has lost the original meanings of many parts of both the New and Old testaments just because we have such a limited understanding of Eastern culture.

I completely agree!!  Actually, we’ve had that problem a few times with some sermons where we just wanted to yell at the pastor, “we know you’re trying…[Read more]