The fledgling Artist

@alia You haven’t read the Viking Quest series??!!  That may be the best his-fic series for teens ever written!!!

😛 Well, anyway, I like it a lot.  Love it a lot.  Adore it from the depths of my heart and my imagination.  Something like that.

In other words, yes.  You should look into them. 😉

@catwing That’s something I’m not very good at myself, since I had several people tell me one of the guys in my last book had a really quick change of opinion which should have been explained better.  That was two years ago, though, and I think I’ve gotten better, but I can’t tell yet since I haven’t finished a book yet.

However, I would assume…[Read more]

@alia Okay. Basically a character arch is how your character changes through the book. So I’m trying to figure out what some of my characters faults that can change or need to change. But one of them progresses negatively so I’m calling hers a slope. 😛
Just trying to put down on paper some things… 🙂
Make sense? So I’m asking if you have any…[Read more]

@alia Yeah, I never had any trouble seeing them grow up.  It was only three years, and that’s not as much as Bree, Devin and Mikkel grow up in Lois Walfrid Johnson’s Viking Quest series (ever read those?) which is also only five books long.  I understand that it wouldn’t be great if you can’t see them as older than 14.  We have another series wh…[Read more]

@rochellaine @alia Well I’m working on developing my characters’ arches/slopes do you have any tips from when you do that? Or do you not do character arches/slopes?

@alia Ah, well. *shrug* At least I know they’re pretty good. 😉

@alia no, that wasn’t me, I haven’t read them. But it sounds interesting so I may read them. ;3

@alia …friend she was talking about? Well, I don’t know what she said so it could be a different friend. But we have met in real life, if that is what you mean.

@alia that’s very interesting. I may read those books some time… ;P

@alia Well, they were written in the nineties, right?  So it’s set forty years in the future, from when he predicted the stuff.  It’s a lot closer now, and that’s why I’m impressed with how well he depicted what the future would be like.  And we might actually have our first female president around 2040. 😉

@alia Okay, so the Mars Diaries are basically the exact same as the Robot Wars, but with different names.  You know that, right? 😉  There are ten Mars Diaries, and the Robot Wars combines two in each book.  They were published as ten books first, then I guess people forgot about them and they decided to republish them and combine them so there wo…[Read more]

@alia Something I find interesting about them is that the author was basically spot on with what technology we’d have by 2040.  They’re making cars that can drive themselves with GPS; tracker chips are in wide use already; you can control robots with your brain.  It’s all getting real.  Have you noticed that?

I was at a homeschool conference in…[Read more]

@alia Oh, I absolutely love the Mars Diaries/Robot Wars by Sigmund Brouwer!  Have you ever read them?  They have basically the exact same premise.  If you haven’t read them, you definitely should!!

@alia Hey!  What’s the idea?

@catwing That’s good. 🙂

@rochellaine Hello! I’m doing pretty well. My book is coming along, I may even write some today. (If I finish getting these wrinkles out of this outline.) 😛

@alia Oh, how fun! New book ideas can be intriguing, or distracting… ;P

@catwing I’m here!  How are you doing?

@rochellaine @seekjustice @jenwriter17 @dekreel @alia @sam-kowal
I am rewriting on my book. Anyone else here?

@seekjustice The long list of books to read… *shakes head* I know exactly what you mean.

Yes, so if something happens, you should have plenty of time to warn us.  Can I trust you to do so? 😛

(There are definitely people that uneducated.  I’ve seen lots of similarly ridiculous quotes. 😛 )

I’m going to say goodnight now.  Talk to you later!

@seekjustice Ah, I see. 🙂  Irrational fears always seem to be the worst.

It’s been a while since I read most of Henty’s books (we have the full collection, or possibly minus one or two) and I don’t remember that one well.  I think it wasn’t one of my favorites.  I have three favorites, and one of those three was the one on the French Re…[Read more]

@seekjustice “tyrannical rule of the Shetland ponies?” Haha!  Sounds intriguing.  In what manner, exactly, are ponies tyrannical?

Which book do you have?  Oh, well, the one I was referring to is Dale Robertson.  He’s not far above a lot of other favorite actors I have, but he’s the one I’ve “picked” to be at the top of the list right now. 😛 …[Read more]