The fledgling Artist

@seekjustice Ok, bye!

@valtmy Hi!  Are you still here?

@seekjustice I wanted so badly to focus on just one thing, (my western,) but I guess that didn’t happen. 🙂

I see.  Well, I like listening to songs in other languages if I have the translation and like the translation.  But since English is easiest for me to sing I prefer to listen to songs which I can learn.  I know a few songs in Italian, th…[Read more]

@seekjustice I hope to!  I’m having fun right now, and I think that’s the most important ingredient for quick progress in writing.

I’m being horribly mean to my poor heroine, though… 🙁

Maybe it’ll be a good thing for me to do both this and my western at the same time, since the western is much lighter, while this is darker than what I…[Read more]

@seekjustice I think I showed you the opening a while back.  It’s Daughter of Judas.  Do you remember?  I was planning on finishing my western first, but I guess it’ll be easier to just go back and forth.  And if I can work on it straight through this month for camp I should have a great deal done, and maybe I’ll end up finishing a big proj…[Read more]

@seekjustice Working on my camp nano project. 😉  It’s not my western… 😮 😛  For some reason that one still wasn’t going that well.  I have the western all out in my head but it’s not going down.  I think it might be because I’m not used to writing with a plan, so a structured plot made me feel cramped or something.  Anyway, I have some…[Read more]

@seekjustice Hello!  I’m here now. 😀

@valtmy Yes, I understand that.  I had the same problem with her second book. 🙁  I did manage to get extremely attached to the guy who ended up dying, but since I already knew he was going to die it wasn’t a shock or anything when he did.

Ok, it’s time for breakfast so I’m going to depart.

What time is it where you live?

@valtmy Yes, when I posted it was only 10:00 for her, so I thought she might be here for another half hour or so, but I guess not. 🙂  She does sometimes stay up later, and since I didn’t get to talk to her last night I thought I’d take the chance.

Ah, just finished?  I have a feeling you’ll be needing these. *hands you a box of tissues*  Ev…[Read more]

@seekjustice You were quite right.  I did go to sleep. 😛  But I’m awake now, going to try and get some early morning writing done.  Are you still awake?

@valtmy Hello!  Unfortunately, my body just decided it’s more tired than I thought it would be and I’m starting to fall asleep.  I’ll try to stay awake for a little while longer, but I won’t be up as late as usual, that’s for sure! 😛

How’s it going?  Sorry I haven’t had a chance to check out the new chapters yet.

@seekjustice Ah, too bad. 🙁  While there are restrictions on what types of fireworks private citizens can use, they’re shot off all the time at public places such as sports games and carnivals and parks.

As you can see, I’m back now. 😀  I’m going to try to get back into the rush I was in this afternoon with my writing.  I wrote way more than us…[Read more]

@seekjustice I actually got called to do fireworks right after posting, so I haven’t been on since then. 🙂

Boy, that was fun!  Are you allowed to do fireworks in Australia?  We’re only allowed to use small ground fireworks, not ones that shoot up into the sky.  If we want to see those we have to go out to some fairground or park where they do th…[Read more]

@seekjustice Ok, so I’ve discovered that he’s not really like Zac after all.  He was a new character, so at my first introduction to him he felt like Zac, but now that I know him better he’s my very own character and not yours. 😛

We’re going to shoot off fireworks soon, but I’m having a really good writing day, and I don’t want to take a…[Read more]

@seekjustice I just had two hours to write in the car on the way to my uncle’s house for our Independence Day celebration.  I was writing another story, (not my western,) and then I realized that my hero was starting to sound exactly like Zac. 😮  Now I’m frantically trying to think of all the ways he won’t be like Zac so he won’t sound like h…[Read more]

@seekjustice Ah, I see. 😀

Yes, I thought Zac was a horrible character when was first introduced to him, as you remember. 😛  I think all of us complained about him after those first couple of chapters.  And now we count him as the best character!

Hm, okay.  Well, I’ll have to refrain from giving an opinion until I read it. 😉  I actually do lik…[Read more]

@seekjustice If Jonas did it, Chessy would listen.  If Jean did it, Chessy would at least try to listen.  But you’re having Sapphire do it?  Chessy’s just going to get mad, isn’t she? 😛

Yes, but that’s the best kind of character.  One you don’t really know until the end of the book when he surprises you.  It was the same way with Kendall.  I tho…[Read more]

@seekjustice The “unequally yoked” conversation??  Oohh!!  Will Jonas do it?? 😉 😉  (He just seems like the kind of guy who would.)

Well, you didn’t mention that it would be the character I’d fall in love with!  I mean, seriously.  You had so many characters, and you had to kill Zac.  But then, the reason I love him so much is because he was w…[Read more]

@seekjustice Hm, I guess they don’t want people cheating if they get near the end and see that they can’t make their goals.

Ah, I see. 😛

Great!! I can’t wait to read them.  I have one more planned right now, but don’t know when I’ll get around to writing it. 😉  Maybe sometime when I need a break from my western.

@seekjustice Aaand, that took longer than I expected.  But I’m back now!  How about you?  Finish your lunch?

I haven’t done enough to really say Camp is going well, but I think I’ll be rolling in the next few days. 🙂

How about you?  How is your editing going?  And are you doing any more fanfics? (which shouldn’t actually be called fanfics beca…[Read more]

@seekjustice 😀

Um, it’s going…better?  I think? 😛  Still slow, but I am back in the storyline.  I mean, I’ve gotten my head back into the story, where it was out since I’d been not writing for a while.  So that’s good.

I’m actually going to step out for about half an hour, so maybe you can eat lunch and then we’ll get back in a bit?