Louise Fowler

@seekjustice I am extremely proud of myself.  Today, (so far,) I wrote 1236 words with one hand!! 😛  Daughter of Judas is growing despite all the vain efforts of that villain, Poison Ivy! 😛 😛

@alia WHAAATTT??? *tries not be extremely jealous*

@catwing Oh, cute!!

@alia So exciting! 😀 😀 😀  I’m sure you’ll enjoy it,  Where are you seeing it?

@catwing Goats?!  You got goats?!!!  Those absolutely wonderful, amazingly adorable, and perfectly terrific creatures?  They’re my favorite animals!  We had pygmies for a long time and their babies were the cutest, most adorable things ever!! (whoops!  I used “adora…[Read more]

@rochellaine

No, I didn’t think so 😀 I’ve actually read a bit about the real strike, but not much. And they definitely are good dancers 🙂 Goodnight!

@valtmy And I guess I wouldn’t want to be one of my characters either!

I think I should probably go and do something with my day 😛

@seekjustice Not by a long shot!!!! 😛 I was just using that as an example.  Actually the most noticeable inaccuracy is that the real newsboys’ average age was probably around ten or twelve, so the sixteen- to twenty-year-old guys seem quite strange.

…but they’re good dancers! 😛

@valtmy Actually, since yours is a parody in the first place, I…[Read more]

@valtmy

I would not enjoy being a parent in your book 🙁 🙁 🙁

@rochellaine

Oh, are the slang words the only historically inaccurate thing about Newsies? 😛

There’s a place for rebellion against the time period though, because the people history remembers are the people who were ahead of their time, or who actively rebelled against some bad part of society, but I definitely agree that the girls, s…[Read more]

@seekjustice Was that during a performance, or was that when she was alone with her friends?  Because if it was the former, I completely agree, but if the latter, I don’t care a bit. 😛

@valtmy Haha! 😛 Don’t worry, I don’t think I will.  But yeah, that’s me.  I get so horribly annoyed if the actors say a slang word that wasn’t invented yet, (talking about Newsies, @seekjustice ) if the skirts are two inches too short or too long, (can’t always tell, except for a few specific periods) or especially if the characters act like m…[Read more]

@valtmy

You’re a parent-murderer??? *gasps of shock* 😀

@rochellaine

Maybe you’re just picky, but me too. Unless I really like something, as in the case of Anastasia. However, you would hate The Greatest Showman, because my biggest complaint with it is how historically inaccurate it is, including, but no limited to, the fact that there is an…[Read more]

@seekjustice tagging issues.  I’m having them too.  See above if you haven’t. 😉

@seekjustive Oh, I don’t know.  I thought of a couple when writing that, but my brain is mixed up now and I can only remember one:

Rose Marie (1936) Is a musical about an opera singer who goes to the wilds of Canada in search of her brother.  A huge climax near the end of the film involves her having a mental breakdown during an opera p…[Read more]

@valtmy

Fine, three. 😛

And yeah, Carlotta usually has a much more operatic voice, though I don’t whether she’s usually played by women with operatic training.

@rochellaine

Whoops! I literally write your name on autopilot now 😀

@valtmy sorry! See above 😀 (I accidentally tagged Rochellaine instead of you!)

@seekjustice You replied to @valtmy‘s post, but tagged me. 😛

@rochellaine

But Christine actually only sings in an opera in one scene (The Point of No Return), the other opera scene her part is silent. And people get killed over the fact that her part is silent too.

Just out of curiosity, how many musicals are there about opera?

@rochellaine

Yep 😀 I don’t know, he’s definitely horrible, but he’s still a father. Oh, and technically, Zac’s father is dead too, but…that’s minor and I didn’t kill him. He was just dead already.

I don’t know, I hope so. Though I’m not sure that Justice’s mother, or Sapphire’s mother, really count as useful.

@seekjustice I prefer musical theater to opera (usually) as well, but I also am a stickler for accuracy.  The entire story revolves around the fact that Christine has a beautiful, classically trained operatic voice, and that she sings in the opera.  Therefore the fact that they cast women with obviously Broadway style voices to sing songs that b…[Read more]

@valtmy Yep, they are! That’s why I was proud of myself for only killing two 😛

@rochellaine

They do, for about a total of ten minutes 😛 And that’s heaps enough opera for me!

That’s true, but at least I’m not being so cliché. isn’t Young adult fiction notorious for killing off all the parents? All my characters have at least one live parent (but not all the parents have live children…)