Louise Fowler

@seekjustice Haha. 😛  Don’t worry, I like Quillon too.  I just never feel the need to stand up for him since you adore him so much already.

@rochellaine

All right, all right! I give up. It just baffles me that everyone likes the characters I don’t like all that much and no one likes as much the ones that I adore. 😀

@catwing Well, hopefully we aren’t spoiling too much for you 🙂

@catwing Yay!! A second vote for Kendall!! (Yes, that face thing is cute. 😛 )

@jenwriter17 Um, when you get a chance, could you come over here and cast your vote?  For my side?  Please??  @seekjustice says no one cares for Kendall!  How could she say such a cruel thing?  I care for Kendall.  Don’t you?  (If you don’t, go back and read Waif’s…[Read more]

@seekjustice Well, so does Justice, so, come on. 😛  And Chessy, like, for the first half of the book she is purposefully disobeying her father!  That may not seem as bad as Kendall’s lifestyle, but I would say, remember that Honor your Parents is in the Ten Commandments, while Keep from being a Drunkard is not. 😮 Okay that’s not really a great a…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Okay 😀

Well, I didn’t necessarily write him to be likeable, but then again I didn’t write Zac to be likeable either and obviously he turned out like that.

I don’t know how I want people to feel about Kendall though. I mean…he has a rather immoral lifestyle…

But his case isn’t hopeless. He redeems himself.

😀 I can see that…[Read more]

@catwing 😛

Oh, oh, oh!!!!  hahahaha!!!!  I love them!!  Thanks so much!  I especially like the “step into the water and get electrocuted” one. 😉

@seekjustice That was the biggest and most obvious instance.  I think there were a few other times when he seemed a little too soft, but I’ll have to go back through and read it again.  For the most part it’s all good.

I LIKE KENDALL!!!!!!!  How can you say no one likes Kendall?  Anyway, even Justice cares about him, as we established when Jus…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Was it only the instance you mentioned that you thought was too out of character for Justice?

The problem I found with Kendall and Rain is that honestly who would have a crush on Kendall? No one is supposed to like Kendall!

No, I didn’t know! I must go find out!

@catwing Well, by all means!  Please give me your ideas!  One condition, make them as absurd as possible, and they aren’t supposed to work in real life.  That’s the entire point! 😛

Yes, I know the papers would burn, and I know that doctors would not be that incompetent in real life.  These faking death sequences are supposed to be in the ima…[Read more]

@seekjustice 😛

Yes, I agree.  Your characters are the most important parts of your book.  My biggest issue in the second draft was with Justice’s character, remember? 😉  And actually the Rain thing is specifically about her character.  I feel like now that she’s “in love” with Justice instead of having a flirty kind of crush on Kendall she is…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Well, it hurts my pride, my honestly my pride is rather…I don’t know…large. And I could do with some humility. That’s why God made me a writer 😛

Fair enough. That makes sense. Honestly, I think the uniqueness of my story lies not so much in the plot, because the plot is…well, fairly average, but more so in the characters.…[Read more]

@seekjustice And thanks for not being offended. 😀  I know how hard it is to write, and I know how hard it is to have people say they don’t like something you’ve written, so I’m always worried when I say I dislike something about your writing, especially since for the most part I absolutely adore everything you write, so I don’t want you to get…[Read more]

@seekjustice I’m sorry! 😛

I’ve started part 4, and I do agree that Caderousse makes a bit more sense here than she did in the first draft.

The biggest thing I am worried about is that I think you are an amazing writer, but I am afraid that if your book is too similar to Les Mis people will not realize what a good writer you are, but will simply…[Read more]

@rochellaine

So I’ve been agonising over your post for w ay longer than is normal and I’ve come to this conclusion:

Writing retellings are a balancing act between original content and not. For example, I think the changes I made with Caderousse (have you started P4 yet?) were good because someone would expect that of a story based on Les…[Read more]

@seekjustice But please remember that this is just me, and you have a whole bunch of other beta readers. 😉

Aaand, I fell asleep on you again. 😛

Anyway, I found the Sherlock Holmes parodies (the ones I was talking about) on the Australian Gutenberg.  I didn’t even know there was such a thing!  But I did find them, and they’re really short, so you can read them easily whenever you get the chance.  Here they are:

The Adventure of the Cl…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Hopefully!

I do quite like parodies if they’re done right 🙂

I didn’t change that much, did I?

@seekjustice Okay, cool.  We’ve already established that you like both Gordon MacRae and Hugh Jackman as actors, so you should get at least some small enjoyment out of them. 😉 Even if you don’t like the musical in general.

Well, as I said, it’s not just Sherlock Holmes, as I didn’t know Holmes had faked his death that way but I have heard of…[Read more]

@Rochellaine

Well, I have the 1955 version in the house currently, so I’ll watch that first but I know our library has the 1999 version so I might watch that one later.

Yep its definitely a classic one. I’m a bit of a Sherlock Holmes nerd 😉

Well, yes, I am overly obsessed with Les Mis and have listened to so many different versions and I have…[Read more]

@seekjustice And there’s another version of Oklahoma I’ve watched which is a 1943 restitution, supposedly as exactly as possible to the original production.  They copied the costumes, the sets, the choreography and the original script exactly, and called in those who were still alive from the original production to help them figure it out.  I a…[Read more]