Louise Fowler

@seekjustice Haha, okay.  I thought that it was set during the French Revolution.  I don’t know a lot of French history, mostly where French history interconnected with the history of other countries.  What exactly happened in the 1830s that Les Mis was set during that period?

Okay, so about Jean leaving Chessy in the trench, yeah, he should pr…[Read more]

@rochellaine

The 1830s. 😛 My inner history nerd must correct you.

Very true, but our culture is hypocritical in the extreme. We still see prostitution as a bad thing in the present day, and a shameful thing, even if we don’t have any morals regarding pregnancy and children out of wedlock like we did back then.

I can see that Jonas, Quillon and…[Read more]

@seekjustice Um, yeah, but children’s rights hadn’t been discussed yet in the 1700s…

Setting your story in the present day/future means that the cultural things won’t all match up with the circumstances in Les Mis.  Such as the thing I talked to you a long time a go about, with Sapphire being looked down upon, which is not so much a thing…[Read more]

@valtmy No, you weren’t making it too obvious, it worked fine for me. 😉

Oh, oh!  Haha, I’m so sorry!  I just realized how that sounded.  I didn’t mean that you don’t understand jokes unless they’re explained to you.  I meant that you prefer more realistic circumstances, as you were pointing out how the nurses and doctor didn’t act prof…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Actually, I’m surprised by the inconsistencies and problems you guys have pointed out to me, when it seems that you missed the two that have bothered me the most.

a). Jean leaves his daughter all alone in the trench in order to rescue Justice who he doesn’t even like.

b) Justice was originally seven years older than Chessy.

And…[Read more]

@rochellaine

True.

It has to work with the story, okay? Eponine is fifteen/sixteen when she goes to the barricade, so there we go. 😛

Poor Kendall. No one cares about him.

I’ll try to fix it up. In another draft. Not now.

@valtmy I’m not sure…I think it was the part about the party where she was talking to all her brother’s friends and embarrassing herself by not knowing the meaning of the poetry. 😉

Anyway, we’ve already established that we enjoy different types of humor, right? 😛  You need to have your humor carefully explained and diagramed, while I prefer…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I truly think that Justice doesn’t care. Not necessarily that he doesn’t care about her, but that he doesn’t care she’s underaged. Revolutions aren’t usually made of people of military age after all, especially people’s revolutions and since most of them are students, even the people they’re riling up are going to be quite…[Read more]

@catwing Goodbye!

@catwing Goodnight!  Oh, you’ll be here tomorrow?  I hope so!  I’ve been missing you. 😀

That reminds me, @dekreel I’m so sorry to have missed you earlier!!!  I wish I had been here at the right time to chat with you a bit. 🙁  Hope to see you soon again.

@seekjustice I’m starting chapter 20 now, and in the opening of that Justice is telling Chessy she is supposed to be at home, as usual. 😛  Then Jonas looks at Justice to make him shut up, also as usual. 😛

However, I was wondering, of course Jonas would tell Justice not to be so harsh, but Justice is just trying to protect Chessy, so why is he…[Read more]

@valtmy

Ah, maybe that’s where we differ. I don’t find it hard to write using I because my characters are often quite similar to me. I just fill in with imagination in the bits where they are different 😀

@catwing

Ah, romance subplots are so pesky! They turn up when you least expect them and suddenly, whoa, that guy’s a love interest.

Starting Fires? Oh, I wonder why it’s called that 😛

@rochellaine

It does sound very dramatic, doesn’t it? Cool, I can’t wait to see what you think of the rest 😀

@seekjustice I’m here now!  How’s it going?  I think I’m finally going to read the rest of the third part of the second draft of your first book…I love the way that sounds…before I get back to my own book. 😀

@catwing Your WIP sounds interesting, but I’ve been waiting for three years for you to write Firebird… 😛

Just kidding, though.  I…[Read more]

@valtmy

😀 I guess I just got used to writing from only two point of views, but I really like first person so I just deal with it.

@catwing

I don’t know. Is your book in first person or third? I was just suggesting you could try telling it from a different point of view for the second book, whether that was in first or third. Does that make sense?

@catwing

You could always swap some of the povs for book two, couldn’t you? in my novel, I have two first-person points, and while my main, main character remains constant, the other pov changes between books. You could try something like that if you wanted.

Poor Alex *hugs her*

@valtmy

I do indeed have a blog. anordinarypen.wordpress.com/  

@catwing Three isn’t bad, I’ve read books with more. I don’t think I could do more than three, 😛 I’d confuse myself, let alone my reader! Ah, okay, before she goes pyromaniac.

I have a question though. Is Alex bad? or misunderstood? or what?

@catwing

Oh yes! me too! I just want to get to book three…I’ve already book two, but its still pretty rough.

Yep, you’ve told me about that one. it’s the one which had a lot of povs and you had to get rid of some and its the one with Alex in it, am I right?

@catwing

I have a love/hate relationship with the rewriting process, which is what I’ve been doing for the past few months. I’m almost finished now though, so that’s a relief. Which book are you rewriting?