Louise Fowler

@seekjustice I have no idea what the paper says!!! 😀  Actually I have a sort of an idea.  I think it’s going to reference some place he wants her to meet him to discuss things.  But I’m not sure yet.  I’ll find out once the police get there and read it.  Also, I’m trying to keep the story down to size, so I don’t want to keep going for anot…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Yeah, it’s pulled all the time, especially in fantasy, I’ve found, and there’s usually absolutely no reason for them not to know.

You might as well let me know, I’ve not officially started writing yet so I can still pull apart the outline and add stuff…to a certain extent anyway.

I finished the story! I think you’ve got a good…[Read more]

@seekjustice Okay, I’ll try to find a chance to read it.  I’m currently still on the sixth chapter of A Little Bush Maid, so you can see I haven’t been reading much lately! 🙁

You’re right, the “Oh, you’re adopted” is done often and badly. 😀  Though I have heard of some real parents who don’t tell their kids until they’re older.  I think tha…[Read more]

@rochellaine

You definitely need to read it! The plot of this one, which is tentatively titled The Former Things, will make more sense if you know the original plot, but I don’t think it’s essential that you be familiar with it. ATOTC is just a really great book!

Well, when I was first considering making the sequel, late last year, I had the…[Read more]

@seekjustice I’d love to be able to “knuckle down and finish in six weeks!”  Especially with my western.  I might be able to if I actually decided to work on that instead of my short stories. 🙂  I just keep getting distracted.

Um, I have a couple of things I could tell you in answer to that, but in order to do so I’m afraid I’d break the “o…[Read more]

@sleepwalkingmk

*squeals* Eep! I’m so glad you’re excited! I hope you like it. I’ve been planning/outlining/researching the sequel and I hope to start in April, I’m really looking forward to that!

@seekjustice Oh wow.  Now I definitely need to read A Tale of Two Cities!  (Though I haven’t fully read Les Miserables I have skimmed through most of it, but I don’t really know any of the story of the other.)

I think the fact that you added Chessy’s adoption into Stars is great, because it will link the two books together and make it look like…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I’m very erratic too. When I’m working on a first draft, I tend to knuckle down and finish a novel in six weeks, but when it comes to editing or short stories, I’m so random.

That’s what I figured, but I’m doing a bit of research anyway. I think she was about one and a half to two when she was adopted, I’d have to check my notes to…[Read more]

@sleepwalkingmk

A Tale of Two Cities is such an awesome book! It’s in my top three favourites. I definitely will let you know. If you’re interested in reading the first book, which is Stars Fill Infinity here’s THE LINK to the topic I made on it, which has the links to the Google docs.

Thank you! You’re so sweet 😀

@seekjustice No, this isn’t that one.  I just found this one a couple of days ago when I was going through my old notes, halfway done, and decided to try and finish it. 🙂  I am extremely random in my writing habits, if you haven’t noticed! 😀  But I think I’ll be able to finish this one now, since it’s been going pretty well.

Okay, yeah, if sh…[Read more]

@rochellaine

It’s fine, I’ve read the part one bit and it’s suitably mysterious so far. is this the 50s one with the singer? Or is it a different one?

Yeah, I guess that’s probably why we like it. I also just like knowing where the inspiration came from, or how historically accurate it was and the acknowledgements are just generally sweet.

Ha,…[Read more]

@seekjustice *laughs* Ohh, the poor guy! 😀

Oh, and a warning: this is completely a first draft, so I haven’t got really any imagery or description or good wording anywhere.  It’s just the idea of the story and I’ll edit it once I finish. So it might not be a great read right now. 🙂

Haha!  I read the author’s notes and acknowledgements too.  Ma…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Sometimes I plan to kill someone, and then cave in and don’t. With one of my novellas, Comrade, I’ve changed between drafts whether or not a character dies. in the first draft he does, in the second he doesn’t, in the third he does.

Okay, I’ll have a look in a second. 😀

I like prologues too. If they’re well done, sometimes they…[Read more]

Oh, thank you! @seekjustice

Anything to do with the government is always a pain. 😀

@rochellaine

I meant to reply to this earlier. I’ll definitely be praying for you! Adoption laws are super crazy in Australia, I don’t know what it’s like in the US, but it’s no easy feat. I hope everything works out smoothly.

@seekjustice I actually ate a breakfast sort of snack: instant oatmeal and a mini croissant. 🙂

Hahaha!  Hey, do you always know whether your characters will survive your stories?  Yeah, I know.  Killing someone is a little different.  And at one point I did question whether to have a twist and let him turn out to be a real murderer so she wou…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I’m sure she won’t mind that once you explain 🙂

I don’t have a problem with mermaids either, I remember someone else being a bit unsure of whether to have mermaids in their story, but I don’t remember who. So long as the world doesn’t start believing that they are real, which is actually something a startling amount of people…[Read more]

@seekjustice Yeah, maybe I could just ask her to change it’s name from “troll” to something else, which she could easily come up with since she made up Chasm Beasts. 🙂  It’s funny, I actually said something against mermaids here once, and when I told my mom about it she said she doesn’t mind mermaids. 😀  So anyway, we’ll see how it ends up l…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Okay. I wasn’t really familiar with the root meaning of troll, or what a troll actually is. Definitely talk to your mum/mom about it and you can mention it to Dekreel, if you feel you need to. I think, that since the creature that Dekreel used isn’t really a “demon”, she could easily change it to something that’s just generally mi…[Read more]

@seekjustice Um, I just looked up “Troll, the creature” on Wikipedia, and it said the Norse word “Troll” means “fiend, werewolf, or demon,” so now I think I might have to talk to my mom about this thing.  I wish Dekreel hadn’t called me it’s “overlord” since I believe Christians can command demons to go away, but should certainly not be…[Read more]