Louise Fowler

Yay, @kaya-young!! I can’t wait to take a look! Could you provide a link for us? 😀

@ariel-ashira

Thank you! I’m eighteen now 🙂

@ariel-ashira 🙂 It was mine.

@jenwriter17 Bye

@catwing @valtmy Me too. Talk to you later 😀

@catwing

Though I may be biased. 😛

@catwing

Oh yes, Rain’s awesome, isn’t she?

@jenwriter17 😛 I understand! Time zones are such annoying things 😀

@jenwriter17 @catwing

I’ll have to go soon (birthday lunch with my grandad).

And no worries, Catwing 😀 I’m sure it’ll turn out fine.

@valtmy

It’s going very well (though it’s rather emotionally exhausting). I’m picking out a few common themes that most of the readers have said need working on, as well as a few things that only a few people have highlighted. The general consensus is that Justice is an immature brat (which I tend to agree with) and that Chessy is rather…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 @valtmy

Oh yes, I am here, for a bit! I’m just reading over some beta comments 😀

@jenwriter17

Yay for #20!!

@rochellaine

Sorry, my computer ran out of battery, but I’m back again!

Yes, I definitely base characters on people! Usually not purposefully though. I usually just realise, oh! So and so is a lot like so and so.

But I love when those disclaimers are in historical fiction novels, where the characters sometimes are real people.

@seekjustice Well, I don’t base all my characters on real people.  Just some of them.  But I do learn about character traits and behaviors from studying real people.  And I’ve always been sure every other writer does as well. 😉

@seekjustice

Hahaha!! 😛

I always think disclaimers that say “none of the characters are based on any real people” are ridiculous, because I totally base my characters on real people.

How else do you write realistic characters?? 😛

I wonder if it’s like the copyright laws, like, if you change ten percent of them they don’t count as based on…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Maybe authors should start putting disclaimers in the front of their books:

We do not condone the behaviours of any character that seems slightly antagonistic, and nor we do take any responsibility for any of their evil deeds.

I know, poor Curt didn’t deserve anything that I forced him to endure.

Yes, it’s such an entertaining way…[Read more]

@seekjustice

Oh no, they can’t! 😛

Of course he didn’t.  Sweet little Curt.  Poor little Curt. 😀

Have you ever been on the TV Tropes website?  It’s hilarious.

@rochellaine

People don’t actually expect us to take responsibility for our bad characters, do they?

Well, of course Curt did none of those things. Because he was a small angel. He definitely fell into the disabled angelic character trope that I see so many people complaining about 😛

@seekjustice

Not a chance!! 😮  I shall protect my characters! (but if the mean characters hurt them, that’s not necessarily my fault. 😉 )

😛 Ah, don’t worry.  I completely understand! 😀  I used to be extremely melodramatic in my writing, so a lot of my old bits contain characters who gasp and shriek or sob every few sentences.  It’s act…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Unless you become ruthless. Like me 😛

Haha no. But he might as well be, down to the fact that he’s Irish and has an accent. But he’s a character from a very old book of mine (and don’t even bother asking to read it, because. Nope. No chance. No one is ever reading that thing).

@seekjustice

Haha!  At least we know she’ll survive, right? 🙂

A character so completely perfect that I cringe now.

…in other words, Quillon? 😉 😛