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@nicolerivers03  Just taggin’ you again in case you didn’t see Kale yet!  😉

@rochellaine No, I haven’t read it yet. I thought I was supposed to get an email with the word doc (did I do something wrong @seekjustice?)

@rochellaine

Goodnight 🙂

Okay!

@rochellaine

😀 I don’t blame you. Australia is a rather exotic location, given that most books are set in America or Britain.

True, I’ll work on that. I’ve been reading through the novel, but I’m not finding much of use.

@rochellaine

I imagine Zac wearing a very typical Australian outfit–a chequered Drizabone shirt, or something similar, jeans and riding boots. So probably not all that different from what you’re imagining.

In the book, the servant is let go, in all of the adaptions that I’ve seen, he’s been killed. Did that have anything to do with your plot twist?

@rochellaine

Ah, true. Being in love with the aviators as I am, I always imagine leather aviator jackets, which were, of course, made to keep you warm.

Its the working class jacket, which is why its associated with the French Revolution. Actually though, my sister also thought Justice wore a leather jacket too, so you aren’t the only one. I can…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I tend to be able to deal with curse words, as long as they aren’t too “strong” or too often, so I often forget to mention those (sorry). However, I cannot deal with people kissing each other, as my family will testify, hence my dislike of romance, particularly in movies.

No, I wouldn’t be. I’m sure a leather jacket would be pretty…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Sorry 🙁 I honestly don’t think though that she’s ever seen one of those shows which she was talking about, and she didn’t know who Clint Eastwood was. Our family doesn’t watch much in the way of shows or movies, but usually when we do we watch newer things.

The jacket is a very specific type of jacket. Observe this one:

Never…[Read more]

@rochellaine

She said: “….they still look too old. Like guys from those old tv shows where everyone laughs but you don’t even get the joke.”

Justice’s jacket is not actually a leather one, just thought I’d point that out. 😀

@rochellaine haha, yes I like Kendall too. I wouldn’t say he’s my favorite, but yeah I like him. 😉

@rochellaine

Some of those twists are actually quite inventive 🙂

That’s true, Justice would not be harmed in the making of any of those twists 😛

@Rochellaine

I showed her the picture and the response was awkward giggling and then “I can’t imagine Justice looking like that…he looks like a cowboy”.

@rochellaine

She said, in reference to your first comment, that it was confusing, but I think she understands.

Neither of us are sure what you mean by Cliff Robertson.

All right, I’ll give you some time for review.

(She said it was very nice and that she likes being called SeekJustice’s sister)

@rochellaine

🙂

Currently my sister and I are trying to come up with plot twists for the second book. Have any ideas?

(My sister reckons you’ll all say “that Justice died instead of Zac” because “you’re all selfish people who love Zac and underappreciate Justice!”)

I’m pretty sure she’s joking.

@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 🙂

@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]

@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!

@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]

@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]

@rochellaine

Hopefully!

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

I didn’t change that much, did I?