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@rochellaine

Oh. Well. At least I have a reputation. I usually say “my friend Anisa” and they go “which one is that?” “the one from Maryland…you know, Uncle Bill.”

No, she feels quite sorry for him. After all, we concluded that Kendall had it worse than Zac, because Zac only gets blamed for the things he has done, which is a quite a lot,…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Okay then 🙂

What did your sister think of Kendall? Coincidentally, I was also explaining to my sister how everything was Kendall’s fault.

@Rochellaine It is. Anyhow, I wish to speak of happier things 😀

But everything is Kendall’s fault 😛

@jenwriter17

Have fun on your trip 🙂

@valtmy

I enjoy using Scrivener a lot. I still use Word for writing first drafts, but I found Scrivener really useful when I did the last round of edits on SFI. I haven’t fully got the hang of it yet, but…[Read more]

@rochellaine I can’t be on right now; too busy at the moment…

@seekjustice @valtmy @ariel-ashira @alia @catwing @kaya-young @dekreel

Just letting you all know that I’ll be leaving for a trip Sunday, so I probably won’t be on here really at all until Friday. You can still tag me for things if you’d like, and I’ll try to respond as soon as I can. 🙂

@Rochellaine

Good plan. I would be better off never knowing of its existence.

Its mostly a romance between Gladys and a half-Chinese half-Dutch (and yet so thoroughly white and American) colonel, Gladys with bobbed blonde hair (rather than long and black) and about two Asian actors. Its 1958, I believe, and no wonder she hated it.

I love your…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Hello! I’d like to have a word war with you soon!

Have you seen the movie The Inn of the Sixth Happiness? I just finished reading a book about Gladys Aylward, who’s one of my very favourite missionaries and it mentioned an old movie about her, which I looked up. I’ve watched about five minutes and I’m already horrified.

@rochellaine Thank you so much for reading it over! 😀 I hope to submit it to SE maybe late November. 🙂

@rochellaine

😛 I do things like that all the time. Sometimes, if I’m actually talking, I’ll just say a word, which may or may not have anything to do with it 😀

@rochellaine

Ah yes. I remember it now. Goodnight!

@rochellaine

Anything to keep you going on Daughter of Judas 😛

I believe I have read the synopsis before, or you’ve at least told me about it.

@rochellaine

I got 267, which is pretty much my normal count for 5 min. How did you go?

@rochellaine

Certainly 😀 Shall I put on my timer?

@valtmy

Yes. I usually do retellings of things I like quite a lot. And usually, it’s not so much that I think I have a better way of doing it, but just that I have a different way, which I’d like to explore.

No, I don’t think you should be. 😀 I also fail to see how Lancelot and Guinevere are romantic and not just plain selfish/stupid.

@rochellaine

I will more than happily word war with you, if you’d like that.

@valtmy

Well, I’d be happy to let you read it before then.

Oh yes. that’s because I’m a brilliant writer and often read things and think “I could do so much better than this”. 😛

But yeah, I do a lot of retellings. I think I enjoy the challenge of taking something that people are familiar with and changing it. It’s kind of fun. 😛

Well, I…[Read more]

@valtmy

I find the Arthurian legends very interesting, and I especially enjoy playing with the older versions, which a lot of people have forgotten now. I haven’t seen Merlin but it does sound interesting.

Certainly! The competition deadline isn’t until March, I think, next year, but I tend to be a procrastinator, so I thought I’d get in early…[Read more]

@valtmy

Not the Lady of the Lake but the nymph/hand/creature that gives Arthur the sword.

Not all that many. 😛 this is only a short story that I’m planning on entering into a competition. Those are the sorts of things I work on in between drafting or editing big novels.

@valtmy

I know what you mean. I’ve hardly had any time for writing lately (partly my own fault).

A writing retreat sounds like a really cool idea. I’d love to do that myself one day. It’d probably help me focus on editing a little better 😀

I’ve actually been going pretty well with that. I got lunch made for my brothers and sister and a few…[Read more]

@valtmy

Sure! How’s things?

@rochellaine

Would you like a Word War? I know you’ve been dying for one for ages.