R. J. Wordsmith

…listening to it? Like, the soundtrack? @catwing

*sighs* I’m staring at a blank screen, trying to start a chapter. I forget who asked me that question…

@emily @winter-rose @catwing I’ve come to join the party.

@Dekreel I see. 😀 That’s so cool you can watch em whenever!
Aso, I forgot to mention in my post over in “Favorite Book?”, but did you see they are making another Wrinkle in Time movie?!? I’m so excited!

@Dekreel Oooh! I loved A Wrinkle in Time too! It was one of the first books I read all in one day so it’s a bit special to me. XD

My all-time faves are:
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
^^^ These three are definitely my absolute faves but…[Read more]

@Salome01w4g Mind if I jump in? I have a poem to edit. 🙂

@Dekreel ooh, Night! That is one powerful little book.

For myself… Les Miserables, The Lord of the Rings, Fahrenheit 451, A Tale of Two Cities, The Count of Monte Cristo, A Christmas Carol, Lord of the Flies, the Mistborn Trilogy, The Roman-Britain Trilogy, The Red Keep… and the list goes on. 😛

Zikers, I have a love/hate relationship with questions like these. Um, okay. Here goes.

I have favorite book series, and then I have favorite books within that series.

–Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief (book one, series one) and the Son of Neptune (book two, series two)

–Harry Potter: The Goblet of Fire and The Deathly Hallows. I also…[Read more]

@DaughteroftheKing Signing off now. Thanks for writing! Read ya around! 😀

@salome01w4g Aww. 🙁 Byyee. Thanks for writing!

@Salome01w4g Yay! Welcome aboard. 😀

@DaughteroftheKing Awesomesauce and thank you!! I’m so excited to be back.

@Emily @Dragon-Snapper @Salome01w4g @Catwing @Ingridrd @Allison-Grace @goodness-I’ve-been-gone-so-long-I-can’t-remember-who’s-active-and-who-isn’t-but-anyone’s-welcome XD Hey-o! I’ll be working on some character development and possibly some poetry for the next 45 minutes or so. 🙂 Any fellow writers out there today?

*gasps* *runs to tackle-hug the dozen or so Webkinz in her closet*

Anyway. Enough of my antics. @ingridrd The story does, as @kate-flournoy mentioned, give off a sort of Toy Story vibe, but there’s a sort of open-ended thrill to it that almost begs for more. And I love, love the way you wrote “Pubby”. The childlike, wondering sort of style with…[Read more]

@Ingridrd ooh, I’m getting strong velveteen rabbit/toy story vibes. 😀 I love the open end though; there’s still hope. 😉
And… believe it or not I really don’t have any criticism. It’s adorable. It made me feel guilty about my stuffed leopard that I haven’t talked to in ages. And it has that sweet, half-wistful tone of all stories told from the…[Read more]

*blinks* Oh, well, I wasn’t expecting it to be so sad… *blinks again to hide the fact that she’s crying* Okay. I’ll need to read this over again before I can give anything constructive, but otherwise, good story! It’s really well written, and the plot seems smooth and easy to follow.

I’ll come back if I think of anything else.

@dekreel same. I know it’s a classic but I’ve never read it. 🙁

But as far as unique and compelling stories go… when you think about it, all stories are pretty much a mash-up of the same storylines being used over and over again. What makes them their own is what the author uses them to say. When a new voice picks up an old story, new depths…[Read more]

*stares pensively at screen* I meant: “Even in PAST TENSE narratives…”
*mutters incoherently* Third person narratives…what in the world, Gracie…

@Daeus I likey. *double thumbs up*

As far as the diary debate-thingy…If it will just be a short story or a novella, I say keep the diary format. But as a reader, I would feel a little weird reading something in that format for a full-length novel. It kinda disconnects me in a way. Even in third person narratives, you can reach this point where…[Read more]

@Dekreel I’ve only seen seasons 2, 3, and half of season 4 of the reboot, so I’ve only ever known Ten. XD I’ll let you know which is my favorite though once I meet some more. 😛 This also means I haven’t seen any of the older seasons. Where do you watch them typically? To be honest, I wasn’t sure if it was even possible to watch the older ones.…[Read more]

@Daeus Soooooo, funny thing. XD We actually had to cancel the camping trip because the weather hereabouts is icky, so if you still need another beta reader, I’m available. If you have enough though, no problem. 😉