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@seekjustice Okay, I’m (kinda) working on my Western again.

I read your article and liked it. 🙂

I have to ask…Is that Grant Gustin (the Flash) on your profile page?

@seekjustice Haloo!  Anyone there?

Oh, Hooray!  I finally got around the quirks in my gmail account and have a google document with the opening of my book!

So please read it and tell me if after reading this much you would keep reading.  Or something like that.

Right now I’m not looking for grammar and editing issues, but just trying to make sure that it’s a good idea to c…[Read more]

@kaya-young Hahaha!  Love it! 🙂 🙂

@kaya-young Haha!  I definitely agree.

Here’s a question: Have you ever read those “disclaimers” in the front of books that say “This is not based on any real person, and any similarity to a real person is unintentional on the author’s part” or something like that?  Do you think that is ever actually true?  Because I totally base my characters of…[Read more]

@warrioroftherealm H. Rider Haggard wrote some amazing books with plenty of intrigue.  I’ve read a couple of his historical fiction ones, but I believe he wrote some fantasy as well.

Okay, I’ve got a little bit of clarification to do. 🙂  Mostly because I took a lot of time off from writing for finals last month, and am just getting back into it, so I had kind of forgotten a couple of the plans I had made for this book.  Therefore, when I wrote the synopsis I missed a few things.

@seekjustice and @jenwriter17 This is not a h…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 I like that kind of moss too, but I’m talking about Spanish Moss, which is totally different, and even more cool.  It’s a kind of moss that grows on the branches of trees and hangs down beautifully and mysteriously.

@seekjustice Finally finished that post.  It was really hard, because I’ve never written a synopsis for this particular book before, and I don’t usually figure out the entire plot before I write, but just a general idea.  But anyway, it’s there, so if you’d like to see about it, go ahead.  🙂

(I do actually have more plans than what I wrote in th…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 Hi, thanks for your comments. (I’m assuming it was you.)

I’m planning on editing and finishing the story hopefully in a few days or a week, and then I’ll post the completed version here – I guess for more critique.  🙂

So thanks everyone, and I’ll talk to you about the story in another little while.

@sam-kowal @dekreel @itisastarryn…[Read more]

@seekjustice I have only recently been introduced to character charts, and have only ever done one…but it was fun – and a lot of work. 🙂

I am about to be done now, but I think I’ll post my Contemporary Western in Novel Critiques first.  (Can’t stay up too late tonight, because tomorrow’s Sunday.)

@jenwriter17 I totally understand the “I’m not really part of the conversation until my mom mentions I write books” thing.  🙂  I can hear those words from across the house.  Because it’s so common I don’t have as much trouble answering as I used to, though.

Okay, something that my family did because I’m a writer which no one else would do.…[Read more]

Hey, I’m writing for a while.  Anyone want to join me?

@seekjustice is usually here around this time, or anyone else?

@lightningmouse I love vigilantes, so it sounds really interesting to me.  (I also love the name Rafe, but that is kind of irrelevant.) 🙂

The synopsis is a little long to put on the back of a book, though I have seen some pretty long book-back synopses.  I can’t tell you about saying the same thing in fewer words because I have the tendency to u…[Read more]

@dekreel I really like Piper because it reminds me of Piper Laurie, who was really cute in the 1950s:

  However, if your character looks nothing like this, don’t worry, because she’s not that well known anymore, and I don’t think anyone would really connect the name. 🙂

I like Peri a little, too.

@seekjustice Okay, I’m stuck trying to find an analogy.  I think I’ll sleep on it and see what I can come up with by morning.  Nice chatting with you.

@seekjustice Yeah, well, I got the idea when my family toured Western America last August.  I am planning on posting the beginning of it and a synopsis for critique soon – maybe tomorrow – so you’ll see what it’s like then.  I am going to try to make the plot similar to one of the old Westerns, but since it is set in the modern day it’ll be a l…[Read more]

@seekjustice Finished my assignment.  Now going to work on my Contemporary Western again.

Speaking of research, I just thought of something else I dislike about Austen.  I have read that she actually had no idea what society life was like, since she was raised in a poor family, and her novels were basically fantasies about a life she had only h…[Read more]

@seekjustice Goodness, our posts are getting tangled up.  I’m replying at the wrong times, since I can’t see your next post until I’ve posted.  Let me fix that:  Yes, I’m enjoying it.  It’s very interesting.

There.  If this gets posted before you post in reply to my last one, there should be no more tangles. 🙂