I hope you have better days soon.  You’re in my prayers.  Congratulations on the job offer!  That’s wonderful! 😀  I keep feeling it’s kind of weird that we’re all grown up now… 😛  do you?

I’m doing great.  Settling in well to married life. 🙂  It has been strange living so far away from my family now, but they visit pretty…[Read more]

I miss chatting and writing with you all.  I’ve been finding time to get back into reading lately, which means I should be able to start writing again as well.  Hooray!!  Anyway, it’s been forever since I’ve been around here, so…how’s everyone doing?

@seekjustice How’s it going with your job and your dogs?

@alia How is college li…[Read more]

Wow, this is from a little while ago. 😛  Thanks!  I’m glad you like it.

I agree, Kipling’s poems are very good.  Now I should go back and read some, since I haven’t read any of his works in a while. 😉  My favorite poet of the droll variety is probably A.A. Milne, though.  What do you think of his stuff?

@abigail-m

Thank you! …[Read more]

Hey there!  How’s everyone doing?  It’s been a little while. 🙂

Is anyone around?

😛 I have no idea…

Sounds interesting.  I’ll have to look it up.

No, I’ve never heard of it. 😛

What’s it about?

Sure, that would be great! 🙂

That’s thirteen hours past my EST, so we’re pretty much exact opposites as far as day and night. 😛

I remember it was entertaining. 🙂

Well, it was inspired by last month’s KP newsletter picture prompt, but it got too long and I couldn’t shorten it enough to fit their max words requirement, so I didn’t send it in, but I decided to…[Read more]

Wonderful!  Yeah, it’s been a while, hasn’t it?  What time zone are you in, actually?  I keep forgetting. 😉

QOD is the one I’ve read bits of, is it not?  I can’t remember the title from the initials.

I’m not writing anything at present, actually, just here to chat. 😛  (I’m actually crocheting a baby blanket for my sister-in-law’s baby…[Read more]

I’m back now.  Are you still here?  Or are we going to keep missing each other all evening? 😛

Sorry I missed you. 🙁

Have a good evening.

Hey there!  How’s it going?

Working on anything in particular?

Thanks for the suggestions. 🙂  I’ll definitely look into them.

Yeah, it always seemed weird to me too, and very long.  But when I found the musical I was surprised at how well it made sense.  I think they must have condensed and changed it quite a bit to fit it into a musical.  If you find time to listen to it sometime, I’m sur…[Read more]

My little sister really loves horses.  (We have three, for which she and my older sister are the main caretakers)  I’ll have to look those books up and see if I can get her some.

I can’t remember if I ever mentioned it to you before, but I keep thinking of it and then forgetting whenever we chat…have you heard of the m…[Read more]

We had a table at a homeschool conference once, and the vendors next to us were the people who had made the movie.  So we heard/watched it on repeat for the entire weekend. 😛  That was much better than the 2 minute breadmaking video that was at the vendor across from us a different time! 😀

Haha, well, I kind of was, but I didn’t h…[Read more]

We do have the picture book based on the Veggie Tales Joshua.  That was entertaining.  Speaking of Joshua interpretations, have you seen the Jericho LEGO stop motion movie?  It’s hilarious. 😀

Thanks! I’ll send you a link to the google doc in a bit.

@abigail-m

I don’t know that I have a favorite time period to write.  I’ve wri…[Read more]

I usually write historical and contemporary realistic fiction, and (mostly comic) poetry.

Are you more a fan of structured poetry or free verse?

😛 I’ve been informed before that the Rumor Weed episode isn’t the best example of Veggie Tales that I could have seen.  Maybe I will look it up sometime.  What are your favorites?

Would you be interested in editing a short story for me?  It’s kind of written in the abstract which is something I’m not great with and I know there ar…[Read more]

Hey there!  How do you do?

What kinds of things do you like to write?

Haha!  I’ve seen one Veggie Tales episode in my life, when I was about five or six, and it terrified me.  😛

I’m doing great.  Isn’t that American, though?  Usually you say “going”.  Do Australians say “doing” too?

I’ve been writing a short story and gradually becoming disappointed in how much longer it has turned out than I had…[Read more]

Anyone around?

😀 I wish I knew how to dance well enough to do it in public.  It sounds like so much fun!

@nova21

Well, the short play I’m working on right now has barely anything w…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 That sounds like fun!  Do you have enough siblings to play a full game, or are you playing miniature games?

@seekjustice  Interesting.  I’m not really uncomfortable with public speaking, but I don’t have much experience with it either.  I have slightly more experience with sin…[Read more]

I’m doing great!  How about you?  Are you working on anything particular at present?

@seekjustice

What topic would that be?

Hey there!  How’s it going?

I’ll be working on that play for a bit.

Hahaha

That’s hilarious 😀

Hello there! 😀

How’s it going with you two?

Signing off now.  Nice chatting with you!

Happy writing!

Well, I really liked the first draft of the first book, which I think wasn’t originally intended to be a retelling at all, if I recall correctly?  So unless you feel it’s necessary to go along with your original plans, I’m sure you’d do great with a non-retelling plot.  Or maybe you could do something Scarlet Pimpernel inspired, w…[Read more]

Yeah, adding a satisfactory ending would be really hard after that.  I mean, if you had a new leader come in and save the day just before Zac is killed, readers would probably laugh at it as too convenient.  Whereas if you had all the executions attract the new leader’s attention, but he got there right after Zac’s death, that w…[Read more]

What kind of ending would a duology need?  A new leader and form of government and they all live happily ever after?  Or just a sparkle of hope that someday in the future things will get better?

The wedding is scheduled for the beginning of March.  We were planning a big wedding, but at this point we’re not sure how many people wo…[Read more]

Ah yes, that was a fun book.  Weren’t you going to dissemble it and combine it with the Quillon story?

Well, the one I did for them previously was a musical, with four songs.  And musicals are usually more fun than just straight plays.  So, although I haven’t decided on what songs to write, I plan to write a few if I can.

It’ll ju…[Read more]

Wonderful!

What are you working on?

I’m just getting started on a new play for my little sisters.  My youngest sister has been begging me to write another one before I get married, so this is a rush job.  Has to be done by the end of the month. 😉  I’ve been trying to think of an idea, and finally got one a couple of days ago, an…[Read more]

Hey there!  Are you still here?

Anyone around?  I’ll be here for a little bit, trying to figure out how writing works again. 😛

I’m going to have to go now.  It was great chatting with you!

Hope to talk again soon.  Happy New Year and write on!

Oh yes!  We’re going to have to get together – with @jenwriter17 too – sometime once you’re here.  What are you planning on studying?

Visiting with family is really great. 🙂  I’m sure being an aunt is awesome.  My brother and sister-in-law live next door, and they’re going to have a baby in the spring, so we’re terribly excited about tha…[Read more]

Hey there!  How are you?

How have your holidays been?

Well, that should be fun, if you do get them.  How old are they?

Yeah, that’s pretty much what they looked like. 😀  Ten is a lot.  But I think that’s a normal size litter for Pyrenees.  She had nine last time.  She’s a great mom, too.  Usually large breed dogs like that tend to accidentally sit on their babies the first week or so…[Read more]

A word war is where you and another writer (or writers) get together and choose a short amount of time, usually five, ten, or fifteen minutes, and then you write as fast as you can during that time, without checking grammar, spelling, or facts.  Then when the time is up, you count the words you’ve written, and see who’s written…[Read more]

Historical, alternate world, pirates…well, that sounds like a lot of fun. 😀

Haha, I did the same thing with knitting.  I got the basic stitch down and lost interest. 😛

Congratulations! 😀  So are you an official dog trainer now?  What breed are the new ones you’re hoping for?

Our Pyrenees mama had ten babies a couple of mo…[Read more]

Hey there!  Nice to see you even if you aren’t staying. 🙂  How have your holidays been?

@godlyfantasy12

Have you ever done word wars?  Those are great anti-procrastinating games. 😉

Well, if it’s got magic, I’ll just wait for your next his-fic. 😉  I’m sure it’s really well written, though.  Your stuff always is.

Have you ever tried crochet?  That’s what I prefer.  I think people usually like one or the other, not both. 😛

Haha, I’m cold all year long too.

Too bad.  Hopefully you’ll get to see Sigh…[Read more]

Knitting is your thing, right?  Is that how you made the covers?  Hot water bottles are amazing.  But isn’t it summer there? 😛

Oh, Come From Away should be awesome.   I’ve never seen it, but my parents saw it in New York last year and they said it was very good.…[Read more]

Sounds cozy. 🙂

I read your post where you said you’d read a hundred books this year, and…wow.  I really need to get back into reading.  I realized that’s why I haven’t been able to write: I just haven’t read enough books lately.   How’s your writing been going?  Have you written any short pieces lately?

Yeah, things have been…[Read more]

Salute from the past! 😀

How’s the future turning out for you? 😉

I’m doing great.  It’s been a really crazy year, but still, there were some wonderful things that happened as well. 🙂

How are you?

Anyone around?  I’ll be here for a while.

What’s your blog’s name?

Kind of… 😛  I opened one up a while back and wrote a few posts but I’m terrible with consistency and dropped off from it.  Lately I’ve been thinking of trying again, maybe putting up some of the scenes or songs from the mini musical I wrote for my little sisters, or publishing some of my poems, but I just n…[Read more]