Rochellaine

I’ll probably be on til 10 something EST

@jenwriter17 Okay. 🙂
@seekjustice @rochellaine @alia @dekreel @valtmy I’m writing now.
Also last Wednesday was my first Kapeeferversary. *throws feathers* I’ve been on here a year. 😀

@catwing I can’t come on right now, but I was planning on doing your poll thing soon. 🙂

@seekjustice @jenwriter17 @alia @valtmy @rochellaine I am writing my book!
Also I have a poll thingie on my blog if any of you guys wanta do you can. 🙂
Post link to find the poll. So you can see the blog and then play with the questions.

What @seekjustice said is really true, guys. Australia (particularly the state of New South Wales) is really struggling.  If you want to read more about it, follow this link.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/drought/

Also, @seekjustice, I thought you might be interested in this Christian mission’s response to the…[Read more]

Absolutely praying for your friend, @alia, and for you too, as you try to counsel her with wisdom. I’ll be praying for both of you.

@valtmy

I’ll hunt down some books on that then, and set to work reading them while my beta readers finish off the document and I’ve already started doing some serious worldbuilding. I see that as my main things to tackle in the next draft 😀 Thanks for all your input!

@seekjustice

Yes, that’s a good idea. First decide what political and economic system you are trying to critique for your dystopia. I’m thinking capitalism/oligarchy based on what I’ve read so far (neither of which would justify the tech regression and stagnation).

Especially for the police force. The rich have every incentive so supply ample…[Read more]

@valtmy

I realise that 🙂 though things like the “Premier’s Bill” which Lang gets assassinated over, were things that really happened in Australia during the Depression (though no one was assassinated, as far as I know).

I definitely think that in order to do better worldbuilding for this story, I need to do some amount of study on economics and…[Read more]

@seekjustice

Oh. There wasn’t much elaboration on the Great Collapse though so I didn’t notice any nods towards to the Depression and didn’t make the connection but I’m sort of seeing it now…?

But how long ago was the Collapse? I understand if there’s technological regression in the immediate aftermath and the next decade or so. But the story…[Read more]

@valtmy

The only thing I would say in rebuttal to what you’ve said in your comments though, is that I had quite heavily based the world on the world of the Great Depression. That’s part of the reason there’s such a divide between the rich and the poor and also in the technology. In the Great Depression, the people were living in a world that was…[Read more]

@jenwriter17

Bye!

@seekjustice

Good to know I’m not the only one that thinks so then. But worldbuilding is very crucial (one could say it is the heart of) for a dystopian story. And any changes you make (esp in the tech level) can cause ramifications in your plot (e.g. suddenly the conflict or problem doesn’t make sense because it can be s…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 Bye!

@seekjustice @valtmy

Sorry but I will have to leave now. Bye!

@jenwriter17 The hardest thing about this one is trying to bring it all together into something that effectively caps off the last two books.

@valtmy Most of it makes sense and a lot of it was said by another beta reader last week. Most of the main critiques have to do with my worldbuilding especially, which I know is pretty subpar.

@valtmy Yup! *bows*

@seekjustice

Haha hope you can make sense of my blubbering rants! 😛

@jenwriter17

Are you one of the beta readers as well?

@seekjustice That’s good; one of the things I struggle with most is creating an interesting plot that actually makes sense.

@jenwriter17

Its coming along slowly, but at least I have something that resembles a plot now.

@seekjustice Hello to you as well. 😉 How the third infinity book coming?