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@jenwriter17

Thanks 😀 (and don’t feel pressured to send us any lasagne or anything like that. We’ve got quite enough as it is 😛 )

What new hobby would your character be most likely to try?

Hmm… Yilla would probably take up…candle making or basket weaving or something of that sort. High-Praise would take up knitting or embroidery and…[Read more]

@valtmy

It’s been a while since we’ve talked! Hopefully you can find some time to drop in 😀

@jenwriter17

There’s a massive drought in Aus at the moment, which is why we were discussing it 😛

He’s had a lot of tests, but they’ve all come back clear. Which is good…except there’s definitely something wrong and none of the doctor’s can work out what it is. So yeah…we’re thinking he’s definitely going to be in hospital for at least…[Read more]

@jenwriter17

Well, my family and I have been debating about the greed of western civilization.

I’m probably going to do some worldbuilding and blog posts in a minute though.

And things are okay at the moment. My mum’s home today so that’s really good.

@jenwriter17

Hey! I’m here for a bit.

@rochellaine

I’ve read some of Ethel Turner many years ago, but I haven’t heard of any of the other ones.

And I saw that article but I haven’t read it yet, I kinda just skimmed over it.

I’ll talk to you later then!

@rochellaine

I found Victoria’s births deaths and marriages site which has a really good list of popular names, it only goes back to 1929, but its quite interesting to look at. Of course, its only for one state, but I imagine the rest of Australia was pretty similar.

Here’s the…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I believe its Greek 🙂

I can’t find any specifically Australian sites either, at least for back then. I can only find Social Security which seems to be global (or British empire anyway). I will let you know if I find any. (Though looking through old newspapers in the birth/deaths/marriages sections might give a good idea.

@rochellaine

I quite like Lilian, Cora and Elise, so I’ll think over those three for a bit and decide between them.

As for cultural differences, I’m not really sure about America during that time period, but Australia has traditionally kept to the trends of England and Ireland. Irish names were very popular but I doubt there would have been many…[Read more]

@rochellaine

She would probably be upper middle class. Comfortable and a little uppity, so her parents would probably be the sort of people who would give their daughter a name slightly above their class to sound more posh than they really are.

Suggest whatever you like 🙂 I’m all out of ideas!

Only two, at least while I’m waiting for the rest…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I need some help getting a female name for one of my novels. Its a WWI novel so she was born in the late 1890s. I’m looking for a name that’s not, like, Mary or Jane or Philomena. Do you have any ideas? I want it to be sort of unique but not out of place for the historical period.

@jenwriter17

Yeah, my parents have a Mac which I found really difficult to use, which is why they ended up buying me my own computer which Word works much better on 🙂

That’s one of the great aspects of Scrivener in my opinion.

@jenwriter17

Oh, Scrivener is awesome! I usually do my first drafts in Microsoft Word, but I find Scrivener really useful for editing and sorting things out.

@jenwriter17

I’m actually getting ready to go into town and do some shopping for my mum.

@jenwriter17

Life’s a bit crazy today so I may disappear without warning, but I’ll join you for a bit.

@rochellaine

We have to sign up before we turn eighteen. At least, I did, and I’m pretty sure its mandatory to do it before eighteen. I believe in America you don’t have to vote, (is that right?) but in Australia you have to.

The safe children policies are basically to stop child abuse. And you have to do the training for everything you get i…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Oh yes! That too 😀 It’s really annoying 😛

Child safety ones. Do you have those sort of things in America?

I don’t know if that’s true or not, but that woman is doing a bad job at it 😀

@ariel-ashira Hello!

@jenwriter17 I’ve only done it once, last year, but I’ve done the Camps four times (I think). I think the best advice is to…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 😀

@rochellaine

My sister and I are watching a movie on Alexandria and Nicholas, and Alexandria sounds strangely southern American 😀 At least, she doesn’t sound Russian. 😛

@jenwriter17

I’m extremely tired of it all. Things were much simply six weeks ago 😛

@rochellaine I need word wars too. But I’m stuck with filling out heaps and heaps of online forms because a sudden phenomena (ie, turning eighteen) has struck me and goodness knows what I might do now.