SeekJustice

@seekjustice

Haha no pressure. As I said, I have no right to torment others so long as I am tormenting them with my slowness with QOD.

Right. It goes back to what (I think) I said before about whether you really want to market your book as a dystopic novel (though you can certainly set your story in a dystopic setting) because the term brings…[Read more]

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Ah, I thought that may have been the case. Guess it fits with the rest of the backstory.

But I suppose you’ll be working on NaNo instead of SFI now. 😛

@seekjustice @rochellaine @jenwriter17 @alia @dekreel @valtmy @ariel-ashira I’m here writing. 🙂

@rochellaine

I agree a letter would be the most appropriate form of communication in that situation. It’s not about that. It’s that letters appear to be the only form of communication available in this supposedly futuristic society. Even when people are talking about safe, non-revolutionary stuff (which granted, the characters don’t often do but…[Read more]

@seekjustice Oh, and I don’t mean that Caderousse herself is necessarily a spy per se.  Just that she seems to be acting like one in the hypothetical you proposed.  If she’s targeting one particular person for one particular reason, rather than crime in general, she’d likely have some sort of spy system looking out specifically for what Jean is d…[Read more]

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My first thought on reading your question was on how that would impact the original confrontation between Caderousse and Sapphire.  If Caderousse had been observing and examining the Verde family for years in attempt to find a pretense to arrest Jean, (or something similar, I’m not sure exactly what you’re intending here, but the…[Read more]

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Oh, speaking of the odd lifestyle of the Verde family, it randomly occurred to me why you might be struggling with wordbuilding more compared to other dystopian writers.

Most dystopias use an average Joe type of character as a POV to show how life is like for an average person in the dystopian society. But since your POV characters…[Read more]

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Re Sapphire’s mother: If Jean is a fugitive, I do think that the circumstances of her leaving her husband should be different and not so simple. But hey, if all else fails you can always just say that she is dead and thus won’t be complicating the issue to increase your parent body count. 😛

I’m still amused by how dependent this…[Read more]

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You’re probably asleep now so I’ll just post my response here for you to see later.

Yes, there’s something really off about the notifications for some reason.

Oh wow the thought that there’s someone out there who is eagerly waiting for the next part of QOD is really terrifying. 😛

Anyway, regarding your idea for Jean’s…[Read more]

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Oh no! At this rate, I won’t be able to read Wattle Fire for a long while!

But I suppose I have no right to complain, considering my own progress with QOD. 😛

But what problems are you pondering? I am curious to know. You got feedback from all your betas already right?

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Hey sorry I disappeared. Was at a home visit. It’s getting late for you but are you still around? 😛

@valtmy @seekjustice Alas I must also vanish into the night and sleep. Farewell. *grins* *vanishes*

@catwing @seekjustice @valtmy I’ll be leaving now.  Happy writing!

@seekjustice @rochellaine @catwing

My characters’ names are all not in English and I have so many characters… So I always turn off grammar and spelling check. 😛

@seekjustice Who knows?  The Word processor seems to be quite a bunch of confusion, at any rate.

@catwing

Okay I’ll be starting my timer for 15 minutes now.  SeekJustice, you’ll be joining too, right?

@seekjustice I checked, and mine wants to do the same, despite the fact that the sentence would make absolutely no sense if the word were “tripled” instead of “tripped.”  In fact, I am laughing right now at the picture I get of Bathshua moving so quickly she triples herself.  I wonder if it just means that the reader gets a weird form of double v…[Read more]

@seekjustice In response to your earlier Night Owl question. I think I was on late for a while, then a stopped staying up so late (for a long while I probably met you then), and now I’m back to being on here late.
At least I think that’s how it’s been… I may be remembering wrong.

@rochellaine Yeah. Kerkin is a word squiggly line. Cele is a…[Read more]

@seekjustice Yes, basically.  On Word documents a blue line usually means that you’ve made a grammatical error.

Here’s the sentence.  Do you see any grammatical errors in it?

Bathshua nearly tripped in her haste to step inside and close the door

As I said, on my document the word “tripped” is underlined as though it were used i…[Read more]

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I’ll need to go out now so I won’t be able to word war again but I should still be able to chat. 🙂

@seekjustice @valtmy @rochellaine I got 334! 😀 YAY!