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Given the historical genre’s obsession with the upper class, I doubt you can find many historical fictions that you would like.

@seekjustice There are some GREAT modern his-fics, and there are some HORRIBLE modern his-fics. 😛

@valtmy Well, I can just say I’ve seen the type all over the place, in 1870s heroines, in 1910s heroines, 1930s heroines…you can see where this is going. 😉

Well, I don’t really see why that makes her more similar to the Southern Belle than to…[Read more]

@valtmy My reply to @seekjustice above covers some of what you’re talking about.

I agree that they’re a subset of the noblewoman/lady stereotype.

I don’t think they come from a specific time period, though.  They originated in the pre-Civil War era, but they had existed before then, in women like Martha Washington and Martha Jefferson, and they…[Read more]

@seekjustice I read Anne Frank’s diary too, and I both liked it and hated it. 😛  I don’t know, I feel sorry for her because while she was not perfect by any means, I think perhaps if her family hadn’t been so messed up and her life hadn’t been so messed up, she might not have been so messed up.

But Agnes Lee’s diary is completely different!  S…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Haha all right then.

I don’t think I know a lot of Southern Belle characters. I’ve watched the film for Gone with the Wind once and that’s about it. I didn’t like Scarlett, of course, but it was obvious that Scarlett wasn’t supposed to be looked up to as a role model or anything like that so I was fine with it.

I actually think of…[Read more]

@seekjustice I see.  Well…two true-life examples I can think of are Martha Washington and Agnes Lee.  Martha Washington would probably not be defined as a “Southern belle” since she was Revolutionary era, and the idea of Southern belles started around the time of the Civil War, but she was from the South, and beautiful, and sweet, so I’m c…[Read more]

@dekreel

Bye!

@rochellaine

Haha, yes, it’s obvious. By the way have you figured out what you want to do with that plot point?

@seekjustice

The Southern Belle character type suffers a lot of historical baggage. I suppose it has to do with the period in which Southern Belle books were written.

@seekjustice I’m still here. 🙂

What Southern belle characters have you read?  Elsie Dinsmore? 😛

@rochellaine  @seekjustice  @catwing  @jenwriter17  @valtmy  Hey, guys! Yes, I’m still alive. 😛 I’ll be writing, or at least making plans. Anyone around?

@valtmy Are you still here?

@seekjustice You here yet?

@ariel-ashira @catwing @alia @seekjustice @jenwriter17

Thanks guys for your prayers. I’ve been coping better the past two weeks 🙂

@ariel-ashira @devastate-lasting

Praying!

@seekjustice @rochellaine @alia @ariel-ashira @catwing @valtmy @kaya-young @dragon-snapper @dekreel

Anyone on? I’m writing blog posts and outlining my WIP.

@rochellaine @seekjustice @alia @ariel-ashira @catwing @kaya-young Anyone on?

@seekjustice Ah, I see.

A method all your own.  Cool. 😛

Well, I’m departing now.  Goodnight!

@seekjustice Okay, now I’m really going to have to read King Solomon’s Mines and see if it’s worse than Lysbeth and Pearl Maiden. 😛

But isn’t confused and strange fun?  I love writing confused and strange stories.  Do you ever write comedies?  We established the other night that your characters don’t always die. 😉

*looks up Snowflake meth…[Read more]

@kaya-young Do you hate romance?  My absolute favorite series of all time is on Gutenberg, minus a couple of books.  It’s the Patty Fairfield series by Carolyn Wells.  It’s not all romance, but romance does play a big part.

Or Westerns?  A couple of my other favorite authors from Gutenberg are William MacLeod Raine and B.M.Bower. (There are like…[Read more]

@rochellaine @seekjustice  I must bid you both goodnight! Happy writing!

@seekjustice Well, The Magician’s Nephew terrified me, so, that’s not much to go on. 😉

I absolutely loved the three Haggard his-fics that I read, Pearl Maiden, Lysbeth, and another I can’t remember the name of.  I didn’t like the ending of the third one because it was sad, but I liked the story, and it didn’t freak me out.  Very susp…[Read more]

@seekjustice Wow! You go girl!

@kaya-young It’s way to weird for my tastes, so I definitely don’t blame you. 😛 (Never read it, but the synopsis was enough to horrify me.) I do like Haggard’s his-fics though.  They’re not weird.

Really?  Which ones?  I’ve probably read a couple of hundred books on Gutenberg. 😉 But…there are thousands.

@seekjustice Hey!  How’s it going?