Selah CJW

@rochellaine

I have the main conflict and plot for 3 mostly sorted out, I just have to work in the subplots and manage to wrap up the whole trilogy. Which is the difficult part.

I’ve been listening to The Secret Garden a lot lately, but I don’t think I’ve really found any new musicals that I can think of. Excepting Ludwig2, which is a German…[Read more]

@seekjustice

😉

Well, that’s cool too.  How’s the outlining for book 3 coming along?

Have you listened to any new musicals lately?  I’ve been thinking of looking up some new ones but haven’t really had the chance yet.  Now that finals are over I probably will. 🙂

For some reason my computer hasn’t been loading the Story Embers page the past fe…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I hear you on the crazy.

Nope, I haven’t restarted yet, I’m currently doing another round of edits on SFI. Particularly changing some of the things in regard to Justice’s coma 😛 )

@rochellaine @seekjustice

Good to know that your exams are over. 😀

I’ll be going off for a church camp so I”m afraid I won’t be around this weekend. I will be free on Tues/Wed (or Mon/Tues depending on the time difference) though so I would probably be around then.

Talk to you guys another time! 🙂

@seekjustice Hello!  😀

Life has been crazy these past couple months, as we still haven’t quite finished with the move.  The closing date on the house has been pushed back and moved around and a whole bunch of other things to do with the move have been just problematic.  But we’ll hopefully finally get into the house in a couple of days, and we…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I was just about to see if you were around. I’m glad your finals are done (my friends all finished up with University a month ago). How’s life been other than school?

@seekjustice @valtmy @dekreel @bluejay @catwing

I’m free!  Finals are over.  Now I can really write again without worrying about having to study. 😀  Anyone want to join me?

@rochellaine

Wouldn’t we all like a fictional writing mentor? 😛

And yeah, I think I filled out the survey on the first day it was sent out, otherwise I knew I’d never get around to it 😀

@seekjustice

I’m looking at the Story Embers survey they sent out about how to improve their site, and having mixed thoughts from “cool” to “weird” to “that’s totally a loaded question” to “funniest thing ever!” 😛  Did you fill out the survey yet?

The question that made me really laugh was this one:

On a scale of 1 (least) to 5 (most), how…

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@bluejay Sorry, I’m beta reading/preparing to edit my own novel at the moment.

@dekreel

Aw, sorry I didn’t see this until now! I was out shopping. I don’t know if you’re still on, but I won’t be able to come on right now. 🙁 Probably more on Christmas break next week. 🙂

I’ll (hopefully) be writing a bit.

@rochellaine  @seekjustice  @valtmy  @jenwriter17  @alia  @bluejay  @………

@bluejay  I might be able to do it, depends on how hectic life gets. 😉 I’m interested, anyway!

@bluejay I’m working on another beta reading project at the moment, and I won’t be able to take another one on for a while. Sorry! 🙁

But I’ll tag a bunch more people for you 😉 @rochellaine @alia @ariel-ashira @daughteroftheking @kaya-young @warrenluther04 @valtmy

@seekjustice

No problem. 🙂 Take everything I say with a grain of salt though because I belong to the “Begin as late as you can and leave as early as possible” and the “If the reader has likely read a hundred other such scenes and can imagine what will happen, don’t show it” schools of thought… which I don’t think is very suitable to your…[Read more]

@valtmy

Thanks very much for your thoughts! I’ll definitely keep all those things in mind as I start my outline again 😀

(I would write a much longer reply, but my brain is super fuzzy and honestly not working that great 😛 )

@seekjustice

All right. I read it and liked what you have so far. 🙂 Here are some thoughts I have that may help you. I think this may be more suited to assist with refining a first draft to a second draft but hopefully some of it can apply to a Draft 1.5 as well.

#1: Word count is about 9k which I think is fair for the set-up of a 90-100k…[Read more]

@valtmy I put it in another post.

I was planning for it to be 90-100k.

@seekjustice

I can’t find the link?

By the way, just to get an idea on the proper pacing, can you let me know how many words you’re planning to have for this novel?

@valtmy And I didn’t put the link in. *sighs*

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r6o7qfNjHWGPEhU2XHHEU75aILwtQc61okrxZGZ6nJg/edit?usp=sharing