Selah CJW

@valtmy

I need to go too 🙂

I’m not sure whether I’ll be on tomorrow or not, since I’ll be at church and may end up doing other things as well, we’ll see.

Bye for now

@seekjustice

Ah, I see. I guess that might also tie into your worldbuilding as well.

All right then I shall aim to meet your expectations and surprise you at the same time. 🙂 (That was a very weird sentence that I think only makes sense in storytelling).

I will need to make a move now. Do you think you’ll be on tomorrow?

@valtmy

A lot of people said that they wanted more descriptions of the settings, in particular. They had trouble visualizing what they looked like.

I think so 🙂 but of course I can always be surprised.

@seekjustice

Oh. I must have misunderstood then. 😛

As one of your betas, I don’t think I gave you any feedback regarding your descriptions. Because I am the last person who should be doing that. Was that a common issue the others pointed out?

Yes, it’s amazing how these stories are as much of a learning experience for our characters as it is…[Read more]

@valtmy

Ah, no…I was still thinking about abrupt endings. Apparently the conversation had moved on 😛

Me too, as my astute betas have continually pointed out. I obviously need to work on it as well 😀

😛 I can always use a good dose of humility. I can get a bit up myself on occasions.

@seekjustice

Oh dear. You got an impression of my extreme discomfort with descriptive writing just from reading some of my writing? I really need to improve. 😛

It’s just that I see everything so clearly in my head so it’s hard to figure out how to convey all that to the poor readers who don’t see. I’m the sort of reader who skips descriptive…[Read more]

@valtmy

I could just be imagining things, but that’s the impression I had 🙂

Yep, I understand. I think it helps keep us humble and reminds us that we really aren’t as great as we think we are 😉

@seekjustice

All right. I’ll just leave myself a note there. I’ll have to think of how to make it less abrupt since I really had nothing else planned for that scene. The first idea I have is to just put in some description of the ambience and zoom out into the night sky but that works better for movies, I think. I always get the feeling that I’m…[Read more]

@valtmy

I don’t think I literally meant mid sentence, but I didn’t have the sense that it was complete. I guess that can be dealt with next draft though.

That’s really disappointing. I’ve had that a few times so far and its also very frustrating 😣

@seekjustice

I see. For me I don’t really outline. I have the ending in mind and I know what is suppose to happen in the next few chapters but nothing beyond that (Like I said, I’m writing by faith). Tying everything together in the climax is going to be tough but I just need to get myself more motivated to actually write first before worrying…[Read more]

@valtmy

Essentially. Though I’m going for a much more detailed outline which will help me write more quickly. In fact, I think most of my writing issues this month were because of the outline that I wrote, so I’m hoping solidifying some of the character goals and making the plot more streamline will help it go faster.

Yay!

(But did P2 finish? I…[Read more]

@seekjustice

😛 In essence, you could have just distilled it to, “It’s back to square one for Wattle Fire.” (Not in terms of writing, of course, since I’m sure you gained some insights on that. But as a reader waiting for it, it is square one).

I’ve got good and bad news for you too.

Good news is that I’m preparing QOD Part 3 for upload.

Bad…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I did have a listen to it, I haven’t finished though. I like the sound 🙂

And I’ve heard of Mary Poppins returns. Not really sure how good it will be though!

@valtmy

Hello! I’ve got good news and bad news.

Good news is that Wattle Fire is halfway done

Bad news is that I’m starting again. Completely rewriting it 😛

(crawls out from the brink of oblivion)

@seekjustice @rochellaine @jenwriter17

Hey, anyone around?

@seekjustice

Oh, I see! 😀

Yes, it is frightening to think that there’s a possibility of tripping over or stepping on one of the little dogs.  But they are so adorable!  I don’t recognize the name “Papillon” but I looked for pictures, and I feel like I’ve seen that type of dog before.  They’re really cute.  I have to say I like Shih Tzus bes…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Ah, yes, those are fun. But I agree that it wouldn’t work 😛

He’s golden/whitish, I forget what they call that colour. And no, 😀 she was thinking of Jack and Davy in Newsies.

I tend to prefer big dogs (I’m always scared of hurting little ones 😛 ). I find it really hard to choose a favourite type of dog, but I do like huskies.…[Read more]

@seekjustice

I’ve read books by a few different authors who had “cameos” from characters in other series they had written previously. 😀 That was fun.  But you really couldn’t have a crossover between Courageous and Infinity, and I could not have a crossover between my western and DoJ. 😛

Labs are pretty.  What color is he? Are Jack and Davy A…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Oh, that’s hard. I’m not sure if they would.

We ended up getting him 🙂 he’s a labrador, named Jack ( now my sister wants to get another dog and name him Davy) . We used to have a labrador cross mutt who was lovely but she died some time ago. Mum found a really nice lady (homeschooled, American with a super strong Southern accent)…[Read more]

@seekjustice

Now you’ve started me wondering whether Chara and Bathshua would like each other, and I’m still undecided. 😛

😀 You’re right, it is weird.  Not really appealing to the aesthetic tastes, is it? 😉 But it might be fun.

Oh wow, I’m sorry it’s so cold!  Cold is bad enough in the winter time, but in the summer…eek! 🙁

What kind of d…[Read more]

@Rochellaine

I feel like Courageous and Quillon would like each other a lot 🙂

I’m just imagining a bright orange and black fuzzy rug and its kind of weird?

Well, I looked up the temperatures there yesterday. Apparently it was 2 (celsius) at 4am. Here, at 4 it was 9. So seven degrees difference and we’re supposed to be in the high 30s! Gracious…[Read more]