Selah CJW

Ohh, thanks for bringing this topic back! I loved it!

Lessee. I’ll do one for that girl with her arms spread out…

“And though she didn’t know it, though He was invisible, He was holding her by the hands like a baby learning to walk.”

How’s that? 😛

@jenwriter17 Thanks. I’m surprised I kept a record (cause normally I don’t end up keeping one.)

December? *shrug*

Also It is nearly 11 so I have to sleep now. Good night.

Would anyone like to get this going again? I know we have way fewer people here now, but I think it might work. 🙂

If any of you are interested in starting this again, I’ll go ahead and post this for anyone who wants to write a one-sentence story for it…

@dekreel @dragon-snapper @seekjustice @rochellaine @clairec @ariel-ashira @alia @catwing…[Read more]

@catwing Yay for your Kapeeferversary!!! 😀 Congrats!

now that I think about it, I’m actually not quite sure how long I’ve been here…I know I started a ‘belated hello’ topic in January of 2018.

@rochellaine Sounds very intriguing… Spies. 😀

@seekjustice The spy museum had lots of really cool spy gadgets that felt like they were right out of James Bond. 😀  There was a glove pistol, and umbrella gun, a bugged shoe (radio in the heel) and stuff like that.  Also a lot of stories of spies.  There was one guy who created a whole fake spy network, fooling the enemy into thinking it was re…[Read more]

I’ll probably be on til 10 something EST

@jenwriter17 Okay. 🙂
@seekjustice @rochellaine @alia @dekreel @valtmy I’m writing now.
Also last Wednesday was my first Kapeeferversary. *throws feathers* I’ve been on here a year. 😀

@catwing I can’t come on right now, but I was planning on doing your poll thing soon. 🙂

@seekjustice @jenwriter17 @alia @valtmy @rochellaine I am writing my book!
Also I have a poll thingie on my blog if any of you guys wanta do you can. 🙂
Post link to find the poll. So you can see the blog and then play with the questions.

@valtmy

I’ll hunt down some books on that then, and set to work reading them while my beta readers finish off the document and I’ve already started doing some serious worldbuilding. I see that as my main things to tackle in the next draft 😀 Thanks for all your input!

@seekjustice

Yes, that’s a good idea. First decide what political and economic system you are trying to critique for your dystopia. I’m thinking capitalism/oligarchy based on what I’ve read so far (neither of which would justify the tech regression and stagnation).

Especially for the police force. The rich have every incentive so supply ample…[Read more]

@valtmy

I realise that 🙂 though things like the “Premier’s Bill” which Lang gets assassinated over, were things that really happened in Australia during the Depression (though no one was assassinated, as far as I know).

I definitely think that in order to do better worldbuilding for this story, I need to do some amount of study on economics and…[Read more]

@seekjustice

Oh. There wasn’t much elaboration on the Great Collapse though so I didn’t notice any nods towards to the Depression and didn’t make the connection but I’m sort of seeing it now…?

But how long ago was the Collapse? I understand if there’s technological regression in the immediate aftermath and the next decade or so. But the story…[Read more]

@valtmy

The only thing I would say in rebuttal to what you’ve said in your comments though, is that I had quite heavily based the world on the world of the Great Depression. That’s part of the reason there’s such a divide between the rich and the poor and also in the technology. In the Great Depression, the people were living in a world that was…[Read more]

@jenwriter17

Bye!

@seekjustice

Good to know I’m not the only one that thinks so then. But worldbuilding is very crucial (one could say it is the heart of) for a dystopian story. And any changes you make (esp in the tech level) can cause ramifications in your plot (e.g. suddenly the conflict or problem doesn’t make sense because it can be s…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 Bye!

@seekjustice @valtmy

Sorry but I will have to leave now. Bye!

@jenwriter17 The hardest thing about this one is trying to bring it all together into something that effectively caps off the last two books.

@valtmy Most of it makes sense and a lot of it was said by another beta reader last week. Most of the main critiques have to do with my worldbuilding especially, which I know is pretty subpar.

@valtmy Yup! *bows*