Selah CJW

@catwing That’s something I’m not very good at myself, since I had several people tell me one of the guys in my last book had a really quick change of opinion which should have been explained better.  That was two years ago, though, and I think I’ve gotten better, but I can’t tell yet since I haven’t finished a book yet.

However, I would assume…[Read more]

@catwing, I just kinda write and hope they change. Like, I know where they start and where they are supposed to end up, but I don’t plan it. sorry, not much help I know

Hey guys, how do you post collages? @rochellaine, I’m using the befunky website

@alia Okay. Basically a character arch is how your character changes through the book. So I’m trying to figure out what some of my characters faults that can change or need to change. But one of them progresses negatively so I’m calling hers a slope. 😛
Just trying to put down on paper some things… 🙂
Make sense? So I’m asking if you have any…[Read more]

@rochellaine, I don’t know why I couldn’t see them as older. My brain is really weird sometimes. No I haven’t read those. I’ll have to look into them.

@catwing, sorry, I’m not to good with writing terms. Could you explain?

@alia Yeah, I never had any trouble seeing them grow up.  It was only three years, and that’s not as much as Bree, Devin and Mikkel grow up in Lois Walfrid Johnson’s Viking Quest series (ever read those?) which is also only five books long.  I understand that it wouldn’t be great if you can’t see them as older than 14.  We have another series wh…[Read more]

@rochellaine @alia Well I’m working on developing my characters’ arches/slopes do you have any tips from when you do that? Or do you not do character arches/slopes?

@alia Ah, well. *shrug* At least I know they’re pretty good. 😉

@catwing, you should, though I’m afraid that now you have a few spoilers

@alia no, that wasn’t me, I haven’t read them. But it sounds interesting so I may read them. ;3

@catwing, She was saying that she convinced a friend to buy the Mars Diaries so I was wondering if it was you since the two of you had met before

@alia …friend she was talking about? Well, I don’t know what she said so it could be a different friend. But we have met in real life, if that is what you mean.

@catwing, are you the friend that @rochellaine is talking about?

@rochellaine, I knew they were similar, but not they were the same. I have to say, I was a bit confused when you said Ashley died in book 4 but I just translated it as journal four. (each part in Robot Wars is called Journal 1, 2,  3, etc.) But I guess for y’all it was actually book 4

For me, even just dancing and a kiss on the cheek was a lot…[Read more]

@alia that’s very interesting. I may read those books some time… ;P

@alia Well, they were written in the nineties, right?  So it’s set forty years in the future, from when he predicted the stuff.  It’s a lot closer now, and that’s why I’m impressed with how well he depicted what the future would be like.  And we might actually have our first female president around 2040. 😉

@alia Okay, so the Mars Diaries are basically the exact same as the Robot Wars, but with different names.  You know that, right? 😉  There are ten Mars Diaries, and the Robot Wars combines two in each book.  They were published as ten books first, then I guess people forgot about them and they decided to republish them and combine them so there wo…[Read more]

@rochellaine, oops, didn’t see the first part of your post.

I have noticed that. I love it when the futuristic books are realistic with what might happen. Especially when they are only set a few years into the future.

@rochellaine, Robot Wars. I haven’t had the chance to read Mars Diaries yet, but I wan to.

I keep trying to get a friend of mine to read them, but she has a huge list of books to read already and she keeps going back to her favorites so I don’t think she is going to get around to them anytime soon

My mom got us the first one to see if we would…[Read more]