Stephaniej

@dekreel

No, I completely understand. Life has been mad for me too.

And yeah, we were talking about SFI. 🙂

@rochellaine

Ah, so she does actually say she likes Kendall? Hmm…I didn’t know that

*wonders off to ponder for a while*

@valtmy @rochellaine

I do that everytime. I even went and copied the link, just never pasted it.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T-tYVuU9CwMBJJgt4MIpkXj9fScSA3Z06DttCofZShk/edit?usp=sharing

@dekreel Hey! We’re just discussing my New York Times Bestseller WIP.

@valtmy

Well, it definitely doesn’t follow the conventions of a romance novel, but there is a lot of romance…

I think I’ve fixed the dystopian problem actually. Hopefully. I’ve read a lot about the expected conventions, and been working on worldbuilding, and it actually fits a lot more snugly into those expectations than I would immediately…[Read more]

@rochellaine @valtmy

Here’s the rough draft I wrote the other day (really late at night 😛 ). It’s in omniscient pov, since that’s how most prologues seem to be done, but i’m still to decide whether the abrupt switch of focus at the end works? Let me know what you think 😀

@rochellaine

I have never heard that expression before, but what immediately came to mind was something along the lines of the Olympic torch 😛

And yes, they are torches. 😀

Well, at least I know I’ve succeeded in the aspect of making sure they’re enjoyable to people who have never read the source material, which some other retelling authors…[Read more]

@valtmy

Well, with Rain and Kendall, I honestly want to spend more time developing Kendall, because I feel like he could be a vastly interesting character if I just put a bit more effort to him. That will probably come at the expense of any romantic hints though.

(Honestly, I never met for them to be a romantic pairing anyway. They were just…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Yeah, I see where you’re coming from. In my opinion, that’s where its difficult to balance in retellings how similar and how different you are from the original work. One of my other readers loved the similarities and some of them (like yourself) loved the differences. I have been leaning more toward cutting the Quillon and Rain…[Read more]

@Rochellaine

Sorry, I forgot to tag you above. 🙂

@valtmy

Yep, and I think someone else might have mentioned it as well. And I tend to agree, so I changed it. Would you like to have a quick look at my rough draft for the new one? I feel you may like it, seeing as you insisted so warmly on a backstory between Jean and Caderousse  (which I also agreed on).

Most people didn’t comment on it,…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Okay 😀

Well, I’ve rewritten the prologue so far. A few betas (I think Valtmy could have been one of them) suggested that the current prologue wasn’t really that important and it was told in a strange way (since it’s in third person when Sapph is one of the narrators anyway), so I redid it a bit different and am working the original…[Read more]

@valtmy @jenwriter17 @rochellaine

Anyone around at the moment? I’ve actually found some time to work on the third draft of SFI!

@Rochellaine

I always knew I’d make it as a time traveller one day. 😛

@dekreel

Ah that’s even more awesome!

I recently saw Les Mis on stage and it was really cool 🙂

@alia

I’m back, if you’d like to chat 🙂

@jenwriter17

Are you still here? I’m around, storyboarding for Wattle Fire.

@jenwriter17

My mother will be pleased to know the answer to that odd question.

I’ve got a weird question for you Americans. In Australia, we usually walk on the same side of the footpath as we drive on the road, that being the right side. My family has currently bamboozled themselves wondering whether you walk on the left side of the footpath or the right side. 😛

@jenwriter17 @dekreel @rochellaine

@valtmy

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. I’ve found that I enjoy very few books/movies with absent villains (and even ones like Lord of the Rings that have a largely absent villain in Sauron have very personal villains in Denethor, Gollum and Saruman).

I’m still scanning the archives of Puritan America, but for some reason I’m not thinking that…[Read more]

@valtmy

Well, the human antagonist is more a personification of the force of nature antagonist I had before. I thought that would help make it a bit more personal, rather than just a vague threatening presence.

Either would work. the villain is a surprise reveal sort of thing, so maybe an ironic name could work better.