Stephaniej

@rochellaine

I believe its Greek 🙂

I can’t find any specifically Australian sites either, at least for back then. I can only find Social Security which seems to be global (or British empire anyway). I will let you know if I find any. (Though looking through old newspapers in the birth/deaths/marriages sections might give a good idea.

@rochellaine

I quite like Lilian, Cora and Elise, so I’ll think over those three for a bit and decide between them.

As for cultural differences, I’m not really sure about America during that time period, but Australia has traditionally kept to the trends of England and Ireland. Irish names were very popular but I doubt there would have been many…[Read more]

@rochellaine

She would probably be upper middle class. Comfortable and a little uppity, so her parents would probably be the sort of people who would give their daughter a name slightly above their class to sound more posh than they really are.

Suggest whatever you like 🙂 I’m all out of ideas!

Only two, at least while I’m waiting for the rest…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I need some help getting a female name for one of my novels. Its a WWI novel so she was born in the late 1890s. I’m looking for a name that’s not, like, Mary or Jane or Philomena. Do you have any ideas? I want it to be sort of unique but not out of place for the historical period.

@jenwriter17

Yeah, my parents have a Mac which I found really difficult to use, which is why they ended up buying me my own computer which Word works much better on 🙂

That’s one of the great aspects of Scrivener in my opinion.

@jenwriter17

Oh, Scrivener is awesome! I usually do my first drafts in Microsoft Word, but I find Scrivener really useful for editing and sorting things out.

@jenwriter17

I’m actually getting ready to go into town and do some shopping for my mum.

@jenwriter17

Life’s a bit crazy today so I may disappear without warning, but I’ll join you for a bit.

@rochellaine

We have to sign up before we turn eighteen. At least, I did, and I’m pretty sure its mandatory to do it before eighteen. I believe in America you don’t have to vote, (is that right?) but in Australia you have to.

The safe children policies are basically to stop child abuse. And you have to do the training for everything you get i…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Oh yes! That too 😀 It’s really annoying 😛

Child safety ones. Do you have those sort of things in America?

I don’t know if that’s true or not, but that woman is doing a bad job at it 😀

@ariel-ashira Hello!

@jenwriter17 I’ve only done it once, last year, but I’ve done the Camps four times (I think). I think the best advice is to…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 😀

@rochellaine

My sister and I are watching a movie on Alexandria and Nicholas, and Alexandria sounds strangely southern American 😀 At least, she doesn’t sound Russian. 😛

@jenwriter17

I’m extremely tired of it all. Things were much simply six weeks ago 😛

@rochellaine I need word wars too. But I’m stuck with filling out heaps and heaps of online forms because a sudden phenomena (ie, turning eighteen) has struck me and goodness knows what I might do now.

@rochellaine How’s things?

@jenwriter17

Curse Pinterest! *returns to scrolling through boards*

Hey, look. I found this, it describes us so well.

@jenwriter17 Hey! I should be doing that too…but no, I’m kinda beta reading and somehow ended up looking at Marvel memes on Pinterest.

I don’t even like Marvel memes, so this is pretty depressing.

@rochellaine @jenwriter17 @dekreel @ariel-ashira @valtmy

Anyone around? I’m doing a bit of beta reading.

@rochellaine

It is a lot of fun! The first time I showed it to one of my siblings, I can’t remember which one it was now, they thought it was “Go home with morning tea” though. I guess that shows where their mind is 99% of the time 😛 I’m listening to My Mother’s Wedding Day now and that’s rather ridiculous 😀 (Actually, the other day I was…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I can’t speak for the exact make of their suits or anything, but yes, for the most part it is. It’s got a few tweaks and things, to help it flow more smoothly, but its hardly taking liberties with actual history, which I really appreciated.

I didn’t know you had a record player, but it doesn’t surprise me at all. I’m listening to…[Read more]

@rochellaine

It’s about King George VI, who had a severe stammer and his speech therapist, who helps him with all his speeches. It’s set in the thirties, which is why I thought you might like it. It’s pretty clean too (though, the speech therapist is…well, Australian. Thus, some of his methods are also very Australian. IE, “Swear at things when…[Read more]