Stephaniej

@jenwriter17

Yeah, exactly. It can be rather annoying 😛

@rochellaine

Good plan 😛 It’ll be hugely amusing. I was just thinking the other night about how Americans would react to my accent if I ever came over there!

@jenwriter17

Cool! I’ll check those out and see if I can find anything suitable. I just keep coming up with more historical fiction ideas, but I really need some contemporary ones.

@Rochellaine

Gracious goodness, I am shocked 😛

@jenwriter17

Currently I’m working on my morning green tea 😛 but once I’ve finished that I’ll probably get to work on my blog post, since I’ve left it to today to write it. Then I’ll see what time I have after that. I’m gonna be here for a while.

By the way do you or @rochellaine have any good contemporary writing prompts? I’m looking to write…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Hello! I missed you yesterday 😀

@jenwriter17

Hello to you too! I feel like its been a while since we properly talked.

@alia What???? You’re crueller than I thought! I would never kill Quillon.

@rochellaine Hello! Are you still around?

Helloooo! I’m writing a blog post and pondering life. Would anyone like to join me?

@valtmy (I’m not sure what you’re up to today so I just thought I’d tag you) @alia @Rochellaine @catwing @dekreel

@alia I sympathise 🙁 I’ll be praying!

@rochellaine

Of course I like taking quizzes. Particularly history and literature ones 😛

@valtmy

My advice would be this: don’t give in. Or do give in. Depends on how strong you feel.

I’m actually one of the lucky ones who doesn’t get distracted by other WIPs.

Anyway I have to go now 🙂

@rochellaine

I know. That’s the dampener on everything. 🙁

Oh the woes of being a history geek!

@rochellaine

It is first and foremost about a family, but the plot would have been pretty flat without the war. Its alright though, I literally just then finished a war book and I’m unsure of what to say because it was just…terrible. I’ll forgive Sound of Music.

Newsies is pretty cool! It used to be in my top five and while I’m not sure if it…[Read more]

@valtmy Its fine. I didn’t think you were addressing those complaints at me 🙂

Haha 😛 I remember writing a novel set in old Japan and windows and doors were constantly an annoying thing for me. Not that I was trying to add window scenes or anything. They just annoyed me

@rochellaine

I think you started a trend 😉

@rochellaine

Oh that’s true! And Newsies as well, even though its not a massive favourite of either of us.

Nope, I still adore Anastasia.

@rochellaine

When you were talking about why musicals should be happy just reminded me of the lyrics in a song from one of the German musicals I listen to: “How can it be that all the rules/ of reason and society/are undone by music’s magic spell?”

I feel though that one of my main reasons for disliking The Sound of Music is that its always…[Read more]

@valtmy I honestly didn’t think you were! I was just agreeing with you.

That’s a really good list. Especially “something to hope for” and “no loners”. Those two things annoy me to no end.

@rochellaine

Fictional magic is a whole other debate 😛 Though I will say that I grew up reading almost exclusively two types of stories: fantasy novels and missionary stories. As a child I never even thought about the magic in fantasy novels as witchcraft because I knew what real witchcraft was. Having said that, I have given up reading several…[Read more]

@valtmy I agree with you, though the thing I tend to go for is realism, rather than darkness or “edginess”. For me, the thing I love about Les Mis is that it shows the plight of people who still live today, both in my society and societies all over the world.

@rochellaine

I guess maybe my problem with it is that I don’t believe God gives second chances (which I’m sure you believe too, so I’m not trying to insinuate that you don’t)

God makes it very clear that death is it. You have to live with your choices for eternity after that. I think Carousel could have been very interesting if he hadn’t died…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I actually think you’d really like the Scarlet Pimpernel. It’s much lighter than Les Mis or ATOTC, no one dies, its got a sweet romance and the characters are already married so there’s no sappy proposal 😛

After that explanation I am left wondering why you like my writing at all. 😀

Well…I could…but we’d be here all day.