The Happy Bookaholic

Back to this topic with a new hypothetical case.

What kind of trauma would make a young man cry? Would being strangled within inches of death and then having to hide it be enough to loose the floodgates? Assume that he’s already in deep depression and has already tried once to commit suicide. Would this heavy trauma make him cry like a baby?…[Read more]

Ahhh, those times @kate-flournoy. Once we were playing Samson, so the kids tied me to a table and then shouted “SAMSON!!! THE PHILISTINES ARE ATTACKING!!!” and thankfully it was easy to get out.

An, appearing on island: “What on earth is this random place? Is there food? Tell me there’s food. Who on earth are all you guys?” *Spins around and sees monster* “And what on earth is that THING?”

(Sorry I’m late. Was hung up over a two-day conference.)

Ooh okay this sounds like good fun.

I’ll use my current favourite character in my WIP: Lin Ping An. But everyone just calls him An. He was from China, but moved to work. He’s a guy who seems to be unable to take anything seriously and is the sort of person you’d want around at a party, but when trouble strikes he can be very sweet and sincere.…[Read more]

@Daeus @Kate…hmm…actually you know what? I’m quite sure that what I said was correct; but I don’t have a legitimate answer to why either of your ‘corrections’ might be wrong. That sometimes happens.

Oh…to actually contribute something relevant to this thread, here goes. I write because I think that my writing is actually a lot better than…[Read more]

@Kate I’d like to know how you make those em-dashes. And yes, what you said made me very happy because that’s my point. I need people to use proper English. I might become the most annoying person in the world but at least I would have had corrected people. Sigh I guess it’s part of me.

@Daues you’re forgiven. (But don’t do it again!!!)

Tape worms – their so discriminated against. Write for the tapeworms!

@Daeus Look me in the eyes and tell me that that was your computer changing what you typed. Can’t? Well let me tell you that it’s *they’re.

@Hope I’ve read the Wingfeather Saga but I didn’t cry at the end. Personally I didn’t like the protagonist and found him rather irritating…but the plot was good. Writing style and grammar not excellent, but the plot was admittedly riveting and very complex.

@Kate I only JUST finished the Lord of the Rings last week and now I’m a new fan. I’m…[Read more]

You know your a writer when your siblings have fan moments just talking with you about your book.
You know your a writer when you take notes when your sick, so your characters’ sickness will me more true to life.

@Rosey AHHHHH WHAT IS WITH THAT

*YOU’RE

You know you’re a grammar nazi when people’s slips make you scream.

Whoops that was to @David I forgot to tag anyone I just got too mad

You know you’re a writer when you scream in your head “IT’S DIFFERENT FROM NOT DIFFERENT THAN AHHHHH DIFFERENT IS NOT A COMPARATIVE WORD PLEASE FOR GOODNESS’ SAKE GET IT RIGHT ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A WRITER.”

Okay well what about this kind of situation? A young man who has never known a biological father but meets a fatherly figure and grows to love and admire him as his own father. But then the father figure dies suddenly and traumatically, leaving the young man in absolute shock. But then he’s taken away from the scene immediately and not even…[Read more]

Ok firstly @Daeus PLEASE DO NOT SAY ANYWAYS ARGHHHHHHHHHHH IT IS TERRIBLE ENGLISH MY GOODNESS PLEASE DON’T THAT’S JUST LIKE SAYING BY THE WAYS WHICH DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE.

Ok now that that’s over. Umm…where are all the other male people on this forum? Hello? Daniel or someone? Not that you’re any bad, Daeus, but you made me kinda mad. But your…[Read more]

@Hannah and @Emma, glad you like my username hahaha – it’s actually just Sarah. I didn’t realise that the username would be the given name. I thought it would be something like an instagram url or something. Well, at least people like it! It’s actually the name of my blog thehappybookaholic.wordpress.com so you might want to check that out. (Ooh…[Read more]

LORD OF THE FLIES, guys. READ IT. READ IT. I read it yesterday and I’m still impacted!!! I was supposed to get a chapter of my book written after finishing Lord of the Flies BUT I COULDN’T. I was way to impacted by the story. Read it!!!

Hey Alia! My Chinese is actually terrible (almost all my intonation is wrong) but I can still speak it okay-ly enough. Do you speak Chinese?

And tell me when you check them out when your eighty three and we old folks can have book discussions together.

@Rosey…it’s YOU’RE. Not your. Because ‘you are’. My goodness I nearly killed the computer. (I did tell you guys I’m a grammar nazi but this is SIMPLE STUFF please.)

So double check!!! Triple check! I might just pop up in the…[Read more]