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@seekjustice @rochellaine @jenwriter17 @dekreel

Is there anyone around?

@rochellaine

No I have not heard of it.

@seekjustice @rochellaine @jenwriter17 @dekreel

Anyone around?

@seekjustice

Canberra, the unknown capital of Australia. 😛

@seekjustice

Oh by the way something really funny happened during work earlier this week. We received a correspondence from Canberra and I spent the longest time wondering where in the world was Canberra before I asked a colleague who told me that Canberra is in Australia. Then I remembered that you live near Canberra and felt really bad for…[Read more]

@seekjustice

Haha how do you know that cute = fun for me?

Well, to be honest, even the cute scenes are hard to write sometimes. They never seem to turn out as cute as I imagined them to be in my head.

@seekjustice

Yep. Same WIP. Again struggling through the not-so-fun scenes.

@seekjustice

Really tired after a week of work. I’m going for service later and hoping I could get some writing done before that.

@seekjustice

Are you still around?

@ariel-ashira

Hmm I’m not too sure about this myself.

I understand wanting to make sure that your dialogue reflects reality. I suppose one way to include such swearing without stumbling others is to make sure that you are simply portraying the swearing as part of the characterisation but not as a good or acceptable thing.

In actuality, I don’t…[Read more]

@seekjustice @rochellaine @jenwriter17

I’ll be here a while.

@seekjustice @rochellaine @jenwriter17

Anyone around?

@seekjustice

It’s ok. It was getting towards the end of the day for you right? 😛

I’m up early so I have a little time but I have to go off for work soon.

@seekjustice

Haha. I noticed that my story set-ups are always such that they look like romance novels when they are really, really not romance novels.

For this story idea, I’m thinking of a book series that covers different but related murder cases and culminates into a finale that addresses the overarching story and mystery. The whole a…[Read more]

@seekjustice

*sigh* I hate reading “But you’re a woman!” scenes so if I have to write one myself, I’d rather not write the story at all. And I really have no interest in tackling all the issues of the period like war, revolution, industrialization, colonialism… I mean, I just want to write a murder mystery, not a social critique.

Yeah, I have…[Read more]

@seekjustice

I went to check. Marie Curie lived from 1867 – 1934 in Poland and France. She went to boarding school as a girl but but was rejected by regular institutions for higher education because she was a woman. Instead she went to a clandestine Flying University, a Polish patriotic institution of higher learning that admitted female…[Read more]

@seekjustice

Haha but if I make my MC an upper class woman you wouldn’t like her, would you? 😛

I’m trying to see if there’s any place and period in history where it wouldn’t be so unheard of to have a woman to be educated and working as a procurator. I’m thinking maybe the early modern period because I think that’s when women began going to…[Read more]

@seekjustice

I have heard of the Brother Cadfael mysteries but never read them before. Are they available to be read online?

One thing that is stopping me from really considering this story idea, though, has to do with deciding on the setting. I want the setting to be based on a society that is historical but also one that is relatively…[Read more]

@seekjustice

Haha that’s good to know.

Unfortunately, the other historical adventure/fantasy story idea I currently have has to do with upper class characters as well. But I have another historical story idea that is sort of like a mystery/detective story. I’m thinking that it will be about a procurator who is charged with the investigation and…[Read more]