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@rochellaine

Goodnight!

@seekjustice

Haha but would you be interested in reading my WIP anyway? My MC hits pretty much every point you’ve made. She’s noble, rich, whiny and uh… wishes that she is in a romance novel instead of the story that I’m writing. But she won’t remain noble and rich for long 😉

@rochellaine

Oh. I suppose there’s Southern Belles in other time periods which I probably never noticed.

Ah, that’s true. European serfdom completely slipped my mind for a moment. Funny how much the Atlantic slave trade has shaped the common perception of slavery even though it happened through a much shorter period in history, right?

@seekjustice

Given the historical genre’s obsession with the upper class, I doubt you can find many historical fictions that you would like.

@rochellaine

Oh. The main criticism I’ve heard against Southern Belle books have a lot to do with racism and slavery etc. so I’ve always associated Southern Belles with the Antebellum South. Never really heard of Southern Belles outside that time period.

Hmm now that I think about it, my MC is sort of an East Asian ‘Southern Belle’ because…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Haha all right then.

I don’t think I know a lot of Southern Belle characters. I’ve watched the film for Gone with the Wind once and that’s about it. I didn’t like Scarlett, of course, but it was obvious that Scarlett wasn’t supposed to be looked up to as a role model or anything like that so I was fine with it.

I actually think of…[Read more]

@dekreel

Bye!

@rochellaine

Haha, yes, it’s obvious. By the way have you figured out what you want to do with that plot point?

@seekjustice

The Southern Belle character type suffers a lot of historical baggage. I suppose it has to do with the period in which Southern Belle books were written.

@dekreel

Yes, I am on SE under the same username but I do not go there very often. I hardly have time to come here to KP nowadays, much less SE. 🙁

@rochellaine

Hey, we didn’t manage to continue our conversation yesterday. So what is Yishay’s song anyway?

@dekreel @jenwriter17 @rochellaine

Hey guys. Will be around for a while today.

@ariel-ashira @catwing @alia @seekjustice @jenwriter17

Thanks guys for your prayers. I’ve been coping better the past two weeks 🙂

@ariel-ashira @devastate-lasting

Praying!

@rochellaine

Haha what song is that?

I don’t think I have songs for specific characters. But I have a whole musical’s worth of songs which inspired the “theatre” aspect of my WIP, a song for the “main couple” and another listing of soundtracks for the general mood and feel of the story.

@rochellaine @catwing

Hey.

Well, to be honest, it’s been really tough. Things have been busy at work, which doesn’t leave a lot of time for writing my WIP. I’m having trouble getting into the writing mood so I’m listening to the soundtracks that inspired my WIP in the first place to try to reignite my love for my WIP.

@rochellaine

Hey, still around?

@seekjustice

Haha good to know that there’s a consensus 🙂

@jenwriter17

Not working on anything now.

Bye!

@catwing

Hi! 🙂

@seekjustice

Oh how’s that going so far? What have the other beta readers said?

@seekjustice @jenwriter17

Hey will be here too! Not writing at the moment though.

@seekjustice @ariel-ashira

All right. I’m leaving now. Bye! 🙂

@seekjustice

Ah. My travels to Australia have been limited to Melbourne and Tasmania so far. Would you recommend Canberra as a tourist destination? 😛

@ariel-ashira

You’re up early… or not? Do you mean AM or PM? 😛

@seekjustice

10 am sounds fine. Not the earliest I’ve heard 😛

Oh I have some cousins that live in Melbourne. Which part of Australia are you in?

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@ariel-ashira

I live in Singapore. It’s about 10:30 am now but I’m meeting friends for lunch so I’m p;anning to go off earlier.

@seekjustice

Ah, I see. How early are your church services usually? I know that there are some churches that really cater to the early risers. For mine the Saturday services are in the evening while Sunday services…[Read more]