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@seekjustice

Sorry don’t feel bad. I do the same for my characters. 😛

Unless the story is simple or you are actively going for a minimal cast of characters, I don’t think it is possible to make them all interesting and significant.

@seekjustice

I always end up feeling sorry for such characters. Because God has plans for each and every person in this world. But for our own characters, we often really don’t due to our limitations. 😛

@jenwriter17

Hello. Not working on anything. Just on the way to work. 😛

@seekjustice

Poor premier. His purpose is to simply die to signal that it is time for the revolution. 😛

@seekjustice

Can’t join you in writing, unfortunately. But I can chat for a bit.

What part are you tackling? 🙂

@seekjustice

Yes, I think that will work. 😀

Haha… “speculations of American evangelists”? That is oddly specific. 😛

However, I do understand the mindset in the making these theories. I do believe that many of the political/social/technological/economic trends that are happening can be attributed to a giant conspiracy by the Devil. But my…[Read more]

@seekjustice

Personally, I have no issue with the barcode thing because now I don’t think anyone can say with 100% certainty what exactly is and is not the Mark of the Beast that is being referred to in Revelation. I think there are two ways you can get around this issue:

#1: The Mark is supposed to be, if I remember correctly, either on the…[Read more]

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I see. 😀

Reposting because my first post strangely disappeared…

I looked at @rochellaine‘s comments and just have a couple of things to add:

#1: I agree that you have to decide what names Jean/Chessy use when they think of themselves and each other and change the names accordingly when writing in their POVs but I think you are…[Read more]

@seekjustice

Hi. Are you working on SFI again today? 🙂

@jenwriter17

Oh no I missed you 🙁

@seekjustice

You around? Don’t think there’ll be anyone else who might be…

@seekjustice

Haha thanks. Unfortunately, if I do pursue editing as a career, I would not be able to pick and choose what projects I want to read as freely as I do now (since editing work will become a matter of putting food on the table) and I don’t think I can do that since I am so easily bored and frustrated by many types of stories and…[Read more]

@seekjustice

Haha should I consider a career change as an editor? 😛

You’ve been helping me with QOD as well (even if I don’t think there’s been much to discuss so far thanks to how tediously slow my writing is) so I’m glad to return the favour whenever I can.

@seekjustice

Happy I was able to help. 🙂

@jenwriter17

I think I should be able to come on tomorrow.

@seekjustice

That sounds like a good idea.

I think you can have it such that this prologue depicts the second visit Jean makes to the store. So he first visits the store to check if there are available identities for him and Chessy to use and ‘reserves’ those identities (has to be a similar age, appearance has to be similar, father-daughter…[Read more]

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One solution I can suggest is that instead of a completely new identity, Jean buys an existing identity for himself and Chessy so there’s an existing record already in the system. Maybe there is a real John and Charlotte Whitehall or something but they are dead and their deaths were not reported so the government is not aware of it…[Read more]

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#4: I think my issue is that it’ll actually be really, really easy to find the new identity Jean is using unless literally every single government database storing identity information is compromised. Caderousse knows that Jean came here to get a new identity so she knows that a record change has been made. To identify the false…[Read more]

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Yay, I think I like this prologue much better. It introduces the central conflict and immediately sillhows what the story will be a modern, futuristic retelling of Les Mis, which I think will be what a reader that picks up your book will be expecting.

A few points:

#1: Since the POV is meant to be omnescient, the shift in focus is…[Read more]

@seekjustice

There isn’t a link?

@dekreel

Hello. I’m working on my WIP. Got stuck for a while before I realised that it does not make sense for the scene I am writing to go the way I had planned so I am doing backtracking.

@seekjustice

Haha your book is not even published yet and you are already pandering to the fanbase? 😛

Yes, Kendall really, really needs to be developed more. If removing all romantic hints is needed for that, I’ll say go for it. You are already in a dilemma regarding the genre of SFI, right? 😛 (Whether or not it should be a dystopian or not).…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Hi. Yes, I’m still around. Unfortunately, I’ve been sick 🙁 (But I promise I am still working on Part 3 of QOD, @seekjustice so do not worry!)

@seekjustice

Sure, I’d love to take a look. 🙂

As for your character pairings… Apart from Chessy’s silly crush, I honestly don’t have much of an opinion on that matter actually since I don’t really think of SFI as a romance so I did not read it as such.

Usually for romances what I like to see is two people coming together, supporting each…[Read more]