valtmy

@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 🙂

@seekjustice Ah, I don’t know.  Sometimes it’s fun to criticize.  I mean, if we know better than the writers, we must know a lot, right?  And isn’t it fun to know a lot?  Or at least, to feel like you know a lot on one particular subject?

I was just on a quiz website the other day and passed the grammar, history, and literature tests with fly…[Read more]

@rochellaine

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

Oh the woes of being a history geek!

@valtmy Good question.  Maybe the house is backed up to a hedge, and since the stairs are easily seen by anyone, he wants to go by the hedge so no one can see him talking to her?  They could be in the terribly cliche situation where her parents hate the guy, or at least he thinks they do, or he could be in hiding for some terrible crime against t…[Read more]

@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 Haha!  Since window scenes specifically aren’t a cliche, why don’t you do a balcony scene instead?  As popularized by Romeo and Juliet, balcony scenes are an iconic sight in romantic fiction.

I looked up traditional Korean architecture and it looks like there are a lot of houses on stilts with railed porches.  If the girl goes out on th…[Read more]

@seekjustice One of my favorite songs is titled “Without a Song” with the opening lyrics being “Without a song the day would never end; without a song the road would never bend; when things go wrong a man ain’t got a friend without a song.”

I always thought The Sound of Music wasn’t about a war.  It was about a family who happened to live during…[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]

@seekjustice I have thought of two musicals we both like!!  One’s my recommendation and one is yours.

Mine: Brigadoon

Yours: Anastasia

There!  We have at least two musicals which we can both agree are wonderful. 😀 (unless you’ve changed your mind since our last discussions of them…)

@seekjustice Your description of The Scarlet Pimpernel and conclusion that you have no idea why I like your books is absolutely hilarious.

Put it down to good writing. 😉

Yeah, I get that.  I think each of these theological questions has to be viewed separately and you can’t apply the rule from one question to another question.

I grew up…[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.

@valtmy Uh…yeah.  Sorry about the rants. 😛  I’m really bad at being concise, so most of my explanations seem to turn into rants. 😉

Why do I think musicals should be happy and fun?  Well, there’s a precedent for that.  Musicals have all been happy and fun until very recently.  Sure, there have been a few dark ones here and there, like Lost…[Read more]

@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]

@seekjustice Oh yes, I see where you’re coming from.  Hm, I was about to argue that you seem to believe the fantasy world doesn’t have to match up with the Bible, since you like fictional magic, but if I use that argument I’ll have to be on the side that says Carousel is bad.  So…now I have something to think about.

Carousel could have been i…

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@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.

@seekjustice There have to be!  Back when we started talking about musicals I don’t remember disagreeing all the time.  I’m going to have a look back at some old Writers’ Corners and see what I can dig up. 😉

I feel funny arguing for this side, since usually I want heroes and heroines I can look up to and am very adamant about that.  But I wi…[Read more]