valtmy

@catwing I’d love to word war.  (It might help us both with our procrastination. 😉 )

@jenwriter17 Hi!  How’s it going?

@bluejay Hello, there. I must have joined KP after you’d left, because I don’t think we’ve met. 🙂

Well, my name is Jenwriter17 (as you’ve probably already seen). What are your favorite books/authors? Hobbies? Writing genres?

Yes, as @dekreel stated, there’s only a few of us left here on KP. But those of us remaining have pledged our loyalty to…[Read more]

@catwing I think I can be on for a bit, but I’m catching up on figuring out my blog post schedule.

Working on your nano novel, I presume? 😉

Oh, how are all your animals?

@seekjustice I’ve been watching a YouTube video on the differences between American, British, and Australian English.  😀

The difference that really stuck out to me was that the Australian person in the video said you don’t have “Liquor stores” you have “bottle shops.”  Is that true?  And if so, how do you play the alphabet gam…[Read more]

@valtmy

I just looked up the genre conventions of dystopian fiction and my novel includes all of them, though they are pretty severely underdeveloped 😀

@valtmy

But, technically speaking, its hardly a contemporary… 😛

@valtmy

I know, I seem to have worked myself into a tight genre spot. I can’t really think what I could market it as though. It doesn’t really fit anyway.

Oh well, I’ll see how it turns out after the third draft.

@valtmy

I know. But I’m so easily distracted! And yes, I know you want to read Wattle Fire 😀

oh, and I liked what you said about the worldbuilding. That actually makes a lot of sense, because I’m not entirely sure why I find the worldbuilding for SFI so difficult, since I’ve found the worldbuilding for Wattle Fire, which has a lot more intense…[Read more]

@valtmy @rochellaine

Maybe I just like letters? I write a lot in real life.

I’ll have to think over all the stuff you’ve said, but I did just want to point out that he does move from the Capital to his current house. He grew up in the Capital and that’s where his business was. He moved to his cool garden after the financial crisis.

@catwing I can’t come on right now, but I’ll be here Monday. 🙂

@valtmy I see.  Yes, regarding worldbuilding that makes sense.

Well, in that case I think Jean would be stupid to be living still in the same city instead of relocating to another city or country.  The world is huge, and he can go anywhere he wants to, as he has a lot of money (I think that was established, right?) so why would he stay right t…[Read more]

@seekjustice Oh, and I don’t mean that Caderousse herself is necessarily a spy per se.  Just that she seems to be acting like one in the hypothetical you proposed.  If she’s targeting one particular person for one particular reason, rather than crime in general, she’d likely have some sort of spy system looking out specifically for what Jean is d…[Read more]

@seekjustice

My first thought on reading your question was on how that would impact the original confrontation between Caderousse and Sapphire.  If Caderousse had been observing and examining the Verde family for years in attempt to find a pretense to arrest Jean, (or something similar, I’m not sure exactly what you’re intending here, but the…[Read more]

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Yes, I’d thought about some of those consequences but I hadn’t actually thought about Sapphire’s mother. I really should do something with her…she kind of only existed to explain why Sapphire and Chessy had no mother. And I’ve been thinking about the details of the ID system, but that’s a conversation for another time.

#2 That’s true. I…[Read more]

@valtmy

For some reason I never got notified that you’d replied 😀

I know, I’m so easily distracted! (and yes, I’m waiting eagerly for the next part!)

most of them, a few pulled out, but I have several thousand (getting close to 15-20k) words  worth of feedback, so I have enough to go on.

I was considering talking to @rochellaine about it…[Read more]

@valtmy

I’ll be around for a bit 😀 I’m supposed to be drafting, but instead I’m pondering problems in Stars Fill Infinity.

@catwing @seekjustice @valtmy I’ll be leaving now.  Happy writing!

@catwing Wow, congratulations!!! 😀 😀

@catwing Well, I’m pretty consistent tonight.  This time it was 401 words. 😛

@rochellaine

I might pass on this one. I’m currently just cleaning up a little.

@valtmy

Scrivener doesn’t have Australian spelling (Word does though) so I have to use Canadian spelling, but it doesn’t recognise all those unique Aussie words 😛