Clare

Yeah, so do I. I play the violin and have started to become very active in my writing. Do you play an instrument? And what genres do you like to write in?

Ooh nice! I play violin too! (as of March last year, and I’m almost up to grade four) I also play flute, guitar and piano.
Generally I like to try out a heap of different genres. Currently I’m writing a dystopian trilogy though, and it’s been really fun. (because I like blowing things up apparently XD)

Wow, grade 4 in 12 months? I’ve been playing for about two years and am only starting to work on grade 3 (yay, someone who knows what I mean when I say that! XD) Have you done any exams, like AMEB? Last year I did prelim and grade 1, because I’d never taken any kind of exam before, so we thought I ought to start easy-peasy.
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I still have no idea quite how that happened! But it’s really exciting. (Yesss. :P)
I haven’t really done any of the exams officially (because it involved paying to be part of some such and such violin place) but I’ve unofficially done them with my teacher.
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Ahh, very cool. Yes, the exams can be pretty expensive, but I don’t think we had to pay be to part of something for them, we just did AMEB exams.
Ah, right, disaster stuff. And aren’t a lot of dystopian societies disguised to be utopian?

Ah yep yep. AMEB exams would do it.
Yes! Often (like in Divergent, for example) it looks like Utopia until you find one little hole or look from a slightly different angle and it really isn’t. I just like the idea of setting it in the future and thinking about fun tech stuff to include.

Do you like to write robot characters? 😀

Actually I haven’t written a proper ‘robot’ yet but I’m hoping to soon! I’ve got several scenes sketched out that I think will be pretty fun to write.

I think robot characters are really cool, especially ones that start out completely robot and as the story progresses they develop character and emotions

Yes! That’s super cool. I’d like to have something like that but then there’s the whole ‘but now that’s kinda cliche’ problem…

Yeah, but if it’s done really well, no one’s going to care about the clichés. I’ve written a story that is full of clichés (can’t say it’s done really well, but it was fun and the people who read it seem to enjoy it 😉 )

Cool! Yeah, that makes sense. I may just have a shot. 🙂

Yay!! 😉
So, do you homeschool, or go to regular school? (just tryin’ to think of conversation topics 😛 )

Yep, I homeschool!
I went to public school for six weeks of kindergarten before my mum pulled me and my sisters out and started homeschooling us for good. 😛
How about you?

@jane-maree, Hello!
To start with, I apologize that I have stalked your and @perfectfifths conversation. *hee hee!* Will you forgive me? 😉
I’m also an Aussie! 🙂 And homeschooled…
Looking forward to seeing you around!

@perfectfifths ooh cool! 😀 Home school is the best, definitely. Those people out there who think we’re weird…well, they’re right. XD We are weird. But we’re a cool sort of weird, and I love it. 😛

@clairec howdy!! *waves* Ho humm. Should I forgive you? *thinks hard* *takes a council for twelve days* Yep okay. You’re forgiven. 😛
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@jane-maree Yessss the “cool” weird 😉

@clairec I’m not going to pretend to not be not creeped out by you right now, not 😛 And to be perfectly honest, I don’t even know if that sentence is a positive or not 😉 So, yes, I forgive you too 😀 I’m just gonna check to make sure we did the friending thing, a’ight?

Ooh, good luck for your exam! 😀 The next one I’m going to take for violin would be grade 3. lol, Yeah, I wondered about putting down the piano 😉 XD

our family is actually going north this weekend for two weeks. the second week will be spent in Forster with some of Dads family

Oh have fun with that!