J’s Comments (group member since Aug 22, 2013)

J’s comments from the Bisky's Twitterling's Scribbles! group.

I hate mistakes with 'the' and 'he,' too. Auto correct drives me nuts, too. I like timezones because Japan is wayyyy ahead of American, so when Pokemon airs in Japan, it's available sometimes with subtitles early in the day here. xD

But now I realize this thread is not just about grammar? lol

But what I've grown to hate this fall are glowing white fluorescent lights. That's why I don't like the library on campus after dark because those lights glow---then in my dorm, they are also the same kind of lights, so I use my own lamp... Right now I'm in the library in a private little room that has windows that let in daylight. :3

I want to rant a little bit---I also hate it when I'm reading in a quiet area on campus with couches--then people start showing up and talking---Don't you people see that I was here first and I'm reading??? lol - I'm thinking "can't you people engage in your trivial babbling elsewhere?"

The first novel I 'finished' became a series I planned to span 5 books, but I stopped in the middle of the 4th one.

I gave up on writing it because it was too complex, I began losing track of what's what and who's where--and then I started going back and forth making changes---it just became a colossal disaster---so I scrapped it, but I plan to salvage the main, main characters and recreate a standalone novel. :3

A problem with trilogies or series is that after a novel is 'published' you can't really go back and make changes--I guess you can write the entire trilogy and then publish the first book, but I'm guessing nobody wants to wait that long to publish.

The novel I'm working on now I plan to be standalone, but I will leave the capability of a sequel. The ending will be partially open-ended, but I will try to allude to or foreshadow the characters' future. :3

Usually I don't let anyone else see my writing until after I've gone through it a few times. :3

But many times I have the same situation as Brian mentioned---I've kind of been shy when talking about my work-in-progress novel with the campus English and Creative Writing club xD

But I guess my main problem is that I don't have much of a draft to look at because of school being so busy.

I really don't have a system. The characters from my first novel go wayyy back--I can't really remember precisely where they came from. I saw the name Nelly on the Internet once, and I it popped in my head when I had this character to name. :3 Sometimes I hear names of people at school or wherever and I steal their names. :3

I don't know where each one is exactly, but I have a general idea. :) For a while I did mix Idaho and Ohio up xD

I'm glad it helps because not everybody on the Internet lives in the U.S. haha :3

Sorry for the late reply--I've been busy.

I like that idea. :3 At least we have literature that dates back that can represent the emotions from past events that textbooks don't convey.

I shall stick with my title then! :3

I guess I see it as authors having different interpretations behind their titles. I didn't know there were any books with the same title until after I had a hunch and did a google search.

Seems like many have been all over. :3

I'm from North Dakota (for those who may be unfamiliar, it's in the center of North America, a state that lies at the Canadian border) and the farthest I've gone was to New York City. I want to go back there so bad! T_T

I have been very busy the past several weeks and haven't been on here. D8 Reading this for class, doing that project for that class, writing my philosophy of education, preparing a speech...

Amidst the business of being in college, I at least try to keep my story in mind every day. Sometimes I learn something in class that can apply to my story. There are a few concepts from my sociology class that I can kind of 'twist' and use in my story. :3

At lead being an English Major makes me have to do quite a bit of writing. It's academic writing, but it's still writing. :3

So during periods of busyness, I try to keep my novel in mind and write things down. :3 Plus I have music that can semi-relate to the story, so that helps, too.

Several English teachers I've had in college stress reading your words aloud. :3

I very seldom read anything aloud, though, but I ought to try. My protagonist is female, so it kind of funny imagining reading her words aloud. xD Maybe I can find a lady friend to read important dialogue quotes to see how they sound?

D8 throw it the washing machine! take it to the dry-cleaners! save the costume from the evil chocolate!! D8

haha a Pikachu one would be awesome! lol

Back in the day, my goal was writing 2,500 on days that I wrote, but nowadays I really don't have a word count goal---just to get something on the page.

I think my lack of description is why the first draft of my current novel was so short... 42,000 words? I usually add a couple lines of description when the object being described is being interacted with... like if the character steps on gum, I'll describe the shoe a bit... I like to add 'paint' and 'color' to the page, but not dip the page in the paint can... x3 In my old story, I noticed I had 2 paragraphs at times describing thoroughly what a character was wearing... now I just add a sentence just to give an idea of how they're dressed---formal dress, casual dress, fashionable dress---plus fashion involved with the story, so the character slightly focuses on what people wear... but not excessively because fashion is just a sub plot.

But I guess I rarely skip over parts---I skip over parts of my textbooks, but usually not in literature...

Maybe my character who loves rubber duckies could wear a rubbery ducky onesie, if there's such a thing... lol! x3

It's only happend with two characters for me. I have a redheaded character whose red hair like that dyed apple-cherry-colored red (the color is natural for her for a supernatural reason for now.)

So this semester, I saw some gal with dyed red hair and a leather jacket, and in my head I'm like "Oh, there's Briannah." haha xD

I want to get this nice set of spendy colored pencils, but I don't have money I want to spend on those...

I've always been interested in just drawing people. :3 But writing is more important to me. x3

Bringing up Poser/DAZ again, I wonder if my roommate finds it weird having Victoria 4 models up on my screen while I'm drawing? haha

Probably not. She'd likely find it creepy xD

Ever since I had my bookcover made with Nelly wearing glasses, I see this one gal at school sometimes who has similar glasses, and I'm thinking "Oh, there's Nelly." lol