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[Cheyenne]

Son of a--*growls* Does anyone know how to find the email on a timeline facebook account? What is this timeline nonsense anyways......

[Cheyenne]

BAHAHAH! Victory. Nevermind. Be right back.

[Kymela]

Cheyenne wrote: "Son of a--*growls* Does anyone know how to find the email on a timeline facebook account? What is this timeline nonsense anyways......"

I hate the bloody timeline with a passion. It feels crowded on my screen and it just doesn't feel right in general. I plan on leaving once my profile is forced into it. I absolutely refuse to use a website that refuses to listen to it's users. I'm sticking to gaia and goodreads. And writing.com.

[Stephanie]

Cheyenne wrote: "I believe one of the reasons was to "get a bit of maturity under my belt". I'm not sure if that was insinuating that I'm immature, or if it was just a bit of helpful advice. Either way it rubbed me..."

How much you want to bet they've never written a book? Because every other person I've ever met who writes books says the opposite. The more books you write the better. Don't know why but them saying that disgusts me.

[Stephanie]

True, NaNo is all about quanity over quality but again, its purpose isn't to improve your writing but to get you to write when otherwise you wouldn't. It also helps you complete one of the toughest parts of writing: getting the rough draft down. If you don't have a rough draft then there's nothing to improve.

If you think about it, novels produced during NaNo probably don't have that many more errors than other first drafts; they're just produced quicker. Thus, in my opinion, it seriously lessens the amount of time you spend on the novel(s). I'm not saying there aren't novels that just turn out plain crappy sometimes. Trust me, last November proves that for me but the experience isn't something I would trade for the world. I had only a vague idea of what I was going to write (despite all of my outlining) but honestly, I'm not sure the first draft would've turned out any better if I had written it slower.

Just my opinion. :)

[Cheyenne]

Yeah I'll probably try NaNo again this year. I mean if I look back.. writing my book took me almost six months. I wrote 114,000K in six months. SIX.

Saira, the timeline is infuriating. It took me forever to find his photos and email. But anyways, we might have a new pirate aboard because I ended up just making him a new goodreads account and made him a member of the group. I asked him to actually interact here, but who knows if he will LOL.

[Stephanie]

Honestly, I think that's pretty good for writing on your own without a deadline staring you in the face. That's almost 20K a month.

[Cheyenne]

Yeah. I wrote nearly every morning. Some mornings I didn't get up early enough though. And I did have my own deadline, I wanted to get it finished by summer. Did that. Now I want to get it published before August.
Are your letters coming along? :)

[Stephanie]

Oh, it's okay so far. Just waiting for someone to look at it. I'll probably look at it again tonight though.

[Cheyenne]

Well hopefully that "okay so far" turns into "good so far" :)

[Stephanie]

Haha. I hope so!

[Cheyenne]

Well keep me updated on how you're doing with getting published. I'd love to hear when you get an agent and publisher!

[Cheyenne]

Oh and I liked your story for this week by the way. Batman is my favorite super hero. :p

[Stephanie]

Okay, I definately will! Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it! He's my favorite too.

[Cheyenne]

Because he's just that epic.

Are you only working on one book right now, or multiple?

[Stephanie]

Multiple books. I'm about to start writing another one tomorrow.

[Kymela]

Hawkeye, Iron Man, Shadow Cat and Night Crawler are my favourites.

[Stephanie]

Iron Man is cool. And Thor is amazing. But I prefer Batman.

[Cheyenne]

The only one I'm familiar with on that list is Iron man.

Multiple books! Nice :) Do you have your main focus zeroed in on one?

[Stephanie]

For querying? Yes. It's for the one I posted a synopsis of.

[Cheyenne]

Wonderful! It sounded like something I would enjoy

[Cheyenne]

Stephanie wrote: "Iron Man is cool. And Thor is amazing. But I prefer Batman."

THOR, yes he is amazing. Especially shirtless. *grins*

[Stephanie]

Cheyenne wrote: "Wonderful! It sounded like something I would enjoy"

Good to hear! I'm doing the last round of edits and putting the query together so I should be querying soon.

[Stephanie]

Cheyenne wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "Iron Man is cool. And Thor is amazing. But I prefer Batman."

THOR, yes he is amazing. Especially shirtless. *grins*"

Lol. *sigh* Chris Hemsworth.

[Kyra]

Cheyenne wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "Iron Man is cool. And Thor is amazing. But I prefer Batman."

THOR, yes he is amazing. Especially shirtless. *grins*"

(headdesk) I refuse to let you put those thoughts in my adolescent mind!!!... (headdesk again) But, okay, he's okay with his shirt off.

[Cheyenne]

Kyra, you made me laugh. Don't worry soon enough I won't have to put those thoughts in your mind. You'll be corrupted like the rest of us, drooling after shirtless things with abs and pecs :p

[Cheyenne]

Stephanie wrote: "Cheyenne wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "Iron Man is cool. And Thor is amazing. But I prefer Batman."

THOR, yes he is amazing. Especially shirtless. *grins*"

Lol. *sigh* Chris Hemsworth."

SIGH! I agree. A very content sigh on my end.

[Kymela]

You don't know two very famous X-Men?!

[Cheyenne]

Apparently not. I've seen a few of the movies, but I only know the major ones. And some of those I don't know by name.

[Kymela]

Night Crawler is German and looks like a blue demon and Kitty walks through walls.

[Cheyenne]

Ahh, okay.

[Stephanie]

Cheyenne wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "Cheyenne wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "Iron Man is cool. And Thor is amazing. But I prefer Batman."

THOR, yes he is amazing. Especially shirtless. *grins*"

Lol. *sigh* Chris Hemsw..."

I saw a picture of him as the Huntsman on FB the other day all cleaned up and I think I might've actually sighed or done something of the sort. Haha

[Stephanie]

Cheyenne wrote: "Ahh, okay."

You might know Cyclops or Wolverine better. Rogue. Ice man. Pyro. Storm's pretty well-known. Jean Grey.

[Cheyenne]

Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, Ice Man, Storm. Probably a few others

[Stephanie]

Magento! Sabertooth. Mistique (dang, I spelt that right the first time!).

[Cheyenne]

Oh yeah Magneto. Forgot about him

[Stephanie]

Me too. Haha

[Edward]

I just had an exhausting D&D night. Next week should be fun, since I'm bringing in the last piece on the board, so to speak. One more NPC should cover the entire spectrum of insanity they have to wade through for the next six levels.

They managed to drown half the characters (not fatally, though that was just luck) and get the rest captured, so they're going to have to do damage control. Luckily kobolds are stupidier than goblins, although the Water Lord won't be happy that they didn't manage to complete their mission without destorying his negotiations with kobolds. Oh, well.

This is going to be fun.

[Edward]

Star Wars in a nutshell: Faith versus arrogance.

The central character - as opposed to the protagonist - of Star Wars is not Skywalker, either Luke or Anakin. It wasn't even Obi-wan. It was someone who skipped an entire move: Darth Sidious.

The whole epic of Star Wars is Sidious manipulating an entire galaxy into making him a dictator. He crafts an enemy for the people, starting with the Trade Federation and ending with the CIS. He creates a climate of fear that makes people trust him more, giving him more and more power.

In the course of this, he finds the curiosity that is Anakin Skywalker and uses him to cement his power and the legacy of the Sith. He triggers a war that spreads the Jedi thin, creates more fear, and hones Anakin's power. He builds the Jedi up as warriors, turning them from faith in the Force to faith in their own military prowress.

The Senate trusts him more and more as the war wears on, while the Jedi trust him less and less, essentially making the Jedi distrust the government. From there it is easy to make them out to be traitors. By placing Anakin in middle of this, and working hard for thirteen years to make Anakin trust him, he forces Anakin to make a decision. Since the Jedi never really trusted Anakin, the decision was swayed in the Sith's favor.

The one Jedi who had remained pure in his faith in the Force throughout all of this was Obi-Wan Kenobi who, incidentally, also brought the "New Hope" into play twenty years later while Yoda punished himself for letting the Jedi perish. Luke Skywalker joins the inevitable Rebellion against the Empire.

The Emperor once again wields fear. He makes them fear the Death Star - sure, they destroyed the first one, but that only made them more determined to destroy the second. Which lead them all into a trap that would've wiped out the Rebellion and any belief that this Empire could be overthrown.

He fails to turn Luke to the dark side when Luke decides to have faith in the Force, and to not demand it do his bidding. He wanted to kill his father, but refused to indulge the arrogance that he could have what he wanted.

It mattered little, since Sidious still controlled the galaxy, still had the trap in place, still had his apprentice. In his arrogance, he forgot that Vadar was not a mindless drone, that he could switch sides again.

But more importantly, he could never see this coming:



He manipulates the entire galaxy ... and is defeated by Ewoks.

[Cheyenne]

Uhh *scratches head* Random Star Wars comment?

[Edward]

This whole discussion is random comments. I thought it was interesting, since I usually just hear how bad the prequel trilogy was, so I shared it.

[Cheyenne]

Oh my god Al.
Albert: *starts cooing*
Me: ALBERT! It's a picture.
Albert: Hmmmm? *glances away from computer screen*
Me: *shakes head*

[Edward]

Just remember, Ewoks destroyed the Empire.

"Though we cannot, in good faith, blame the Emperor for not foreseeing this."

[Edward]

They are cute.

[Edward]

I would love to hear any holes or further observations from my analysis, by the way. This is how I relax; debating the idiosyncratcies of fictional universes.

[Cheyenne]

Kind of. They look like my aunt's dogs. I forgot what breed they are, but they look like they got their faces smashed in by a frying pan. And no they aren't pugs.

[Cheyenne]

Your analysis of Star Wars or your analysis of Ewoks being cute?

[Edward]

Star Wars. You can't challenge Ewoks being cute; it's an objective fact. (Just kidding ... sort of.)

[Cheyenne]

The sureness of that statement made me chuckle.

[Edward]

Look at them; they're teddy bears. Living, breathing ... rather dumb teddy bears. It's like if Pooh represented an entire race, and some of his cousins were dimwitted warriors.