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@noah-cochran

Well I’m fairly confident they won’t be generic to me. xD

Which is exactly what makes it so funny XD For me it’s like “I know four people with this name” and to you it’s more like “How are you supposed to pronounce this eldritch nonsense?” XD I’m really glad the translator made that choice.

Man, I wish they’d kept “Joke” as a nam…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

and then this book has the most generic old-fashioned Dutch names

Well I’m fairly confident they won’t be generic to me. xD

I plan to start drafting book 3 next week monday so we’re close together!

Yep. 🙂

I’m really excited to start, I think I’ll really enjoy writing this book.

Same here, I love all my characters before I’ve…[Read more]

@noah-cochran

Alright then, after I read it, I’ll come back and see how badly I mispronounced them.

LOL, in the preview I saw that the translator did switch out a couple that would be too weird to prounounce.

I find it very funny because Letter for the King and some of her fantasy books have these really outlandish names like “Jiacomo” and “…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

Tell me when you’ve read it! I can rant about those books for ages (as you’ve seen XD) My favorite characters are Rosemary and Geert-Jan.

Will do.

(You’re going to have a fun time with the Dutch names, as far as I could see from the preview they left most of them original

Alright then, after I read it, I’ll come back and see h…[Read more]

@noah-cochran

*Adds another book to my read list

That sounds great!

*Moves it higher on my reading list

I’m pumped.

Tell me when you’ve read it! I can rant about those books for ages (as you’ve seen XD) My favorite characters are Rosemary and Geert-Jan. (You’re going to have a fun time with the Dutch names, as far as I could see from the p…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

I hold to the claim that Dickens is better as an audiobook so you can do something else while he rambles

I concur. xD

Also! While looking it up yesterday I saw that they finally translated “The Song of Seven” also by Tonke Dragt.

*Adds another book to my read list

That sounds great!

The book has fantastic side chara…

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@noah-cochran

That is what really didn’t make much sense to me, considering he is her closest friend and everything, and all her focus is on Peeta. The first two books are great overall though.

Huh, that’s actually a really good point. I think making Gale a more interesting character by himself would fix a lot of that, he was just boring on all a…[Read more]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>@k-a-grey</p>
Thank you! I’ll have to check that last verse out. I see what you mean. Thanks! I haven’t put a ton of poems to music, but I have done it before. I would love to do that with this one!

@rose-colored-fancy

Because Gale is never much of a priority to Katniss

That is what really didn’t make much sense to me, considering he is her closest friend and everything, and all her focus is on Peeta. The first two books are great overall though.

Many older books just drag for a hundred pages somewhere in the middle

Read any Dickens? I…[Read more]

@noah-cochran

I suppose I should do something like that as well.

You can try it out! It won’t do any harm, at least, and it may work for you.

Behold the Dawn by K. M. Weiland is still my favorite stand alone novel hands down, and having studied characters and structure myself now, I love it all the more.

Still need to check that one out, it’s high…[Read more]

@crazywriter This is beautiful! The cadence is really good. Sometimes rhymed poems sound really forced and choppy, but this reads very naturally with a good rhythm that isn’t distracting. The only critique I would have is the last line, but I’d be being nitpicky.  The sentence structure is switched around to fit the rhyme, so it sounds a teeny…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

For bigger, structural changes, it’s essentially outlining it again, but you already know the story so it’s easier the second time around.

I suppose I should do something like that as well.

*Deep sigh*

My sentiments exactly.

Are there any books/media that aged particularly well or poorly for you?

For one thing, I’m better at…[Read more]

@noah-cochran

I like it. (for a minute there I was worried, thinking you had split your book into third and first person or something xD)

Yikes XD

Oh, they’re just glorious.

Right? I’ve been having a few too many XD

So you actually know exactly what you want to change about every individual chapter before you start revision? I was just going to g…

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@rose-colored-fancy

Exactly. I have… three chapters total, I think. For one, Liorah is absent but there’s important information, for the other she’s there but I needed it told through another character’s perspective.

I like it. (for a minute there I was worried, thinking you had split your book into third and first person or something xD)
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@noah-cochran

Interesting. Are the third person limited views quite sparse? Like Skyward’s interludes?

Exactly. I have… three chapters total, I think. For one, Liorah is absent but there’s important information, for the other she’s there but I needed it told through another character’s perspective.

Okay, that’s what I figured you were going for…

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The first book only has one first person POV, (Liorah’s) but it has a few other chapters in third person limited for other characters.

Interesting. Are the third person limited views quite sparse? Like Skyward’s interludes?

That’s my first point. Backstory that isn’t a ghost exists too and it’s important to lend emotional value to the ghost.

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@noah-cochran

I was more saying that they’re overused, and mostly just used to put emphasis on how the main character’s sound different. In other words, the author couldn’t think of any more unique way to describe an accent, so they just said “thick” or “rough” or something like that.

Admittedly, describing accents is hard XD I think the only…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

I don’t think describing an accent (or especially a voice, since I was more describing his voice) as rough is an inherently bad thing, but I will look at it

So, I agree with everything you said, but I wasn’t exactly saying that describing accents in those ways were necessary “bad” or “offensive” things to do, I was more s…[Read more]

@noah-cochran

All those descriptions are polarizing and almost trite because when I read fantasy books it seems that the kind’ve out-of-the-way cultures or non-main character cultures have those less than pleasant accents

See, that’s exactly what I was talking about.

Language is inherently neutral, or at least, should be. Having an accent is jus…[Read more]