@selah-cheylah

This conversation makes me laugh. 😀

As an ISFJ, I’m definitely a feeler, but also fairly logical/rational. Selah, I love that you’re an ESFJ! One of my very dearest friends is an ESFJ, and we’re very much alike except he is very outgoing and has many friends, while I’m quiet and have fewer friends. I like de…[Read more]

SE is such a great community. I’m so happy to be a part of Meraki!!

@jane-maree

I would like to officially request to become an historical fiction agent, if I may.  🙂  That is definitely my forte.

I’m jumping in here late since I just joined in April, but would like to share my goals. I’ve already read some great ones on here!

So, several of my goals are rolling over from 2018, for I didn’t quite meet them… Hoping to this year.

In no particular order:

* Walk more miles (500 for the year)

* Improve my speed/jogging…[Read more]

That sounds pretty cool! I’d like to check that out sometime…

Lovely to meet you!! (May I say that you have beautiful hair?) 😀

@nicoleg is a wonderful person and has been a dear friend through this writing journey. 🙂

@theinconceivable1

I don’t know much about the other personality types, but I certainly match ISFJ pretty well. 🙂

@selah-chelyah

I am intending to set up an account for google docs soon, and probably a gmail account for writing projects. Do you like using gmail?

I’m about half way through my outline with new plot points and I’ve been brainstorming on some of the questions my original plot didn’t satisfy. When I’m done with that I’ll start cutting and rewriting the sections needing attention.

You might say I’ve done this WIP backwards…I’m just about starting at square one with outlining…[Read more]

Hey, no problem, I’ll take a high five! 😂

ISFJ here. 🙂

*returns high-five* Hi! Great to meet you, too! I’m very happy to be a part of Meraki… and I love hugs. 😊

This is just the BEST. I love it here and I’m so excited to see the Meraki symbol by my name!😊

Yes, we have come a long way…It’s awesome how we connected on wattpad and the journey has brought us here. God is just great like that!😊

Thank you for that! Very sweet. I’ve enjoyed getting to know you on the forums!😊

My WIP:

I have one “completed” work in the form of a first draft. It’s a romantic historical fiction novel set in 1870’s Richmond, VA, and is about a former plantation owner’s daughter who has given up hope of finding love. She’s devoted to her…[Read more]

Hi Meraki friends!! I’m SO excited to be here! 😀

Thank you for the warm welcome. My sweet friend @nicoleg introduced me to Story Embers, and this place is the BEST. This is gonna be fun. 😊

I love PIZZA…lots of cheese and pepperoni…and………veggie pizza. *gasp* 😂

I’m so glad! 🙂

This is pretty random and a little embarrassing, but…can you (or anyone) tell me how to make all those emoji’s show on here? I only know 🙂 😀 and 😉

*sheepish smile*

Hello, Selah! *waves*

I like what you said about portraying the typical beliefs of people from the given era correctly. I think it’s important to try to step into our characters’ shoes.

@valtmy

Your last paragraph…YES. Characters are the key.

That IS a good question. I think @ashira put it very well. Historical accuracy is always in the forefront, and should also be countered with biblical truth. Sometimes I write as though I assume the reader will understand the historical context of the situation. Conversely, I do sometimes struggle with showing what’s common for the t…[Read more]

Thank you! I might be slightly biased, but I think this IS the best thread on the forum… 😀 So excited to be here!!

@eden-anderson

Thanks for the confetti greeting!! And for directing me here. 🙂

Couldn’t get the quote thing to work… *rolls eyes* but that conversation was not embarrassing. That’s how you learn, how you get bet…[Read more]

I’ve had the best time reading over this thread for the last week! So glad to join in.

My favorite time periods are: Victorian America and Britain, but I love history between 1800 to about 1930. It’s the most interesting to me. I also find ancient Egypt fascinating. I don’t have a lot…[Read more]

Hi! So glad to meet you!

I’ve actually been reading over all the posts on the historical fiction thread this week, and am about to jump in the conversation. Very interesting stuff over there! 😀

Both of those projects sound very neat, especially the French Revolution-ish dystopian. I think that sounds like a very clever…[Read more]

Perfectionism can crush your work, for sure. I love that you both have so many ideas; I often get frustrated because I don’t have new ideas for stories or struggle with feeling like NONE of my ideas are original in the least. I am fairly good at prose and engaging the emotional side to writing characters and events,…[Read more]

“*watches mournfully as afore mentioned list stretches out to infinity* Ahh, the struggles of being a book worm.”

Yes!! I feel your pain… :’D

Keep at your WIP…you’ll get there. The thing I struggle with the most is perfectionism. I always think I can do this or that better. I hope I can be realistic and put that aside when it…[Read more]

Definitely read Jane Eyre! Great Expectations was good, but there were a few spots that were slow and a little confusing to me. But I loved the way Pip learned from his mistakes and ultimately learned what’s important in life. I definitely want to read David Copperfield. I always enjoy getting book recommendations, so thank you! :…[Read more]

TWIN!! *jumps up and down* So glad to see you!! 😀

I LOVE it here! Thank you so much for telling me about this place, it really is amazing. I’ve had the BEST time talking with everyone. *hearts*

I really love Pride and Prejudice because of the wit and humor Jane Austen used in it. I just think it’s an interesting story with funny sarcasm and ends with a sweet romance that two flawed characters deserve to find. 🙂

I think the thing I worry about the most with writing historical fiction is that I won’t do the past justice;…[Read more]

No, I have not seen the Historical Fictioners thread, but thank you for telling me about it. I can’t wait to check it out!

Don’t get discouraged if it does take you a while to read Les Mis. It’s such a huge book. I hope you do get to read Jane Eyre soon. Jane goes through an amazing personal journey, and her moral compass is…[Read more]

“Do or do not. There is no try.”

That’s my favorite one.

Yes!! Yoda’s way of speaking is actually my favorite thing about him! hehe

I’m looking forward to reading Wives and Daughters. I haven’t seen the adaptation, but I hope to.

Here’s to good books. I whole heartedly agree. 🙂

I have also enjoyed other genres, including mystery and fantasy. J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth has got to be the most mind blowing fantasy world ever written. Just sayin. 🙂

Poetry is a…[Read more]

Yay! So glad to meet a kindred spirit. 🙂

It took me four months to read War and Peace. There are some sections where it’s easy to get bogged down, but majority of the story is really amazing. I have read all but two of Jane Austen’s novels (Sense and Sensibility, and Northanger Abbey) and I’m hoping to get to them this year. Of…[Read more]

@theinconceivable1 Hi! 🙂 Yes, I’m an ISFJ. And by the way, thank you for quoting lego Batman… 😀 I LOVE those movies; they’re hysterical!

Hi! Nice to meet you! 🙂

I caught some of the Star Wars conversation…I’m a fan, too. Mainly the older ones. 🙂

Hi, nice to meet you as well! 🙂

Yes, it seems hard to find fellow historical fiction writers. 🙂 I’ve been writing on and off most of my life, but I first made a real attempt at writing a complete novel about 5 years ago. I met Nicole on wattpad around that time. We became fast friends. 🙂 I managed to finish a first draft…[Read more]

Hi Ariel!

Glad to know you’re also a historical fiction writer! The American West in the mid 1800s is a very interesting time period. That’s a great setting! My current WIP is set in the post Civil War South, which has been a bit more challenging than I realized historically and emotionally. After the first draft, I realized it feels a…[Read more]

Thanks and hello, Eden!

I love meeting fellow history lovers! 🙂 I read both historical nonfiction and fiction. I love nonfiction because I’m so curious about how life has been for people in the past and I want to know what things were like at a given time.

Classics are my favorite, for sure. I’ve not read Les Mis, but it’s on…[Read more]

Thank you, and nice to meet you!!

Yes, North and South is a great book! I have seen the BBC adaptation, and really loved it, even if they did change the ending quite a bit. 😉 I think Mr. Thornton and Margaret were perfectly cast. I have also read Mary Barton, which was not as good in my opinion, and plan to read Cranford a…[Read more]

I have not read Frankenstein, but it is on my to-read list, and I am very interested…

I actually just finished reading The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer. Very different from the 19th century literature I generally read, but enjoyable nonetheless. There are still so many on the list, though…

I’m new here, too…looks like we have quite a bit in common! I love history as well. I love reading old, classic stories like Jane Austen. So far my only complete work has been historical fiction, and I’ll probably stick to that genre. It’s so nice to meet you!

Hello, new friends…nice to meet you!

So, a little about me:

Jesus girl. Avid time traveler. Hopeless romantic. Book Nerd. Awkward introvert. ISFJ. Very partial to anything purple. 🙂

I work as a veterinary technician and moonlight as an aspiring novelist. I’m excited to join this community and make some new friends who happen t…[Read more]