Noah Cochran

@rose-colored-fancy

Whoa, hold on. I’m going to contradict you on this one

Interesting, I didn’t consider the law factor, that’s a good point.

I would argue, though, that the way these laws were obeyed varied (such as some only using tassels during prayer–as I read somewhere),  and were stricter or took too far in different times (such as the Ph…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

I wish that was an exaggeration, but there’s no way to fake the sprints and I know how carefully they check it. It’s legit

That’s just…madness. xD

I think something else that I’ve never seen before are just the little details like all the characters wearing tzit-tzit

That’s the kinda stuff that I have a hard time findi…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

Also, I don’t have to listen to someone who replies to things during class and doesn’t pay attention. *Evil grin*

Hey now, I have good excuses.

Don’t make this a race, I warned you I’m competitive XD

You started it. 😄

The top score in our team was somewhere around 61k words in one week which is pure insanity.

One person wrote o…[Read more]

@this-is-not-an-alien

I gotta use it as an onomatopoeia from now on

You’re gonna what? How is that even…oh, yeah, you’re Cathy, it’s totally possible.

SEE THAT’S WHAT I KEEP TELLING HER COZ I’M LIKE ‘IN MY TIMEZONE THE SUN’S STILL UP BUT I KNOW IT’S WAY PAST YOUR BEDTIME IN YOUR TIMEZONE WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON PINTEREST TALKING TO ME THIS LATE…

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@this-is-not-an-alien

FYI, Cavirmablablah, I AM GETTING TO IT AND I HAVE STARTED TTD 2 WHILE I’M BETA READING FOR SOMEONE WHO’S PUBLISHING FEBUARY!!!!!!

It’s fine, take as many years as you would like. 🙂

@rose-colored-fancy

What’s the piece of feedback that surprised you the most?

To be perfectly honest with you, I just kinda assume that my wri…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

How are you finding the feedback? Are you spotting any patterns or is everyone violently disagreeing?

I’m afraid to say that the feedback is all over the place. xD Some of my betas really liked a couple of the characters, and others thought those characters had serious problems (and vice versa).

I suppose the most common…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

Hey Rose, I’m doing alright. The weather is frigid in Missouri, so I assume that the Netherlands is covered in ice. 😉 School started, and college starts soon, so I solemnly await busyness.

How about you?

Four of my other beta readers have given me feedback, and the other four may or may not finish within the next few…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

All little kids draw themselves doing cool things, and in his case that was being a mighty warrior

Ah, yes, guilty as charged. I used to love my stick-men battles way back in the day.

@rose-colored-fancy

It’s one of the many doodles made by a seven-year-old boy named Onfim who lived in Novgorod (now Russia) around 700 years ago.

Nice. Seeing first hand sources of writing and archaeology is always fascinating.

As you do.

Elucidation required.  😂

@rose-colored-fancy

Sibling dynamics are my absolute favorite thing to write, and parent-child dynamics are up there too. That’s actually what most of my first book is centered around and it was really fun to write!

I’m getting a zillion character ideas just thinking about it.

It’s an official Croatian letter that was written in 1445.

I love tha…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

I can really see why so many people choose to make their main characters orphans just to get the parents out of the way of adventuring things XD It makes sense from a plot perspective, even though it isn’t any fun for the character.

I agree. However, though I write mostly adult characters (19-20+ in age), who are out of the h…[Read more]

That same cat had a habit of jumping on people’s backs while they were bending over. That happened multiple times, but the crowning glory was the time my mom was painting something on a step-ladder and bent down to get something and that extremely large cat decided jumping onto her back was the best possible way to demand attention. Nothing went w…

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@rose-colored-fancy

And then before I write it I write an outline for the chapter with as much detail as I think of and a rough idea of the dialogue.

Oh wow, nice. That’s a lot more than I do, all I have when I go into a chapter is several bullet points under that chapter.

On that note, thinking of external justifications for why characters are…

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@rose-colored-fancy

I have the opposite issue, my main plot ideas need a lot of time but I often didn’t have enough sub-plots to fill up the middle. I do think I’ve gotten better at that though.

Do you use chapter by chapter outlines or list of chronological events outlines?

I was absently thinking of that time our gremlin cat jumped on the tab…

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@rose-colored-fancy

If you’re still considering Scrivener, it has this lovely feature where you can write in whatever font and size you like and it will format it for you, make a title page, and number and label all your pages and you can export it in all kinds of formats.

Yeah, I do need to get Scrivener sometime.

I really like reading long b…

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@rose-colored-fancy

It was that long? My second book is 130k and 460 pages long, yours is 40k longer but thirty pages shorter. I guess that’s the formatting difference!

I had no idea about the 12pt, double space formatting thing. But I looked it up and one is supposed to have 12pt size, indented paragraphs, Times New Roman, Double Space, and no  ex…[Read more]