Mindy-chan

Bah. It'll be good for him. Builds character!

Expect a post soon...Hehe. Poor Daniel.

I'll arrange something. Yeeesss. I think I have a plan .

Hey Mindy there's been an extension to the contests and I've figured out how to write like I'm over 10 years old I think! Are you still good to beta it sometime tomorrow?

Just sent out now, sorry.

Haha got only 400ish words in the first draft. DEFINITELY going to touch the 5k limit.

Anyway do you want to hear the premise via PM and tell me if it's worth wasting the night on (I'm working a bit tomorrow)?

Hey Mindy I finally got a idea for the story contest!

VM me when you're on again, I should have a draft/something by then.

I know what you mean, I just posted in the 12 days of Christmas thread with a completely boring and pretentious pseudoblog and I want to just edit it all out with a "Merry Christmas etc." like all the normal people have.

Anyway I guess I'll give the story contest a go!

I was thinking of it! Though I hardly ever write let alone fiction. I'm mulling over some ideas I have going through my head. If I do I definitely want to it from a first-person-perspective since so many of these seem to do that whole third person narrator bit which seem kinda cheap given it allows for nearly no constraints.

Also I read the start of your Scientist story and it seem pretty interesting!

Hey Mindy you write fan-fiction right? Are you going to enter the Christmas Contest?

I know she's too easy to criticize.
Who would you like to get started on then?

Haha that's some Ayn Rand level stupidity right there!

Yeah I sorta feel bad sometimes for criticizing it without reading it, but then I remember that and realize I don't have to.

Yeah I guess the logical leap from Babysitters Club is Sparkling Vampires :lol:

Hah I've actually heard the Twilight series is alright as far as those types of novellas are concerned (novella as it would only be ~50 pages long with a good editor on it).

I know Why a Caged Bird Sings supposed to be her best work right? I'll check it out, anything else by her that's worth looking into?

Catcher in the Rye is brilliant or a boring tale of an likable jerk depending on my mood.

Did Harper Lee write anything except To Kill a Mockingbird?

I've kinda read Outsiders already and didn't care for it, but I was 11 at the time so I probably just wasn't approaching it correctly

Anyway thanks Mindy!

Yeah I kind of read too many old books. Any living authors you can recommend?
I've heard good things about American Gods and Neil Gaiman in general, though he is a comic book writer first and foremost isn't he?

No likes Willy.
One thing about Thomas Hardy in general is he doesn't focus on a whole string of inconsequential activities like alot of 19th century writers do (ie Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens) so you can miss quite a bit by skimming.

Nice! I read DoaS a few years ago, it's takes awhile to visualize the scenes the way it is written am I right?

As for me I'm about a quarter into House of the Seven Gables, pretty great so far!
I've also been sitting on Moby Dick, Ada and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but they're too long to get into with exams going on and all.

Hey there Mindy!
What books are you reading?