I am SO glad you're back!

[Rokket]

Agreed on all counts.

Rokket, as far as the story goes, that is where my comment about sucking at editing comes in. Aside from personal tastes I can't tell the difference between poor and good writing. It takes really horrible stuff for me to realize it's bad. Fortunately you have some more discriminating folks reading as well so that works.

Yeah, the editing aside, it's more important to me that the story is engaging and holds interest. I would also like to hear that you really want me to keep writing because you can't wait to see what is going to happen next.
Does that make sense?

 

[Terre]

I do want to see what happens next.

 

[Rokket]

I could spoil the ending: the bad guy loses....

hehehe

But who is the bad guy? I am not going to reveal that until the bitter end...

I am almost 80 pages in now. I looked up editing services again, and geez Louise those things are expensive! I have feeling I am going to come in over 400 pages before its all done.

 

[Lorraine]

Finished! And ready for more

 

[Rokket]

Finished! And ready for more

Cool! So give me your impressions. Tell me what stands out and what is not so great. Remember, I have thick skin and this is a first draft, so change is inevitable!

 

[Lorraine]

I will do that, Rokket. I'll pm you my thoughts and opinions tomorrow. Right now I'm just back on the boat after helping my friend with her boat. Things ALWAYS happen at night. ALWAYS!

 

[Rokket]

I will do that, Rokket. I'll pm you my thoughts and opinions tomorrow. Right now I'm just back on the boat after helping my friend with her boat. Things ALWAYS happen at night. ALWAYS!

Lord, ain't that the truth? We always have fire drills and such during the day, during working hours. But when the real thing happens, it's at 2AM...

 

[Lorraine]

12.30am it was here, raining, blowing and dark. And her boat wasn't dragging, the tide was monstering it. But she was scared so off I went, I even wore a life jacket, not something I normally do, I had to remember where the thing was!

 

[Rokket]

I get it. After 30 years on the Pacific, I'd pretty much seen it all.

And the Pacific is the "pacified" sea....

 

[Lorraine]

The Pacific is about as pacified as I am in a temper...NOT!

Ok, gonna sit down now and write some of my thoughts about the book!

 

[Rokket]

I've been in both oceans. The Pacific is much calmer than the Atlantic, but that's grading on a curve. The Pacific can get pretty rough. And then again there are patches of calm here and there...

 

[Lorraine]

I have a patch of calm around me right now, for how long I don't know, I shall enjoy it while I have it

 

[Satira Capriccio]

No body of water ... other than a itty bitty puddle ... is going to be all that placid all the time. Though, I suppose an itty bitty puddle wouldn't be all that placid if you were a itty bitty tadpole and some great big human monster stomped through your puddle.

Having been on both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts (and having lived on Nantucket Island for almost a year), I most definitely prefer the Pacific. But then, I grew up near the Oregon Coast and was spoiled very early on in my life with the rugged coastline, deserted beaches, and frigid water. Ok ... so maybe I'm not all that keen on the frigid water, and the Pacific isn't all that frigid when you're playing in the waves on Hawaiian beaches. But ... those deserted beaches seal the deal for me. I truly was born to be a hermit.

I can't believe I forgot New Zealand is in the South PACIFIC. I really should have realized that. It's the Vikings who roamed all over the Atlantic Ocean and left their imprint in and around the Atlantic, and the Polynesians who roamed all over the Pacific Ocean and left their imprint in and around the Pacific.

/shakes head.

Truly, I did learn geography. But my poor head attic is so stuffed with stacks upon stacks of crates that older information sometimes eludes me.

 

[Rokket]

Hehehe... Tell me about it! I feel the effects of age almost every day!

 

[Lorraine]

Haha, Satira, I feel your pain, my filing system is starting to fail too! The amount of times lately I've had to describe something cos I could not find the word "it's one of those electric things, it goes RRRRRRRRR, and bits come off" "a router?", "no, it's flatter and has a round thing at the front, can make a mess", "a drill??" "NO! That's shaped like a gun, this is flatter, makes a lot of noise", "an angle grinder?" "YES! I was using my angle grinder..." . Almost word for word and accompanied by appropriate hand gestures

 

[Terre]

That gets very frustrating, yes.

 

[Rae134]

haha that sounds like my scatter brain and since this has happened all my life I don't think I can blame it on age

 

[Lorraine]

Mine's definitely an age thing and getting worse. It's like a black hole that words fall into and refuse to be retrieved. It could be the 95% of my time I spend alone, maybe I'm forgetting how to talk...but I don't think so

 

[Rae134]

Actually Lorraine, I wouldn't count that out. Heaps of things can cause it, Hormones, Fibromaglia, Depression, Anxiety, so not talking much is not a stretch of the imagination as a cause

 

[Lorraine]

Hmm, I have fibromyalgia, take antidepressives, get anxious a lot, and I've stopped taking HRT. Four out of four . I'm doomed, I tell you, DOO...what was that word again?!