Ask Emma!

• karo: the joys 
  July 17, 2010, 10:45:59 PM
• karo: I've been busy doing this Summer School for Access to Uni thing.  For the past week or two I have had at least one big essay per week(by big I mean 1500 words, so not massive but still a fair bit for a weekly essay) got one due Monday this week and another due Friday
  July 17, 2010, 10:45:46 PM
• E.Maree: That must have taken some organisation, wow. :O Mega congratulations!
  July 15, 2010, 09:24:08 PM
• Triss: We're hoping to make it an annual event since the first was pretty successful.
  July 02, 2010, 05:56:40 PM
• Triss: A group of us from the LARP society I'm part of decided to put on a role-playing convention, catering to roleplayers of all types from tabletop to LARP, so we got in a whole load of traders and people promoting their groups and stuff. There's quite a big, active RP community in the north-east, so we thought we'd tap into that. So 'Nerd East' was born!
  July 02, 2010, 05:56:13 PM
• E.Maree: Running a convention? Oooh, tell me more! :O
  June 27, 2010, 11:34:45 AM
• Triss: 'lo guys - I'm good, still busy, alternating between a degree and convention running. I didn't predict anything of this sort this time last year...
  June 25, 2010, 11:17:06 PM
• E.Maree: I think everyone's lives have taken a turn for the busier lately, I know mine has. xD How are you?
  June 22, 2010, 09:55:21 PM
• MysticSafewayBag: I have not been on here for a long time but I am very busy. It is my bastard degree; it takes up almost all of my time.
  June 16, 2010, 11:00:12 PM
• MysticSafewayBag: Hello.
  June 16, 2010, 10:59:49 PM
• E.Maree: Tightened up the anti-spam measures on the forum.
  May 31, 2010, 01:47:46 PM
• karo: we need to spark up activity again... hardly anyone comes on anymore...
  April 30, 2010, 01:40:19 PM
• E.Maree: Hi XGIANNIX, how are you?
  April 26, 2010, 09:27:37 PM
• XGIANNIX: E.Maree
  April 20, 2010, 01:34:32 PM
• XGIANNIX: euhmm hello
  April 20, 2010, 01:32:18 PM
• E.Maree: The new forum domain is now live, please change your bookmarks to emmamaree.com/forum.
  April 13, 2010, 11:42:03 AM
• E.Maree: I made a logo!
  April 06, 2010, 12:48:12 PM
• E.Maree: http://emmamaree.com/ is well along its way now. I'll have to move this place over soon. :O
  March 21, 2010, 10:38:08 PM
• E.Maree: Oh man, it's so cold around here, even with the snow gone. 
  January 22, 2010, 08:31:36 AM
• karo: thank you
  January 18, 2010, 05:43:17 PM

[Daveface]

Yeah it is. Spelt the same way which is rare a lot of people spell it different.

What name did you go for???

[E.Maree]

I started to write a book ages ago.  For fun not publishing.  TBH I have been thinking up the plot and characters since I was like 6.

i'm currently haveing writers block. >.< i cant think of a name for the main chariter.

I know you have a name now, but seventhsanctum.com is a godsend when it coems to times like that. There's a name generator which uses census data, that's my most used tool.

And yeah, I couldn't think of any names at all, so the two main girls were just 'Emma' and 'Maree' for a brief moment of filler. I am so imaginative. Ellen came round pretty quickly, but Maree stuck.

[Daveface]

Hmm you never told me about Ellen being Emma

[kitty girl]

I started to write a book ages ago.  For fun not publishing.  TBH I have been thinking up the plot and characters since I was like 6.

i'm currently haveing writers block. >.< i cant think of a name for the main chariter.

I know you have a name now, but seventhsanctum.com is a godsend when it coems to times like that. There's a name generator which uses census data, that's my most used tool.

And yeah, I couldn't think of any names at all, so the two main girls were just 'Emma' and 'Maree' for a brief moment of filler. I am so imaginative. Ellen came round pretty quickly, but Maree stuck.

thanks for that i'll cheak it out ^^.

[kitty girl]

Yeah it is. Spelt the same way which is rare a lot of people spell it different.

What name did you go for???

i cheated slightly and went for my middle name, elizabeth. not the best one, might even change it since i still got a long way too go but aleast i got something to wright and not put spaces. the rest of the names should be a bit easyer

[Triss]

I'm OK when it comes to names. The main characters for the books I've written, am writing, have on the back-burner or planning are so far: Charra, Josiah, Michael, Karin, Kate and Daisuke.

Question for Emma: you now have a sort of over-arching multiverse over the books you are writing and planning. I was wondering, at what point did it occur to you to do that? Just because now I have a theme running through what I'm planning, which will get a mention in everything I write which is part of this tie-in and will eventually end in a book that tiess up all the mysteries of the others in one huge kick-ass finale. Ambitious, but I might be able to pull it off. xD

[E.Maree]

Question for Emma: you now have a sort of over-arching multiverse over the books you are writing and planning. I was wondering, at what point did it occur to you to do that? Just because now I have a theme running through what I'm planning, which will get a mention in everything I write which is part of this tie-in and will eventually end in a book that tiess up all the mysteries of the others in one huge kick-ass finale. Ambitious, but I might be able to pull it off. xD

I don't even know. xD It's just like... all these stories occur in their own little 'mental multiverse' in your head, and when writing them you enjoy putting in references to other 'worlds' and imagining the characters meeting, so before you know it you're creating this intricate world that links sensibly. That and I enjoy imagining people being able to spot references and link stories.

It's really hard to explain where it began... I think it just came along with thinking up these different worlds, how they came about and how they work. Once you create these worlds, you sort of... understand how it happens, and everything you've already done sort of fits in.

I really can't explain it. Some things just seem meant to be, and certain books seem meant to link, or go in certain routes, or link to certain characters. Writing seems to evolve like that - most writers with complex plot twists and universes only figure out most of it as they get there, it's almost a sentient thing sometimes.

Being of Solipsist tendencies, I often consider whether things were 'meant' to happen (and sort of that I meant to take them there, ubt wasn't consciously aware of it), and too often with writing it seems that, yes, it was meant to end up like this all along, you just didn't know it.

And I think this is the first time I've actually admitted that, heh.

[kitty girl]

i have one main place called LanSi (i think, if all else theres a main city there called that) that lots of diffrent people live lives. in one story its about a which who left magic school at a younge age, and another is about a younge mage who is starting magic school. i think its cool setting things in diffrent world. allows you to think things that shouldnt exsiste (as well as outfits ¬///¬)

BTW, you where right about that website,E.Maree that website. it is godsent. T_T* thank you

*someone crying with joy

[karo]

hows the new book coming along Emma?

[E.Maree]

hows the new book coming along Emma?

It's going alright. I was having a period where I didn't have the confidence in my work to do it, and plus I was swamped with financial worries, job hunting and lack of stress, but at the edge of sleep I just focussed on properly, realistic pictures characters and settings and interacting with them a little, and it encouraged me enough to get back into it.

So I'm doing okay. I have skeletal blonde pretty-boy pricks to nudge me into working at 2am when I have to get up for my first shift at 6-8am. xD

[karo]

If you were driving upstream in a canoe and the wheel broke, how many pizza's could u fit in your shoe?

[Daveface]

23 if the drop bear doesn't smell your fear

[karo]

lol.

[Triss]

...Hm, I sense either an in-joke or plain randomness...

[karo]

on my other forum their is a large team of mods/admins.  On one version of the forum(the world version, each country has it's own one).  I am a mod.  It is a tradition to ask that to the mod/admins.