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do we understand Edward (S&S)? - 9 years ago
Just gobsmacked a thought that may not have been raised about Edward Ferrars. True enough, nothing in S&S suggest it, but to draw from a Shakespeare; "by indirections, find directions out." -Polonius in Hamlet? Perhaps Edward's initial attraction to Elinor was not so much infatuation, but he realized he had a sister-in-law connection who is worthy. After all, many men of character will attaby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
How well do Filmmakers get Austen's Characters? - 9 years ago
This query sprang forth after reading some of the related points in the thread: "Col. Brandon & Elinor: Did Austen get the ending of Sense & Sensibility wrong?" I have the four DVD major adaptions to S&S, P&P, and Emma. I have read the books, but not as often as I have watched an adaption, so I confess that an adaption's imagery may obtrude on what I had read. Also, a listing bby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Col. Brandon & Elinor: Did Austen get the ending of Sense & Sensibility wrong? - 9 years ago
To answer the "Subject:"s question in one word: Yes. Not because of the pairings, but I thought it cruel that the brothers-in-law did not seem to have the family felicity between them as I would expect, perhaps as from P&P, as weakly suggested in the last paragraph. And this is after Col. Brandon made the offer of the living to Edward.by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Writing out of order. A good idea? - 9 years ago
My overviews usually are within my plot bunnies. If the bunny die before I get a time line sequence/outline, the muse died with it. When I wrote Jane and Elizabeth’s Paranormal Journey, I wrote it over my outline, and thus made only minor alterations. I confess that its Act 5 is better than I drafted and is the treat of the story {Teaze, teaze...}. However, the "Postscript" was a complete surpby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Conjunction? Re: That important? - 9 years ago
Lise Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Speaking of grammar, why do you always leave off > the -s in the third person singular? Bless you for noticing. The key word to answer your question is in your question: "Singular." The "s"s belong to plurals. Disobedience got my sitting end scorched until I could sit in a tub and heat my own bathwater.by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Col. Brandon & Elinor: Did Austen get the ending of Sense & Sensibility wrong? - 9 years ago
"HEA?" I cannot winkle it out. I have an explication of "HEA," but the forum rules and decorum forbid me to disclose my suspect, or even its feeble substitute. E-mail me if you are curious... Col. Brandon and Elinor are just right as is, as Jane Austen thought then, and as most of our societies miss today. They are the concept that a man can have a non-related woman friend as important and deby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Conjunction? Re: That important? - 9 years ago
I think "that" can be as important as any conjunction or preposition; if I have some residue of my basic grammer. If the sentence is confusing without "that," then it is too important to put it into the virtual wheelie bin. Other writing defects get up my nose. One is using "say" or "said" with Every speaker tag, and even disjointing the speaker tag from what was spoken. The tag and the quoteby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: A Study Not in Scarlet./endorse - 9 years ago
Jim D. Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Fact is, though I don't mind following the rule as > a writer, as a reader, anxious for the next > installment, I wish that rule would be revoked. If I may be so bold, I endorse his suggestion, or to at least give that rule a re-think. As a reader, I get gusdustipated when I keep waiting for the next installment:by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: A few useful pointers! And a WAG. - 9 years ago
I hoped I did not imply that Yorkshire was in Scotland. All Creatures Great and Small shown what I thought was Scottish influence. One thing I doubt: English officers in Scotland during Elizabeth 1. They were in America during Georgian times. Thank you. You are right about one thing I forgot, Julie: Too much entertainment is lousy history. The 1960 The Alamo was a good movie, but lousy hisby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: A few useful pointers! And a WAG. - 9 years ago
Recently watched Braveheart, a possible about William Wallace, who if I got my dateline right, came about 60 years after the Magna Carte. He started as an ordinary seeming guy, wanted his farm, a Mrs., and kids, but some English noble got a fancy for "Murren," the clandestinely wed Mrs. Wallace, and when she rebuffed the bureaurat, he had her tied to a post, slit her throat, and thus murdered herby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Dwiggie help request/Wow! - 9 years ago
With your experience, Terri, I would say that you are the go-to about getting a book published. In these times, have you given much thought to Self Publishing? I would give it a knoodle, if I had a story published, but with the feedback (or lack thereof) of my one story here, my advice may be $3 short a cup of coffee.by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
From the bottom of the barrel... - 9 years ago
I place this as from the bottom of the barrel, largely because I hope I am not too late. This make me think of a couple ideas that circulate on other media. One, some health benefits are realized by getting up from the desk chairs frequently. It help circulation, as I understand. Most of our modern careers require that we sit at desks instead of following mule teams steering plows, so our blooby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: thanks and OOER?? - 9 years ago
Maybe I am a thickee, but I still have no clue as to an ooER. Is that something to eat? To shoot? Or to take the place of FCC (or other countries' equivalence) no-no words?by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: thanks and OOER? - 9 years ago
What is OOER? It would be a help if orphan anachronyms and initial letters were spelled out at first use. How many know FUBAR? Fouled Up Beyond Any Repair. And I cleaned up the fouled...by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Your story... - 9 years ago
Thank you, Amy. I do not know how I missed it, but I see it in the Fantasia Gallery index now. Of course, I do not know how I missed a building I passed in my Sunday trip on 14 June 2015. I come back about an hour later, and it was (spray) painted orange. Not burnt orange or fruit juice orange, but ORANGE.by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Beta/some blurb! - 9 years ago
A blurb like that has a tendency toward a trajedy. A while back, I wrote and finished a story, Jane and Elizabeth's Paranormal Journey, that did not quite fit the blurb. In the middle, I think my story floundered, because I did not even have the complete story plotted out. Still, I think I had a novel way of resolving Jane and Elizabeth's situation! If I would have wrapped it up, it may have bby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Re Many thanks!/help - 9 years ago
Just noticed: The reply field has a "help information" with "BBcode help" that link to some useful information. If you are already up on HTML, I think the big hiccup on the change is the bracketing character.by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Beta - 9 years ago
What is the blurb on your story? I finished and posted one from about 50% completed, but it went organic and completed in a different way than once thought. If there is a protocol for finding betas, it seem to be posts like this. How else? Once those connections are made the how - to's are open.by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Technical question regarding HTML... - 9 years ago
IIRC, this posting engine use a modified form of HTML. I tried a straight HTML post, and it was a pig's breakfast. Well. I would not slop the hogs with that. I suggest a look at the mark-up instructions vs. the hard - core web programmer's guides.by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Paranormal Journey complete - 9 years ago
TIME IS BACK ON COURSE (ACT V) Come Tuesday, the morning and afternoon pass as now bring stable pleasure. We have an early supper, and the girls dress in their Regency wear. Jane and Elizabeth wear again their homemade cotton day dresses, the ones they wore 200 years ago and then a few days ago when they were brought forth into our time. Darcy and I merely wear jacket a shirt and slaby Rae Elaine - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Remember/: "...Not that there's anything wrong with that." - 9 years ago
It is widely accepted that Darcy was uncommonly rude, and I doubt if real gentlemen at the time were proud and haughty, at least to that extent. Darcy's behavior cast the dye, which justified Jane Austen's first title First Impressions. First impressions, today, can be a real albatross around your neck if you screw up. Darcy's letter to Lizzy at Hunsford, after she gave him a verbal scorching,by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
a paranormal journey Part 4 of 5 - 9 years ago
Jane and Elizabeth "are quite pleased with the automatic likenesses taken of themselves." They want to know more about digital photography. The Pass and I.D. staff performed another function, in addition to making the cards for Jane and Elizabeth. They provided raw data for the British Consul, so they can make the ladies' passports. A copy has went to State, so the visa application will go smoby Rae Elaine - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Looking for stories - 9 years ago
This sound like Jane Austen's P&P to about 2/3rds of the way through. Perhaps the pivotal event, such as why is the story you seek, is different than P&P canon, may suggest a title, or the blurb concepts in the index. Just my WAG. In the for - what - it's - worth dept.by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
JANE AND ELIZABETH'S PARANORMAL JOURNEY pt.3 of 5 - 9 years ago
Time for the third notch of flaps. On course, and on glidepath, and now the 3,000 Hertz tone in my headset mark our pass over the inner marker. "Flare time, boys and girls." We fly over the base's western fence, the road around to the base golf course, and then over the 2-4 overrun. THE GATHERING (ACT III) {SCRITCH!} Rear axle of the portside's dogbone; at crosswind direction. (_by Rae Elaine - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Wardrobe Malefaction - 9 years ago
This is a riveting read! Well done! Janet. Clearly, this would not be a "Wardrobe malfunction," in the modern usage. The restrictive constriction is more malevolent than simply prone to an embarrassing failure.by Rae Elaine - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Confusions resolved(?)/Re: ... of P&P Time Slip 1/5 - 9 years ago
Thank you for your thoughts on my JANE AND ELIZABETH'S PARANORMAL JOURNEY story. First, I hope the technical problems with readability are fixed. You may have suggested others may have story problems, and I am not clever enough to work around some. I am not familiar with Jane Austen's MP, NA, & Per stories, but S&S, P&P, & Emma start at one point and progress through the story iby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Repair and retitle reposts of P&P Time Slip 1/5 - 9 years ago
I have repaired, renamed, and reposted the first part of five to my P&P Time Slip story's post. Part of the fix was to break the original that must have been too close to the board software's maximum post sizing. The first, A - part, has the content through the "Preface" while the B-part has chapter One. The new title is JANE AND ELIZABETH'S PARANORMAL JOURNEY and as I understand, it will bby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Repair and retitle repost, part 1B of 5 - 9 years ago
HELLO, YOUNG LADIES (ACT I) Starlifter 67-0007 had behaved quite well, this late in a long mission, which used to be the type's bread and butter. Hauling Air Freight during the Vietnam War caused them to put on enough flight hours to go between Major and Minor, or v.v., inspections within one mission. After that, the C-141 had been stretched, modified to receive air-to-air refueling,by Rae Elaine - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Repair and retitle repost, part 1A of 5 - 9 years ago
Pride And Prejudice: THE TIME SLIP JANE AND ELIZABETH'S PARANORMAL JOURNEY by Rae Elaine Hatfield Ellayn@VHW-Corp.com or hatfield@nwi.net 12 March 2011 G Jane and Elizabeth meander through Longbourn's grounds as they discuss the Meryton Assembly ball the next morning (_ until they experience a time slip. (: "Many time slip witnesses report that, at the start of their experience of tby Rae Elaine - Derbyshire Writers' Guild
Re: Superbia & Sententia Praerapida/Translation? - 9 years ago
Maria V Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Try google translate; it's a blast! How is that done? That sound as confusing as the Latin.by Rae Elaine - Derbyshire Writers' Guild