Chat Thread 23: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Chat

Lol either way, we both got wrong answers, 3 in a row :p
Yours just looks more balanced

Well, I am a well-balanced individual.

I feel the test is rigged I got a 3/6 too....

Lol. What are the chances?

I didn't really like that test cause it was basically two tests in one -unscrambling and word association. And you can't really do the second part properly if you can't manage the first.

Also, I got the PSP emulator to work!

Congrats matey. Hope you have a Jolly good time.

hey illya, this thursday i'm going to have a presentation about a book. Now the idea of the presentation is about talking about what happens in the book, but rather to try and convince people to get it without spoiling it.

But i have no book yet. And I was thinking if I could use yours?

Oh, I see. Basically, trying to make a spoiler-free sales pitch.

I don't have a problem with it in theory. I just don't want anyone to steal my ideas. That said, if it's spoiler free they probably wouldn't have enough to go on to steal it.

Prisma*Illya wrote:

Oh, I see. Basically, trying to make a spoiler-free sales pitch.

I don't have a problem with it in theory. I just don't want anyone to steal my ideas. That said, if it's spoiler free they probably wouldn't have enough to go on to steal it.

well the point is to pick a topic that a book talks about and go from that. So people can try to promote the book or just use it as a reference point. A good, because I had no idea what to do if you refused, I'm in desperate mode right now.

I'm curious though. What are you planning to say?

i dont know, I need to read the new version to see what's differant.

one thing i did want to say is how the prologue is really well done

Quite a bit has changed. I can send you the most recent version today.

Aww, thanks.

oh thx, I was looking at my mails and was finding it weird how the mails i had nothing diffirent from the one i read before. :0

Well, it's true, one of the biggest problems with stories nowadays is that there is very little setting up. It's like half the story is normal drama stuff and then out of nowhere MAGIC EVERYWHERE for the rest of the story.

Your book suffers the same, however it's prologue immidiatly sets up the genre, making that transition softer and not out of the blue. Person falls down from the sky = Supernatural, guy in a business suit = modern times.

Thanks lol. I think I build up to the magic rather slowly, actually. It's discussed in theory by Tasha and Aiden, then theorized to be real by Jessie, then convincing but unproved evidence begins to crop up, and finally it's revealed as true when Ciel confronts Tasha. So to be fair, there's no overt magic till halfway through. Many books will kick off with a magic hunk appearing in front of the heroine in the first chapter.

All right. I think I just forwarded the most recent version to you.

thx, now i just have to read it during this weekend and prepare my powerpoint

And give me feedback on the changes, of course.

Can I see the PowerPoint when you're finished, btw?

yaay!! Illya is going to get her first promotion/advertisement for her book.
Quick, get your pen name autograph ready. Make a fancy one but also one that you can do quickly so that you can do it with your hand out of the limo window, while it's moving

Lol, thanks.

I have to wonder though if your teacher intended you to use unpublished manuscripts.

Prisma*Illya wrote:

And give me feedback on the changes, of course.

Can I see the PowerPoint when you're finished, btw?

most my presentations are just pictures. I don't like having texts since they insentivise me to read them. but sure

Prisma*Illya wrote:

Lol, thanks.

I have to wonder though if your teacher intended you to use unpublished manuscripts.

she didnt, but she allowed because she's promised me like 6 times to bring books for me to choose from and forgot every time.

How can you use pictures from a book that has no pictures?

Oh, I see lol.

nono, i use pictures that i find on the net that support or are in theme with the topic that I'm talking about

Ohh, I see.

Well, I'm just interested in the subject you decide to use.

Madarra, did you see? I got the PSP emulator working.