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@ariel-ashira, not so much anymore. But when we were missionaries we had churches all over America that supported us, so we tried to visit them every time we came to the states for furlough.

@rochellaine, poem? I love other people’s poems. may we read it?

@ariel-ashira, I have some cousins who live in Alaska, but we’ve never visited them. I think Alaska is the only state that I have not been to.

@seekjustice Well, if you look at it technically and literally, I am in the South.  I live below the Mason-Dixon line which is the official start of Dixie.  There’s a reason I can give you for why most people think we don’t live in the south, but before I do that:

What state do you think I live in?  I don’t remember ever stating sp…[Read more]

@ariel-ashira, you’ve been dog sledding??? lucky. I want to do that. Is it fun? the only reason I have been to the Great Wall is because my family used to live 2 hours from Beijing.

@seekjustice, you still around? I’m back

@seekjustice I’ll be back in about 15-20 minutes. Will you still be here?

@seekjustice 🙂 cool.

I got your ‘invitation to edit’ your last part of your sequel. I don’t know how you write so much! 😉

@alia Awesome! thank you 🙂

@seekjustice @alia @ariel-ashira @rochellaine Sorry to those who tagged me today, I’ve been gone all day at the zoo. 🙂 Is anyone still on writing?

@seekjustice I’m not back. 😀  I’m just popping in to say give that advice to your sister, sure, but tell her to take it with a grain of salt, since it comes from a writer who can’t possibly kill her own characters. 😛

Also to say that I’ve never that I can remember heard @catwing‘s saying. 😉  America’s a big place, and we have a lot of di…[Read more]

@seekjustice yes, it does.

@alia ummmmm… no. I’ve been the opening of the Ark though.
@seekjustice *shrug* okay, what do you aussies say?
@rochellaine Aye. 😛

@alia Sure. (I actually volunteer at a horse therapy center too. I muck stalls. A highlight of my week. 🙂 [Yes, I find shoveling manure fun. I like horses])

@seekjustice Tell your sister that I understand the problem, but from everything I’ve read with advice on writing that’s considered a very bad reason to kill a character.  If you need to kill them off, have a good reason to do so.  Don’t just do it because you can’t think of anything else to do. 😀

random marquis that Marguerite accidently d…

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@catwing, @rochellaine…I’ve been to the Great Wall of China, three times. have I topped y’all?

@rochellaine, you couldn’t have made your comment about killing off characters sooner???

@rochellaine Top a Civil War revolver? Okay… I have a compound bow. 🙂 (I feel like I’m sounding spoiled or something. 😛 )
@seekjustice I guess that’s how the cookie crumbles.

@rochellaine Kay is offering death escape classes for the fictional. (Not really, I’m not talented enough o write that.) XP
@alia I am lucky.
@seekjustice Would they like classes. XD

@catwing Your brother got you a sword?  Well, my brother got me a Civil War style Colt Navy revolver.  Top that!

😛 😛 😛 😛 😛

Seriously, though, I read your blog post about it and the sword sounds really cool!

(Especially since the range we normally go to won’t allow black powder guns, so I rarely get to shoot the revolver anyway. 🙁 )

@seekjustice He is. *beams* (sometimes he’s annoying, but mostly he’s nice. 😉 )
He is the star of a few blog posts, including my latest one about the sword.
He makes up for being my only brother by being extra annoying and extra nice (mostly nice). XP

@seekjustice Thank you!  Bless you!  I will survive.

And think of the many great authors who didn’t kill characters in every novel.  Even C.S. Lewis didn’t.  He only killed characters in some of his books.  Jane Austen, of course, but you don’t like her, so that’s not really a good argument.

Can’t you all think of any more?

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