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@seekjustice *copies list into a Word document* 😀  Yup, I’m almost halfway through A Little Bush Maid.  It’s very similar to a lot of American books from the same period, and very good.

Hm, okay.  My favorite American poet is Edgar A. Guest.  He writes in a very down-to-earth style, sort of like Banjo Patterson, I guess, but American, if you…[Read more]

@valtmy Thanks!  If you request edit access you can put the edits directly in the comments if you like.  But you don’t have to. 🙂

Yes!!!  If she had just told Uncle Bill that she couldn’t get to the water he would have told her to break the window.  I’m planning to have that discussion later in the book. 😀  Just not right now.  Right now she’s…[Read more]

@seekjustice I’m sorry, but just as you’ve next to no knowledge of American history, I’d never heard of your Eureka flag. 😀  I just looked it up, so I see what it is now.  Looks like we’ll have to trade histories!  Do you have any books or movies you would recommend  that would give a good picture of your history?

I find it funny that Ken Ham…[Read more]

@seekjustice Oh, interesting! 😀  Yes, I think I did recognize the similarities when I read your book, but I brushed it off as the simple truth that there aren’t that many different ways you can design a flag, so a lot of flags just happen to be similar.  That’s really cool, though!

I’ve found a whole lot of books I’d forgotten I had.<…

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@seekjustice Well, I’ll try to keep this short…the Civil War started because the Southern states felt the government was becoming too powerful, since the Constitution has a clause which says something like “all other powers are reserved to the States” so the South thought the government was making too many extra laws.  One of those laws was…[Read more]

@destiny Yes, I knew that, and I just added the other stuff as a disclaimer of sorts. 😀  I hope the link is a little helpful!

@seekjustice I’ve actually never read The Red Badge of Courage. 😮 😀  That’s partially because I prefer lighter reads to the classics, (you’re much braver than I on that score, 😉 ) and partially because I’m a Southerner.  Did you know that there are still people on both sides in America?  There are a lot of people who still believe the Conf…[Read more]

@seekjustice Yeah, since that uses magic to teach a good lesson, that of compassion, it’s using magic to exemplify a good purpose.  And I couldn’t agree with that, so I’ll just stay away from it and read your other stuff. 🙂

My absolute favorite wartime poem is All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight from the American Civil War.  Have you ever read…[Read more]

@seekjustice Sorry I dropped out for a while.  I had to try on a dress one of my sisters is sewing for me to wear on Easter. 🙂

Ah, I don’t mind magic as long as it’s portrayed as bad.  There’s magic in the Bible used by the evil people. I just don’t like it when the good guys use it.

Nope, military strategy details are not for me. 😉  I skip th…[Read more]

@seekjustice I Love, love LOVE WWI! 😀  Oh, there’s magic in the B&B one?  🙁 too bad.  Yes, I probably wouldn’t want to read it then.  But oh, I spent a very extensive period of time studying the years surrounding WWI!  Not learning about the war itself, but more of the homefront type of things: slang, fashion, music, mannerisms, and a whole bunc…[Read more]

@seekjustice The Beauty and the Beast one?

Oh yes.  Getting to the ending is always exciting! 😀  Congratulations!

Am I going to get to read it once it’s done? 😉

BTW I watched the first half hour of ATOTC.  It’s great so far!

@seekjustice Yup, yup, yup!  I’m around!  I just finished a poem for the comic poem topic, and am now about to continue my western.

What are you working on?

@dekreel @supermonkey42 @jenwriter17 @sam-kowal Thank you all so much!  This is going to be fun.

My first poem is based on Ben’s prompt

A Giraffe in Kansas

That big loping thing
Looked crazily strange
I started to sing
“Hey!” Get off my range!”
But then all at once
I realized what
A total big dunce
I would be to let
This creature escape

“Hey,…[Read more]

@ariel-ashira Did you read both parts?  The one from the beginning and the one I just posted?

Ah, too bad.  I have a feeling that I should be more intimidated now and then.  Could you recommend someone who’d be more willing to do it? 😀

Yes!  It’s okay to like Chara!  I have a character – Derek’s sister Raelyn – who I absolutely adore, even thou…[Read more]

@destiny First off I want to say that as a law student who has not graduated or passed the bar yet, I am not allowed to give any legal advice.  I could be arrested if I attempted to counsel someone as a lawyer. 😉  That’s why I always speak of my status as a law student jokingly on here, rather than seriously.

That being said, I’ll be glad to g…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 😀  I’m glad you liked it!

Wow.  I thought you’d have way more comments than that!  I read them on the doc and you didn’t have any in the whole middle section that I thought would be boring since there was only one character there?

Hahaha.  And imagine what it was like for our parents?  I do remember far back into my childhood when…[Read more]

@alia @jenwriter17 I’m back!  How’s it going?

@alia Oh, oh!  I’m so sorry!!! Me too…it’s time for dinner. 🙁  I’ll probably be back in 40 minutes or an hour, if you happen to still be here.

@ariel-ashira I’m glad you like Chara!  She’s a lot like me as well…

How many times do you want Derek to save her?!  He just saved her in the first few pages, which I’m assuming you’ve read since you know so much about Chara? 😛

Hahahahaha!  Being a law student has nothing to do with the ability to write fiction!  If you want to comment on the…[Read more]