Ben Powell

@jenwriter17 heh… I’ve got the opposite problem. 😛

*scratches head* I would say probably the number one thing that makes my novels so ridiculously long is the crazy amount of time I spend really delving into the layers of chemistry in live scenes. I try to do all live scenes if I possibly can (no summaries, no overviews, no generalizations)…[Read more]

@seekjustice Haha, Hooray! 😀

Got to go!  Goodnight!

@seekjustice And in the past few minutes I’ve completely changed my ideas of what those names sound like to me.  So forget that whole list, I guess. 😛

Like I said, though, whatever you choose will end up being great, because the readers will like the character and probably end up liking the name.

But still choose Adelaide and “Ladle”!

@seekjustice I think it can depend on what type of girl she is.  Florence makes me think “Florrie” and so I think of a delicate flower of a girl.  Adeline is a bit harsher, because of the heavy “d” and “i”.  Violet again is delicate.  Harriet sounds like a bit of a stiff, motherly sort of person, and Charlotte hits me the same way.  Flora is beau…[Read more]

@seekjustice Yes, but when you’re speaking it you can’t tell the difference between Frances and Francis.  It’s sort of like Aaron and Erin.  Though those two are pronounced with a very slight variation, most people can’t tell the difference.

Nicknames for Adelaide?  Adele, Addy, Addie, Lady, Aida, Day, Dae, shall I go on? 😛 (I’ve thought of se…[Read more]

@seekjustice Well, I really don’t like gender-neutral names, since there’s already too much of that going on in the world lately, so I don’t like Francis much at all. 🙁 sorry, sister of SeekJustice. 😀  Angelica is very nice, but almost too pretty, isn’t it?  I like Adelaide a lot! (Not personally, but in comparison with Augustine, I mean. 😉 )…[Read more]

@seekjustice Yes, I knew a girl named Tabitha too, and she was nice.  I just don’t happen to like the name.  But it’s just my preference.

I do like those better, but…what station were Mr. and Mrs. Quillon?  Augustine sounds pretty grandiose, while Tabitha, Abigail, and Bethany all sound like calico and sunbonnets.  Augustine sounds more lik…[Read more]

@seekjustice Cool!  One of my brothers plans to be a missionary pilot.

I’ll do that!  Thanks. 😉

Well, I really don’t like the name Tabitha, but I guess you’re trying to get an old-fashioned, not-so-pretty name to match Augustine, right?

(Oh, or do you actually like the name Tabitha?  I hope I didn’t just horrify you by calling it unpretty!  Sorry…)

@seekjustice Do you know a lot of pilot jargon? 😛  I think you said something about knowing a pilot, but I don’t really remember.

Chara is, but Uncle Bill isn’t.  I can’t tell when he’s going to be out of the hospital until I know what’s wrong with him, and at present I have no idea what’s wrong with him. 😛  Poor Uncle Bill!  But anyway, he’…[Read more]

@seekjustice Well, during WWI the pilots could see each other pretty well since the planes weren’t as sealed in as they are now, right?  I’ve read of dogfights where the pilots saw the expressions on their opponents’ faces sometimes.

Well actually right now it’s going okay.  I think. 😛  I’m at a kind of boring part so I’m hoping I can get th…[Read more]

@seekjustice  Dogfights are cool, but I wouldn’t know how to write them either. 😀  Have you read the Tales of the RAF by Don Patterson?

Well, right now I have my stuff on a flash drive  so I’m trying to work on my western from our desktop computer. 🙂

@seekjustice Working on anything at present?

@sarah-anson I struggle with this, too. In my limited experience of struggling to understand the MC of my novel premise, I would say something that’s important would be to get to the heart of this character, to feel their brokenness in the pit of your stomach and be able to relate to that. The main impression I got from your description was that…[Read more]

@ariel-ashira
I think how they react would be a product of who the characters actually are. I haven’t read many of the other comments so this may have already been noted, but I would try to develop the characters more. Thankfully, KP has planty of articles on that. 🙂

@seekjustice Oh my goodness, no!  You were not rude.  🙂  You were just expressing an opinion.  The reason I jumped out so quickly last night with that very short post was because my computer was acting up.  (And besides, it was very late. 😉 )

So please don’t worry about it.  I never thought you were rude at all.

@seekjustice Yes it is.

Oh, I see.  Sorry it’s not to your taste! 😉

Well, I have to go.  Goodnight!

@seekjustice Have you heard of the Christian Christmas Carol musical?  They change things up a bit so the ghosts are angels (except Marley, who’s still a ghost) and Scrooge becomes a Christian at the end, but it’s pretty similar to the book.  I’m biased, though, since I grew up on it. 😛

Haha, yeah, but didn’t they grow up in the sequel?  I do…[Read more]

@seekjustice Haha, sorry. 🙂  I haven’t read much Dickens, but I normally like lighter reads, so that’s probably part of the reason.  I grew up on the Christmas Carol musical, which was done every year at my grandmother’s church, so I do like that story, though when I read the actual version it was kind of eerie… 😛 But I still liked it.

Did y…[Read more]

@seekjustice That actually sounds like a pretty normal plot for a classic. 😛  But okay, it does sound kind of interesting.  I’ve never liked Dickens overly much, though. 🙁  I prefer Verne and Twain for classics.

Say, have you had a chance to look up the Shirley Temple Princess and the Goblins?