Ben Powell

@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]

@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 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. 😀

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@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 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?

@alia Thank you f…[Read more]

@seekjustice Nevada is very far away from me. 🙂  I’m on the East Coast, and it’s nearly on the West Coast.  However, I go out there in July or August every year to Lake Tahoe for a conference my law school holds there.  *sits back and waits until I can breathe again* You seriously have a map of the US for us on KP?  What do you do, put pins in it…[Read more]

@alia Yes, they would be.  What I was saying is that the majority of her characters seem to get themselves killed, so rather than waiting till the book is done and just fading out of her charge like most writers’ characters do, they get suddenly cut off in the middle of the book.

@alia No!  SeekJustice’s characters get “out of her charge” when she kills them!!!!

That would possibly be relieving for some, if they were Christians, I guess.  Except characters aren’t real, so when they die, they just die.  They can’t actually go to heaven.

@seekjustice Go ahead and defend yourself if you like.  I’m just stating facts. 😛

@seekjustice Haha!  I’m actually working on a blog post right now.  You have nothing to worry about when you compare your frequency of posts to mine!  My last post was nearly a month ago, while yours was only eight days ago.

Well, I do have a cousin who’s a police officer.  He’s a K-9 officer, actually, which is pretty cool.  But he’s reall…[Read more]

@catwing Hello!  Which book?  Firebird?  By the way, I can’t wait to read that. 🙂

Yeah, probably.  I think the worst thing, though, would be trying to figure out who to talk to.  Would I want to go to the police headquarters or something?  I know someone who just went and sat in the car with a police officer to talk, but I’d be afraid that the o…[Read more]

@Jenwriter17 aw yay! I’m glad you liked them. 😉

@seekjustice I’m currently semi-freaking out, since I just realized I’ll have to have police in my western. 😛  More research!  Ugh.  Usually I like research, but I’m not sure just how to research the particular things I’m going to have to research since I’d like to actually talk to some police or something…and I’m afraid that would be nerve-wracking.

@seekjustice Hello!!  I’m here.  Are you crying again? 😀

@seekjustice Well, I’m going to go now.  Thanks for warring with me!

Hope you can figure out the plot hole. (I have a selfish reason, though.  I want to read the rest of your book! 😛 )

Goodnight!

@seekjustice 😀 😀

Oh, awful plot holes!  Have you seen this? 😛

@seekjustice You win, as expected. 😉  Good job!

How’s it coming along?  Are you still crying?  I was just listening to a weepy song before I came on here. 🙂

@seekjustice 395 words done.  How about you?

@seekjustice I know. 🙁

Sure, ten minutes!  Let’s go!

@seekjustice Oh no!  Don’t do that! 😛

I’m trying desperately to catch up where I’ve fallen behind on my western.  It’s not working. 🙁  Want to have a word war?

@seekjustice You still here?