Ben Powell

@rochellaine Yay! cliffs!!!

Ooh, is it morning in Australia. They live in the future.

@dragon-snapper Oh, what an unfeeling character! 🙂 😀

*whoop* I think I’ve almost gotten past the bridge part and to the excitement!  I do believe one of my characters is about to fall off a cliff.

@seekjustice Good morning Australia!  Have you got that idea figured out for me today?  (Don’t worry too much about it, though, since I’m working on…[Read more]

@rochellaine XD Plot holes. They’re everywhere. One is of a friend who’s completely nonchalant that his friend is probably dead. 😐 Oops.

“What do you mean he doesn’t care?”
“He doesn’t.”
“What? That’s ridiculous!” *looks it up* “Wow. He doesn’t care at all. That’s… awful.”

@dragon-snapper Ack!  Sometimes it’s like a knife they’re sticking into you:

“What do you mean, I wasn’t consistent?!”
“Well, in the last scene they drove here in a car, and now they’re walking back home.”
“Are you serious?” *runs to look it up* “Aaaah! How could I have done that?”

(Fortunately, that one was a pretty easy fix, as all I had to…[Read more]

@rochellaine Well, even with planning, the scenes can be a bit disorganized sometimes. Especially when I miscalculate how long the chapter’s going to be, and then my chapters have this random sequence to them. And that’s where editing comes in.

Lol. I am not one of those people. My brother used to be fast on it, then he got a smartphone. I…[Read more]

@ethryndal Thank you!  Yes, it’s basically all about timing now.  We want the kids to be able to come home as soon as possible, but have to finish all the extra paperwork first. 🙁

It’s so amazing to know all these prayers are with us!

@dragon-snapper Well, of course I get ideas and plan in my head for my books, but I’ve never really written more than a paragraph-long synopsis of my plans before starting to write.  And plans often change during the process of writing.

It worked really well for my kids series, but I think my time travel novel could have used a little more…[Read more]

@rochellaine Exactly! It’s so annoying. *headdesk*

Woah. You’ve never planned. I applaud your panster-isms. 😛 I also want to try that again someday. But every time I do, the book fails… so. I don’t know. XD

Fun fact: Snapper doesn’t have a phone. 😛 The one I do have is a little retro flip-phone which takes five minutes to type out a small…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper And even though it’s really boring to write, you can’t let the readers know you’re bored! 😀

I’ve preferred typing to handwriting for a long time, but I also never have planned out or outlined any of my works before, and am just deciding that I need to do at least a little bit of that to make my western turn out well.  So while I…[Read more]

@that_writer_girl_99 I think @catwing did something similar with her WIP, Firebird, so she might like to talk about it. 🙂

@rochellaine Oh goodness, I relate to those bridge sections. It’s basically that way whenever I start a novel too. The first ten chapters are killer. XD I can’t stand those types of scenes.

Wow! Law school! That’s so cool! 😀 Lol Typing fast does feel awesome. 😛

I prefer typing it on the computer. I started writing my first novel from a…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper When I get to a place in my writing where I’m on the roll and can write several pages in a row I write very fast, but when I get to a “bridge” place in between interesting sections I sometimes will pout and leave the work entirely alone for a really long time.  Which practice is not at all conducive to completion of my stories!

I…[Read more]

@rochellaine Yeah! We should do it sometime. Word wars are great and do really improve writing speed. And I’ve been working on building my writing speed for two years now so… 😛 Anyway, yeah, sometimes I’m not editing and your not working on the ministry website. That’s great that you’re helping with that though! 😀 🙂

@dragon-snapper Actually, that’s a great idea since I have a huge problem with buckling down and focusing on one project. 😮 🙂

If I wasn’t working on the ministry website I would definitely take you up on that, though I would probably lose. 😀

@rochellaine XD Word wars. I know you wouldn’t necessarily be able to do that now since you’re multitasking, but by trying to top each others word counts, there’s not necessarily room for too much talking. 😛

@dragon-snapper And I guess it’s my place to ask: What way is that, exactly? 😀

@rochellaine LOL! Oops, sorry. XD That makes more sense now. Yep. Basically. Hey I’m on the Writers Corner. You want to chat to?

There is one way to remedy our chatting though…

@dragon-snapper Oh, that’s not what I meant. 😀  It’s just a joking excuse that we use when we get too distracted.  We always come on here with the intent and purpose of writing, but when we get distracted we’ve got to have a reasonable excuse. 🙂

Because like you said, getting distracted here is way too easy!

@rochellaine Ooh, multitasking. Cool. *nods*

Hey! That is a cool idea! However, because some people–oldies such as myself–still need a place to go to write, we could keep the Writers’ Corner for those writers who are writing, editing, brainstorming or whatnot, and whilst we do that we can do what we always do. Then for when we’re not writing…[Read more]

@dragon-snapper I’m just getting started updating my parents’ ministry website, and in between that (because I like working on multiple things at the same time) I’m working on my western.

We definitely get distracting here!  But I’ve come up with a solution to that question, which I shared with a couple of others and they liked it: This is…[Read more]