Ben Powell

@bluejay Nope, I don’t have it.  Sorry. 🙁  But that sounds like an interesting business to have!

@seekjustice That sounds like a fun game.

Yeah, we’ve got flags everywhere.  American flags, state flags, sometimes other flags as well, for organizations, always placed under the American and state flags.  And if you go down South you do have the…[Read more]

@catwing By eight words! 😛 Congratulations.

@bluejay Cool, what’s the business?

@catwing I got 241 words.  How about you?

@bluejay Ah, that makes me feel better for Australians.  I’m glad you have the alphabet game. 😉  That’s funny though, that you find X to be a hard letter.  We can easily find it on all the “Exit” signs along the highways.  X is one of the absolute easiest letters to find.  I’ve never heard of “quote” signs.  @seekjustice do you have any idea…[Read more]

@seekjustice Ah yes, Bottle-o was mentioned in the video as well.

The alphabet game is a game played in the car where you basically look at road signs, license plates, or anything you can see to find each letter of the alphabet in order.  I believe it’s one of the most common car games in America.  Since “q” is one of the least used letters, w…[Read more]

@catwing I’d love to word war.  (It might help us both with our procrastination. 😉 )

@jenwriter17 Hi!  How’s it going?

@seekjustice I’ve been watching a YouTube video on the differences between American, British, and Australian English.  😀

The difference that really stuck out to me was that the Australian person in the video said you don’t have “Liquor stores” you have “bottle shops.”  Is that true?  And if so, how do you play the alphabet gam…[Read more]

@valtmy I see.  Yes, regarding worldbuilding that makes sense.

Well, in that case I think Jean would be stupid to be living still in the same city instead of relocating to another city or country.  The world is huge, and he can go anywhere he wants to, as he has a lot of money (I think that was established, right?) so why would he stay right t…[Read more]

@seekjustice Oh, and I don’t mean that Caderousse herself is necessarily a spy per se.  Just that she seems to be acting like one in the hypothetical you proposed.  If she’s targeting one particular person for one particular reason, rather than crime in general, she’d likely have some sort of spy system looking out specifically for what Jean is d…[Read more]

@seekjustice

My first thought on reading your question was on how that would impact the original confrontation between Caderousse and Sapphire.  If Caderousse had been observing and examining the Verde family for years in attempt to find a pretense to arrest Jean, (or something similar, I’m not sure exactly what you’re intending here, but the…[Read more]

@catwing @seekjustice @valtmy I’ll be leaving now.  Happy writing!

@catwing Wow, congratulations!!! 😀 😀

@catwing Well, I’m pretty consistent tonight.  This time it was 401 words. 😛

@seekjustice Who knows?  The Word processor seems to be quite a bunch of confusion, at any rate.

@catwing

Okay I’ll be starting my timer for 15 minutes now.  SeekJustice, you’ll be joining too, right?

@catwing Ah, I see. Yes, it did that to all my characters’ names too, but then I added them to the dictionary, so that helped.  Maybe you should do that.  Or you could keep it this way just so you can have the fun of complaining to and threatening Mr. Squiggly-Line.  Ooh, Mr. Squiggly-Line hyphenates.  Doesn’t that usually mean he’s pompous and…[Read more]

@seekjustice I checked, and mine wants to do the same, despite the fact that the sentence would make absolutely no sense if the word were “tripled” instead of “tripped.”  In fact, I am laughing right now at the picture I get of Bathshua moving so quickly she triples herself.  I wonder if it just means that the reader gets a weird form of double v…[Read more]

@seekjustice Yes, basically.  On Word documents a blue line usually means that you’ve made a grammatical error.

Here’s the sentence.  Do you see any grammatical errors in it?

Bathshua nearly tripped in her haste to step inside and close the door

As I said, on my document the word “tripped” is underlined as though it were used i…[Read more]

@seekjustice Thanks. 😉 Congratulations, of course.

I am currently trying to figure out why there’s a little blue line under the word “tripped” in the newly written part of my novel.

Isn’t spellcheck/grammar check annoying sometimes?

@seekjustice @catwing I got 400.

@catwing @seekjustice 15 minutes it is, then!  I’ll start my time now.