Ben Powell

@jenwriter17 Yes, or a book.  My quote is from a popular girls book written about a Canadian island circa 1900…Does that give anyone clues?

@kaya-young That sounds like it came from a movie – but then, I really only watch classic movies, so how would I know? 😀  Is it from Disney?

@seekjustice I’m so glad you liked it!

@amily-huddleston Hi!  Welcome!  You write realistic fiction?!! That’s wonderful!  So do I, almost exclusively, but I’ve rarely met anyone else who does.  Fantasy seems to be in style. 🙂

Do you write historical or contemporary?  I do a little of both, but mostly contemporary.

And a word about the theme… it’s amazing. Gramps is a cool guy, and you’ve developed both him and Tommy very well, and it carries the story through. Good job on character development + theme! You communicate a lot of spiritual information well, but it’s not cliche or annoyingly preachy.

@ceaseless-prayer I just read through the entire thing and…wow! This is such a thought-out piece of work. It’s amazing that you get to help shoot this whole thing, and act in it as well!

If I have time I may scroll through it and find a few little details that I saw… but I remember that in the first or second page you still had a…[Read more]

@amily-huddleston WELCOME TO THE BESTISTEST PLACE ON THE INTERNET!

Yo. I won the game for once. 😉

Ooh, realistic fiction. Do you have a current WIP?

@valtmy Okay, that makes sense, but would the scene have to be before the airport scene, or could it be later in the book as Chara remembers it happening?

There should be a pretty stressful scene in a few pages and I’m planning to have her unable to take care of it until someone helps her.  This should show her at the bottom of her self-reliance…[Read more]

@perfectfifths Hooray!  My brother quotes that movie a lot. 🙂

@dekreel I didn’t notice the second quote the first time.  The word “dynamic” makes me think of the dynamic duo (Batman and Robin) but it is highly unlikely you would use a quote from the 1960s here, so I’m sure that has nothing to do with it.  🙂

@jenwriter17 @seekjustice @kaya-young…[Read more]

Whoops! Double post. 😀

@mariposa I like the “Rome was not built in a day” quote.  It helps remind us that though writing isn’t always easy, by keeping at it we may come up with something grand. 🙂

@daughteroftheking Cool description!

Here’s a quote by one of my favorite authors – Carolyn Wells.

“A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil…[Read more]

@mariposa I like the “Rome was not built in a day” quote.  It helps remind us that though writing isn’t always easy, by keeping at it we can come up with something grand. 🙂

@daughteroftheking Cool description!

Here’s a quote by one of my favorite authors – Carolyn Wells.

“A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil…[Read more]

My post keeps getting deleted.  I hope it stays here this time 🙂  Sorry if it keeps sending you emails with the same post, but it just won’t show up on the forum.

@seekjustice For some reason I decided to write this today.  It was originally supposed to be semi-funny like the quote I showed you last night, but it ended up – well, like it is. :)…[Read more]

@alia Sure! And especially so that you’re an MK. Let me know what you think!

@seekjustice Thank you so much!  Looking it up right now…

Okay, bye!  Have fun! (But sometimes it’s fun to be antisocial! 🙂 If you get to write instead.)

@seekjustice The only things I have done with guy characters before was I gave one of them an anger problem which I didn’t fully develop because he was taking care of his sister for most of the book and didn’t have time to be angry himself, and the other guy was just thoughtless about the feelings of others for a little while when he was enjoying himself.

@seekjustice Well, there are worse things to be known for. 😀

How do you make a guy character?  I’m having trouble with Derek because I know people will get annoyed if he’s perfect, and he actually isn’t because I’m planning for him to have a big argument with someone sometime in the book – though the argument isn’t entirely his fault – but to m…[Read more]

@seekjustice You have chosen wisely.

But you do such a good job killing your characters that if you did end up doing so, I would probably be cry for a really long time (which I did while reading Stars Fill Infinity) and then give up and say, “Yeah, it’s probably better that way.”

@seekjustice *screams* Don’t you dare!  If you even lay a finger on him I will physically unphysicalize myself and enter your imagination zone to wrest him from your clutches!

And you had better take my warning seriously.  As Colonel Nobody would say, “I never threaten, I warn.  If my warning is unheeded, I act.” *glowers*

@seekjustice By the way, I adore Quillon, and am very happy he’s still around.

@seekjustice Okay, my brain is still frozen, so I just randomly decided to do a character chart for my main male character.  I haven’t really met him yet, so I think I need to get to know him a little better. 🙂  Hopefully it goes well, as it will be only the second character chart I have ever attempted!