Ben Powell

@jenwriter17 yeah! 😀

@ingridrd Thanks for tagging me, though I think once I finish the two drawings I’ve promised, it would do me well to take a break from drawing OC’s.

@kaya-young Welcome! I’m 15 years of age, too. And homeschooled(surprise!) I’m an artsty person too, what kind of crafts do you enjoy? And what music do you like? I’m a huge fan of all things Adam Young and also love the earlier Owl City projects.

Welcome to the forum, @aviantrail ! I’ve always wanted to keep fish. I’m homeschooled as well, though I am only on my first writing project.  My myers-briggs is INFJ. I’ve heard of the warrior cats series before and at one point i was going to read it, though I have not.

@ingridrd How’s it going? I wrote about 300 words which ended up a little bit like what I had originally written, but now I’ve switched to editing another short story.  (I get distracted easily.)

@Bella-D it would appear I have been summoned. Thank you @daeus.  🙂

Let me see… there are a number of potential answers to this question. The one that ended up being the answer for me isn’t so much about changing the side of the character that is reserved, brooding, and unresponsive, but about developing a second side to balance it— the one…[Read more]

@sam-kowal Thanks!  As you probably know by now, I took a look at the doc.  It actually helped a lot as an explanation of what I need to fix.

I definitely can’t use your examples – because his voice totally changes in them from my version of his voice. 🙂  But I consider that a good thing because otherwise I’d feel like you had written it in…[Read more]

@ingridrd Last night I lost about 500 words of a short story when my computer failed. 🙁  For some reason it didn’t even autosave.  So now I’m trying to remember what I had written and re-write it.

@ingridrd Hello yourself.  What type of world-building?

@ingridrd Okay, I’m here.  Maybe now I’ll have the courage to rewrite those 500 words I lost last night.

@bella-d I think the first way people learn to make relationships is when someone else forces them out of their shell into a relationship.  I know this may seem cliche, but I think the reason it works so well in fiction is because it is like that in real life.  I have seen traumatized and withdrawn people who opened up after a lot of patience a…[Read more]

@seekjustice I just remembered: We have a friend who wrote a really successful series and got it published by a publishing company instead of self-publishing.  He says that he has a lot of trouble with that because when he goes to conferences and such to sell his books and do book-signings, he has to actually get permission and buy the books f…[Read more]

Hi!  Here are some more names I’ve come up with which I hope will not wallow in the depths of unrecognized insignificance for the rest of their inky lives.

Girls:

1. Vimone
2. Tatali
3. Roshley
4. Ǽnkli
5. Rutalie
6. Karnie
7. Karby
8. Saree Jarren

<b>Guys:</b>

1. Coleard
2. Ellshir
3. Jamras
4. Anret Poon
5. Powon Vicane
6. Byrk
7. Annert Shyth
8. Jarren S…

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@kaya-young I actually haven’t seen the movie, but I’m sure if I did I’d like the book better.  I have a standard rule which usually is correct, that if the book was written first, it’s better than the movie, and if the movie was made first, it’s better than the book. 🙂  However, once I found out that in the movie Charlotte was voiced by Debbie R…[Read more]

@seekjustice Well the kids series is just simple, clean, adventure stories for about ages 8-14.  Four brothers and sisters go underground, in the mountains, to Florida, and solve a few mysteries. 😉  I’ve gotten really good reviews on them since I published the first two in 2014.

The novel is a time travel book I finished in 2016 but we’ve had a…[Read more]

@seekjustice By the way, have you ever published a book before?  I’ve published 7 so far, though none as grand as yours.  6 books in a kids series and a 300 page novel.  No real themes to speak of.  But just wondering what your publishing experience is.

@seekjustice Or the fact that they’re staying up til 2 discussing it with you?  🙂  I’m in the US on the East Coast.

@jenwriter17 No, I just didn’t mention them. But I checked out iStock and it looks wonderful. Thanks!

@seekjustice I’m glad I didn’t lose it after all.  Whew!  At least now I only have one thing to rewrite. 🙂

Oh Hooray!  I found it!  It disappeared for a little while, but clicking back into “history” I was able to salvage it. 🙂  Here it is:

@seekjustice That’s a little hard to answer, actually, since I come from the same viewpoint and am automatically reading it assuming she did something wrong, and interpreting what’s written to read that she did so…[Read more]