Ben Powell

@seekjustice Well, I don’t base all my characters on real people.  Just some of them.  But I do learn about character traits and behaviors from studying real people.  And I’ve always been sure every other writer does as well. 😉

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Hahaha!! 😛

I always think disclaimers that say “none of the characters are based on any real people” are ridiculous, because I totally base my characters on real people.

How else do you write realistic characters?? 😛

I wonder if it’s like the copyright laws, like, if you change ten percent of them they don’t count as based on…[Read more]

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Oh no, they can’t! 😛

Of course he didn’t.  Sweet little Curt.  Poor little Curt. 😀

Have you ever been on the TV Tropes website?  It’s hilarious.

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Not a chance!! 😮  I shall protect my characters! (but if the mean characters hurt them, that’s not necessarily my fault. 😉 )

😛 Ah, don’t worry.  I completely understand! 😀  I used to be extremely melodramatic in my writing, so a lot of my old bits contain characters who gasp and shriek or sob every few sentences.  It’s act…[Read more]

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Haha!  At least we know she’ll survive, right? 🙂

A character so completely perfect that I cringe now.

…in other words, Quillon? 😉 😛

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Bathshua is doing okay, the darling.  I got some good planning in over the past couple of days, and now have a clearer picture of how to get her where she needs to be.  But in order for that to happen she’s going to have to go through a lot. 🙁

Right now I’m working on a secret writing project, but I’ll get back to Daughter of J…[Read more]

@seekjustice I see. 🙂

Ah yes, I remember. 😀

Are you on now, or still celebrating your birthday?  (It’s technically “afternoon” for you, right?  But you didn’t say you would be on, only that you’d possibly be on.)

@seekjustice Wow, that’s cool!!  You’ve seen a bit of it on YouTube, right? (I think you said you skipped to the end.)  The guy who plays Sydney Carton (Dirk Bogarde) is one of my favorite actors.

So you have it on DVD now?

@seekjustice It’s your birthday?!!  Happy birthday!!!!  You’re turning eighteen, right?

@seekjustice @jenwriter17 @valtmy @alia @dekreel Anyone around?

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Yeah, it’s bad.  People go crazy sometimes. 🙁

Cool.  Well, I’m going to sign out now.  Goodnight!

@seekjustice It sounds like your Boxing Day is pretty similar to Black Friday. 😛  I have actually never been out on Black Friday, so I don’t personally know what it’s like, but I’ve heard lots of stories… 😉

Ah, is this your “contemporary genre” book?

I’m still muddling through Daughter of Judas, and groaning because the research is going horribly.

@seekjustice I see. 🙂  Actually, the stores here have sales every chance they get.  Labor day, Memorial Day, Easter, Valentine’s Day…if it’s a holiday, there’s a sale, and if there’s not a holiday for a long time, make up a reason for a sale. 😛  But of course, there are some specific sale times like right after Christmas and on Black Fr…[Read more]

@seekjustice Things are okay.  I’ve been sick the past week, but am mostly better now, with just sniffles and a cough.  I had fun today because my brother took me and my sisters to the mall for a Labor Day sale shopping trip. (That’s just an American holiday, right?)

How about you?  Did you have a good time on your trip?  (I think I may have tal…[Read more]

@seekjustice Yup! 🙂

@seekjustice I’m here now.

@alia Your speech?  That was pretty random, but…you’re welcome?  😛

Any particular reason you were thinking of that today?

@seekjustice You’re back!!  Yippee! 😀  I wish I’d seen your post earlier.  I am on for a bit, if you’re around now.

@ariel-ashira I wouldn’t say “finally” as I have been working on Daughter of Judas for a quite a while.

Research is such a huge subject covering such diverse topics that your question cannot be answered. 😛  I mean, all I can say to your general question is that I use Google and books.  And that’s what all researchers do.  Of course, some go to…[Read more]

@catwing Sorry that I can’t like or comment on anything.  I’m not on Facebook.  But I did see it, and congratulations again. 🙂  Hope you get lots of visitors who are signed in, so you can get likes. 😉

Oh, okay.  It’s so hard to keep track. 😛 Especially when it’s not a real book yet – just a beginning.

All right, there you go.  Vanish.  Disapp…[Read more]