Ben Powell

@seekjustice I don’t have the book.  I think the only Austen books we have are Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice.  Oh, and Mansfield Park.  Out of those four I hated one, liked another, and two were neutral, but I have no idea which book goes in which category, since I quit Austen after that. 😛

I only got Pride and Pr…[Read more]

@seekjustice Wonderful!  It seems like it would be much more comedic than your Infinity series. 😛  But…but you hate Jane Austen.  So, when and how did you convince yourself to read Northanger Abbey?

Oh, sounds great. 😀  I thought it would be something he’d say to Chessy, though, and it seemed like by the third book they’d be basically eng…[Read more]

Anyone on? @dekreel @catwing @jenwriter17

@alia Can I read your story?

@seekjustice I absolutely loved your idea for a Northanger Abbey retelling where the protagonist reads too many sci-fi novels!!!  That would be hilarious!

And I completely wish you had put in “You disrupt the balance of my life!”  That would be so cool.  It’s one of the be…[Read more]

@catwing Hm, maybe it was a different girl.  I remember someone coming to our booth and talking about my books and I asked her mom if it was okay if I recommended books with romance in them, and the mom said that the girl had read the LCS series.  Guess I mixed you up with someone else.  If it wasn’t you, I have no idea who she was…you’re the on…[Read more]

@seekjustice 😀

Yeah, that’s the tough part. 🙁

Ah, okay.  You know, it’s actually one musical where the main plot isn’t romance…sort of. 😛  It’s more about a father and daughter, though it includes their love interests, of course.  But yes, it’s quite funny.

And I’ll say goodnight now.  Talk to you later!

@seekjustice Wait a minute, wait a minute!!  “It’s hardly my fault that you people like talking about them so much.” ????  Who’s the one who wrote them in the first place, friend? 😛

Yes!!  That would be quite nice. 😀  Sometimes I even change my voice so I can feel like I’m singing the two different parts correctly. 😉

Did you get a chance to…[Read more]

@seekjustice Yeah, yeah.  You who wrote the books containing the two most talked-of couples on this forum… 😛  And two love triangles – if you count that awful way you changed Rain in the second draft of Stars. (yup, still complaining about that. 😉 )

Haha, since I wasn’t comfortable talking about specific things with her, (I don’t know her v…[Read more]

@seekjustice They’re probably the least romance-y of any romance novels you could ever read.  Like I said, they’re more about families than romance, usually.  Or at least half and half.

You could always try one of her stand alone novels, and then if you didn’t like it you could get out of awkward conversations by just saying, “I probably read t…[Read more]

@seekjustice Hey, I’m here for a few minutes.

Well…Janette Oke’s books are not “mushy”.  They’re more family books, with the romance there just as part of the life story.  Especially in the Love Comes Softly series.  I think probably half of her books start with the couple already married, and a lot of them are more about siblings caring for ea…[Read more]

@catwing I know you’ve read the Love Comes Softly series, though.  Isn’t my memory good? 😛  So, that should prove you don’t dislike romance too much.  But that’s what you said anyway. 😉

@seekjustice Don’t worry, I haven’t disintegrated.  I’m busy right now, though.  Might be around in an hour or so, or might go to sleep.  I’ll let you know…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 Oh, oh!!  Haha, I just remembered, I was looking through our sales a few days ago and saw that I’d sold one of those.  I was quite surprised, since the only links are from the ministry website, so people are looking for my parents’ books, not mine.

Now the mystery is solved! 😀

@jenwriter17 Oh…oh my. 😛  How in the world did you find that??

Ohh…from the ministry website’s page on Lulu?

I hope you like it okay!  The beginning (first several chapters) is very boring and forgettable.  But if you can get past that, it gets a little better.  😉

Wow, you’ll be the first person on KP who has read that! 😀 This is exc…[Read more]

@seekjustice I see. 🙂  I love making up names!

Oh, wow. I love the rhythm of that poem!

Don’t worry.  I’ve been going on tangents all night! 😛

Oh, that is strange.  You need to try it out!! 😉  You should watch the pilot episode first, if possible, just to get the background, but then whatever order of episodes you want.

I’m leaving now.  Goodnight!

@seekjustice Okay, I’m in an analyzation mood, so here’s my take on those names:

Moonaru and Mooniji have too much “moon” in them, and they make me think of moony romance or loony weirdness.  (Yeah, sorry, couldn’t come up with a better phrase than “loony weirdness” which is sad, seeing as I’m a writer, but that’s life.)

Narara is too much of a…[Read more]

@alia Haha, your idea reminds me of the Studio C episode where the Narrator has a fight with the protagonist. 😛  Have you seen that?

Let’s see… (I’ll copy @seekjustice‘s style of listing 😉 )

Villain Cliches:

• Male villain has a mustache
• Female villain is either the most beautiful woman in the world, or extremely ugly
• Villain’s voice…

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@alia 😀 😀 😀 😀

Sometimes, I suppose, I’m just in a rambling mood.  And no matter what I write at those times, it always seems to turn out a ramble.  But, at least it has amused you. 😉

How close or far from your character was the analyzation, really?  I mean, if you already picked a name, you must have picked a character, right?

So, is th…[Read more]

@seekjustice @alia Forgive me, both of you.  I believe I’m in a rambling mood tonight.  I just totally rambled on for hours in my posts to both of you. 😛

I hope you don’t get too confused or bogged down in my mental spiderwebs. 😉

(How would you get “bogged down” in “spiderwebs?”  I’ve always known I was horrible at symbolism, but this is really bad.)

@alia I often go into a book with one opinion of a name and come out with another opinion.  If I originally hated a name, and the books hero had the name, I usually like the name afterwards, or the other way around. 😛

So basically, whatever you use it for, I think the name will mold itself to your character, in your readers’ eyes.

However, you…[Read more]

@seekjustice Oh, yes.  I love cliches!!!  But while I enjoy cliches being made fun of, I actually like real cliches used seriously.  I guess…hm, what sort of cliches did I use in my short stories? 😛 I didn’t do it on purpose.  I don’t mind if I did, I just never thought of it before.  Are stupid doctors cliche?  Valtmy seemed to think they…[Read more]

@seekjustice

Rochellaine likes doing clichés and making them humorous, so she might have some tips for you!

Um…did you mean @valtmy?  Or were you referring to something in one of my stories that for some reason I do not remember?

By the way, I’m back, finally. 😀

@alia Hi! how’s it going?