Ben Powell

@seekjustice Oh, wow!!  Please send it over!  I don’t know how much I’ll read tonight, since I’ve got to get up around 5:30 tomorrow, but I might read it tomorrow in the car or something.  (My dad’s speaking at a church a few hours away, so we’ve got to leave by 6:30.)

I listened to a new soundtrack today… 😉

@jenwriter17 Oh, I love Gideon too!!  He’s adorable.  So cute, especially when he…uh…every scene… 😛  But I love it when he dances with Milly in the “Goin’ Courtin'” scene.  And when he says “nice night for coon huntin'” as a “sweet thing.” 😛 (that was him, right?  It’s been a while.)

That actor is one of my favorite actors as well.  Funny…[Read more]

@valtmy Sorry, I went to sleep early last night, so I’m replying now. 🙂

Ah, haha.  Now that I put you through all the trouble of explaining I suddenly remembered that SeekJustice put a big backstory scene in with Maria in the second draft. 😛  I think she’s already thought through all those issues and will fix them as she finishes the second d…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 Oh, I do too!  Jane Powell, (Milly,) is one of my absolute favorite female singers.  Possibly my favorite, but I never can decide… 😛

My favorite song is probably “Bless Yore Beautiful Hide.”  (What do you think of Howard Keel’s voice?  It’s really deep and cool sounding, isn’t it?  Or do you prefer tenors?)  But all the songs are amazing.

@valtmy I have never fully read Les Mis, actually.  I’ve skimmed it and read parts of it, and read the synopsis several times, so I know a lot of the story, but I would say I could probably give a pretty near perspective of a reader who hasn’t read Les Mis. 😉  What “contrived resolution” are you referring to?  Because you mentioned several th…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 Oh, cool!  Yes, that’s the most popular part generally, I believe.  Or at least, the most famous part.  It’s really well choreographed.

Who is your favorite character?  What’s your favorite song?

@valtmy Oh, and did you read through all our crazy comments at the end of When Infinity is Empty?  Some of them are pretty hilarious. 😛

@valtmy Hi!  Sure, you can read my fanfics. 😀  @seekjustice has one too, so you can ask her for that.  But I have written two that I’ll post here for you:

Legend of the Re…[Read more]

@seekjustice Ok, I’m falling asleep now.  See you tomorrow, and have fun at dance class!

Great!  I’m waiting to read it, of course! 😀

@seekjustice I won’t be awake much longer than that anyway. 😉

It’s going pretty well. 😀  I’m still having fun, which is good.  Since I’m getting sleepy it’s a little slower than it was earlier, but I’m still pretty much on a roll.  I hope the “roll” lasts long enough for me to get a good deal done!

How’s your editing?

@valtmy Sorry I disappeared!  I got called away and haven’t had a chance to get back until now.

@seekjustice Are you around?  I finally am sitting down again after a birthday party for my sister, singing for a while with our guests, family worship, and then chatting till now it’s nearly one o’clock. 😀  Lots of fun stuff going on today!!  I’m wid…[Read more]

@seekjustice Ok, bye!

@valtmy Hi!  Are you still here?

@seekjustice I wanted so badly to focus on just one thing, (my western,) but I guess that didn’t happen. 🙂

I see.  Well, I like listening to songs in other languages if I have the translation and like the translation.  But since English is easiest for me to sing I prefer to listen to songs which I can learn.  I know a few songs in Italian, th…[Read more]

@seekjustice I hope to!  I’m having fun right now, and I think that’s the most important ingredient for quick progress in writing.

I’m being horribly mean to my poor heroine, though… 🙁

Maybe it’ll be a good thing for me to do both this and my western at the same time, since the western is much lighter, while this is darker than what I…[Read more]

@seekjustice I think I showed you the opening a while back.  It’s Daughter of Judas.  Do you remember?  I was planning on finishing my western first, but I guess it’ll be easier to just go back and forth.  And if I can work on it straight through this month for camp I should have a great deal done, and maybe I’ll end up finishing a big proj…[Read more]

@seekjustice Working on my camp nano project. 😉  It’s not my western… 😮 😛  For some reason that one still wasn’t going that well.  I have the western all out in my head but it’s not going down.  I think it might be because I’m not used to writing with a plan, so a structured plot made me feel cramped or something.  Anyway, I have some…[Read more]

@seekjustice Hello!  I’m here now. 😀

@valtmy Yes, I understand that.  I had the same problem with her second book. 🙁  I did manage to get extremely attached to the guy who ended up dying, but since I already knew he was going to die it wasn’t a shock or anything when he did.

Ok, it’s time for breakfast so I’m going to depart.

What time is it where you live?

@valtmy Yes, when I posted it was only 10:00 for her, so I thought she might be here for another half hour or so, but I guess not. 🙂  She does sometimes stay up later, and since I didn’t get to talk to her last night I thought I’d take the chance.

Ah, just finished?  I have a feeling you’ll be needing these. *hands you a box of tissues*  Ev…[Read more]

@seekjustice You were quite right.  I did go to sleep. 😛  But I’m awake now, going to try and get some early morning writing done.  Are you still awake?