Ben Powell

@jenwriter17 *blushes* Goodness!  Thank you. 🙂

@gh24682468999 I write structured poetry.  Daeus did too, but he’s not here anymore.  (He’s one of those traitors that snuck off to join the enemy at Story Embers. 😛 )  I’m horrible at giving advice, but I would guess reading a lot of good poetry would help.  I write mostly comic poems, so I don’…[Read more]

@kaya-young I’m at the moment sort of experimenting with poetry once in a while. I like to write beautiful, graceful free verse rather than structured stanzas, although I do enjoy poems with structure as well.

Some great poetry tips I’ve heard include using imagery/metaphors as much as you can and aiming to make the piece beautiful.

Does anybody…[Read more]

@seekjustice I never understand pinterest. 😀  I look at stuff on it once in a while, but not often.

I edit, and edit, and edit, too. 😛  But I do it with everything. All those little “first chapter” bits that I write when I have an idea, but not the time to complete it?  I go through them all and edit once in a while, whenever I am looking fo…[Read more]

@seekjustice Is it strange that I don’t have a pinterest account? 😉

Haha, well, that’s the way I feel with my western.  I was wondering if maybe we’re opposites when it comes to writing and editing?  It takes me forever to write even a little, but I can edit pretty quickly, (as you might remember from the time I rewrote that passage of the w…[Read more]

@seekjustice Yup, yup!  That’s what happens.  You go on vacation, then you need a vacation from the vacation! 🙂

How is Stars coming along?  Is it nearly done? (Translation: Will I get to read it again soon?)

@seekjustice And I’m working on, guess what? My western! 😛  Of course.

Did you have fun at camp?

@seekjustice Oh, I wish I could.  😛  But I’m afraid that doesn’t really count.  Unless…are you thinking deeply over them in order to get ideas for how to improve your writing? 😉

@seekjustice I’m in bed, but I’m also starving, so if I convince myself to get up and find a midnight snack, I’ll be up for a while, and if not, I’ll fall asleep on you, but anyway, Hi!  Are you here now?

@seekjustice Are you back?  You said you’d be back on Tuesday/Monday.  Missed you!

@jenwriter17 Okay, goodbye. I once lived at a house for ten years before moving, so I get where you’re coming from. 🙁

@ariel-ashira Yes, I’m going to add that.  I have just written the intro paragraph so far.  I was asking for suggestions as to what else I should put in, but I had thought of that already.  Don’t worry. 🙂  (I don’t think I’l…[Read more]

@ariel-ashira I did a lot of mine on Befunky.com, which is a free website where you can edit photos and make collages and stuff like that.  That’s where I made my collages for my western and my story prompts from the Writing Prompt topic.  It’s really cool.

@jenwriter17 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gflTOcKtXoAZumzaM9hh5HC6uiyAURSwtlMGLO8aBOg/edit?usp=sharing

@jenwriter17 Nope, I’m writing a declaration of war against SE.  😛  I got the first paragraph done and got stuck.  Want to take a look and give suggestions for how I should continue?

@jenwriter17 I am writing.  What are you doing?  Still editing?

@ariel-ashira Of course I would miss you! 😉

@ariel-ashira @jenwriter17 We can declare war even if you’re on the Story Embers forum.  You can be the spies.

@skredder I doubt you’re still here, but if you are, I am. 🙂

@jenwriter17 @alia @ariel-ashira

@catwing According to that analogy, yes.  I like my best friend analogy better. 😛

*defends America* American tea is way better than British tea!!!  They have only one or two flavors that they stick to.  Americans have hundreds and thousands of different herbal teas, and we’re willing to experiment with any kind of blends!

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(*knows no…[Read more]

@kaya-young Ah, that might work.  Except for one thing.

Until they appear back in the Kingdom, at which point we will accept them into the forums again very kindly.

That is a wonderful statement, but we have already broken it twice.  After Ben declared he would visit once in a while, both you and Ariel made cracks about him being a traitor.  Do yo…[Read more]

@ariel-ashira Just a joke. 😉  You can like both SE and KP if you want to. 😛  Only don’t desert us!