Charles Dickens…interesting. I found this from Ribbons of Light.

“One of the most amusing and inexpensive pleasures for a creature is the echo.”

from the mind of the Painter

I swiped this tag/list from my dear friend Bluejane…I hope you learn a little more about my writing…

Do you prefer handwriting or typing furiously? I used to type because it was faster, but now I used ink and a dipping pen

How often do you get inspiration? Constantly

Do you get inspiration more in the early morning or late at night? Usually in the evenings, mornings I am too busy

Do certain movies/books/music inspire you? Absolutely

How do you incorporate God into your stories? I try to show my respect for my faith in my stories

Do you kill off your villains or make them repent? I try to make them see their wrong in some light, but occasionally a uncouth man will see his fate by the end of chapter 28

Is the majority of your characters magical beings, humans or halflings? Or something else? My characters are humans on a place called Earth, heard of it?

What genre of writing are you most comfortable in? If you were to step out of your comfort zone? I write life stories. I add romance, wit, drama, denial, betrayal, and many other genres into a plot

Do you work better alone or with someone else? By myself, I tried writing a story with my cou-sins, however I realized I am an independent writer

Do your stories make sense, or do they ramble wildly? I try with all of my pen to make them see reason, but occasionally my characters go off on their own and ruin the plot

Are your characters mostly Renegades, Peacekeepers or a mish-mash? all of the above

Are you a sucker for good grammar? I have to admit yes, but I am all for olde English

How is your handwriting? It is not that bad, I can read it

How evil are your villains? I do not make them demon possessed but sometimes the immorality of their sin nature will cause some destruction amongst their acquaintances

Are you long-winded or succinct? succinct in ordinary life, but long winded when speaking with my pen

Do you have typical writer traits such as ink stains on your fingers or a pencil behind your ear? right now I have ink stains on my fingers…look…

(It is usually a lot worse)

Do you write mostly poetry, stories, novels or a mixture? I have been getting better at poetry, I occasionally write little stories, and I am an avid novelist

Do your characters vary in accents, appearance and attitude or are they mostly the same? I enjoy English characters with good English accents, and adding some foreigners (to them) like Bohemians, Americans, Egyptians, etc.

Do real people and/or places inspire your writing? I base character qualities and faults that I see in others into my own creations. And if I see a nice picture of an English country garden or an ivy covered cottage I whip out my pen and ink and start scribbling

What is your favorite character? Or do you choose to remain unbiased in case of a revolt? Character, as in a book? I would have to say…Judah Ben Hur, but from one of my own stories…I would have to go with my dear Ada Livingston, an English lady who is blind and talented, and being blind she is able to see people by who they really are…through their speech and tone, and not have to worry about their dress or physical features

Do you talk to your characters? I will occasionally speak as if I was in my story, just to get a feel for the scene

Are you more comfortable with girl or boy main characters? I like women characters, and yet the male characters are not that difficult to write into the story

Do you follow basic overused plot lines with new twists thrown in or do you depart from the norm all the time? I use the plot lines that I like - from my own imagination, and if it so happens to be from Austen, Dickens, Stevenson, or Gaskell…so be it…they just used it a couple hundred years earlier than I

Do you feel God has called you to be a writer/poet? I believe that God has given me a natural DESIRE to write, but as far as a GIFT, I am not sure. I usually end up explaining twice what is going on to my family…but I just keeping saying “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”

A moment gone,

and a life taken,

a breath swept away,

and a leaf shaken.

The Tree of Life is always changing,

with branches growing,

and colours fading.

The wind that blows from the Heavens came,

and blew the leaves of Life away,

and these three souls that once blossomed

struck down in the tide of day.

And now the Tree that grows in all,

has let three Leaves begin their fall.

Then  away to a cool Southern breeze,

and taken away from the ever changing Tree,

the leaves of souls are gone away,

to be anew in a different day.

This is not my finest poem, but I thought I would jot something down quickly in memory of a friend I heard was killed in an automobile accident today. Pray for their family.

“What is Hollywood, but to assure us the bad guy always loses, the good guy triumphs after saving the damsel, who is never happy unless in distress, and that no matter how tangled characters may get, at the end of two hours, it was only a misunderstanding.” -by me