You’re not wrong. That’s mostly stuff I’ve come across in my research as well. Though I hadn’t actually connected the dots yet between the emancipation and the Confederacy’s foreign aid. That makes sense, though, beside seemingly pro-slavery quotes attributed to Lincoln, if he wasn’t actually all that much of an abolitionist, and was only…[Read more]

Can’t say I’ve read that one yet, actually. I am definitely interested in getting my hands on it now, though.

With Lee, In Virginia, by G.A. Henty is one that I have read, roughly halfway through high school. It takes place through the eyes of a southerner (plantation owning) protagonist. Again, a work of fiction, but early in the…[Read more]

Got so busy with life that I hven’t logged on in a couple months…

Anyway,

In real history, probably no real reason for the west to start a second secession, other than because they probably could’ve gotten away with it.

But in my story timeline, the town that sparks the new secession movement is under the leadership of…[Read more]

But in the interest of not giving you enough reading to last till kingdom comes… XD
…I will keep it down to some of my most major people…a few of my most, most major people…or maybe just one, given how deep this is probably gonna go…

~Ben…[Read more]

However, I have found a few individuals who seem to have taken a shining to the story,…[Read more]

I will say I’m in favor of the suggested ideas. I don’t know that I…[Read more]

Really? That is a unique view! How would that have worked out, or why do you consider them both to be in the wrong, if I may ask?

Well, the south had slavery, obviously. But freeing the slaves was done all wrong, in my opinion. Britain did it 30 years before the US did, without a bloody and divisive war. And even to this day, the…[Read more]

“The Civil War (I am assuming that when you said Civil War and then American Civil War as well, you were talking about the same war ) , WWI, WWII…I don’t agree with you. Usually that might be what we hear, but that is more our own faults than it is anything else. Or, if we are public schooled, maybe. Otherwise, there are all kin…[Read more]

Now, I admit, I have not read the books, but I have picked up snippets of various books from various places, and I think I can rightfully say they would’ve been a waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better story than “the first order” and their “death planet”. XD

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I think my favorite hi-fi is the G.A. Henty series. I read…I wanna say “most” of the collection, as part…[Read more]

My life philosophy is…[Read more]

@kari-karast I have a bit of a fascination–okay, obsession–with creating and destroying. And I just like the way  Lewis depicts these events. I have the Focus on the Family dramatized audio, and those parts genuinely send shivers down my spine.
As…[Read more]

The Hobbit, and a tossup between The Magician’s Nephew and The Last Battle. The birth and death of Narnia are both pretty powerful.

beyond that, few movies have even gotten my eyes to water. Oh well…

The contemporary fic was my first project, which spawned from me wondering what life might have been like if I would’ve had a twin.
Then I watched Star Wars and got the idea to make my own version that directs less attention to midi-chlorians, more attention to God.

Then, I discovered how much…[Read more]

Bed at least half-made, with only a few articles of clothing draped on…[Read more]

So I’d have to say yes, I believe logic always equals truth. But not all of man’s logic…[Read more]

I do have a tendency to consider myself intellectually superior to most other personality types. But I do NOT consider myself to be superior to other personality…[Read more]

To the outside…[Read more]

If you are a contradictory and paradoxical person compared to your type, I’m curious, have you…[Read more]

But I actually discovered (just recently) that the test has a tendency to be inaccurate. Its accurate for my own self, cause I know everything about me. But a character who only exists in my head? I’ve ended up with multiple mistypes over answering a question wrong.

I’ve gotten…[Read more]

No kidding, Janner Wingfeather’s fate broadsided me, and I can usually predict how stories are going to end. I don’t often get emotional over books, but that one got me closer than most.

Rogue One was a bit numbing, really. Rather depressing. Its like, how many emotional deaths do we really need in rapid secession. Like, can we not have one…[Read more]

My plan for growth are basically: keep writing, keep sharing my work with anyone who dares to read it, and keep living in the alternate dimensions that have taken over my mind.

Favorite project idea…I guess my most active project, The Arayoth Chronicles, can be considered my favorite. Its a complex series about a young orphan with an important heritage, an elite black ops sniper with a haunted past, and the almighty God that caused their paths to cross.

Do you have any current projects?

I’m going to just toss in one other consideration. Do you know your character’s personality type/cognitive functions? Guys with Fe or Fi in their dominant or auxiliary functions can be plenty emotional. And guys who don’t, well, they’re still emotional, just not always as obviously.

Take me, for instance, an…[Read more]

Those of you who are in the Young Writers Community may or may not know my tagline as ‘Master Bard’. I currently lead a critique group within the community’s Green Fellowship, and I periodically show up around the common editing and feedback space.

As can be seen, my name is David Keener, and I am a self-proclaimed bard, as…[Read more]