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@ellette-giselle

Well of course I’m reading it. XD

Ooooffffff I knowwwww. Hurting the poor babies hurts us too…

A threat?

…

Hmmm…

@ellette-giselle

I think you can go ahead and give the prompt whenever you want.

And I vote for one word. It makes things so much more interesting in my opinion.

@rae

Yay! Congratulations, @ellette-giselle !

This has been so much fun. If we do it again, count me in!

@ellette-giselle

Okay! I finally got to read through this so far. Here’s my thoughts:

1) Joseph is a dear little boy who might need to be protected from his author.

2) You tend to rely a little heavily on Telling over Showing. For instance, you saying he is struggling with nightmares is unnecessary, since I can see that well enough from his POV…[Read more]

@loopylin

That’s so much fun!

@ellette-giselle

Yep.

Wait a minute.

@ellette-giselle

That is awesome. I wonder if our ancestors fought with, or against each other… XD

@calyhuge

I did think it was funny. I also thought it was gross. Quite gross. Grossly gross. But it was funny.

Still wondering how y’all come up with stuff like that though.

@calyhuge

Hobbe’s best friend!

@liberty

Yay! Whenever I put symbolism in a story I end up awkwardly trying to figure out if people caught it without giving it away. For further clarification, look up the two flowers mentioned.

And we definitely need more fabulous books for young people!

@liberty

Oh dear no. We need more books! Allllll the books!!!!!

XD

@liberty

Oops, sorry. I’m doing Spanish homework and my brain is officially frying.

We need good books in both YA and MG genres.

@liberty

*Cackles*

*Cough cough*

Excuse me.

You see, I’m starting to fall in love with writing for kids. Or maybe I did a long time ago and I’m just now figuring that out. Either way, it’s a topic I’m passionate about. This world is a dark place for kids, for anybody, and it’s just going to get darker in these last hours before Dawn. Kid’s…[Read more]

@liberty

That sounds like a lot of fun! It’s a theme both Middle Grade and YA could need, so you can absolutely write it for both. I’m technically a young adult and I like animal stories.

And yes, Yigal was military. There’s a lot of flower/name symbolism in the story… did you catch it?

@calyhuge

In the words of Calvin, that was STUPENDOUS.…[Read more]

@raxforge

……

Ouch.

@keilah-h

Awesome. I like their tails in the wind.

Yeah, I had thought of a general short story to do, but it didn’t happen. Maybe I’ll stick it here later, maybe I’ll just let it grow moss in the back of my mind until it ends up in some WIP quite by accident.

@keilah-h

Oooo, sure!

@liberty

Ah, I understand. I mostly wrote MG now, but there was a time I stepped back, looked at my writing, and was just like “Teens won’t read whatever this is, but is sure can’t be for kids.”

But then learned a few things and grew a little more, and you know what? It’s okay. Kids live in a dark world too. It’s a matter of perspective. Their…[Read more]

@liberty

Ahhh! Animal fantasy! And, as I presume although you could definitely be going for older groups but, are you writing middle-grade?

@calyhuge

Will it let you request access?