Ellette Giselle

@savannah_grace2009 @ellette-giselle
I can try XD
I think the focus needs to be waaay deeper. The writing is very much outside the characters’ perspective, and only tells the bare points of the story. So the orphanage endeavor feels random.
To compare it to something, the perspective is like a bird high in the sky. Everything below looks like doll…[Read more]

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Just popping in because I’m bored, lol!

I kinda agree with Whaley. The story just doesn’t seem like it’s going towards a specific goal…like the events seem a bit random and idk how to describe it but it’s like your story’s missing something but it frustrates me because I don’t know what exactly I’m missing, just that something…[Read more]

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I’ve already written the whole book.

Oh cool, this is a plenty-of-work-already-done thing.

why do you ask?

I was asking because I’m not sure what direction the story is taking. What should the reader hope to happen next? Both in Aaron’s arc and in the outward plot? – A sense of where this all leads. Because the orphanage plot w…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle FIFTH draft? Wow!!

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Are you using a normal arc structure/your own structure based off what you know about arcs? Or just thinking through the arc as you write?

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Have you outlined LTBL?

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I just read the last section. I don’t have too much to say about it, but it was good!

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Because, your country seems to have a little superstition what with the wizards and all that. In the olden days, (which your book is fantasy so i can’t quite tell the era) People were really cruel to lefties because they believed it was a sign of demonic inhabitants or the practice of witchcraft.

Hmm. I don’t think the citizens o…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle haha yeah

@ellette-giselle wow that’s… still terrible

Kinda interesting though how all of these unrelated cultures (Latin, German, Chinese, etc) all equated “left” with “wrong” separately, unless it came about once those cultures all had contact.

Don’t worry, I didn’t think you believed that nonsense lol

@ellette-giselle very cool!!

@ellette-giselle MARVEL QUOTES!!!

haha they have some great ones

@freed_and_redeemed and @smiley will certainly enjoy it too

@ellette-giselle ooh things are going in a new direction! So Aaron and his friends are taking in all the children whose parents were killed in the war?

@ellette-giselle Why would someone do such a thing??? Chop off a kid’s hand just cause they’re left-handed?

@linus-smallprint I know, right? Society goes on and on about “inclusion” nonsense, and all the while ignore the people who really should be included.

In video games, especially first-person ones such as shooters or Minecraft-type, I can kinda understand because most people are right-handed and thus game makers design their characters to be…[Read more]

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Nope. You did tag me. The notification just got lost and never made it to my inbox somehow.

@ellette-giselle

Here is something from a document I found helpful for coming up with blurbs.

Five-Sentence Story

 

1.      The balance: the normal world. What is normal? Who is our hero? What does he normally do? Suzy walks down the street with her dog.

2.     The unbalance: something happens that upsets the normal world. It must be an event…

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Okay, I did not end up going today.

@ellette-giselle, @keilah-h

OH MY GOODNESS!! I love the picture! I think that’s your best one yet!!! – Ellette

wow great picture!!! – Keilah

Thanks! That is my most recent TNPT drawing.

Oh goodness. I dislike germaphobic guys. 😛

Oh. *Goes to wash hands for 45th time today – Reason: touched the ‘W’ key for t…[Read more]

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Ooh, Friedrich sounds good. Also congrats on winning!

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Picture of Eric added. Fun fact: All of my characters are me in some way, but Eric is probably the most similar to me personality-wise (Which is not entirely a good thing). He also is the character that looks the most like me.

(https://photos.app.goo.gl/pPdcEwEp2h22sswE8)