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Thank you so much @ethryndal! I can’t believe I missed that. Will fix right away.

@r-j-wordsmith I would like to add that even before knowing what condemned meant, I kind of liked it. It felt ominous, especially not knowing what it meant, which I think is what you were trying to get across, so I wouldn’t stress too much over it. 🙂 Also, after rereading, I noticed this bit at the end:

Oh well, perhaps a letter will arrive…

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@Rachelle Oh look at that, you found the art topic. 🙂

Okay. So I would have to agree with @Sarah-H about the tone of the picture. It feels pretty dark, and while I’m not totally against dark pictures (we have to draw our villains sometimes, right? 😉 ), I don’t think the darkness should be a focusing point. I don’t know the character here or…[Read more]

@Rachelle Oh look at that, you found the art topic. 🙂

Okay. So I would have to agree with @Sarah-H about the tone of the picture. It feels pretty dark, and while I’m not totally against dark pictures (we have to draw our villains sometimes, right? 😉 ), I don’t think the darkness should be a focusing point. I don’t know the character here or…[Read more]

@Rachelle Oh look at that, you found the art topic. 🙂 Okay. So I would have to agree with @Sarah-H about the tone of the picture. It feels pretty dark, and while I’m not totally against dark pictures (we have to draw our villains sometimes, right? 😉 ), I don’t think the darkness should be a focusing point. I don’t know the character here or what…[Read more]

@rachelle There is an art topic floating around somewhere, but I haven’t posted any of my stuff on it yet. I’m thinking about doing that soon though. 🙂

@emma-flournoy Oh, I’m doing just FINE, honey. *mentally screams and tears out hair* Ahem. The actual book isn’t that bad (it’s nice to finally know who Elbereth is) but the PREFACE. I had to…[Read more]

@aratrea Great!

@winter-rose
First off, may I just say that I found this story very amusing!
For one, I agree with @ingridrd that the scene with his mom should be moved to another place. Perhaps after Sam’s tale and he comes home, the mom says “Start from the beginning”, and that would be the ending.

@r-j-wordsmith Really? Wow, I didn’t know that! I wonder if he was thinking like Lewis when he came up with the idea of a time-travel book to be like Narnia (of course, Tolkien never intended it to be allegorical) I like the Hobbit better too, but that’s probably because it is my favorite book. 😛

Oh, by the way, what is your blog called? I’d enjoy reading some of your other work.

@winter-rose This is definitely good, you do an amazing job of projecting personality and conveying mood. You used ‘I’ in some places a little too frequently, and there are some rough spots. A couple of sections, instead of moving the plot along, hint a little that they are disguised information reveals. Various words and phrases could be…[Read more]

@Aratrea okey dokey. I will not be able to make it. Guys, *wags finger sternly* You be sure and ask him plenty of questions ‘kay?

@Kate-Flournoy Yeah, rather unnerving, I’m sure. 😛

*chokes* Well that was unexpected. @Emma-Flournoy

And I love that @R-J-Wordsmith. 😀

Potato in hand, she was about to cut it when its eyes blinked.

Floccinaucinihilipilification: The act or habit of estimating something as worthless. This actually is a real word, found in the Oxford Dictionary.

Floccinaucinihilipilification: The act or habit of estimating something as worthless. This is a real word, found in the Oxford Dictionary.

@r-j-wordsmith *shudders* I’d melt if my book was hidden beneath others.
@kate-flournoy Indeed. I’ve been trying for months to regain what I had been able to do before, write what I love, but I’ve been so caught up in trying to make it world-worthy that I’ve forgotten what I’m actually doing. I read through my old work, and in comparing it to…[Read more]

Okay! I think I finally got some stuff organized here. 😀

1. Harold enters a treacherous swamp to save Denholm, who does not seem to grasp the gravity of the situation.
Mkay, so I finally got Harold’s EIL somewhat figured out.
E.I.L.: that the world is worth being a part of because man, deep down, is basically good. (Note: Harold is a c…[Read more]