Thank you, that makes sense.

@grcr

That does help. Thx.

I’m sorry, did you post here? If you did, Wyoh ate your post. She’s been real hungry lately…

The gospel is the most beautiful story out there, but it has a lot of elements – a wicked people, a perfect king, redemption, discipleship, sacrifice, community, creation, hope, and so many other things. And while some stories manage to cover them all, most can’t.  there are certain stories where you can pull those in, most are goin…

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@karissa-chmil agreed! I don’t think we should all try to tell the whole Gospel in our stories, but rather bits and pieces that can lead to someone discovering the full Gospel!

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Oh my gosh this is so…[Read more]

I’ll have to think about it. Maybe I’ll ask my parents for a subscription as a Christmas gift XD

One of the edits I’m considering is possibly connecting some of the shorter, broken lines in the part of the poem you mention. It’s supposed…[Read more]

As for what books I have, I haven’t started reading them yet but I have a couple- and a few more on my Christmas list lol. I’ll have to get u the names of them later

Aw, thank you for the compliment! I read your chapter and the girl felt so alive in my mind. 😊

I LOVE that quote!! I have that one at the top of my ideas document xD

‘The first draft is just shoveling sand that you’ll later use to make castles – and the more sand you have, the bigger the castle can be.” That’s a great quote! My goal of my draft is to make it… I never though of it that way! Thank you so much! 💗

Has anyone read Sharron Creech? I just love all of her books! Which one is your favorite? I love “Absolutely normal chaos”, “Walk two moons”, “One time”, and all the others!

I’m going to guess 2. Perhaps he didn’t escape the third time?

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@everyone

Most of you are correct, Calvin’s eye color is dark brown instead of blue 😂 However, his theme color is blue, so I thought maybe that would fool people.

Hehe I agree with Godly. 😆

i really love the last two I don’t want them to be lies XDD

SO IMMA SAY THE FIRST ONE ROFL

Has anyone read “Good wives” by Louisa May Alcott? I just started it and love it! It is technically the fourth little women book and takes place right as Meg gets married. I have only read the first few chapters, so dont spoil it 😀  But I would love to chat about it with anyone as I read it though!

Thanks!! 🙂 Honestly it’s changed a bit already xD I’m not really set on anything, right now I might just have the story be some sort of heist/plot instead

I really like the characters and the arcs I have already, I’m just struggling to figure out the plot so it matches xD But hopefully I’ll figure it out soon!

Rebecca of Sunnybrook farms was good but not nearly as good as any of Louisa May Alcotts books. 🙂

It was such an amazing book! I think the end was a bit slow, but good. I know, poor Charlie!😭I actually cried. Rose was my favorite character, but I feel like Charlie could have been second. Have you read the 3 little women books? Rebecca of Sunnybrook farms?

Alright! I have just finished a new book, “Rose in bloom” By Louisa May Alcott. Did anyone read it? (Its the sequal to eight cousins) Did you like it? Please let me know! I would love to talk about it!

Thank you for the info, it was very… informative lol, I appreciate it. I used to be an apprentice librarian at my old church, but the YA and children’s were so mixed up – and so neglected by the kids – that they just never organized them.

@karissa-chmil

Yes, it certainly is. Yesterday we had another club meeting, and it was an…[Read more]

@folith-feolin @felicity @loopylin @mineralizedwritings

Thank you for the encouragement <3 I’m glad other kids (or young adults!) agree with me. I’m not terribly emotionally attached to this topic, but sometimes I feel like I have to spoon out the justice? XD And that’s coming from an INFPINFJ, who always tip toes around f…[Read more]

WOW! Thats does sound amazing!! I will definitely read that one! Thanks for sharing 😀

Yeah!!! (I know! I’ve only met 1 other!)

Ooh, probably Kate/Mr. Benedict lol. Constance is awesome tho 😂

Sounds amazing!! Will definitely have to join 😁

@karissa-chmil

Yes it is!! Umm … well I just learned Gavi’s song by Lindsey Stirling for my recital this spring 😅 probably my favorite, but also Martini’s Gavotte is really…[Read more]

Oh awesome!! I loved the Mysterious Benedict Society 😁 and alcohol markers are super fun!

@karissa-chmil

Thank you!! 🤩 Almost two years (I started really late, lol).

Do you play any instruments??

That’s hard 😅 Personality-wise or other?

I usually write whatever character pops into my head, or a generic girl character if I don’t…[Read more]

Oooooh! I think I remember reading that! It’s so good!

Heres a quick overview of it (borrowed from another place 🙂 )

Auggie or August introduces himself to the reader. He’s ten years old, and though he feels normal, he wishes he had a “normal” face. He declines to describe what his face looks like, insisting that it’s probably worse than whatever the reader is imagining. August has…[Read more]

Another great book to read! I don’t remember if I posted it before, but has anyone here read Wonder by R.J Palacio ?(Not sure if I spelled her last name right ) Did anyone like it? Did anyone cry (I might have just a little 🙂  ) Let me know! Also please t…[Read more]

Ahhh, yessss. Rilla of Ingleside is honestly one of my favorite books. <3 Walter is amazing.

Same!!!!!!

Did you ever see the poem someone wrote for him (the one that they allude to in the book many times)?

Um… I can’t remember… which poem was it?

Thank you for confetti and cake and congratulations. I don’t blame you for hiding from the terrible task of thinking up a title. I wish I could. 😂

I also though Jo’s boys was Little men 🙂 But when I opened up the book I realized my mistake. That is a crazy hard question! Favorite of the little women series ? I actually cant decide. 😀 I love them all. I have never read Jennifer Nielsen’s books yet, but they sound great!

Thanks!

For quite a while, though I’ve never really been serious about it. Just kind of random scribbles in notebooks, that technically are supposed to be for schoolwork lol. I basically just needed to get the idea for what Rina was going to look like. That drawing is probably one of my favorites. 🙂

Thanks, I’ll go read that sometime.

@Godlyfantasy12

Yeah, It’s not that bad thankfully. Thanks for the support! Love you all too! <3<3

@lightoverdarkness6

I’m so sorry girl!! I will DEFINITELY be praying!!! I know that must be scary. I’m so glad that you told us so that we can help. If you ever need anything, just a listening ear or a f…

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@karissa-chmil
I think I may have seen you, but I’m not sure…and yes, it’s amazing XD

I know @felicity and @charityanne and @freedomdreamer are on there, but I dunno about anyone else…

I have not been particularly active lately what with #adulting and all that, so I wanted to pop in and hang out with you all for a little bit. <3333

This is a modified blog tag that I’m borrowing from the lovely Sarah Baran at TheSarcasticElf.com (seriously, if you don’t follow her blog, go do that right now; it’s full of wit,…[Read more]

First off, I totally agree with writing cleanly. While I have not had to combat that yet, my mother went through a lot because of some very unclean books. Praise the Lord, she was able to use her experience to teach us to be careful with what we put before our eyes.

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I love that character! He’s not similar to me at all, but he sounds amazing. Definitely go with Arden 🙂

@karissa-chmil

My favorite type of character to write is a little hard to pin down, but I would say they are reserved, shrewd, and logical (in contrast to spunky, outgoing, spontaneous, etc.). This is actually most of the…[Read more]

Ooo… I love it!!! Adrian is one of my new favorite charrie names. 🙂

Oh, awesome! Thank you so much! 🙂

@karissa-chmil

lol😂 I’ll try to keep from gushing around them.

@elishavet-pidyon

My scenes in my current brain dump are all from books I haven’t even started yet.  *facepalms* *tries to feel penitent, but only succeeds in feeling pleased*

It’ll actually be for two separate projects. One is a middle-grade contemporary novel, and the other is a YA fantasy. If you’re up for helping me brainstorm, either (or both!) need work, so anyone who can, pretty much? I’ll give the tags here, and then put…[Read more]

*blinks*

I’m never gonna run out of fandoms while people keep writing.

I’m signing up for the fan clubs of every. Single. One. Of. Those. Characters.

Your graphics are simply BEAUTIFUL!

@elishavet-pidyon

I love it!!! It’s such a beautiful line. 🙂

lol *glances at current brain dump* Guilty of it, as wellllllll…

Ok….I feel like I WILL ABSOLUTELY LOOOOOVE WILL!!!!!!

Also Cole feels so similar to my Charrie Grimm! U probably saw his Charrie aesthetic (:

@emilysf

Awesome aesthetics and the last ones pics are super cool!!

Ah, your post are being marked as spam! It’s some ai imbedded in the site that tries it’s best to detect spam posts, but as you can see it doesn’t do a good job lol. I think it’s particularly unfond of posts with images which is unfortunate.

Hmmm… gonna have to see if I can fix that permanently.

Anyways, I think I got all your…[Read more]

That’s really weird!

The only time I’ve had that happen is when I leave the tab with my drafted response open too long. Could that be it? Probably not, though, if you’ve tried doing it all different ways

Lemme tag @kathleenramm, I think she’d be better at helping you out here 😉

The problem is, I don’t get out much. Honestly, I’m pretty picky about what I read, so modern secular works are very rarely added to the list, and I am pretty clueless about what’s actually on the shelves. I know I…[Read more]