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@rae Just a few high school ones. My favorite is by a Christian author and is called “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made.” It’s one of the few that I find okay to read at 11 at night lol

It’s an older one though.

Here’s the cover cause I think it’s cool:

@rae I’m so glad you’re doing well🥰 Rowing sounds fun, and I’m glad you’ve found a good friend :3

AND WOO HOOOOO ON THE STORY PROGRESS!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

I’m glad everyone’s doing…fine. Most of them sound good, others…I may be a little concerned XXD

I’m so sorry. 😭😭 I miss him too.

Leon and Riker are….fine??? I guess??? I’m currently editing…[Read more]

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AHEM… Does this mean what I think it does?? 😭

Yes, because I wasn’t sure when he would be back in the story xD.

Side note: I was listening to this song last night and it reminded me of your story, it’s called Lean on Me. I’m not sure who was singing it. ☺️

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I’m tellin’ ya, Germans are the most annoying people on Earth!

Germans are some amazing people on Earth😘

and it was a debate, not a conflict. :3 You did nothing wrong, and I loved your point!

Aragorn is NOT an Allegory of Christ, but he has qualities that could possibly resemble some of Christ’s. But those same qualities are qualities tha…[Read more]

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– Introductions, Part 2 –

@loopylin

Loops’ District

Joe Schmo had seen many things in his life.

He barely shifted on his stool as the door to the ice cream shop creaked open, and a bell jangled above the open! sign. His gaze – covered by a pair of sunglasses – barely flickered away from the microwave, in w…[Read more]

@rae

Probably Mandin. I love how much he cares for Nahim like an older brother.

Awesome!

@rae

I really like it! Mandin and Nahim’s relationship is probably my favorite part. I enjoyed reading it a lot. Please tag me when you have more chapters finished ☺️

@rae

Thank you for posing the other side, Rae 😌

But the purpose of a Christian is to “go into all the world and preach the Gospel”, to be a light in darkness, and writing is a way we can do that! It is a command from Jesus Himself to preach the Gospel, so shouldn’t we be using the talents and means God has given us to obey that command? Shoul…

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@rae @whalekeeper @mineralizedwritings I love how we can all peacefully discuss our different opinions on this💖

Y’all are the best  : )

I agree with you, Min! Writing God in a story is difficult, and it makes it even harder depending on the genre you write. I don’t think all books have to have God be explicitly stated or mentioned or even…[Read more]

@rae @whalekeeper @freed_and_redeemed @anyone else in the discussion

Mind if I add my two cents about God in stories?

Writing God into a story is really really hard, and it’s not something I would want to mess up. It can go well, or it can go badly. A lot of you here are familiar with the wingfeather saga, which was written by a Christian, but I…[Read more]

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Actually, that’s explained better than i could have XD.

Lol, maybe I should be a thought interpreter when I grow up. If that’s a thing.

I can see both sides of the issue, but I feel neutral for lack of data. If anyone be willing, I’d be glad to slip into a character cloak and debate either side.

Sure, I would love to talk about it! This top…[Read more]

@mineralizedwritings

Just letting you know I read your thoughts, and some of them touched nerves, so I appreciate the time you took to write them out ❤️

@ellette-giselle

My book update is that I’m now in the formatting process of my next book!!!!! I’m hoping to have the proof copy by no later then next week!!!!! I’m pretty excited! (In case…

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@rae

Dude needs help lol. He’s pretty much cursed from the get go. Emmie is good though. I like the idea of a person who remains power-hungry throughout their life, but doesn’t go fully villain because of their partner. It’s like the opposite of Macbeth.

@ellette-giselle

I think Rae is imagining an AU of her story where Alpha goes down the…[Read more]

@rae oooh great art! I have a sleeping charrie too lol

here’s Sniper snoozing on a lawn chair, but the way he appears in my sci-fi fanfic so he’s got a crocodile-like tail:

I LOVE how I did the posing. I joke that if I jostle the paper too much, he’ll wake up and yell at me for disturbing his nap…..XD

@theshadow I know you’re not…[Read more]

@loopylin @mineralizedwritings @savannah_grace2009 @rae @freed_and_redeemed @anyone

I am so happy right now guys 👀 I found the perfect ending to my project. Like, I just can’t right now. And I won’t say what it is because the joy is in the foreshadowed surprise, but aagh – and it came from my plot board!! All I had to do was look at what was s…[Read more]

RAE: “This might sound really weird, but I have no idea how to write girls. Sure, I can write emotions and stuff, but they usually become copies of each other personality wise, and even weirder, they aren’t copies of me. Estelle, Nae, Narsa and Ilsa are basically the only girls I’ve written who feel unique. Help?”

Allow me to demonstrate my imm…[Read more]

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Just as a tip in general, it helps to think about the roles God made a man or a woman to fill. Woman are the emotionally unstable mothers, while men are the factual, rational fathers who keep the wives from going insane. A man and a woman balance each other. Idk, maybe that isn’t a helpful tip at all, but it sure has helped me to think a…

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I would approach any character as an androgynous person first, and build up a semblance of personality before developing them with gender in mind. Because otherwise you might fall into your default female tropes.

It’s like what Esther said, thinking of them as a character rather than a girl/guy.

Literally, with one protagonist of mine, I…[Read more]

@rae lol the way that you listed what your characters are doing as if it was going on in the same house as the dog and your brothers and the cat and the chicken pot pie…..lol