Brianne

@esther-c

Lol I started the rant though… one of my biggest pet peeves is watching middle schoolers attempt to date. It just bothers me so much, and like you said, the chances of it actually working out are slim. Even the chances of a high school relationship working out aren’t that high, either.

@theshadow

I’m glad I could help!!

Yes! Lmk when you flesh out the ideas more, I’d love to hear what you come up with!

@trailblazer

Pretty much all the public schoolers have phones and are preoccupied with boys and drama at school

😣 I wish schools didn’t have to be that way. It’s crazy that when I hear of a 12 or 13 year old dating or whatever, I’m not surprised. I don’t agree with it! but it doesn’t shock me. 🙁 I mean, y’all should be enjoying your childhood a…[Read more]

@whalekeeper @koshka @hybridlore @elishavet-pidyon @trailblazer @theducktator @grcr @theshadow

Y’all are so so so helpful!!! I wish I could reply to each individual response, but that would take a while. 🤪

The theme I’m getting from most of the responses though is that MG needs more wholesomeness, or at least that was what you enjoyed the mos…[Read more]

@koshka

Okay, so my brain has been reading things with interesting twists to words. I literally just read that as “We’ve reached 500 papayas, guys.”

I almost choked on my yogurt XD

@loopylin

Chase

Chase was confused. Did she not know if this person was a friend or not? “D-does he l-like f-faw, fawwwns?” It was random, and not the best type of q…[Read more]

If I can, I will post my drawings today. I just have the 1 hour one left to do

@theducktator

Yeah for real. My group of middle school girls ironically happens to be mostly homeschooled, but one of the other leaders has a group that is mostly public schoolers, and you can clearly see the difference. Quite often, I’ll come away from our small group time encouraged by the fact that my girls were sharing testimonies of things…[Read more]

@theducktator

Agh yes I am lol

I’ve missed being on here :/

I’ve been so busy between school and work! (I recently got a job at a coffee shop which is good because I get money! But hard because I don’t have as much free time anymore!)

@theducktator @whalekeeper @esther-c @jonas @highscribeofaetherium @theshadow @grcr

I wrote some new chapters!

They’re really, REALLY rough but hopefully you guys enjoy them

(It gives me motivation to be able to share what I wrote with people, so thank you for supporting me 😊💜)

@whalekeeper

OMC

I’m so sorry!

I don’t think this popped up in my email so I never saw it *cries*

How am I just now seeing this?!

Anyways, that makes a lot of sense!

I will think about that XDXD

And don’t worry about the length, I enjoyed reading your thoughts!!!!

@theducktator

Same kinda situation for us! Glad you’re all okay!!

@theducktator

Darn midwestern tornado season.

Tell me about it 😵‍💫😂

Did y’all stay safe??

@theducktator

Praying!! Is it over?

@esther-c

Sorry, I don’t read Middle-grade fiction, so I won’t be much help

@loopylin

Chase

Chase hesitated. “I-I…” he fell silent, shaking his head. “N-no i-dea. W-who’s Lo-Lo-is?”

Supposed to get some more severe weather tonight. To be completely honest, I’m a little worried, even though we’ve never gotten a tornado in our neighborhood (even though we’ve lived here for 15+ years). It’d be great if the sirens didn’t go off at all and we didn’t have to go down to the basement (because then we don’t have to lose any sleep if…[Read more]

@esther-c

I definitely think you can either leave out any romance, or if you do mention the subject of boys and girls liking each other, do it in a way that is appropriate for the readers based on Biblical standards. I remember reading books when I was ten/eleven that gave me the idea that boy-girl relationships were normal at my age and that’s…[Read more]

@elishavet-pidyon @koshka

I have wanted to rant on Ranger brilliance for months. But sometimes we writers just have to rant to our pillows.

Lolol.

Great section!

@koshka

Um. Romance. I don’t mind adultsfalling in love and getting married in the background of a kid’s book. I don’t even really mind young teens liking each other, or decided that they will one day marry someone (Sarah and Janner, for instance). But really, kids today are under so much pressure to pair up, that they aren’t allowed to live the…

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