Trailblazer

@ellette-giselle

Wow, that’s really cool. Definitely keep them in then.

@ellette-giselle

Wait, you wrote the hymns? I thought you had just pasted them in. 😳

(There’s a lot of hymns I’m not familiar with, since we don’t normally sing them at my church.)

@ellette-giselle

I finished! (And the art for the cover is really cool.) I gave answering those questions a shot, even though you might be past the point of feedback, I figured you might want to hear what I thought.

Were the characters believable?

For the most part, yes. At times, there was somewhat stilted (slightly forced seeming, or maybe a…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

Lolololol 😂 maybe I am out of my mind

I love soup in real life—awh, chicken noodle is one of my all-time favorite things to eat—but the word is just…. Sooooup? Ew. lol I just can’t with how it sounds.

@ellette-giselle

Yeah, I wasn’t fond of it. I don’t remember why I don’t like it either, I just don’t.

@ellette-giselle

You can’t leave me hanging there!! 😖 Although, I’m wondering if I want to know what happens next.

No real changes to the scene that I could think of. The one hymn is pretty long, but if you want to include it all, that’s fine.

@rae

AHHH Your art looks sooo good!!! I LOVE it!!!!! The girl in the flower field is so pretty!!! 😍😍 Amazing job!

@whalekeeper

My siblings and I listened to an audiobook of The Tale of Despereaux several years ago. Never watched the movie though. I liked it—although it has been fuel for my dislike of the word soup. I loved the rats. 🤭 We were going to make our dolls (or Legos, I can’t remember) act it out once… that was fun to imagine though we never follo…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

Yes, I do like stories with animal protagonists.

@ellette-giselle

I didn’t know Canva had AI. I used Canva once to create my book cover, but nothing else.

@power

My compatriots would be bellowing “HEAVE HO!”, and I’d be shrieking “WHOA! NO, NO, NOOOOO!!!!!”

That is so hilarious! Ever time I read that sentence, it makes me laugh so much!

I’m surprised you don’t make a living doing standup comedy! 😆

I greatly agree with Ellette!!

@whalekeeper

Never heard of these books before.

@power

Scout: Secret of the Swamp = 👍!!!!!

I totally agree! It’s an amazing book!

🤜

Fist-bump you back!

Oh yes. I’m still not 100% what you mean by your comment:

My team mates.

I’m just that amazing!!! . . .

It would amaze them when I write under 37 words the entire week. 😆

Does that you aren’t joining the CWW, or are you?

@ellette-giselle

More characters from that book series, or more quizzes overall?

I meant characters.

I’ve only been able to find a blur tool. where have you found one that does that?

It doesn’t always work, but I’ve used Hotpot AI with their eraser tool. What about you? I don’t know much about ai stuff, so I’m always eager to learn about good s…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle

It’s one of their newest audio dramas, so I don’t think its released yet! Currently, you can preorder it.

I know!!!! I want to listen to it so badly!!!!!!!!

I haven’t done the reading challange. I can’t remember why I didn’t. Was there a prize at the end?

There are gift cards for the winners. However, (and this is the reaso…[Read more]

I didn’t really notice that the uncle’s betrayal felt forced, but I would have to go back and look at it again to see for sure. I was so preoccupied with Yeah, I knew that was gonna happen and Oh no—what’s gonna happen to them now? To really focus on it. Unless Linus feels otherwise, I think it was fine.

@ellette-giselle

Sorry this took me so long to respond—I didn’t get a notification, so I thought you hadn’t wrote back yet.

My first thought is that you would need to save Joseph, because it would be strange to kill off the main character three quarters (four fifths?) of the way through the book.

But looking past that, Joseph’s charact…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle

Eh, I wasn’t surprised.

@ellette-giselle

Joseph, Amelia, and Beric. I don’t know her brothers well enough yet.

I’ve let myself be deceived. My whole life I thought I’d never have the strength, and I was right. But it’s not about me at all! None of this is.” Joseph waved his hand to punctuate his words. “My whole life I’ve been worried about what I can and can’t do, but…

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Good scenes, though. Joseph was a tiny bit preachy when he had his character shift arc, but it worked since that’s been his struggle since the beginning.

I can’t wait to see what happens next. 🥺