@ka_modina Sorry to butt in just now and ignore the main question =P

It feels weird to say this, since I’m usually all for Christian liberty, but I really don’t recommend reading GoT. There is a lot of cool worldbuilding, there are a few fantastically developed characters, but the whole thing is just so vile and hopeless. Even I stopped reading…[Read more]

@vivian-grant I really don’t think what seem like similarities to ET matter at all. You really only have a few surface level similarities. Even the “sharing wounds” is more like “when the alien gets sick, the main character gets sick” in the movie.

@vivian-grant I’m glad I could be useful! By ET, I meant the movie, not trying to imply the creature was an alien. Like, the “befriend a child, share wounds with it, looong fingers, adults don’t really know what’s going on, hospital tries to contain it, escape, happy ending for benevolent misunderstood creature.” Which is also very different from…[Read more]

Good job on not showing the “friend” for a while. The suspense is good. Mentioning the snake made me wonder if it was tied to the monster, and then the ugliness and the burning had me wondering what sort of monster we were dealing with. I like the gradual pace of introducing characters, and that you attach them to a genre archetype so the reader…[Read more]

Have any of you read the Sea of Trolls books by Nancy Farmer? They’re middle grade books that aren’t written terribly deeply, but I really dig the stories even as an adult. They’re definitely more culturally Christian than Biblically based, but for people with a modicum of spiritual maturity who like middle grade fantasy, there’s some poignant…[Read more]

@vivian-grant As far as I’m aware, not in the same exact functionality with editing and commenting and decent privacy settings built into a tolerantly responsive editor.

There’s always pastebin for simple sharing, though other people can’t comment on the page. There’s the online version of MS Word, which probably functions similarly to Google…[Read more]

@vivian-grant That link doesn’t work. It looks like a download link from an email inbox, which isn’t going to work for anyone not logged into your account. Most people around here host on Google Docs and then use the link sharing function in it.