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Reviewer: powow Signed starstarstarstarstar [Report This]
Date: February 13 2025 8:13 PM Title: The Accident

I've only read the first chapter but I can already tell this is going to be excellent.

Author's Response:

I appreciate it! I'll admit that I think it's a bit of a slow burn at first. Not much action in the early chapters as we get to know all of the characters. 
But at least now there is some growth and action in the later chapters so people can get an idea of where things are heading.

I've put a ton of research into this and it's all planned out, so hopefully I can stick the landing! 

Reviewer: Nostory Signed [Report This]
Date: February 12 2025 3:41 PM Title: The Accident

I think you're doing really well so far! Keep it up!



Author's Response:

Thank you! I'm excited about where it's heading. I think the action scenes will only get better, but time will tell how well I can juggle all of the characters within the plot. 

Fortunately, I have spent an extensive amount of time planning the story, so the ending is known and each character's arc is more or less crafted. Now it just comes down to execution.

Reviewer: TheNumber2 Signed starstarstarstarhalf-star [Report This]
Date: January 25 2025 5:19 AM Title: Big News

Love the characters you've set up, especially Ronnie and Luke. Can't wait to see where the story goes if the crew catches up with Cassie, especially as she gets bigger! 



Author's Response:

Thanks! I'm having a lot of fun writing these characters and showing how they're similar and different from one another.. Hopefully they all feel unique by now. I was worried that starting the story with such a large cast would make them difficult to follow early on. 

Reviewer: Jim1989 Signed starstarstarstarhalf-star [Report This]
Date: December 16 2024 9:32 PM Title: Titaness

I'm guessing that Cassidy is somewhere well north of a hundred feet at this point, maybe hundreds of feet at this point. I'm also guessing it was Derek who feel off of her body and landed in the dumpster (maybe dead?). Also pondering as to what happened to Emily at the end of this chapter. Given the end of Cassidy's point of view and Emily's point of view, I'm inclined to believe that Cassidy unintentionally, unknowingly just crushed her friend, but maybe I'm wrong and it was just a close call brush with death. I get the feeling that Cassidy is gonna unintentionally cause a lot more destruction in the coming chapters, as much as I'd like for her to stay generally gentle, even though she's in a semi-inebriated and state with back-and-forth mood swings.

In any case, this was an amusing chapter all around.



Author's Response:

Thank you for the review! And yes, because this is a story written from the first-person perspective, the heights are a little unclear. Realistically, a college student can't look up at a giant person and deduce "Wow, she's 150 ft tall now" (not saying that's her height, just a hypothetical). Even during Cassie's first growth spurt, the only estimate of her height is that she's roughly double her previous height. But is she 10ft? 13ft? 15ft? You get a few points of reference, but it's hard to say exactly and that's on purpose. I am paying close attention to the scales as the story develops and using some conversion tools to make sure that the bodily dimensions conform to what's realistic, but we're going to have somewhat ambiguous scales going forward. Even if a height is offered, you should probably assume that the narrator is working with an estimate and not take it to be an absolute fact. 

Likewise, the developments of the story will remain somewhat ambiguous. Some details are a lot more subtle than others and characters can only testify to what they witness. And dead men/women tell no tales! At this point in the story, it's kinda unclear what the fates of Derek, Emily, and several of the unconscious party guests are. Neither Cassie nor Annie seem to think any of the guests in the house are dead, but can we really rely on that? It's just their perspective and neither one wants to think that Cassie killed anyone, nor are they checking anyone's vitals. Throughout the story, we see little conflicts between the perspective of characters as they interpret events differently and have access to different information. For instance, Becca seems to think Emily is ditzy like Annie, but we can see that Emily is actually very academically intelligent, as evidenced by her wordier POV chapters, her knowledge of obscure topics, and the revelation that she's a straight-A student. Perhaps Becca thinks this because she is a stoic person who regards emotional girls as stupid. Maybe she only sees Emily when she's flustered because Emily is attracted to her teammates on the volleyball squad and seems to be repressing her sexuality. It's open to interpretation.

Other minor examples that won't spoil anything: Emily only realizes Cassie's clothes are growing with her during her second growth spurt, despite Luke pointing it out in a prior chapter because Emily wasn't there when he said it. Ronnie amusingly dismisses Luke's observation as men being superficial, but Emily (who is not a man) later recognizes it on her own, although she is attracted to Cassie. Emily also refers to Derek as Cassie's "ex-boyfriend" despite Cassie and Derek getting back together (sorta) in the backyard because she didn't witness it. There are tons of details in the story that I'm actually paying very close attention to that will inform the writing going forward. In fact, I caught one writing this chapter because Cassie grows with her eyes closed, but I originally wrote Emily recognizing it was Cassie growing through the roof when she saw her eyes. So I changed it to "eyebrows" (and implied she saw more of her as she grew) since her eyes should still be closed. XD

It's up to the readers to formulate their own interpretations until they receive additional information contrary to their beliefs. I will offer, however, that there are hints within the story suggesting at objective reality. You may notice some words or phrases repeat around similar events or some perspectives line up with one another. That's not me running out of ways to write things, that's a deliberate parallel. I'm not going to write 6 perspectives for each event of the story, but you may notice in different chapters when one character repeats something another character already observed (it's happened a few times already). I mean, the Cassie perspective of this chapter and the Derek perspective of the previous chapter are massively different despite covering pretty much the exact same events. However, you can probably take a few differences in perspective for granted. Like Cassie keeps referring to people as "little," but we know that in fact she is large. She may perceive herself to be talking normally, but other characters may perceive her speech to be slurred. Or in the most recent chapter, Cassie thinks she's speaking at a normal volume but it's clear from Emily's perspective that she's much louder. 

Finally, I don't want to spoil anything about the direction of the story because I'm quite proud of the plot I've written, but we are dealing with what I would consider a "semi-aware" protagonist. It's clear from Cassie's POV chapters that she's a very intelligent character, but the influence of alcohol (and something else we've only gotten a slight hint at so far) is messing with her emotions, judgement, and memory. She seems to be prone to making leaps in logic that aren't quite rational and her impulse control is definitely diminished. I can say (because I hate this trope) that Cassie's character will not fundamentally change. She's not going to decide "I'm an all-powerful goddess, it's time to destroy everything and demand everyone worship me." I have nothing against those stories. Power can corrupt people and a cruel or ambitious person would absolutely use such power for their own ends at the expense of others. But that's not what this story is and that's not who Cassie is.

Anyway, thanks again for the review! I'll probably post the link to the forum again with the next chapter in case anyone else has questions or wants to discuss the story further.

Reviewer: Jim1989 Signed starstarstarstarhalf-star [Report This]
Date: December 07 2024 2:39 AM Title: Bigger is Better

Bigger and bigger and bigger she grows. When will it stop? Only the author knows.

Light-hearted teasing aside, this was an amusing chapter. Curious if Cassie is going to end up going on an all-out emotional rampage, given her inebriated state and whatnot. I can only imagine the chaos she may end up causing in the process, whether accidental or outright intentional, especially if Derek ends up changing his mind and opting out of hooking up.



Author's Response:

Thanks for the review! The next two chapters will be pretty major in terms of plot and revealing the stakes of this story. I have a busy next few days, so there will be a delay in publishing them, but I'm rather pleased to have written 35,000 words in the first week and a half of the story. 

One thing I can volunteer is that I don't plan on doing a classic rampage story where the woman decides, "I'm big now, might as well destroy everything." A lot of research went into the effects of alcohol (and other substances) to create a realistic portrayal of a person under the influence. Short-term memory loss, obsessive/compulsive behavior, mood swings, a loss of social inhibition, and more we haven't seen yet. 

As for the scale and the future direction of the story, we'll just have to see! 

Reviewer: theharper Signed starstarstarstar [Report This]
Date: November 26 2024 12:23 AM Title: Cassie and Annie

Look forward for more.



Author's Response:

Thank you. I've added a lot more now, though we still haven't gotten to the growth yet. I'm on track to write 20,000 words in the first week of this story, maybe more. It's going to be a truly "epic" tale. If you have any more specific criticisms, feel free to add them as we go. 

P.S. I deleted some of your old reviews because they were duplicated. Don't be discouraged from writing feedback, just wanted to do a bit of house-cleaning.

Reviewer: Iamtheboogey01 Signed starstarstarstarhalf-star [Report This]
Date: November 25 2024 9:13 AM Title: The Accident

Curious to read more!



Author's Response:

I'm glad you like it! The second chapter is up now! This story is going to start out slow, I'm afraid, but I hope the payoff is worth it! 
Despite this story intending to only take place over the span of 24 hours (flashbacks not included), I'm hoping to create a complex story with character development, foreshadowing, and a lot of different perspectives.

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