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Hey, that novel looks pretty good! BEST OF LUCK JOSS.

Best Captain of enterprise... dare I write, Donald Trump? Can you imagine "The Donald" as Captain Trump of the Enterprise meeting a Klingon?.

Klingon asks " Captain Rump, is it?"
Trump, " Captain Trump, you dorky, butt-ughly Rosie O'Donnel clone..."
Klingon, " SoH Heghpu', you of hair like fairy and SO muSqu' by my kind! "

bagatelle

Scroogeamorphosis

Gunter Grass

You are the best of the best here and an inspiration, Paul.  Many times I marveled and was amazed at your short stories. Yeah, work... sometimes writing becomes so demanding that pasts have to be sat aside to make room for futures. The very best of luck to you!

What is the name of the book wherein Holmes & Watson confront spies?

I'm thinking of a plot where two detectives are on the case of Richard Hanahay of, The Thirty-Nine Steps, only set three years in the future.

Jack, you're recognized by all as a genius and I'll be the first to tell everyone that.

mac Automator function will read your text to you (in a variety of voices). you can record this and listen to it while running the rapids at the Grand Canyon or bungee jumping the Olduvai Gorge on archaeological expeditions.

many flaws in grammar, pacing and logic will to be heard. I recommend carrying a small whip to flagellate yourself when you hear a mistake so as to remember it.

no one ever said writing was easy and painless.

Hey... writers bullying, harassing, haranguing and generally being obnoxious (to a limit) kicked the newbie,  the greenhorn, the novice to the next level of THE NEXT BIG WRITER, thereby allowing them to understand the craft in a more meaningful way.  Loving kindness was also present on the old forums... think: Filliam.

Dill and I went around and around, but that was 2 years ago. Now I've grown to understand my faults and virtues, mostly  through the old main forum, faults which were pointed out many times by dags and others.

Strong personalities like Sharon Thatcher, Filliam, dags, need a place to duke it out. I would not be writing today if it were not for Filliam (Bless her).

I fell down to the pits with a rare disease, progressing  insanity of a spouse and should not have been using the forums to lash out at the world. However, having a place, a community where I could lash out, ask for help, plead for help, helped me tremendously. Nevertheless, I realized through some great people here that I should cool it.

Real writers are voices that condemn, complain, cajole, criticizes, demean, denigrate, attack, but also elevate, separate, prognosticate and even masturbate with great words and ideas for the final ejaculation that spews revelations and lofty ideas into the heads of the uninitiated, the insulated, the deflated, the writerly conflated, and may then give insight to the robotically inclined masses whose intelligence is wholly overrated.

That brilliant minds can come together in an open forum leads to great things. Of course, some idiots like Anger Red Mark or the old max keanu can come in and upset the didactics of the master writers; the intercourse between individuals who strive to make a valid point, and that is very sad indeed. Trolls will be trolls in every forum in our Universe.

The open forums were a spectacular stage where probing minds freely expressed ideas, where thoughts and questions spilled, then were either healed or killed or thrilled. I was healed of ignorance many time, however, I was also killed any times because of my ignorance, grammatical handicaps and naivete. Such is life.

I've been on writer forums sites with 5K+, 10K members. The sub forums do not work there for the big picture, as they do not work here. One open forum is needed like the old forums at tNBW.  The big picture is what we all strive to see and understand. Tid-bit forums will not satisfy a writer's crazy drive and curiosity.

Go there,  to the old forums, poke around and it becomes very obvious that the new tNBW site is inferior to other writing sites because of a lack of a solid community feeling and the building bonds of friendship and understanding between ALL writers and in very genre.

I am fighting my way back to sanity and writing... it's a VERY long haul for me.  I thank this site, its members for the helping hands! On the old forum everyone would see this gratitude of mine expressed... and that is what community is all about.

THE RED JAGUAR, the classical Oxford education, classical music; all of these attributes of Morse go against the stereotypical gumshoe who usually learned from the school of hard knocks, as Lewis did.

Holmes/Watson & Morse/Lewis... difference of character and worldview allow Doyal & Dexter to cover many aspects of the crime in abstract terms and then give readers a simple explanation of a master mind's actions, notions, utterings, quirks and divergent methodologies through Lewis/Watson.

This dualistic formula for mystery writing has been hammered out many times by some great writers. In a way it seems similar to 'right brain thinkers' and 'left brain thinkers', where one side of the brain is intuitive/artist, the other coldly rational and dogmatic. However, together, the magic of understanding and full perception yield results.

I'm blathering here, but also working at being a writer again... perhaps they are the same thing.