He wanted to be a P E A R, not a P E A R L !  lol,  I loved this one.  Congratulations on winning,  definitely a great, creative drabble.

Janet

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Congratulations,   I am so happy for you,  go out and celebrate.  smile

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Max, 
I am so so very sorry for the pain and sorrow you are enduring now.  We are all "trying" to be word masters here, but at a time like this, words can't say how we really feel.  I wish you comfort and peace.
Janet

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MzP.   thanks so much for the telephone number, I'll give them a call tomorrow and hope I can get an answer.  I know what you mean
about asking permission and never hearing back. Oh,  if I only had one iota of artistic talent, but, nope, not a drop.  Thanks for the info.

Janet

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Sorry if this isn't exactly the right thread for this question.  All of the answers I find online are different.  If I wrote a poem about stars, and I wanted to use Van Gogh's Starry Night as an illustration for it,  is that allowed?  I know there are tons of images on the internet which say they are protected by copyright, and you have to obtain permission,  but what about famous pieces of art such as that. You can't ask Van Gogh.  I published a poetry book just for myself,  not to sell,  and I wrote to the Vatican because I used one of their angel pictures.  They wrote back and said yes.  But if I wanted to publish to sell, I don't want the art police at my door.
Sorry if this is a stupid question,  but all of  the google sites give different answers.
Thanks,
Janet

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Thanks for that link, J P,  most of us on here can probably make a few graphs of our own regarding our love for our books! :-)

Janet

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Dear Max,
Best of luck to you,  I sincerely hope that this exploration will result in relief from your suffering.  My computer is on its way out,  so I couldn't respond sooner.  Feel better friend,  and, don't write anything as scary as The Shining!  Keep in touch with us if you can.

Janet

Since I am so new here, I don't feel that I have anything I can contribute to what you guys want with respect to changing this forum,  as I don't know what the old forum was like,  BUT,  I would TOTALLY hate it if we were to degenerate into political and/or religious flame wars.  One of the best things about this site is it's about writing,  and no one is trying to explain why voting for this person or that person will ruin/save
our way of life.  The same can be said for religion,  if I wanted to become embroiled in those discussions (I don't) I would go back on Facebook.  I was just happy to come here and post some poems and get feedback.  I don't know enough to comment on the technical aspects of how you want to set this up or change it,  but as far as making it a free wheeling, anything goes in all aspects, count me out.  There is enough stress in life, without having to deal with it on a writing site.
Just my two cents.    Peace.

Janet

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Tom,  hope you are feeling better quickly.  Don't worry about us,  we'll be here.  Take care of yourself.

janet

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Thank you Sol for your reply.  Since I don't know what I did wrong originally, I think I'll just delete the poem, and try it again in a few days.   arggh.
Thanks,
Janet

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Hi Norm
It's the poem The Sad Man.
Thanks,
Janet

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I posted a 12 line poem on Premium.  The first time I did it, I didn't have any content showing, which I'm sure I managed to mess up somehow.  When I went in to edit, I got the poem on, and it shows up, with the gold coins next to it, but none of my points were deducted.  Cool.  Please don't think I'm complaining about this, but I thought I should mention it.  I like it!

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Dagnee,
Congratulations on winning the contest!  When I came back to tnbw, I tried to read all of the entries I had missed.  I remember your poem,  because I thought, ha,  he's in big trouble now.  Very fine work.

Janet

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Hi Jack,
I'm glad to hear your campaign reached its goal.  Do you mean that both of them are now ok?  I'm sorry I couldn't make it work, however, on my FB page, my comment for you showed up.  Well,  that didn't do you any good.  Anyway,  congratulations and good luck.

Janet

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Hi Jack,
I think, I hope, I supported you,  it was via FB, where I just have a fake acct.  I'm not at all sure what pic you'll see, I think it will be my little Yorkie dog, Flora.  Good Luck!

Janet

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Hi Darla,
I swear, I am definitely sticking to poetry, it's a lot easier to get a small poem on here, lol. 
Thank you for liking my story!  And, I finally was able to get  The Mirror back up.   While I was
typing it all over,  I made a few changes, which I hope made it a little smoother.  I couldn't repost
it to Premium, as I didn't have enough points.  I better get busy and do some reviews. 
When my memory fades from last night I have an idea for another story.
I must be crazy!

Janet

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Hi Darla,
I just wanted to let you know, that due to formatting errors on my short story,  I tried to correct them tonight,  and what I really succeeded in doing was messing the whole thing so badly, I had to delete the story.  I know you put a review on,  and I appreciate it very much. (even the reviews were messed up)
When and if I ever figure this out, I will repost The Mirror to our group.
arrghh!

Janet

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Hi guys,
arrrrrrrggggghhhhh.  I am not a good format person!  I tried to correct my short story The Mirror, and I succeeded in having to delete it because I messed it up so badly.
I will try again, because I still have it on my laptop,  but on this site it was so horrendously awful, I couldn't even get edit to work.
Therefore,  I am back to square one,  but I have two things to say.  I suck at posting longer stories, and I am going to stick to poems!  Thanks for trying to help me.
Janet

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Dear Tom and Dirk,
Thank you so much for all of your suggestions about formatting my story.  I am going to go to google docs, and to open office and see what I can comprehend.  As I don't expect that any publishers are going to want what I write, (rats) I will just be happy to have it look normal on TNBW.
Thanks again,
Janet

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ok thanks,  I promise I will stop bugging you now.  smile

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Thank you so much Sol,  yes,  I do have line breaks in my Notepad.  I'll  go in and change it, and see how I do with it then.  I don't have Works either.  My poor computer is so pathetic.
Thanks again for your help.

Janet

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I don't have Word on my laptop,  so I typed the story into Notepad,  and pasted it from there.  It looks good on Editor,  but it's wacky on the actual site. 
Thank you so much for replying.  smile

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Please forgive me if  the answer if right in front of my eyes,  but I can't find it!  I published a short story,
my first one.  Usually I have only posted poems,  so I didn't run into this problem.  While my story lines
look fine on my computer,  and fine in the editor,  now that it's posted,  the formatting is crazy.  It seems
that the last line of a sentence will go to the next line,  and that is the only word there.  What am I doing wrong????
I cut and pasted onto the editor from my laptop.  Is that the problem? 
Any advice will be appreciated.    Thanks,

Janet