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I'm not really sure I see the point of pasting copyrighted, political material on a writing forum. Those that agree with it, will agree, those that don't, won't. There are plenty of political sites where partisans can go at it and are encourage to do so. It really has nothing to do with writing and is bound to create more ill will than anything. If politics stirs your writing juices then by all means go at it in the proper place and then come here to create your wonderful stories.

My family is split politically and we've decided not to discuss politics when we get together because it generally devolves into an argument. I like to come here to escape all of the red hot partisan bullshit which is circulating on the Web. If you find that must bring your viewpoint into a writing site, ask yourself why

If you absolutely must, then create a political group on the site and let like-minded people join. Otherwise, I believe pasting this stuff is like crying fire.

I guess there is wisdom in the advice of not feeding the political-sociopathic trolls.  You even get a more partisan puppet (Renato Mariotti) to speak the Trump paranoid delusion, although in form it is merely a pastiche of Democrat talking points in defense of Obama-era corrupt government.

Hi all,

You've all been quite patient. I wanted to let you know we are going to launch the first of a few contests next week. We'll start with a flash story and then progress to poetry and then the Strongest Start.

Sol

Incidentally, Dorothy Sayers indulged in a Tom Swifty in =The Nine Tailors=:

" 'With the big sugar nippers they nipped off his flippers,' Lord Peter Wimsey quoted flippantly."
And if anyone knows from what his Lordship was quoting, please let me know.  (Oh, IIRC this occurred while examining a dis-handed corpse.)

We took fiction off because no one was writing in it so the same 10 posts languished for months.  Maybe we'll create a miscellaneous category and you can put it in there. How is that?

We could do a non-fiction writing contest. I've been thinking about the next one.

The right word is economical.  It delivers great value to the reader with minimum interpretive effort, and no distraction from a need to assemble a picture from multiple words.

I've just joined a rl writer's group and we spend most of our time talking about resources for improving our writing, the publishing process (indie and traditional), and marketing. Often online courses come up and we share our thoughts. So I thought I'd throw this out here to see what courses you might have found that have been worth the money?

For myself, I've paid for a number of course (and I've shelled out a lot of money for some). Here are my thoughts on a couple:
James Patterson's Master Class ($97) - this was an interesting course. I can't really say I "learn" a lot of concrete information about writing or publishing, but I still think it was worth the money. I ended up getting some great ideas on how I could change my habits and my writing process to suit my needs.
Mark Dawson's Self-publishing 101 (somewhere around $375) - For me it wasn't worth the money. But it's a beginning self-publishing course and by the time I enrolled, I had already published 6 books. I have however, recommended it to my sister and other new indie-authors. This really was one where it the '101' part of the title should have warned me before I invested the money. It did however get me a discount on his Ads course (FB, Twitter, etc) and my Instafreebie membership which helped offset this so my 'wasted' money was more like ($275).

Any recommended (or not) courses that I could check out?

Janet Taylor-Perry wrote:

Yes, if you type in the person's name in the search bar on your home page, it will take you to a possible list of authors and then click on that author. Once on their profile page, there is an option to block. If the person has you blocked, when you get to the profile page, it will tell you the author's profile is private.

This is correct. Or should I say, this exactly the same experience that I encounter.  If someone has blocked me from accessing their work, I no longer have the permission required to block them from mine. That Author's profile, is as Janet says, marked private. The 'block' button does  not appear.