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(51 replies, posted in HodgePodge)

Cool, thank you Vern!! Left responses with a virtual box of chocolates! wink

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On the main page for the group, underneath 'post,' there's a blue tab for invite

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(51 replies, posted in HodgePodge)

Okey dokey, I revised and slowed down ch 9. Then split the end of it off to make that ch 10.

How ya like me now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muu7FxdCG4U

Sol please advise re total group number allowed for preemies. I'd seen that you'd raised it to ten, but apparently not. I started a separate thread here to ask you this question but It may be getting lost in the shuffle.

Thanks..

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(40 replies, posted in HodgePodge)

Vern, this is how to insert images (from my earlier post):

This is what you do is after typing this part just like this: [img=PunBB bbcode]You insert the web address with no space after that last close bracket.
Then, right after the web address, without inserting a space, you type this:[/img]

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(40 replies, posted in HodgePodge)

That's Gene Wilder with Madeline Kahn! roll

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(5 replies, posted in Additional Writing Feedback)

Seabrass, I tried finding the post-review additions/changes you told me about but I couldn't. Probably doing something wrong....

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(0 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)

Hey Sol,

I'd read that you expanded the number of groups to ten for premium members. I'd like to know what's going on, since a few people messaged me that they're trying to join the 'additional feedback' group and have been blocked.

Thanks!

I think Sol expanded the list of groups to ten.

Also, if it's a forum thread under tnbw Premium, it wouldn't allow for individual sub-threads for particular pieces and quite honestly, I'm getting barraged with emails for the threads I subscribed to on the big preemie thread...I think this is the cleanest way to do this.

Of course, as in everything else, I could be totally wrong!

smile

Although Sol has set up reviews to allow for more comments after a review is made, I'm finding that difficult for allowing free-flowing discussion in which others can participate. I've set up a group where people can start threads directed at a writer or reviewer, to continue the conversation, akin to the old forum we had. So it's there for everybody to use, whenever they like, to reach out to each other re a particular piece.

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(40 replies, posted in HodgePodge)

Your fourth choice is Young Frankenstein, Vern! You knew that, right? wink

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(51 replies, posted in HodgePodge)

Kite Runner: He did a chapter heading on ch 1: December 2001

Then second chapter (no header) simply takes place in 1975 (the date referred to in ch 1 text) and proceeds chronologically for about a year

Then chapter 11 has another header: Fremont, California 1980s

He plows through the next few chapters, chronologically from the mid to late 80s

Ch 14 is entitled June 2001, and the story ends cycling through where it began, then beyond.

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(40 replies, posted in HodgePodge)

Pick one!!!

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I. Want. Another. Image.

mad

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They WERE lame. No question about it.

Yeah, I thought about the flashback thing and weaving it into the adult narrative, but it seemed like I'd be going back and forth too much. I didn't like the idea of it, to be honest.

When I read books that overload on flashback, I usually lack a sense of continuity. I like being grounded. Call me boring, just don't call me Ishmael...

I don't wanna rip your book, I want to read it. the WHOLE thing. I get soooo mad at you for not keeping up your chapters and for moving around all over the place. I mean, like Mother of Antagony, the fuk was that?! roll You told me you have a vision for the book, so for Chrissake lemme see it!

Which reminds me, have you read Heinlein yet?

I added a bit to ch 9 btw. I'm grateful for your reactions, seriously. Assuming you're somewhat sober when you tell me whatcha think. wink

Now, what happened with the band?

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(51 replies, posted in HodgePodge)

Now, about the story. I'm kinda using the pacing and set up of Kite Runner as my guide here. How traumatic experiences of youth form the adult - taint the adult, if you will.

Kite Runner wasn't about Hassan's rape. It was about how Amir lived with himself afterward, how it impacted his relationships with everyone else in his life, how he tried to 'be good again' as an adult. All in the exotic backdrop of Kabul, but then moving to shoddy quarters in the US.

Genesis isn't going to be about her subjugation by Sanchez, but the impact of that trauma on her life afterward. And how she tries to push beyond it, after being forced to face it. I'm trying, anyway.

So if you wanted me to slowwwww downnnn because you're (finally) digging the story of Genesis as a student, I get it. And then I'm sticking with it as written. If you wanted me to slowww down because the scene felt rushed, and didn't unfold naturally, well, that's another issue entirely. If it's both, I'll add a little something just for you. wink

It's an interesting experience, writing as I'm workshopping (or is it vice versa?) - not writing by committee, but seeing how people react to characters and themes. The good thing is, I'm actually avoiding a lot of mistakes I made over the first two or three or four (gasp) years with CR. The other good thing is, I'm not quite as malleable as I was then when people said they don't like stuff. I have a clearer picture in my mind of the story.

Well, to be honest, of the first third (now done) and the last third. It's the middle third where I'm thinking 'uhhhhhhhhhh....' yikes

http://youtu.be/1odzO9DA0JM

smile

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(51 replies, posted in HodgePodge)

I think you're just annoyed that this new format won't allow us to clearly and definitively out-paginate, out-view, and outnumber any other thread in the site. Me too, actually! wink

Thing is, our old thread was on the writing feedback forum, and while that's where we started for, like, the first few posts, we know what happened. I bet we pissed off a few people, or at least irritated them enough to simply... Ignore us. Ouch.

So I started the new feedback group tonight on this new site to be just that, while you and I can continue to carry on publicly but without bumping into the straight writerly stuff. Which is why this discussion of ch 9 would actually do quite nicely over there, while our riffs on the music scene and hard times and good times too would rightly stay here.

Which kinda reminds me of this:
http://youtu.be/ISSdegFQj-A

And that, of course, brings me to this:
http://youtu.be/JR7BcfVuwc8

Hmm. Maybe you and I should just stay put over here after all. I'm as much out of control as you are! lol

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I was debating whether to use Stevie or The Beatles. Stevie popped up first on YouTube, no other reason...

So John. You really think I rushed ch 9? I tried slowing it down last night and hated what I wrote.....

Upon request, I'm starting this thread yikes

Courtesy of the effervescent SimiSez, here are excerpts of sex scenes written by ten of the greatest writers of 'modern' times. After you read them, if you've written a sex scene, I think you owe yourself a huge round of applause for a job well done!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/book … me=2500972

Vicious Vern, you know those make me wince! But okay, I'll see if I can track it down...

P.S. Done. Thread started. wink

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(5 replies, posted in Additional Writing Feedback)

Yes, Vern, that's what I had in mind when creating the group. When I finish reviewing a chapter, I rarely revisit it unless the writer asks me to, and then I don't read the reviews that followed mine. Hopefully this group will pick up that slack, akin to the Additional Feedback threads of yore...

smile

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(6 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)

Latest regular model (not Air) 120 gb, latest iOS loaded (8.1.1)

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Can't set up a group without weird codes popping up
Window pane doesn't scroll
Cursor bounces to the top
Can't edit content of chapters
Time lag from when a review comes in to when I can actually see it
No pop up on home page re reviews received (love this feature on my MacBook, btw!)

Not trying to add to your already significant chores hmm

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(51 replies, posted in HodgePodge)

I set up a feedback group and sent you an invite. Let's see how that works...

http://youtu.be/zB24z00ajU4

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(51 replies, posted in HodgePodge)

This is why the 'additional feedback' forum was so helpful. You know what? THATS a group I can start!