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Thanks for hosting this, JP and Janet!!
Peace,
Mike

Congratulations, Don!! You had strong competition, especially with the runner-ups!
Peace,
Mike

Cool. Contests are great for strengthening motivation, bringing out a writer's best stuff. But there I go "soapboxing." :-)

Alright, JP. Thanks.
Mike

Morning, Max. I feel like quite the fumble-butt, yet, where/what are the rules?
Thanks,
Mike

It'd be interesting to know if she happened to read or hear about the lady with the Beretta...:-) I'd love to see the look on her face, lol!

Evening, Gacela. Welcome to the jungle! Kidding. Sounds like you've got a good understanding of what makes horror work. Good stories of terror need not be as disturbing as The Exoricist(Thankfully!). Anyway, I'll check out your work.

Peace,

Mike

As usual, I'm late checking in. Sigh! I hear you, Allen. Sometimes I can be fairly productive. Other times I'm blank. They say write drunk and edit sober. I basically agree with that. I completely believe that the harder we try, the tougher it is to write. We need to find ways to "let" the story/ies come. Free writing(I'm guessing you've heard of that)is supposedly a fine way to "invite" stories. Word games probably help too. On the game site, Lumosity(Yep, that's the correct spelling), there's Word Bubbles and Word Bubbles Rising. Both are good for jogging the mind, so to speak. The basic game set-up for the site is free, but I think it's worth paying a little money for the larger package! More than one part of the brain gets exercised and there are some great articles. 

Hope this helps.

Mike

I agree with you, PByrd. I'm recalling a guy(I wish I could remember his name. I'm getting VERY old!)who was physically and psychologically abused by his natural mother for years. He wrote a series of books about it and a general self-help book called Help Yourself. If anyone had something to complain loud and long about, I'd say he was a candidate! Yet, best as I can recall, he didn't break laws, he didn't feel sorry for himself...

There are those bleeding hearts who'd say, "Well, he must've been born with a special knack for coping with all that!"

Well, actually, there might be some truth in that. But aren't we all given freedom of choice? We all misuse it sometimes, but still it was given to us...Stress is for real, but I don't think that gives us a license to run around with a gun, trying to wipe out everyone.

Welcome aboard, by the way!

Mike

A challenging quiz for sure. Required plenty of hemming and hawing.

Mike

To me, street gangs(most of them) don't don't completely fit under the category of Org. Crime--the operative word being "street." Some are obviously well-set up, but they're not as "finished," if you will, as most other organized crime groups. But I'm prepared to stand corrected:-)