Amy, I will get to your story this evening, I promise! I should have gotten to it testerday, bu ... I'll explain later.
3,301 2015-02-27 20:18:05
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
3,302 2015-02-27 19:53:29
Re: Site Bugs 2 (342 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Addendum: I am using the non-Chrome browser on the Android, and the behavior is worse. I cannot shrink the page when entering this text (and I was unable to reach the 'edit' button to add to the previous posting).
This reminds me of the original outer limits: Do not attempt to adjust your television. We are in control.
3,303 2015-02-27 19:47:08
Re: Site Bugs 2 (342 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Somewhere in the last day or sl the forums have become all but unusable on my Android. The page is wider than my display, which is fine, but I cannot shift it right or shrink it--and that is not fine.
Curiously, it allows the shrink when entering text.
The browser is Chrome.
This 'cannot shift or shrink' takes away the ability of the user to adapt to unforseen circumstances. Can we please make the site usable on the Android again?
3,304 2015-02-27 01:39:21
Re: Strongest Start! (57 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
amy s wrote:Shearluck and NJC both said they prefer popcorn and a comfy seat to watch the fur fly.
I think they'll come around. PByrd... you joining us?
Not likely under present circumstances. Sorry.
3,305 2015-02-25 04:21:51
Re: Prologue (9 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Objective case, thee and me. Unless you're a reigning monarch, then us and thee.
3,306 2015-02-24 21:02:49
Re: Prologue (9 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
SamFantasy, I've been thinking about witing a review for you. Give me a few hours.
3,307 2015-02-24 02:31:11
Re: Publish story (3 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
You pay points for publishing. You earn points for reviewing.
3,308 2015-02-23 23:40:52
Re: Hello, I'm new (hist fiction writer) (15 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Second on the recommendation for Rebecca Vaugn's stories.
They sound a little early for you, but they won't waste your time. Look around, find writers you're comfortable with. With luck, they'll be comfortable with you and you can reciprocate reviews. That's part of the ettiquette here: recip when you can, and if you feel you really, really, cannot help another writer because of the style differences, apologize for not being able to recip. Of course, the other writer may enjoy your story so much s/he continues to review!
Oh, try Amy_s's short stories. They're so good I have almost nothing to say about them.
3,309 2015-02-22 02:11:07
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
How often we know not what we wrought or wreaked?
3,310 2015-02-21 23:10:27
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Per your review reply: Do you mean I'm off the wall, or I'm on target? Or you can't tell?
3,311 2015-02-19 17:06:29
Re: Strongest Start! (57 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Of course, you could make the corpse your pet ....
3,312 2015-02-19 12:54:18
Re: Strongest Start! (57 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
A trollin' we will go, a trollin' we will go, Hie Ho the derry-oh! A trollin' we will go.
3,313 2015-02-19 11:44:45
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Review after breakfast. Gotta' mull some Q's.
3,314 2015-02-19 09:34:46
Re: Strongest Start! (57 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Make you characters trolls. Then he can kill them all. (Yum. Popcorn.)
3,315 2015-02-19 01:55:08
Re: Is this site suitable for a 12 year old? (19 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
The same could be said of letting kids into public libraries, unfortunately. Not all 12-year-olds are at a 12-year-old level. Not all 16-year-olds are at a 16-year level. Hard age limits are guesstimates, and more often wrong than right. The trick is keeping them from going too far wrong.
3,316 2015-02-18 19:05:03
Re: Wishlist Cont. (212 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
A forum-per-work would, ideally, be connected to the review structure.
3,317 2015-02-18 10:14:41
Re: Wishlist Cont. (212 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
You are understanding me, actually. But I could modify that and allow the user to decide whether a work merited a new forum thread or not.
3,318 2015-02-18 06:10:33
Re: Wishlist Cont. (212 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Much bigger wish item: for each author, and for each work, an authomatically created forum thread that appears in its own place AND ALSO can, at the author's discretion, appear in each or any of the groups in which the author is a member. For the 'root' groups (premium and ?base?) the author/work threads should probably be shunted to a nested set of forums.
3,319 2015-02-18 04:04:19
Re: Strongest Start! (57 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Take a look back to the article that started it! They are the same.
I think I'll go make some popcorn.
3,320 2015-02-18 02:02:15
Re: The Hollow Man (66 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Those red eyes, and the legends associated with them, will mark Silas among those he meets. And his performance as a berserker will not recommend him as a diplomat or statesman, but as a warrior.
To establish him otherwise among kin, nobility, and King will take time and the passing of events.
3,321 2015-02-18 00:54:57
Re: The Hollow Man (66 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
The most important thing is that Silas's story is interesting. It will help if we can like him.
We've been told that people are calling him The Butcher of V----. Do we think of him that way? If not, he's already wronged (in our minds) and thus sympathetic.
3,322 2015-02-17 23:59:32
Re: The Hollow Man (66 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Then either your story follows this or defies it. There is conflict in how he is regarded. The most 'organic' thing, at this point and neglecting later story arc issues, would be to play out that conflict in a way that determines the next part of Silas's story.
And, of course, we must ask how all these things comport with what Silas wants for himself.
3,323 2015-02-17 22:18:42
Re: The Hollow Man (66 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Silas is going to be recognized, and perhaps praised, for his berserking spree. Does he embrace it or fight it? Who praises him? Who fears him? Does the King approve, or does he treat Silas as a valuable, dangerous weapon? How does the King regard those red eyes?
3,324 2015-02-17 21:30:01
Re: The Hollow Man (66 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Do you want the event to drive him along, or do you want to run counter to it?
3,325 2015-02-17 21:27:53
Re: Strongest Start! (57 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
(Gags quietly.)