More precisely, the blue bar. It's not clear whether they are like text links, where you have to hit the text, or whether they are buttons, with a region around the text that responds to the input.
3,502 2015-01-16 01:36:36
Re: A new question about groups (44 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Basic)
pamelablack62 wrote:
I'm sorry if I am irritating or offending you. I am finished with this argument. It has become an exercise in futility at this point and has turned ugly and personal so a total waste of time. Again, I apologize for the irritation.
No apology necessary. I meant only to suggest how to keep 'this forum thing' from becoming vexacious. Evidently, I wrote too forcefully! I apologize if I added to the vexation.
3,503 2015-01-15 23:06:28
Re: A new question about groups (44 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Basic)
Please! If I like Cadillacs and you think they're junk, if you drive a Lexus and I woildn't take one if you paid me, it doesn't mean that we each think the other is only worth his worthless taste in cars.
There are people like that, of course. The polite word for them is 'fanatics'. But I'm pretty sure none of us want to be that way, and just about as sure that none of us is that way.
And yet flamewars occur between good people, because we read first slants and then slights, where none was intended. And we feel the need to correct things that we would tolerate, would not even notice, were we not deeply invested in the debate--that was never meant to be a debate.
FWIW, I started in online forums in 1981. I've seen these, and yes, been guilty of them.
3,504 2015-01-15 10:30:03
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Although I don't want those changes to go too fast, or Merran will be Behira long before the story is done.
In a couple of days I can get back to reworking Erevain.
Oh, if you don't mind saying, how much difference did the revisions make?
I'm guessing that the stressful conversation worked. And Quoodle here discloses all things that Quoodle can ...
3,505 2015-01-15 07:46:04
Re: Site Bugs 2 (342 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Yestereve I used the 'paste from Wurd' option with my ODT file. It worked much better than last time. The only formatting glitch was that the fleuron lines came through left-justified instead of centered, and that might be a deliberate choice to feed downstream services. (I was using Chrome.)
3,506 2015-01-15 02:30:03
Re: Hello from Bimmy (11 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
dagnee wrote:
Welcome back! Was just thinking about you the other day when I tried to explain steam punk to my granddaughter. I finally told her to Google it..I think I'll send her Fate Wars in stead.....Dags
Well, Girl Genuis is officially Gaslamp Fantasy, but a lot of the authors' friends and advertisers are into steam. If you don't want to start at the beginning, http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040329 and this http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070618 might give some of the picture.
3,507 2015-01-15 00:50:55
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Okay, I've done an edit pass over that chapter, called The Observatory. It's now sitting in Book II. Amy, I'd really like to know if you like the power moments.
3,508 2015-01-14 22:33:43
Re: Site Bugs 2 (342 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
There may be a setting in Chrome for whole-word selection (like MicroSlough) or doing what you tell it to do.
Several generations of Computer Science magi have tried to invent a working DoWhatIMean instruction. From time to time some marketroid insists on writing it into the specs.
3,509 2015-01-14 04:39:43
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Not the release, but the same oath from at least a couple of the master guards.
3,510 2015-01-13 21:44:22
Re: Site Bugs 2 (342 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Come listen to a story 'bout a man named Max,
Knows about life and he'll give ya all the facts ...
3,511 2015-01-13 16:12:05
Re: A new question about groups (44 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Basic)
How are we coming with the chapter reordering glitch?
3,512 2015-01-13 15:12:52
Re: A new question about groups (44 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Basic)
But I lose the gestalt.
3,513 2015-01-13 13:03:58
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
njc wrote:
Think about the scene switch cinematically.
The term I was looking for is 'establishing shot'.
Also, when Tazar leaves, some people will be losing their protector. Someone should realize it. The rough-born and Behira-guided Alda might be the one, or Tazar himself might speak. If the Lance has any influence with the guards, it might be spent here.
3,514 2015-01-13 12:38:39
Re: Site Bugs 2 (342 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
It's also a problem on my Android, but TNBW is not the only offender.
3,515 2015-01-13 12:35:53
Re: A new question about groups (44 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Basic)
I hope I didn't suggest that an inline review is valueless. It is harder to read and use and I do ask/my reviewers to avoid them.
3,516 2015-01-13 12:29:42
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
The reminder I'm looking for is continuity. We haven't seen Tazar's setting recently, so the place and the appurtenances (did I spell that right?) need just a sentence or so to bring us back. Think about the scene switch cinematically.
3,517 2015-01-13 10:46:07
Re: A new question about groups (44 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Basic)
In fairness, there are some authors who request nitting.
Different authors ask for or need different things. Different reviewers have different skills to bring. Do we make use of it or fight it?
3,518 2015-01-13 04:42:28
Re: A new question about groups (44 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Basic)
Mariana Reuter wrote:
I think that the benefit of the in line review belongs to the one being reviewed. From my standpoint, in line reviews are more detailed, because they point exactly to the lines/words that have a problem/issue/require polishing. So, the final benefit is for the one being reviewed ...
I do not find it a benefit. Again, having to play click-a-boo with what the reviewer has laboriously provided benefits me not at all.
The reviewer, on the other hand, is spared having to cut-paste the snippets on which he's commenting. But it's no help if you mean to compare/contrast multiple parts of the text.
3,519 2015-01-13 02:11:56
Re: A new question about groups (44 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Basic)
And some of us can simply read things better when we don't have to play point-and-click peek-a-boo with someone else's message.
3,520 2015-01-12 23:56:50
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
There should be--has to be--some visible connection between the volumes. And reading multiple stories should give the reader a chance at the clues.
I'll review you later chapter before midnight. Then I have some nit-and-polish on the new prospective chapter (II/78). Don't let that stop you if you want to look at it.
3,521 2015-01-12 21:58:05
Re: Site Bugs 2 (342 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
I'm with JTP here. Not reading previous comments may help to make fresh reviews, but when discussing or advocating policy it keeps discussions cycling around first impressions rather than developing better positions and suggestions.
3,522 2015-01-12 01:57:30
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I'm hoping that the reordering bug will be fixed in a day or so and I can fix the mess that is Book 1 and get to work on Erevain. In the meantime I have another prospective future Pike chapter to type up. This one has some continuity problems with the one out there now, but it's all fixable. (This one is earlier.)
3,523 2015-01-10 10:33:58
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
When I have Erevain's episode in better shape, you can tell me how much better I'm doing.
3,524 2015-01-10 07:39:27
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
There's not as much new skill as you think.
Some parts will have to be big rewrites. Don't worry: I'm not a slave to previous versions.
3,525 2015-01-10 04:40:19
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Amy, I haven't reviewed The Satchel because I have nothing to add or criticize. I do wonder, though, if you could make a book from these vignettes.
