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Hi K

Not necessarily reduce the number of engagements, more that I'm not planning to spend pages and pages on each encounter.  But that's besides the point, because I wholeheartedly agree with you and now feel much better that I should do it, and that it will work better, and that it may just very well spare me heaps of pain later.

The plan is:

On the night they all return to the castle, I'm going to change it to kissing, touching and exploring - Matthew will stop it, and will tell Catherine he's willing to take it further but she needs to be sure first.  Anthony is pretty good at keeping them apart and C mad at M and M is also a gentleman after all (yes, it's a loose definition of gentlemanly behaviour sometimes, but that's men for you!  LOL).  So the biggest change would be that Catherine will be going to Matthew's chamber first time.

So it looks like it will be some time before a new chapter sees the light as I fix the first chapters for the comp, and then the subsequent chapters with this new line of thought.  I think the change is big enough to warrant it.

This is much appreciated!  Thank you!
Janet

*blushes*  Thanks Rebecca!!!

Surely you meant to say good luck to everyone else in the contest because I'm entering the thing?!  Seriously, just kidding, I'm not delusional!  Sole purpose is to learn more and improve my skills to start my novels! 

Hi amy

Back of the upper arm is also what I was thinking.  And yes, this way, intentional or not, the baddies will drain and simmer!

Thank you!
Janet

Hi Sol,

Just want to check, would entries from Aus be ok?

Thanks Janet

Did anyone tell you recently you're the best?!  If not, you are!  I didn't even have to shout 

Ok, I was thinking of changing the arrow wound from one where the arrow point is stuck to one where the arrow tip went through but the arrow shaft is still embedded.  Henry will have some honey and strips of cloth at hand given they were going to a raid.  So at the scene, they will break the shaft in half and pull it out - a cloth soaked in honey will be attached to the end going through her arm to "clean" the wound while they're at it.  Stitches are out of the question given they're expecting trouble and their location.  They'll bandage the wound properly with some more honey to be safe and to try and stop the bleeding.  Given that Catherine won't be able to ride, she's going with Matthew and not home.  She'll protest, but it won't work.  So that bit is still fine.

Is there a realistic spot on someone's arm (preferably upper arm) where an arrow can go through, even shoulder would be ok, where she'd be able to move around (being careful) within 2-3 days and riding again in 4-5 days.  If it's possible even just for 1% of the cases.  In terms of shock/trauma - would she be ok to notice Matthew when they're together on his horse or when he's holding her during the treatment or do I need to change that to a later stage i.e. when he checks up on her before he questions her back at the tower?

And absolutely, everyone else is also more than welcome to give me their thoughts!  The more, the better!

THANK YOU!!!!
xx

Hi Dirk

Personally, I don't have an issue with your suggestion.  But if I were a devil's advocate, I'd probably mention that we have been able to built those relationships on the old site which didn't have an in-line review option.  Your approach however has the advantage to it that it may attract more premium memberships, which is good overall for everyone on the site.

Not sure if this is the best way to know whether someone is free or premium, but if you click on the piece you want to review, to the right of the screen the author's memberships are shown.  It would be worthwhile to check that side of the web-page especially for works that don't pay points (also a good indication that the author probably isn't a premium member, but not always!).

Cheers Janet

This only works though if you realise that you want to comment on the whole sentence or paragraph before you comment on a single word!  Paragraphs are the bigger issue as you can imagine.  It's not ideal, but for most of it, you can make it work!  Thanks Janet

Heya Vern, what you are referring to can be done - i.e. you can add additional comments to the original selection by "clicking" on the highlighted text again.  But this is different to what I'm referring to and I think the original query was about.  And since I've only been using regular reviews, I've checked just to be sure.  And what I've tried to do before, still can't be done.

For example if I'm reviewing the following sentence:

Vern has super powers becuse he can select text twice on TNBW.

Now I select "becuse" (only the single word) and leave a comment that it should be because.  If I want to leave another comment, I can just click on the highlighted "becuse" and leave another comment.  So far so good. 

But now I realise I want to suggest a change to the sentence structure as a whole.  If I try to select all the words of the whole sentence "Vern has super powers becuse he can select text twice on TNBW.", I get the following error message:

Bad selection
An annotation cannot contain another annotation.

So that means I now have to get creative to explain what I'm trying to say by either adding a second comment to "becuse" or by selecting a part of the sentence that doesn't contain "becuse".

This is as clear as I can make it.  Last try with other words!!!

Two guesses who the test case was! 

JR

I tend to finish things that I start, and I also don't like to start in the middle of something.  So my ammo is to start at Ch1 and stick with it to the end.  There are writers on this site that do the same, even though it's not their genre.  I appreciate them!

But, a bit of decency will go a long way!  I have no problem if you thank me for my review(s), and give me a reason (any reason) why you won't be returning the favour.  I'll still stick with you and even better, I'll give you a virtual "Get out of jail for free"-card so that you don't have to feel guilty about me doing 40+ reviews and you're not returning the favour.  Even if you don't let me know, I'll still stick with you, but it's probably the last WIP of yours I'd be reviewing - I'd then go looking again for  someone new that would return the favour or who has the decency to let me know.  I'm also here to be reviewed at the end of the day.

Just my 2 cents in a very cryptic few words.

Have you guys even READ the rules of fight club?  it's not the kumbaya group!  *growls*

ps - bold is the new CAPS LOCK, because I say so!    (I hope you guys get winks, because otherwise I'm gonna be in big trouble soon in this group!)

But seriously, this is great!  Communication ... who would've thought it may actually resolve issues, get people to understand each other better?!  It takes a very special kind of person to be big enough to apologise.  Especially on this internet thingy where the whole world can see it!

Hats off to you guys!  (and by guys, I also mean girls!)  But by all means, take me on on that, this is FC after all!  *hits boxing gloves against each other making dust sprinkles in a ray of sunshine*