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Congratulations, Paul!

I agree there were a lot of gems cast in the old forum, and I, too, got a lot out of them. But that stuff is nearly a year old now, and there must be new ideas  floating around. How about a water cooler setup, where folks could just exchange ideas? Don't make it a group we have to join--most of us are already at our limit. Just make it a feature of the Premium group forum. Would that work?

It's tough being a gadfly, isn't it, Vern?
But to get back to the original thread: A lot of our other instructors have posted their photo along with their credentials, which goes a long way toward instilling confidence. Of course, they were asking for a lot more than five bucks for enrollment.
As I recall, Sol himself called for members who felt they had something to share with others. LAMackey bit the bullet and stepped up to the plate. (Yes, I did that mixed-metaphor thing on purpose.) Maybe this was the solution for maintaining a member's anonymity while making help available to all.
Maybe, in future, all member-instructors can have a pretend name and be identified as member instructors. Then those who want to learn can accept their help without niggling concerns about "credentials."
What do you think?  JP

Janet and Janet, Love hearing from both of you. I put off writing until I retired, and could concentrate on it without distractions. I cheated myself. My house was full of kids- mine and other people's, and still gets that way sometimes. I bake cookies with eleven-year-olds, play games with four-year-olds, talk story ideas with their parents, who were once my students, and strike up conversations with any friendly-faced people I meet. I like people; I just didn't know how much I was going to like writing. 
Do whatever you can to make time for the things you want to do NOW. If it works for you, then it's all good.  JP

When my daughter and her sheriff's deputy husband react so strongly to anti-police news items, all I have to do is think of stories like Deputy Goforth's.  Just because officers of the law don't come home telling stories of the dangers they face every day doesn't mean they aren't out there. They put themselves at risk for our safety--and that takes courage.  JP

Hey Dill, lay off. It's only natural to get so involved in your work it makes you emotional. You have to care about your characters to make them believable.  Then you put the whole thing away for a year or so, until you can be objective about cutting, changing and deleting stuff you once thought was golden. If you're still crying, put it away again.  JP

I tried it, Cobber, but it doesn't do what I meant--it will give me all the poems ever written, or all the essays, etc. one genre at a a time, and it's not timely. Here's where I have to mention the old site.
Every day, all the newest postings were listed, with the most recent at the top of the list. book, poem, essay, short story, whatever--one by one they appeared at the top of the list. When a new work was posted, the one at the bottom dropped to page 2, and so on. Everybody's work got the same amount of exposure, with author, genre, and pertinent details all on one line. The title was a link to the actual work, so one could read and review.
If you check some categories, you'll see there are works posted in January still prominently displayed on your home page. That's an unfair amount of exposure, considering there are other categories whose postings roll off in a matter of hours.
Just my opinion.  JP

Well, it's taken me half the night, but I figured out how to use wattpad, the site being used for entries in the contest (Harlequin sytycw). Please stop by and have a read. https://www.wattpad.com/user/JpLundstrom

Don't forget--if you have a romance written, you can enter. It just takes a little time.

Patterson is at the top? Crime does pay!

You're right--fixed.