vern wrote:
Or maybe my eyes are shredded.
More likely that, given the forum you're in. 
901 2014-11-20 12:28:06
Re: What's everybody reading right now? (18 replies, posted in Literature & the Art of Writing (Shred Thread))
902 2014-11-20 12:23:59
Re: What's everybody reading right now? (18 replies, posted in Literature & the Art of Writing (Shred Thread))
GPyrenees wrote:
I wish there were a 'like' button!
Me too!
903 2014-11-20 12:22:29
Re: First lines (7 replies, posted in Literature & the Art of Writing (Shred Thread))
We could have a whole thread on sex scenes!
904 2014-11-20 01:43:20
Re: Site Bugs (217 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
(I thought you might be tinkering because I remember you said you might remove the moderator id within forums. But the rest doesn't make sense.)
905 2014-11-20 01:41:41
Re: Site Bugs (217 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Hi Sol. Sorry to add to the list -
I'm not sure if someone is tinkering behind the scenes, but I opened a Shred Thread Group and don't seem to have moderator functionality anymore within the forums? I can edit the group information but cannot split/delete/close posts like before. My forum name says member now rather than moderator.
I gave it a few hours to see if it was just a glitch. I had the full functionality this afternoon.
Here's the group: http://www.thenextbigwriter.com/group-l … -thread-34
906 2014-11-19 21:58:08
Re: What's everybody reading right now? (18 replies, posted in Literature & the Art of Writing (Shred Thread))
TirzahLaughs wrote:
The truth? I'm reading a collection of lovely trashy novels set in the early 1800's (England).
I also just re-read The Secret Garden, a childhood classic.I just started "Eaters of the Dead", a retelling of Beowulf that I've heard good things about.
I almost reported this post to the moderator. (ME!) But I only meant to quote it. The quote button is in a weird place. ANYway. The Secret Garden is pretty much my favorite children's classic. That one and Charlotte's Web. I need to reread.
Trashy 1800s books? So you're reading about about excess ankle skin, and maybe a touch of fleshy upper neck? 
907 2014-11-19 21:50:26
Re: First lines (7 replies, posted in Literature & the Art of Writing (Shred Thread))
GPyrenees wrote:
*Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.
The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
GP, I love this whole opening. (Not just the sentence, but the whole first fourth.) Completely disorienting, for a purpose. Faulkner is excellent. It takes the whole novel to start to piece things together.
908 2014-11-19 21:47:49
Re: First lines (7 replies, posted in Literature & the Art of Writing (Shred Thread))
“In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women."
(Just started it.)
909 2014-11-19 21:46:22
Re: What's everybody reading right now? (18 replies, posted in Literature & the Art of Writing (Shred Thread))
Thank you, love! Middlemarch is one I VERY much need to finish. I've started it but it didn't feel like the perfect time yet. I love it in concept already.
910 2014-11-19 20:46:26
Re: Anyone want to let me make them a moderator? (4 replies, posted in Literature & the Art of Writing (Shred Thread))
I just do school about sixteen hours a day, and don't want to have to be the one people rely on to answer questions or anything. I have to be able to leave for long chunks during finals or whatever. Well, just so everyone knows I am scarce. VERY! I just want a place to dip in here and then, but I can't lead discussions or anything, or be counted on to watch the threads and manage things. We'll need an actual moderator for that, if this thing goes anywhere. I have a billion papers to write and sometimes don't log on the computer for weeks at a time. So there.
I'm hoping this place will be self-sufficient. Any ideas for threads, please feel free to go forward! This place is meant to be a space for conversation, very casual, as and if people are interested. Cheers!
911 2014-11-19 20:45:16
Re: Anyone want to let me make them a moderator? (4 replies, posted in Literature & the Art of Writing (Shred Thread))
Oh, I'm looking... delete topics. Sticky topics. Grab a post within a thread and make it a new forum thread. Edit the group information. Message all members. Close topics.
912 2014-11-19 20:42:45
Re: Anyone want to let me make them a moderator? (4 replies, posted in Literature & the Art of Writing (Shred Thread))
I think we just have the ability to delete posts by members, delete people from the group, send group messages. Ultimately the moderator can delete the group if it's going nowhere. First they'd have to remove all members.
913 2014-11-19 20:33:34
Topic: Anyone want to let me make them a moderator? (4 replies, posted in Literature & the Art of Writing (Shred Thread))
I wanted to get this group created because of the five-group limit! I figured most people would be filled up on groups within a couple days and no one would be able to join. So I created it. But I'm crazy busy offline and would much rather sit back and relax, and come here as and when, than have anyone relying on me to be moderator. So if someone can volunteer, that would be THE AWESOME.
914 2014-11-19 20:10:26
Re: What's everybody reading right now? (18 replies, posted in Literature & the Art of Writing (Shred Thread))
I'm reading North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell. & all of Jane Austen's major works (for a lit class.)
915 2014-11-19 20:09:15
Re: Public? Not Public? (1 replies, posted in Literature & the Art of Writing (Shred Thread))
Hi Vern. I logged out to have a look. This group appears in the listings for groups, and people can join without moderator approval, but the forums are not visible to the public. People have to join to see them. All that means is that we're not accessible to searches and will likely be pretty private since people can only join FIVE GROUPS!
916 2014-11-19 14:08:27
Topic: Welcome, Forum Visibility, & Who We Are. (2 replies, posted in Literature & the Art of Writing (Shred Thread))
I have no idea if this new group will take off, but I thought I'd attempt it at this new site. If you're here, welcome! This is a very casual space, where you can feel free to contribute or stay quiet, as and when. I'm crazy busy with school, often, so I may be scarce sometimes. But I do love a literary discussion & wanted a place where we could discuss writing in multiple genres. Or discuss the art we have discovered in our private reading. Or just joke around with fellow writers. Or toss up our own passages from works in progress.
If you haven't heard of The Shred Thread from the old site, the main purpose is to discuss what works and what does not work in writing through a microscopic look at paragraphs, sentences, or segments of writing. The idea is to learn together by sharing our different viewpoints. I, for one, don't claim to be an expert.
I made the site open to new membership, & I set it so people can simply join and check it out without being approved. Our conversations should be visible only to people who are actually in the group, but if people join, they'll be able to see our discussions. This way, we're not searchable on the web and can be a little more safe in discussions. Again, though, people should be able to join without being approved, & once they do, they'll see our discussions.
If anyone wants to volunteer to be a moderator, that's appreciated! I'm a very busy student and LOVE literary chatter, but I can't be counted upon to be heavily present here. So the moderator function may be scarce unless someone volunteers. I often have to disappear for stretches.
Also, I know groups are limited. We can only have ten each as Premium members, and perhaps five as free members? Please, don't feel pressure to stay on here. You're welcome to join, look about, and pass. The group here relies on interaction to keep it hopping. There is no single discussion leader. We just toss up threads as inspired and those who are interested discuss the craft of writing. You're most welcome to join discussions and start conversations. I didn't see really a space at this site dedicated to conversation across all genres, and couldn't see it happening on the TheNextBigWriter Premium or Free forums. So I carved out this little section for gathering in case anyone's interested. You're most welcome to discuss here, with the whole of the group or just a few of us. The purpose here is to have a space for organizing our writer threads, as and when they come up.
(I think we might be the only group so far which was created for discussion rather than to draw together writers in a single genre.)
Best, Corra
917 2014-11-19 12:43:50
Topic: What's everybody reading right now? (18 replies, posted in Literature & the Art of Writing (Shred Thread))
A thread for literary chatter.
Two Women Seated by a Woodland Stream (1869) - by Mary Cassatt.
918 2014-11-19 12:41:13
Topic: First lines (7 replies, posted in Literature & the Art of Writing (Shred Thread))
A place to share favorite opening lines -- or opening lines that didn't work for you.
919 2014-11-18 11:29:23
Re: New feature idea (13 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
GPyrenees wrote:
Please accept our suggestions as compliments, since we all come here so much, and wouldn't have so much to say if we didn't care so much!
Well said.
920 2014-11-17 14:46:05
Re: Still stumbling around (28 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
SolN wrote:
But you could do a separate page for each category, yes? You're saying "but there are way more categories now!" Which is what we are saying. smile Much to find, and no central way to find it. We have to go to each group to find new content, and then realize that there's a way there to search by genre. And then THAT's still something we have to repeat by group to find anything.
No, this is not accurate. There is a central way to find it. If you go to the Read button at the top of the page, it shows all content from all of the groups you belong to. That's what Read - Group Content means. It is all of the content posted to the groups you belong to.
Ah! I didn't see that space. We can hunt by genre there over the groups as a whole! That's a find! Sorry for missing that. Nice and accessible on the drop-down menu too. But what about site-wide content? Since how many groups we can join is limited to five (I think?) we are potentially missing out on a lot of new content. Is that just no longer a part of the new site going forward? More focused on groups than the whole? If the latter, it seems (in my humble opinion) that the number of groups we can join should not be limited. Especially now that the point system in groups is changing....
921 2014-11-17 14:38:20
Re: Clarification - No Groups are Mandatory (14 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
(Also, this time I received an email notification on this thread.)
922 2014-11-17 14:35:00
Re: Clarification - No Groups are Mandatory (14 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
SolN wrote:
Looking at it now, I don't think this is actually the ideal system and I am going to simplify it. Once you pay points to post it in one credit group, you can post it in any other credit or free group.
Sol
Sounds good. Thanks sir.
923 2014-11-17 13:17:01
Re: Still stumbling around (28 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
But you could do a separate page for each category, yes? You're saying "but there are way more categories now!" Which is what we are saying. Much to find, and no central way to find it. We have to go to each group to find new content, and then realize that there's a way there to search by genre. And then THAT's still something we have to repeat by group to find anything.
I suggested creating genre home pages for each genre on another page somewhere, but then I felt I was being too critical & deleted it. I do think there needs to be some way to more centrally find new postings -- even if it's a drop-down for categories which leads to a separate page of new listings for each genre.
I COMPLETELY agree that the images for new listings are too much, and a list without them would be preferable. The three latest postings for each of the forums is great, but a page committed to all our forums, with the latest (say) ten listings for each, and a way to click from there directly into the forum would be even better. Less clicking! Would be a wish.
Only my thoughts.
924 2014-11-17 13:02:15
Re: Clarification - No Groups are Mandatory (14 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
I feel like I'm playing Bamboozle.
925 2014-11-17 12:47:37
Re: Clarification - No Groups are Mandatory (14 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Thanks KHippolite! Appreciated.
Okay, so it costs points to post work on TNBW as a whole -- yes? Unless we choose to make our posts credit-free site-wide.
It costs points to post to TNBW Premium, but not to TNBW Free.
Our current works have already been posted to TNBW Premium, TNBW Free, and the site as a whole. Anything additional we post may or may not cost points, depending on if we post to a group that has a credit system, but everything we'd posted at the old site up to this point has been auto-transferred to TNBW Free, TNBW Premium and the site as a whole.
If people leave TNBW Premium, those who have a lot posted as of the old site will lose a lot of credit points (because the works that cost points which were auto-posted via the site transfer will no longer be live on TNBW Premium. They'd have to use points to repost them all.) But they could leave and come back from the group without much risk if they just want to post new items to TNBW Premium going forward, and don't care about having lost those old TNBW posts from three years ago?
When we post a new work going forward, we will have to pay credit points separately for each of the groups we post to which have a credit system, including TNBW Premium, plus credit points to the site as a whole, if we want that post to be part of the credit system when it is reviewed? (And obviously, this is not optional in groups that use a credit system. To post there we must use points.)
But we could still participate in a group that costs points if we want to join for conversation. We just couldn't share work there unless willing to pay for it with credit points accumulated in that specific group. We could share it on the site as a whole though, or in other groups, of we have credit points elsewhere or want to post it without using the credit system in a Free Group.
When we review, we receive separate points earnings for any of the groups we are in where that work has been posted, and each of those groups act as separate sites, yes? But we would not receive points for (for example) The ROMANCE GROUP if we're not a member of that group, even if the work is posted in that group. We'd first have to join that group.
(Is there a way to see what our credit balance is for each group that has a point system? Or is this tallied on our profile somewhere? I see a bulk point accumulation on my HOME PAGE, but I don't understand how this correlates to all the separate groups? I don't see it on the Home Page of the TNBW Premium Group either? It says I have 2.30 points on my Home Page. I don't know what that means.)
(Also, a side note for Sol: I'm subscribed to this conversation and received no notification that KHippolite answered. I've checked my SPAM folder. It's been working in the past, but isn't currently for me, apparently.)
