I'm a curse and I crossed the border just fine. They even gave me a little card that says I can stay for ten years. Of course now they want me to pay $450 to renew it. Screw 'em. I can collect disability just as well from Nunavut. Get the spare room ready for me, K. I'm coming home!
3,701 2015-08-13 05:29:18
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
3,702 2015-08-13 03:43:52
Re: Werewarrior of the Moon Eye Silent Militia (6 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I can attest to Amy's claim. She will rewrite your book, given the chance. But, as you can tell from the way she spells breathe, spelling and punctuation are not among her strengths. That's where we come in. I personally have taken on the duty of finding all of the places where she hit the space bar once too often in her chapters.
Welcome to the circus, Master Keyes.
3,703 2015-08-13 03:34:56
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Airen's Ring... now as you know, Airen is secretly Behira. I can tell you the story of her ring...Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in Aerie stone,
Nine for Mortal Mages, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Queen on her dark throne
In the Land of Tos Gwsa where the Shadows lie.One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to summon the creepers and in the darkness bind them.
You show great promise as a writer, K. Do the worms get their own book, BTW?
3,704 2015-08-12 10:24:25
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I'm on it as soon as my pupils can see straight.
3,705 2015-08-12 03:23:41
Re: Northern Skies - Janet! (520 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
"Oh dear, there floats my childhood friend down the river, I should kick my horse into flight, grab her by the arm and drag her to safety where I ravage her, punching my chest like King Kong."
I may be able to use this in my book.
Matthew seems just fine to me so far.
3,706 2015-08-11 17:23:13
Re: Graphic Stock giveaway? (7 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
I got as far as the screen for credit card info and also bailed. It's a 7 day free trial. Of course, now they have my email address...
3,707 2015-08-03 23:18:37
Re: Site Bugs 2 (342 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
The Visit Your Groups control that shows up on the right of the Inline Posted Reviews tab doesn't show any active threads, even though they show up on other web pages in the site, including the home page. I'm surprised the control isn't the same throughout the site. Perhaps a parameter passing problem.
3,708 2015-08-03 05:52:34
Re: Northern Skies - Janet! (520 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
My story has a style? Obviously you haven't read it. :-)
No sweat. I'll keep picking your brain for future tech. The whole genetic engineering thing still needs work next draft, assuming I don't punt the disaster/taboo subplot for a good old world-ending runaway NSA virus instead.
3,709 2015-08-03 04:06:17
Re: Northern Skies - Janet! (520 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
njc wrote:When I look at a review I've done, I sometimes wonder whether the author will hate me forever.
But we know you're all marshmallow inside njc! Like Amy says, it's hard to argue with your reviews and it adds so much value, hate will never come into play. And, I'm used to it and now I expect to see every second sentence highlighted!
I decided to wait until my fifth draft before daring to approach NJC. Let Amy and K rewrite it a few times before I approach Chancellor Palpatine.
3,710 2015-08-02 00:30:46
Re: Site Bugs 2 (342 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
If you'd spent as many 60-second timeouts waiting for the site as I have, you'd be talking to a shrink rather than a regular doctor. :-)
3,711 2015-08-01 19:58:26
Re: Site Bugs 2 (342 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Found another 60 second timeout delay. I clicked on The Next Big Writer label at the top of the screen to go to my home page, then changed my mind and clicked on my menu and selected Portfolio instead without waiting for the first operation to finish. It hung. Repeatable. Win7/Google Chrome.
Thanks.
Dirk
3,712 2015-08-01 00:45:37
Re: my dear, dear friends (28 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Max, I'm so sorry for your loss. I sent the following poem to a friend when she lost her son. May it give you some comfort.
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One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.
In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was one only.
This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life, when I was suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat, I could see only one set of footprints, so I said to the Lord,
“You promised me Lord,
that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life there has only been one set of footprints in the sand. Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?”
The Lord replied, “The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.”
-- Mary Stevenson
3,713 2015-07-30 22:34:11
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Skip
It and write the next one. Then go back and do the one that is vexing you.
They all vex me. Why do you think it takes me a month to write one chapter?
3,714 2015-07-30 22:31:24
Re: Can we improve the list of posted threads on the home page? (36 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Or put it in the Groups menu at the top of the page as Search Groups.
3,715 2015-07-30 22:30:20
Re: Can we improve the list of posted threads on the home page? (36 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Holy cow! What a phenomenal hidden gem. Sol, I strongly suggest putting a link to the advanced search on the home page, perhaps in/above the Visit Your Groups control. You'd get a lot less grief about groups if people knew that existed.
3,716 2015-07-30 21:27:01
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Absoletely no rush. Enjoy your vacation. I'm busy ripping my hair out over Joseph's latest chapter. If you never hear from me again, it's because the chapter bored me to death.
3,717 2015-07-30 21:17:16
Re: POV slip or not? (13 replies, posted in Writing Tips & Site Help)
LOL. I eventually decided to make them old enemies, so they were on a first name basis the whole time.
3,718 2015-07-30 21:13:10
Re: Can we improve the list of posted threads on the home page? (36 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Sol, what about Lucy's suggestion of searching across forum topics (or even content)? A simple results page of links, organized by groups, would probably do.
3,719 2015-07-29 02:58:14
Re: Almost Back (5 replies, posted in The Aurora Mission)
Nice to hear from you, Karen. We'll be here.
Dirk
3,720 2015-07-27 20:19:50
Re: Wishlist Cont. (212 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
There's also the Additional Feedback forum. You can start a thread in that group (or any other one) dedicated to that novel. The reviewers I interact most with are members of the Medieval group, so each of us has a thread there, even though some of the books aren't even Medieval. It's messy, but it works.
3,721 2015-07-25 20:11:22
Re: Titles in The Pendragon and The Beast of Caer Baddan (206 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
K, is that model for your Kimberly cover? I saw your existing cover on GoodReads and thought it was awesome.
3,722 2015-07-25 09:39:29
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Bzzzzt.
Oh Dirk? A curse that involves ankles and ears...just imagine those two bits touching and you'll get the joke.
Had you said something about placing one's head inside another body part, it would have been funnier, I think.
3,723 2015-07-24 23:51:48
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Me too. Me too. I wanna play.
3,724 2015-07-24 14:30:05
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I actually asked more than four. But if you're trying for B5, it's hard not to guess you're trying for the end of an era, and maybe the end of all on which that era stands.
If a key element of this series is about the end of an era, then I strongly suggest making that a more obvious possibility. Give us a sense of that to carry us through the series. Something that binds the whole series together from the beginning, which is what I keep bugging you for from the outset of Acts.
I've finally switched to the correct first book, so I'm really looking forward to understanding this story as intended.
3,725 2015-07-24 12:58:52
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I'm thinking of listing Amy as my co-author. :-)