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
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
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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?
Or put it in the Groups menu at the top of the page as Search Groups.
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.
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.
LOL. I eventually decided to make them old enemies, so they were on a first name basis the whole time.
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.
Nice to hear from you, Karen. We'll be here.
Dirk
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.
K, is that model for your Kimberly cover? I saw your existing cover on GoodReads and thought it was awesome.
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.
Me too. Me too. I wanna play.
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.
I'm thinking of listing Amy as my co-author. :-)
I missed all of those clues. Either I'm duh! (quite likely), or they weren't as obvious as you think. Your other readers would be a better judge.
I found that I am unable to search for the author amy s using the find feature on the menu at the top (the magnifiying glass icon). I tried Amy, amy, Amy S, amy s, and s. No luck. Makes me wonder who else is not being found in searches. My own username works.
What is it about the heat that makes people shoot shit? I mean, come on guys!
Are we talking diarrhea or gunfire here? :-)
Oi... the guy destroys the entire universe. It's very hard to beat that kind of death tally. Unfortunately, he takes out the Guiness Book of World records in the process, so there's no way to record his merits
The whole universe? Yeah, I don't think I'm going to be able to top that. I kneel before Chancellor Palpatine Blue. A Namika if ever I saw one.
There is still something not right about the way the Visit Your Groups control works on the home page. Sol, you said the links to topics go away when it's been read. I'm not seeing that at all. It behaves as if there is a timeout on the links, but without a predictable amount of time. I added comments to several threads in the medieval group today, and they showed up in the control right after that, but then disappeared only a few hours later. Other times, I've seen thread links displayed in the control for much longer periods of time.
Is it that the links go away when the *originator* of the thread has read it? That might explain the unpredictable behavior I'm seeing.
Thanks.
Dirk
EDIT: Case in point, this post. After I left it, I saw the link appear on the home page. I went in, read it, and then came back to the home page. It's still there. I'm fine with that, as long as it's there long enough for regular (daily) visitors on the site to read them.
I found another bug in the x-lines. If you leave a review and then want to go back in to add something (e.g., if you thought of something else to add), if you click on x-lines, the edit box at the bottom of the review is incorrect. It's showing what appears to be the unformatted database text (e.g., with <p> paragraph markers and so on), instead of a proper text box. The bug is reproducable.
Kajo. Kajo. Kajo. I'm sick to death of Kajo.
Oops. Sorry. That was Amy projecting. I hear voices, too, you see.
Dirk
You've probably already googled for tutorials on dialogue. If not, they're out there, as are cheap e-books on the same subject (e.g., Dynamic Dialogue by William Bernhardt for $4 on Amazon). The other way is just to start reading/posting. Comment in your book content summary and chapter notes that you're looking for help writing dialogue. Eventually, you'll find reviewers who do it well and can help you with it.
I had the same thing happen to me, Tom, except with the site's own messaging system. I think I was trying to message the same person twice. I'll try refreshing if it happens again.
Sol, time permitting, can you please delete the orphan review reply in my account. My home page shows that I have one review reply waiting for me. It's from Don Chambers. He took the chapter down before I could read his reply to my review, and now I'm unable to read the reply and clear the reply count on my home page. The date on his reply is March 17, 2015.
Thanks.
Dirk
