51 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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The TNBW editor can handle pictures easily. You have to make sure it is sized properly and ready for insertion. Then go to the little "picture" icon at the top of the editing window. When you click it, you have three tabs. The first tab is the easiest. You simply seasrch on your computer for the picture and follow the prompts. The second method involves hosting your picture offsite. Then you insert the URL for that picture into the box and click OK.

The first method hosts the picture on the TNBW server, so be careful how big it is and how many you put up there. Personally, I have a web site of my own where I host my pictures and only provide the URL to it in my postings.

Almost midnight here in EST, so I am going to shut down and join the family.

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52 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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Congrats, Randall. Hard work pays off. A prosperous New Year to you and yours as well.

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53 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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No limit as far as I know. If you're doing a novel, I suggest you keep chapters down to less than 2500 words, though. No limit on the number of chapters.

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54 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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The first para seems to read better to me. It's cohesive and doesn't require the mental gymnastics to visualize where each person is before reading the next sentence.

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55 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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Eggnog is a cool drink, but only if you're into swallowing pancake batter. LOL

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56 Topic by B Douglas Slack

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Hope everyone has a grand time during the holidays. Take care driving if you have to. Take everything in moderation but fun!

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57 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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Brilliant work, Dirk! Laughing throughout it.

Happy holidays to everyone on the site.

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58 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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Here's something from "The Wayback Machine" showing the entries in the contest from march 03, 2021. I don't see your story there, Vern. You can use the basic URL (web.archive.org) and do some searching for saves from thenextbigwriter.com and see if you can find it. The interface is a bit touchy, and you get a lot of "network errors" but you can keep trying and eventually get the page you're looking for.

http://web.archive.org/web/202103032110 … Contest-22

This is NOT a live site, so DO NOT try to log in.

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59 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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Happy to hear you and your family are relatively unscathed, Randall. Our fiber-optic is buried, so it would take something catastrophic to kill our Internet.

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60 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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Thanks, Dirk. After I posted, I checked to find I was wrong about TNBW. Oh well. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes it gets you. Something to look into, though.

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61 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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One thing that may need looking in on is the "which house do you want to publish in?" question when posting the first chapter of anything. Currently, the method uses check boxes. However, since you can only post in ONE house, a check on two or more results in an error. Could these boxes be changed to a radio button, which will only allow ONE choice? Most noticeable on Booksie, but is done here as well.

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62 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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Hi, Dags. You can change your username here and on Booksie. To change your username, just to go your profile page, click the three-dots at the right of your picture, and choose edit profile. There, you will be able to change your username easily. Use the same one as you do here in fact. I did it.

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63 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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And the same to you, George.

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64 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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When I first started out many years ago, I found a book called "The Breakout Novelist" by Donald Maass. It is a great book filled with ways to improve your writing. After two of my novels being published, I can say that it helped me a great deal.

Here is the URL for Amazon (US) which carries the book: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Breakout … _sb_noss_1

Good luck.

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65 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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The old way was very good. I was only a guest for about three days when I sprung for the fee. Since then, a lot of water has passed under the bridge and now I'm starting another novel for review.

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66 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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Outstanding, Alla! Always happy to hear an author makes good.

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67 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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Great to have you back, Randy.

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68 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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Here's one:

ISMSPune

Advertising for MBA courses.

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69 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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Another two:

indianbreakfastrecipe


alex499

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70 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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Most of the time I did, usually adding a gentle reminder what a review should cover and look like. If they returned for the next post, they usually did better. In fact, several of them are now writing very well indeed, now that they knew how to do it right.

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71 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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For most of my posts, I put them out there in the general public domain. The responses are usually mixed, but I'd say I get around 15-20% fluff and the rest legitimate reviews. Over the years I've been a member of Booksie, I've built up a good readership that helped me a great deal. I review them as often as they review me.

Lately (the last couple of years) I've not posted anything at all. This was due to several reasons, not the least of which was poor health. Now that I've popped back up on the grid after my quad-bypass, I'll try and get more posts out there.

Points mean mostly nothing to me. I have currently just about 1000 points. If I need them, I can use them, but posting on Booksie dosen't require them, so no big deal.

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72 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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Another:

robinsmith

And another:

johnidicula

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73 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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It's mot the spammers I'm worried about. It's the plagiarizers. Every once in a while I put the first paragraph of any one of my postings into a search engine and see what pops out. Found a lot of them that way.

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74 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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Just verified Kdot's info. There are several ways to copy the posts though. I won't mention them here but it requires just a little knowledge of the control codes for a given page and the browser you are using.

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75 Reply by B Douglas Slack

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MJ: Booksie will not let you highlight nor copy any of the postings. It's in place after several works were found out in public sites--mine included.

As for making the type larger, hold down the Ctrl key and roll your mouse. Most browsers will respond by making the page itself larger. CTRL and the "+" and "-" keys will work as well. Ctrl and the number "0" will bring the page back to normal size.

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