Good morning, Karen.
You could generate a news article and insert it into your chapter. Properly indented (both sides) and a change in font, with a attribution header over it. make it from some sort of climate watch group and word it like an open question to others: "Will the climate get better, or get worse?" Then, make it the topic of conversation between her and her father. Sort of "Did you read the article this morning from......."
~Tom
Oh, no, Max! I am so sorry to hear of this. Please keep us in mind if there is anything we can do to help.
~Tom
Well, hello, Karen! Welcome back. We're here when you get ready to go.
~Tom
Welcome, Addison. We have some very talented writers here that would be happy to help out.
~Tom
I have found, JP, that it is impossible to mass-delete any messages. If you check more than one (or use the "check all messages on this page" box) you will fail to delete any messages. That leaves deleting them one by one, which is just not going to happen for me. It really needs to be worked on.
~Tom
I have a bug that I've noticed in the "Invite to read" bit under the "Actions" tab of my portfolio.
I've invited one person by entering an email, did the captcha, and sent the email along its way. Then, I want to send another story to another person (or the same person). When I use the drop-down and select "Invite to read" again. I get an immediate popup telling me "Email already sent". I can't get past that for ANY of my stories unless I refresh the page.
~Tom
Ah. Thanks, Sol. If I knew that, I'd forgotten it.
One question: if I send an email with the link to the first chapter, does that give them access to the drop-down and the rest of the chapters?
~Tom
What a great idea, MzP. I would love to have my friends be able to read my stories, but they keep getting asked to create an account. The free account only last a short while. I think that a totally free 'read only' account would be wonderful. My friends would probably email me or tell me what they think of the story rather than try a full-blown review anyway.
~Tom
At this point in time, reading anything is hard to do.
~Tom
As the man who backed into the bologna slicer said, "I'm getting behind in my work". I have, at the moment, 17 new posts to review, and another 31 backed up for a single author. I regret that very much as I try very hard to get to posts as fast as I can.
My problem is that my eyes are acting funny - tearing and burning. The Optometrist at the base tells me it is related to stress and maybe my working in the back yard has put a bunch of pollen in them.
I've found that if I read more than one (possibly two) chapters, I can't go on until I rest for an hour or so. To this end, I apologize for not getting right to those backed-up chapters, poems, and stories.
But, I will get to them.
~Tom
I use Word (or OE Writer) so when I read, and comment, an in-line review I have my copy open in another window. As I agree with a nit, I make the change. That way, I'm always up to date and can grab a chapter if I wish and post it immediately.
~Tom
I agree with Janet and JL, Mike. I posted a 2338-word chapter and it cost be 7.4 points. Something is out of whack somewhere.
~Tom
You post an interesting thought or two, Janet. When I log in to the site first thing in the morning, and I find that I have 10, 12, or even 23 new postings, my inner-self begins to shout 'no. no way'. I simply don't have the time to read, and more importantly, give a good review, to that many posts. So, I do as many as I can and hope that the next day doesn't bring any more. Complicating this is that my eyesight is nowhere as good as it should be. I wear trifocals and peering at a screen for more than an hour (even with the magnification and de-colorization of the chapter -- thank you, Sol) gives me a headache.
You mentioned donating points. That might be an inducement to old-timers on the site, but a new writer doesn't have that option. I can see where the rating star system would not be a very good idea - and I wasn't a member of the old site. I used to be a member of a forum where stars were given for providing a solution to a problem. This didn't go well at all.
Maybe there just isn't a solution. In my case, I favor just PM-ing a steady reviewer and telling them how much you appreciate their continued support. It can be part of the 'finishing blurb' on a review, but personal contact is my way to go.
Somewhere out there is a solution. We just have to find it.
~Tom
This is a great idea! My reviews seem to taper off also. But pegging them to a chapter number probably isn't the best way to go. I'd just add up the number of chapters in a given novel and go from there. We have control over the chapter number so someone could start at, say, 30 and climb from there. Not that anyone here would do that - this is just an illustration. I have a book, an autobiography, actually, that is over 100 chapters. I don't dare start it here because I know nobody could stay with that amount (and I don't blame them).
~Tom
I guess I'm fortunate enough to have a whole room devoted to books. 3.5 walls are covered by bookshelves. if I didn't need a door, that would be covered too.
~Tom
I don't know for sure, Ken. Depending on which machine I'm on, I use either MS Word (2008) or Open Office Writer (latest version). The character renders just fine in my copy on the computer, but changes to either a question mark, or just plain gets ignored when I paste the story into the tMNW editor. I do note that you don't appear to be using Times New Roman, though. What is that font?
I have not tried Janet's solution. That might work. I'll have to see.
~Tom
The actual problem with "foreign" fonts is that the tNBW site doesn't support them. I've run across Dirk's problem when I use a Japanese word that has an accent over/with a character. Plus, of course, there is a whole font set devoted to just Japanese pictographs which are not supported here either. To solve that, I write it out, make a screen grab, work on the grab in my photo processing software, crop and then upload it to my web site. Then, I can refer to it as a "picture" in the tNBW edit window. It works, but it sure is cumbersome.
~Tom
Hi, Randy.
I use the numbering system in my novels. It is a simple way to keep them straight. I see nothing wrong with adding a short title afterwards, though. In this environment, you also have the box for initial chapter notes where a longer description can be placed. Sometimes I use it, sometimes I don't. It is all a matter of personal choice. Go with what you're comfortable with.
~Tom
~NJC: I get that bad selection notification if I try to highlight ANYTHING containing more than one paragraph. Try the last word of one para and the first word of the next para. You'll get that warning.
I get it even when I am on my Linux machine, so it isn't Windows or the browser. I use Firefox on Linux and Pale Moon on Windows.
~Tom
I really hate to keep harping on this, but I'm still not getting emails when someone posts in a forum thread I am subscribed to. Just now, I went back to a thread and found four more posts after mine - no email for them.
~Tom
Perhaps. But why quote me? Speak to the source.
~Tom
I like Ken's suggestion. It is more active than mine.
~Tom
Could you combine the two, Dirk? How about "Windsor watched Lupus bristle at the use of his first name, and suppressed the urge to smile."
~Tom
Mr. Bell: Since December, 2014, the Federal Government has lifted the ban on medical marijuana. See the following:]
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-med … story.html
~Tom
I agree completely with Janet, Max. Put this into an editorial as it give a far more personal tone than just of anything else I've read.
~Tom
