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Or set it in England using two adjacent gardening plots. That's all the rage there now.  I have a friend who met his wife that way.

Tom

Since I am a pilot, I had an idea many years ago of writing about a man/woman (who dislike each other but were traveling as pilot/passenger) crashing on a desert island.  Then, about a year later, the movie "6 Days 7 Nights" (Harrison Ford/Anne Heche) came out and I gave it up.  I have decided to try and resurrect that plotline, but changing the locale to a remote area in Alaska (which is pretty much anywhere) and the motivation (of the woman) to stolen property and the guy to a geologist on the ground that comes upon the wreck - and a survivor.  No doubt that's been done somewhere before, but I think it's a viable plot.

Tom

Hi, Wilma.  Take a look at the top of this page.  You can see the link "The Next Big Writer Premium" (followed with a tiny arrow and this thread "Site Bugs").  CLick just the first half of that link.  Over on the right-hand side, at the top of the page, is a button called "Post New Topic".  That's where you go.

On one of my other writing sites, a couple of posters there do the same thing on a grand scale - launch 10 or 15 new chapters all at once.  Burns me up because all that posted before are pushed off the listing page.  I would actually support a limit on number of posts per day if it would stop that type of behavior.

Tom

Persons who review my work will get a review in return (It may take a while during the holidays, however).  As Wilma says, it is just good manners.  I would return a review even if it didn't get me any points.  In fact, I read posts because the title intrigues me, I have already connected to the author, or the subject matter is interesting.  The least reason I read a post is for points.

Tom

I didn't even make it through the third chapter of the first book in 50 Shades.  Pretty poor work, but it must have hit some chord somewhere as the series garnered a potful of money.

How about a discussion on "the most unusual setting" for a romance novel?

Tom

I just received an email stating that "author" has created new topic "topic" in forum to which you are subscribed.  I clicked the link and was told, in no uncertain terms:
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Why would I get a notification for something I'm not supposed to see?

EDIT: apparently, images are not allowed here in the forum or I would have shown what the page looked like.  According to "show page source" (in Firefox), there is a ton of coding, but all I see is what I listed above.

Tom

Well, Sol, if it would make your life easier, I just tested KHippolite's input method and it worked a charm.  I've inserted my character as a jpg image with just a slight widening of the spacing in the paragraph in which it appears.  So, there isn't any real hurry (on my part, anyway) to do this.

EDIT:  also, Sol.  The characters themselves reside in their own fonts and are called out as "normal" when actually in that font.  Whereas Word will setup that font you used in the header for the document, I can see where that would be a nighmare to try and gather up all those fonts so just one character can be inserted.  If the native language, in my case, Japanese, were used, then the whole document would translate properly (I think).

Tom

Thanks, Charles.  I'd pretty much come to that conclusion also.  I do know HTML (I design web sites) and have tried to insert HTML in the "source", but it doesn't seem to accept the font selected nor the actualy 0xnnnn code for the character.  I think I am doomed to using something like [the Japanese character for "5"] in place of the actual character of '五'.

EDIT: Well, that is certainly interesting.  I can insert Japanese characters into the forum software, but not into the actual novel editing software.  Something isn't right here.

Tom

I wondered about that as I had an in-line review that only had one word highlighted and nothing more. I also assumed that the person reviewing either logged out, or got kicked off the site for some reason.

Tom

At the moment, Denise, I am quite involved with a family matter, but I've shelved both your novels and will get to them soon.  All my other novels are over on Booksie, but I've decided to bring them over here also as a lot of authors here on TNBW don't have accounts on Booksie.  So, that means my romancers will be here soon.

Tom

Oh. I see.  Every other forum I am associated with automatically subscribes you to a thread that you post in (or start).  You have to go to your settings to unsubscribe.  I see the 'subscribe' link at the top now.

Thanks

Tom

I've inserted scenes in almost all of my Romance novels depicting intense love and sex between consenting adults.  I see nothing wrong with that, and I try my best to make it tasteful and certainly nothing more than what I've read what some of the more popular authors of the day put in their bestsellers.  I also see no need for gratuitous sex just for the heck of it, or to enhance a chapter I feel is lagging. Violent or illegal sex might be alluded to, but will not detail it and only use it if it is a critical turning point in the story.

Everything I've read in this thread seems just fine to me.  Janet, you and Rebecca both presented scenarios that I found delightful and easy to read.

Tom