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Here's something that has bugged me for quite a while. It's probably easy for me to offer it, but much harder to implement.

Every posting I read has the "Write Regular Review" and the "Write In-Line Review" button at the END of the post. Unless you're the type that will always write one or the other, when you finally decide, you have to scroll all the way down the post, click one button of the other, then find your way back to where you were when you decided to post In-Line.

If you always post Regular, then this isn't a problem at all. It only becomes a pain if you write an In-Line, for the reasons stated.

Putting the two buttons in a frame to one side of the post would be a way of doing it. This way you can read the whole thing, then click, or you can find something you want to comment on and click the In-Line button right at that point without having to scroll all the way down and back up.

Once you select In-Line, the post is put into a frame of its own anyway, so why couldn't you do this a little earlier before you have to decide on a review type?

Bill

True. We can only post pictures that are hosted elsewhere on a forum post.

Bill

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

Bill

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.

Bill

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.

Bill

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.

Bill

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.

Bill

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.

Bill

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

Bill

Here's one:

ISMSPune

Advertising for MBA courses.

Bill

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.

Bill