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Welcome, @shannon!!!! You come from a big family too; bigger than mine even. 😀 I have eight younger siblings. Do you have any favorite songs?

@daeus Sounds good. I think you have my email from last time.

@winter-rose Breaks? What are those? Who has time for breaks? XD

I do leave a project for a little bit when I’m done with it, but I never actually take a break from writing because I’ve several projects going at a time. To get a good perspective on a manuscript, yes… taking a break for a few weeks or months (I’ve heard months is good but have…[Read more]

@daeus This book comes highly recommended. 😀 Though… I don’t have time for a page by page beta reading like I did last time. I should be able to read it through in a month and jot notes on each chapter or anything plot or character wise that catches my eye if that works for you.

As for a manuscript swap… even if it wasn’t taken, 170,000 is a…[Read more]

@rjk Just enter one. Sometimes people enter more than one and I just pick my favorite to enter for the voting by the writing team members. But yes… one, generally. 😉

@kate-flournoy I’m praying!

@Writefury Arggggggg I LOVE IT! I need to see those again.

@kate-flournoy You are just gifted with a greater depth of sight than most.

@kate-flournoy *hugs you* It’s called the subtext of a character. The gift of seeing it, and seeing it in depth, varies from person to person.

@kate-flournoy They are mine too. You can’t have them all.

@corissa-maiden-of-praise No, m’dear. A salute is a sign of respect. It has nothing to do with me being under your authority. XD

@emma-flournoy The book is better than both, but the new movie is much better than the old one. The ending was rushed and there were a few things that would be confusing if one didn’t know the Ben-Hur story, but as a story (and thematically) It was pretty good.

@Emma-Flournoy Yep, Ben-Hur. Have you seen the movie?

@leumeister There’s not really one right way to do it. It depends on what platforms you use. I use Google hangouts and we message each other our goals for the day in the morning and then check in at night (normally). But you could do the same thing with Facebook Messenger, or private messages in the YWW or email. Groups can help keep people…[Read more]

@Leumeister I’m busy, I’m afraid. 🙁 I wish I could, but… time. And life. One tip about motivation though – you could find an accountability partner. Each morning email or message the word count or writing time for the day then hold each other to it. I’ve been doing that with a friend recently and it helps immensely. When I sit down and don’t…[Read more]

Final logo everyone, courtesy of @kate-flournoy. And I am very happy with it and not changing it, so it’s up for Oooos and Aaaaaas, not critique this time. Just saying, because I’ve buried my minion under chocolate and stuffed dragons and I’m not pulling her back out to work on it any more. XD

@winter-rose Congratulations and all the general stuff! 😀 *offers you chocolate* That is wonderful!!!!

Tagging you guys for the graphic above, because I forgot to do it then. @jess-penrose, @daeus, @emma-flournoy, @dragon-snapper, @Northerner, @kina-lamb @whoeverI’mforgetting…

So, everyone, after the conversation here and elsewhere, I made up my mind. What do you all think? Credit to @kate-flournoy for the graphic, the most long suffering, demanding minion out there.

Here’s a movie collage… I made a number of them for fun, back when I had more time. 😉