Karina Sanchez

@ingridrd

Yes, I think we win actually. There’s you, Greta, Kate, and me. I’ve lived near Columbus most of my life, so chances we probably have some mutual friends or something.

@christianna-hellwig

Ok, you can get a piece of the pie. Fact is though, they didn’t have to choose Kitty Hawk, but the people who actually did all the work (and 95%…[Read more]

Some Ohio fun facts:
-I think there are 7 presidents from Ohio (Virginia has the most presidents, but Ohio’s second)
-Neil Armstrong is from Ohio.
-Ohio’s state flag is pendant-shaped, and it’s the only state flag not rectangular-shaped in the United States.
-Cedar Point (in Ohio) is one of the best amusement parks in the US (some people say in…[Read more]

@christianna-hellwig

Aren’t you the ones that have the licence plate feud with us over who can really claim the Wright brothers?

Oh yeah, another Amerifact is that we invented the airplane (or if you’r an ooparts fanatic, perhaps we reinvented it)

Gene Stratton-Porter! I can’t believe I forgot her— everybody should read Gene Stratton-Porter. Fantastic with characters.

Taken from Daeus’ Encyclopedic Unabridged Fictionary of the English Language.

A good conversion is:

.Essential to the plot. If you don’t have to rewrite the story by taking it out, it will probably seem thrown in there.
.Carefully built up to. This is just the way it is with any character arc. The reason for the incident that led to his…[Read more]

No, I don’t think so… but I don’t know if this forum even has forty four more active members, let alone all from different states. 😉

I was born in Texas, if that counts for anything… love that state, despite all the mosquitoes. 😀

No, I don’t think so… but I don’t know if this forum even has forty four more active members, let alone all from different states. 😉

But California does grow most of our cauliflower, so we can forgive them.

Yes, football is crazy here, but I can understand because it is a really great sport. We also just won our first ever Olympic gold medal in fencing a couple years ago.

Hey, Australia’s the land of the boomerang. You ever tried those things? They’re tough to get the hang of.

But @kate-flournoy…no American authors? What about Mark Twain (some of the time), Serena Chase, or umm, *clears throat at Grimina’s insistence* even lesser known authors who like retelling fairy tales?

Somehow I missed that the first time around, @hope… 🙂
I was thinking more classical, so I didn’t think of those, but yes all three of tho…[Read more]

@sarah-h I don’t know enough about it.

@Daeus: That’s so funny! No, unfortunately, I have too much going this week. 🙁

@gretald

Sure was. You going this Saturday? I plan to be there.

@hope

This is a good topic. With newsletters, you have two main goals. First, develop a friendship with your subscribers. Second, get them to devour your emails.

Let’s start with the second. Most everybody has time to look through their emails. What few people can do is read every email entirely. Having people skim through your newsletter is…[Read more]

@faithdk, Cool! I’ve never had goat milk before. And yes, they tasted good. 😛

@Daeus, that’s so cool! 🙂 Where you by any chance at the Celtic Ball in December of 2015? I thought I saw someone who looked like you there, but I wasn’t sure.

Hm… you just may be surprised. Obviously nothing’s certain, but I’ve a gut feeling you just may be surprised.

@kate-flournoy, I hope you’re right…

Okay, I just gotta say it right…

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I just started reading another book by K.M.Wieland and I made an interesting observation. The first book of hers I read “Dreamlander” was amazing. Now I’m reading “Behold The Dawn”. It is also good, but I would rate it as a four-star book, not a five star. Why? Well, I asked myself that, and it made me realize something I’ve always instinctively…[Read more]

That is quite funny, actually. And ‘Republican’ used to be a dirty word— now it’s the other way around. 😛

You know what’s really funny. I just thought about this, but the republican party is called the Grand Old Party, but the democratic party is actually older.

@Gretald…

-Trump’s probably going to win the Republican nomination. Sadly. Very Sadly.

Hm… you just may be surprised. Obviously nothing’s certain, but I’ve a gut feeling you just may be surprised.

@Daeus

Now if Rubio would drop out, that might flip things right around.

I cannot tell you how much I wish he would drop out— and Carson a…[Read more]