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@sarah-h I think you’ll need to adjust the size of your image either before you upload it to your site or from your site if that is possible. I’m not entirely sure.

Can I ask a clarifying question? Are you losing interest as in you’re writing this story and you have all these great plot twists planned out, and you’ve got some great ideas for making your characters deeper, and there’s a new character you’re dying to introduce and then all of a sudden, writing all those cool things out doesn’t seem worth it…[Read more]

First of all, @faithdk, ‘normal writer’ is an oxymoron.

Just so you understand. 😉

I’ve never done that, but I can see how it would happen. The thing is, I don’t sit down and write every story idea that comes into my head. Some merit writing. Some don’t. It’s simply a matter of finding out which is which. I let each story idea I have simmer for…[Read more]

Ok, I need to make myself do some editing here. Anybody want to tag along for a half an hour or so?

Perfect. 😀

@kate-flournoy Ooops, I just realized I didn’t get specific enough with my reply. Basically, it just has to be my story, not somebody else’s. I have to do the work, but there are no limits on help if I want it and I can receive suggestions, corrections, etc.

Okay, great! Thanks. 🙂 *whew* 😉

@kate-flournoy. Yes, the rules have nothing against beta reading. It’s kind of uncommon, but I’m taking advantage of it.

Yyyyyyyyes I did @Daeus, and I had a quick question… this being a contest, do the rules allow for beta reading? I mean, I know feedback and all that stuff is allowed, but how specific are the rules for this particular contest? Or is it just that you have to do all final and actual editing yourself? People can tell you what they think, but the…[Read more]

Ok, you two should have received an email from me now.

Sure, no problem! We’ll do. 🙂

The overwhelming support here is frankly astounding.

@kate-flournoy Sooner is better since the deadline is in eight days, but I don’t expect you to hurry yourself. A couple days is fine.

By the way, if you want to keep your email off the web, you can just send me an email through the contact forum on my website thescratchingquill.com and I’ll…[Read more]

Yikes, I didn’t know it would make it into a link… 😛 sorry, don’t know what to do about that. Just copy and paste it, I guess. 😀

Centerburg is literally in the very smack dab center of Ohio. Cincinnati would probably be 3hrs away from it or so and Columbus would be the closest.

Of the towns I mentioned, Washington courthouse is probably the closest to Cincinnati, but still very far away. Kate might know better about towns near Cincinnati. I think she’s closer.

@bluejay Cities: Akron, London, Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, Newark, Sandusky

Towns: (I’m hoping I get you right. You mean like city districts or large rural communities?) Centerburg, Upper Arlington, Washington courthouse, Dublin.

Does that help?

Columbus, city. Laurelville, town. Chillicothe, city. Dayton, city. Cincinnati, city. Adelphi, town.

Good enough? Yes, I am going to bed… just transferring tonight’s work to my thumb drive first. 😉

@bluejay

Hey, not bad at all, @faithdk! 😀 @bluejay I got 178 words. 😉

Now I’m going to bed. 😛

Um… @Bluejay that’s seven more minutes our time. :/ 😛 Then I have to get to bed. 😉

Yay, @Daeus, that’s awesome! @Faithdk, I got 1,238 words. You?

@Bluejay, I’ll be writing until 9:45 if you wanna do this with me. 😀

@sarah-h I don’t know. If you have a media library or some place where you upload your photos, check that. Try clicking on the images and see if it brings you to a special page with just that image in the top center of the page with a white background.