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@dekreel Have fun!  And definitely let me know! 🙂 Sorry I missed you. 🙁

@seekjustice No, I haven’t.  I have tried to read some classics but I usually end up not liking them – Jane Austen, anyone?  So if I hear the name of a book over and over the back of my mind puts it in the “don’t read” category. Whoops!  🙂  But I’ll try it and see, and…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 Oh well. 🙂  Actually 77 Sunset Strip is a tv show from I think 1958-1962.  It’s about two private detectives, so as far as rating goes, I’d put it with Star Trek: pretty clean, and good plots, but some violence. (Star Trek has some mild cursing, though, which I don’t think 77SS has – and that’s a plus.)  It’s usually very hard to fin…[Read more]

@clairec I think @gh24682468999 @sage-g and @seekjustice all have blogs.

@catwing had a topic like this a little bit ago here, so you might be able to use some of the advice offered there. (Link to the Catwing’s topic.)

@dekreel This might help? http://www.differencebetween.net/language/difference-between-motifs-and-symbols/

@dekreel Well, there is a Vulcan salute emoji, but it’s only for phones, I think.  It looks like this: (Found in Google images.)

@notawriter 😀 Why?  Because your mother finds him attractive, or because she would think it weird that you have opinions on whether guys are attractive?  (My mom just thinks it’s funny when I do, 🙂 though my you…[Read more]

@daughteroftheking *welcomes you because I could talk about Star Trek all day* Actually, my brother’s the Trekker in the family, but because he likes it so much I’ve been exposed to it and like it too.  My favorite series is Voyager, but my favorite character is Worf from TNG, so yes, I like it.  Captain Picard is really cool, and he’s Brit…[Read more]

@notawriter Actually, you’re right.  Chara’s hair is straighter.  As I told @kaya-young, that’s kind of what she looks like when she’s dressed up. 🙂 (She actually looks kind of like me, and if you look at my hair in my profile pic you’ll see it’s straight, but I can tell you that it’s really easy to curl, and I can get my hair to look similar t…[Read more]

@skredder I’m sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner.  I’m glad you figured out what I meant.

I had that same problem recently… 😀  I’ve found that line breakers really help when I want to suddenly change thoughts.

The added section at the ending is perfect!  It makes a lot more sense now.

@clairec Yes, that’s the one I was talking about.  At the beginning and at the end they show that Steve crashed in the Arctic and was frozen for 70 years, effectively time-traveling to the present day, because he did not grow older those seventy years in between, and remembered nothing of it.

@aislinn-mollisong That was a really long list – and I have many more recommendations I could give you!  But please let me know if you like any of these, as I’d love to hear that someone else enjoys the same books I do – since most people have never heard of most of those books. 😀

@aislinn-mollisong Okayyy, but isn’t The Enchanted Barn “just living”?

So, here we go:

Western: William MacLeod Raine, B. M. Bower, and Zane Grey are my favorite authors in this category.

Romance: G.L. Hill, you know…Definitely read Marcia Schuyler and The Strange Proposal.  Rosa Nouchette Carey wrote some pretty deep romances, but they get v…[Read more]

@jenwriter17, Well, Jared is Edd “Kookie” Byrnes, who is a pretty well-known icon of 1950s “beatnik” culture, so it’s possible you’ve seen his picture somewhere.  He’s from 77 Sunset Strip, like Derek (Roger Smith).

@dekreel, well the episodes are on dailymotion.com, if you’re interested.  It’s a detective show, so there’s action and spy stuff, and there are funny parts, too.  I know you don’t like one-episode romances, and there’s some of that, but I know there are some episodes without it.  Kind of like Star Trek, you know?

Speaking of Star Trek, have…[Read more]

@dekreel *fumes* How dare she say every actor looks like William Shatner?!! Shatner’s barely even handsome!  There was as great a diversity among men in the 50s/60s as there is now!

😀 haha.  I know for people who don’t make a study of the 50s/60s like I do won’t have as easy a time differentiating faces.  He’s actually Roger Smith from the sh…[Read more]

Oh, and @kaya-young I am thinking of naming my book something like “Winds of the West,” or “Growing Winds,” so yes, it’s referring to when he caught Chara, but in a more general way.  You’ll notice I mentioned the “winds” in the very first collage as well.

@kaya-young The snake is there for a reason.  A bad reason, presumably, since snakes usually do everything for bad reasons.  Right?

Yeah, the main picture is not really what she looks like.  It’s sort of what she looks like when she’s dressed up.  Her hair is straighter than that.  She actually looks mostly like the one in the bottom corner of D…[Read more]

@dekreel Thanks! 🙂  I’m (sort of) still here.  Been coming in and out.

And here’s Derek’s character collage:

(Sorry for the kind of sloppy editing in this one.)

@jenwriter17 As someone said before, I believe, I really like your color scheme.

Well, here’s a simple collage with all the main characters from my western.  If anyone recognizes the people in the pictures, I will be amazed and impressed and excited – and just plain happy. 😀 (But if you recognize Chara I will be shocked, because she’s a…[Read more]

@skredder I really liked it!  The description felt very real, and the voices of the characters were good.

A couple of things:  One, you switched POVs a couple of times during the course of the story, and it was hard to keep up.  I think you should at least put a double paragraph break in between so it’s obvious you’re starting a new section, or…[Read more]