I'm impressed at your tech savvy and financial acumen! You seem well informed, and I should be asking YOU, any tips on how you have increased your engagement with different communities? This is my method

Wow, thank you - I do try to comes across as respectful, not critical! Constructive. Helpful. Let me repeat: you're doing great! The story is flowing. The exposition is well written and easy for the reader

Hilarious! "Freewrites never lie" Instead of shooting the thieving groundhog, the vegan hand-feeds the thing, and groundhogs purr. Well, why not! Clever, as always, and fun. :) You reminded me

Clever - teach geography by visiting the neighbors. Amanda is precocious ethically as well as scholastically - her concern for others. The cookie drop, the fruit, the letters hand written to each neighbor.

Love it! not the stick-tights (poor dog!) - in the midwest we have Virginia stickseed, Hackelia virginiana, a nightmare for dogs. Your dog at least appears to be a short-hair. Collies.... no comment....

A fire dragon rising from the water - what an image! Vivid, memorable. And then... this! She bends her neck and lays her head near my feet on the edge of the large stone. WHO IS THIS GUY, that a dragon

If people didn't do terrible and/or stupid things, we writers would have a lot less material to write about. So many writers stand back and watch - the characters will "insist" on doing their

I can assure you: you are not a failure!! The kind of revisions suggested in the How to Write books would be minor, trivial, simple. Sometimes though I object to replacing stuff like "She was standing

Scary but yeah I think we're there. Another metaphor: Emperor's New Clothes. Except the child who speaks up sets off a chain reaction in those who hadn't dared to.

bad enough that all the media complied with mandates to deliver their statements as "scientific findings" and "facts," but worse that whenever some citizen would counter with "Hey

LOL, I guarantee you, those same workshoppers would pounce on this as "verbose" (a door which a dusky hand furtively opened) and too much use of dialogue to convey to readers information that

Ohhh, I hear you - preserving your own unique voice, in the face of opposition. I failed at that. I became the centipede that fell into the ditch (when asked how it knows which leg to move when). Guy T.

Thinking of Conan the Barbarian, 1932. Opens with a poem, a legend (in italics), then action and dialogue. Not saying you have to do that too. Just that I myself have had editors/workshoppers demand more

And this! Published on February 25, 2021 As information about the coronavirus pandemic rapidly changes, PEOPLE is committed to providing the most recent data in our coverage. Some of the information in

Beautiful start to a novel! "The valley looked lovely these days"--implying there were days it didn't look so lovely. We are drawn in. Great setting. The two scouts sent out, and only one returns,

That's terrifying. Ever read The Animorphs series? by Katherine Applegate and her husband Michael Grant, writing together under the name K. A. Applegate "Yeerks are parasites. A Yeerk enters a host

Did you see Covid-19: US high school band students rehearse in individual bubbles?

Isn't it great to have a written record and to come back to it? The things I'd have forgotten, forever, if not for having written them down! Old photos can take me down the Rabbit Hole...

Sam, thank you for reminding me that the author of that warning about other wands may be motivated to protect his own business of making these wands. I want to belive the pair I bought are as good as any.