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| I've been MIA (life happened). When did they change the layout? It feels completely different and very pinkish. Well, I'm back for a bit until life hits again... |
| funny - that's what I've been looking for, but don't see. |
Reply| Ah-huh! You have to hover over the logo for it to appear - it pops out. Thanks! |
ReplyJoin us!  We're the illustrious  Night's Watch a band of rebels sticking it out among all these other moguls. And yes, I was sleeping.  I live in a different time zone so Dragon is hiding  and I kind of greet each other when its dark in her side of the world and light in mine.  |
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| I received an email for a free download to Self-Publishing Boot Camp Guide for Authors by Carla King. If anyone is interested, here's the link. I haven't read it yet, so can't tell you anything about it other than it's aimed at print and ebooks. http://click.writers-community.com/?qs=d7ee0272e01120746f5ecb3b47267884ef42f2e0e... |
| I came across this article about writers. A line from it: "Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear me out." After reading the article, does any of it sound like you? There are parts where I say, "Yeah, that sounds a little like me." http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/why-writers-are-the-worst-pr... |
The best part is probably the end- about the private schools, tutors, etc. Back in high school and middle school, kids would have their tutors do the work for them. And then in elementary school, parents did projects for the kids.  I actually struggled in English 9-11 grades because it was honors/AP. Pulled straight As for all English classes though.  |
| I'm shifting between college assignments and WDC. Finally finished the article. It was interesting how the article started with writers, shifted to recent students and college grads, then ties them together. And where the students are concerned, if the parent can afford it or can someone manage it, they do all of that. Today's parents also go to the school, yell at the teacher for hating her child, demand that the grade be changed from a D or F, and if that doesn't work, demand the principal do something. A teacher I know told me that in her school the principal told every teacher that they can't use red pens to mark something wrong AND regardless of the true grade they can't give any student less than a C --- in other words, grading system is C to A. So all of those that earned an F or D or C- get bumped up to a C. For those including in their writing kids/parents - have added research material now. |
"Invalid Item"  Thank you to those of you who voted in my poll. Most selected: I’m for it and anyone legally allowed in this country can benefit from it (green cards, visa holders, registered illegals) If you want to see the most recent update and complete poll results, you'll need to vote. I'm sorry, but I don't know how to display the results without making everyone vote first. Nothing within "edit" works. Thanks again! |
| I read this article about how the English language use to have gender nouns. http://blog.dictionary.com/oldenglishgender/ Do you think we should go back to gender nouns? Or keep "a" as in any and "the" as in that specific one? Some countries place a separate word before a noun to indicate gender: der, die, das / la, le -- la chair, le table Some countries change the ending of the word's sound: й / a, я / о, е, or ё -- manй, womana, (it) ito |
| What do you think of Obama's proposal that the first 2 years of community college be free? I'm curious to what everyone thinks. Also, I don't see who selected which response - so your answer is a secret. My first poll - I didn't get many responses, so I thought I'd give it another try. Thanks for checking it out. "Invalid Item" |
| I created a poll to find out people's views on Obama's proposal that the first two years of community college be free in the U.S. "Invalid Item" |
| Has anyone read a book or watched a movie and said, "I would done that scene differently"? What scene or dialog from a book or movie would you change and how? In Arctic Blast, Jack (starring Michael Shanks) races to the beach to reach his daughter Naomi and her friends in order to save them from death freezing fog that's heading their way.  This is where I'd change the story. I would have all car windows rolled up since everyone is wearing jackets anyway. Yes, they went to the beach to surf, but teens never feel the cold, especially in surfing/wet suits. Also, as a scientist, Jack is aware of the danger and I don't think he'd be driving with car windows rolled down. When Jack arrives, the girls are together watching the boyfriend surf, closer to the water than their blankets - and closer to the fog rolling in. I'd change this so when Jack arrives calling out to Naomi, instead of standing there, she runs towards her dad, leaving her friend behind. As the fog approaches, the father yells for them to get out and away from the water that the fog coming in will kill them its so cold. The 2 teens don't get away fast enough and are frozen, but now both Jack and Naomi are close enough to the car that the timing is right for making it without making the fog "slow down" in order to give them enough time to reach the car. |
| Thought I'd share this article, "A Book and Its Cover" by Mark Rubinstein. "We've all heard the old cliché, You can't judge a book by its cover. While that's probably true many potential readers do decide whether to look inside a novel based solely on its cover." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-rubinstein/a-book-and-its-cover_b_4136312.htm... |
| I read an interesting article from author Hugh Howey regarding bundling ebooks with print. Here's the article if anyone is interested. http://publishingperspectives.com/2013/09/hybrid-author-hugh-howey-on-self-vs-tr...! |
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), but other than crackers - any ideas? 
