Not verbally, but for a small forum that a "gifted amateur" writer friend of mine started. Really just a place to crit each other and hopefully improve our writing.

Is it still possible to link to a specific post?

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

You could just copy'n'paste (TM). You don't have to put that some sod named Chris typed it. (Sounds like a cool forum!)

Ah Chris, many much thanks for the words. You write indeed with panache.

I will surely yes use you while writing my book!

With blue sky thankings

YG

Niebla

I have a vital-most request
For you my Ffforum friends
Please tell me,if you have the time,
Of your most favourite ends.

My dears,I am always wind blown away by your book cleverness - especially Chris and Jazz_Sue who are actual writer-folk. So I would, if you have a momentspace to care, like to ask you to tell me what your finest book endings are. How do goodmost endings work? What words do they use and in what order? Tell me the glorybest endings of the greatest books? Tell me them! And then we will play a game of BookEnds?

How do you begin a game about Endings? What rules? Perhaps you should tell me the best endings and I should have to thinkguess them?

Can you help?

What is the perfect end?

Please help!

This message has an end now, but I'm not thinking it is glorymost!

YG

Niebla

(Chris and Jazz_Sue, I hope you will me help as before did)

....."and then, dear reader, the divorce was made absolute."?

....."to be continued."?

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

It's gotten somewhat foggy in here...

At least it wasn't Greek(ομίχλη) Us Ffforumites need to avoid John Carpenter films.

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Steady on, lad! No need to take it to extremes!

Sorry. The Greek characters don't show up too well do they? It was a translation from the Spanish.

Hi everyone who replied to my last post - sorry I've not been in touch, but as you may have heard I lost my Dad recently and that's kept me kind of busy (and put my creative flow on hold - how do the rest of you cope?!) I will, however, be replying and probably direct this Trane of thought to a new thread.

It does raise an interesting concept, though - how about a 'general' fforum for those of us who write, or are interested in the 'nuts-and-bolts' aspects of Jasper's writing? (I'd like to see him put together a tongue-in-cheek guide to English grammar that people could both laugh at and understand; especially of benefit to secondary school English departments, methinks) Keeping it firmly Bookworld located would avoid any unnecessary dross creeping in from rogue Gatesites (predatory creatures that lurk in the dark depths of Cyberworld, dropping their excrement over pages labelled 'general' on sites such as this one)

My english is terrible, what with being Australian, and all that. I'd probably benefit a lot from it!

And us Seff Effricans could do wiff it too. Well, me.

What is the consensus on Zimbabwean English?

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Terribly sorry to hear the news, Sue. It's good to see that you're being strong. Let me know if there's anything at all that I can do, even if you just want to vent in an e-mail or something. Sometimes that's good for ya.

Niebla, that's a hard one, because things lead into other things naturally, and sometimes the writer's as surprised at the ending as the reader. I've always liked twists, myself.

MartinB Zim english basically follows the UK system... although some would argue we have our own english. I don't agree, although we do have our own accent.

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"I've always believed that it would be up to the young people to save the Endangered Wildlife for the future." - George Adamson.

Whoever S. Kinder is, thanks very much for the nice Amazon review! I appreciate your taking the time.


(Regarding one of the comments -- I'd avoid the prior books if I were you. They're not nearly as good, and their best contents were rewritten and placed in the "Bonus Tracks" at the end of Read This Instead.)

Authors read their reviews? :P

Sometimes they go to Amazon to make sure their books haven't been overpriced (which has happened to me before). So there. :)

Overpriced? As in, the seller hikes up the price and doesn't pass on any extra to the author? That's pretty low...

This will sound odd, but to tell the truth, I'm not sure if I received the extra bit when it occurred last time. Either way, I didn't want to sell the book for a penny more than the cover price; I'm almost but not quite completely convinced that it was a distributor error last time, because it was corrected within a couple days of my making some noise, and it's rare for Amazon to err on the side of hiked expense.

Over here Amazon do add a surcharge for hard-to-get items. I think they define hard-to-get as not from one of the major suppliers.

Perhaps they have a similar policy in the U.S. but whatever, kudos to you for getting the price reduced.