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Like most dogs, I will be spending the weekend hiding under the bed and posting petitions about loud unexpected noises with my nose.

Authors also tend to repeat themselves. We can't help it. And if you don't believe me, I invite you to count the number of times Stephen King uses the phrase "Happy crappy" or references fifties radio and alcoholism. Or the number of times Michael Crichton has a doctor sit down and explain...

Thanks for the compliment, btw. Just a thing I noticed that I personally prefer in my writing, because I'm deliberately "Doing it wrong". I at least don't do another annoying childish habit of making elipses Twelve periods long. That one I still cringe over a little. I have another one of...

Publishers like their format. It lets them weed out quite a lot of manuscripts for cause without ever having to read them. I on the other hand, who am merely writing for myself and the enjoyment of others am a lot freer to experiment with formats, up to and including punctuation conventions...

Hey, lotta good material and responses, so gonna respond to em all, in one, and say thank you to everybody for chiming in. Absolutely agreed on the "He Said" stuff. Further extrapolating from that, I seriously have always felt that the English/American literary convention of starting a...

Another thing. I do voices when I read out loud, as does every other person who ever read a book out loud to an audience. Quotation marks are my fucking dialog and I kinda need to know when to stop doing a voice. As a result, punctuation within quotation marks is stage direction. I like good...

I do NOT like the current method of dialogue marking as stated by current English grammar rules. "I think this rule is correct," he said. The above is correct. It also looks dumb, and if you're reading it out loud, you're looking for the the sentence to continue AFTER the identifier...

"Who Will Help Me Carry Him?" "You want to grow up... and get over yourself." "All I want to do is bury Cocteau up to his neck in shit and let him think happy happy thoughts forever." "Fuck this cowboy Shit! Ya fukkin Ho dunk, Po dunk, damn there, Mother FUCKERS! All ya had to do was gimme...

This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursday's.

No worries. Clearly my mistake and I'll say nothing more on the subject.

My story was blacklisted from google a LONG time ago, I know that one for a fact. Had to dig at least 20 to thirty pages back to find even one chapter. Then for about five months there, my story was the number two search result when you typed the title into duck duck go. Then today... gone...

My story maps are nightmares for the most part. ASH and NND are my first attempts at being somewhat coherent. Where I really get turned off from story maps is when it's clear that the vast majority of it is merely placeholders for content the owner of the story wants written. When I see...

Interracial is your tag and category. May not find it instantly, but it's all over there and I'm sure you'll find exactly what you're looking for. Just skip the most popular story in the category. You'll also find a lot of this in the "Cheating Spouses" category, but again, just skip the more...

Apparently not, but I got special Dispensation to do a different thread, so no worries at this point.

If this option were added, it would be VITAL that the author NOT be informed when someone takes advantage of this feature. I can't think of a faster way to kill your motivation than to be suddenly informed that fifty of your readers don't like where you took the story, and won't be reading it...

This is the new feedback thread for A Special Hell. The original frankly was completely useless as many of the ideas I expressed there never ended up getting used, and frankly would confuse folks to read with the numerous digressions, weird songs, etc... It was just messy. So, Thank you...

IMHO, categories really are more a form of marketing than anything else. Bear with me here because I spent way too long working as a video store clerk and often saw serious dramas categorized as "Comedies" because people buy comedies more than serious dramas. (First one that comes to mind is...

I have never done this before, but I'll offer to take a whack at the Chaos Beast Chapter, if the client is interested. Concept looks kinda similar to Giger's Alien in what the author described so far, so wondering if the client wants a sex scene right off the bat, or set up like the other two...

I'd like to please request the Administration Grant me Leave to create a second thread for feedback on A Special Hell, because the current poll at the top of the feedback is no longer relevant. Or... Help my dumb ass figure out how to delete a poll. Either one would be greatly appreciated.