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Crud. Looks like I misread and this post is a couple of years old. Oh well, thank goodness these don't ever go out of style!

Hey, Jan: AAAAAh it feels so great to pull up the site and see lessons! I kinda stopped for awhile after not seeing any. I thought you had quit doing them! :cry: :cry: After being on hiatus for awhile i submitted to this weeks challenge - a big achievement! Anyway, here's a well deserved shout out t...

:roll: AS USUAL I'm on the runway flying backwards... Personally, I would not have survived if not for many of those what is being termed "predictable," - sappy happy endings. I had served as a missionary for decades until I finally could not experience any more further tragedy, hardship or sufferin...

Lollie -you really encourage me and thanks for sharing that its been a long dry spell for you. As you noted, I LOVED your piece. I can't seem to drag myself out of the hole and I think if I even went back to Beginners I'd bomb! :helpwobble Im ready to throw in the keyboard but rethinking it since yo...

Oh, yes, I see! and I wont tell you how long I fiddled with that phrase! Your encouragements mean the world! And the story was a "snippet" I actually lived to tell about -

Hey Jan! Well, I too will skitter on over to the grammar lessons! I really want to know more about the appropriate use or inappropriate use on these phrases. Guilty! Guilty! One of the predictables I actually love is the single girl and single man starting off as "enemies" of some nature. Then there...

Thanks - you made my week!! I have you and your class on salsa words to thank!!!!

oh wow, just saw the instructions on italics after I submitted. Got it!

Thanks, Jan for being here! I felt a need for a lesson this week since I "bombed" last week..... Homework #1 Every day Barbel slathered cream cheese on a blueberry bagel precisely at 8:00 a.m. However, breakfast this morning warranted far more than everyday fare. Homework # Clint slowed for the dip ...

Wow, that's really good advice! :shock: Why didn't I think of that? I never thought to peruse the writing of certain others. I must say I have received some good comments from those I admire and recognize right off the bat, so it would probably be prudent to comfort myself in that fact. Yes, this ma...

I say, bless you to Pam! :lol: I've been in that boat and the negative comments my piece received were not constructive; one in fact was just down right mean! :oops: Those comments had nothing to do with the "craft" they just "didn't get it." I'm sad when that happens because I appreciate those that...

Hey, Jan. I hunker around in the corners because I'm not in Intermediate or Beginners but can get more out of one of these lessons then I did an entire semester of Creative Writing in college! Can't remember what I learned there, but every day now I'm like checking for "salsa" words and trying to re...

:lol: HAHA! I liked the "wrench" your hands off. When I moved to California I had mid-west and oklahoma-planted-in Colorado parental collequisms to translate (in a hurry.) I had to discover that nobody "worshes" their clothes, they do laundry. "Pop" is not something to drink. Jan - what are your tho...

Okay, now I feel better. I wasn't getting it when they didn't add to characterization, etc. but that makes sense, they move the story along, even a little. I really like that technique used in all the ways you describe.
Thanks!

I'm actually wondering not about the placement of dialogue, but the content of what you place with it when its truly insignificant. I've noticed it alot lately -seemingly insignificant action in - a very short sentence in with the dialogue. "I thought I answered your question." Adelaide replied, wat...