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- Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:46 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Writing Basics #9--Writing on Topic
- Replies: 65
- Views: 98915
Re: Jan's Writing Basics #9--Writing on Topic
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!
- Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:35 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Writing Basics #9--Writing on Topic
- Replies: 65
- Views: 98915
Re: Jan's Writing Basics #9--Writing on Topic
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...
- Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:46 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: #12--PREDICTABILITY
- Replies: 29
- Views: 33359
: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...
- Fri Jun 11, 2010 12:14 pm
- Forum: Results and Highest Rankings
- Topic: Winning Entries for The Editor Challenge
- Replies: 24
- Views: 12884
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...
- Thu May 27, 2010 12:41 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: #13--The Well-Crafted Short Story
- Replies: 58
- Views: 62729
- Wed May 26, 2010 3:28 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: #13--The Well-Crafted Short Story
- Replies: 58
- Views: 62729
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...
- Wed May 12, 2010 2:21 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: #11--Creative, Unique, Fresh
- Replies: 74
- Views: 77564
- Wed May 12, 2010 1:52 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: #11--Creative, Unique, Fresh
- Replies: 74
- Views: 77564
- Wed May 12, 2010 1:42 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: #11--Creative, Unique, Fresh
- Replies: 74
- Views: 77564
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 ...
- Wed May 05, 2010 12:45 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Writing Basics #9--Writing on Topic
- Replies: 65
- Views: 98915
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...
- Mon May 03, 2010 12:40 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Writing Basics #9--Writing on Topic
- Replies: 65
- Views: 98915
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...
- Thu Apr 29, 2010 2:59 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Writing Basics #9--Writing on Topic
- Replies: 65
- Views: 98915
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...
- Thu Apr 08, 2010 1:16 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Writing Basics--Three Mini-Lessons
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16883
: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...
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:30 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: #8--Writing Out of the Box
- Replies: 94
- Views: 75158
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:05 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: #8--Writing Out of the Box
- Replies: 94
- Views: 75158
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...