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I think a gendered system of magic, a real, actual gendered system, is capable of being done well when you approach it with a nuanced view as a...

I had a college professor once say "pacifically" instead of "specifically." Needless to say, I was shocked.

Best of luck on your writing projects, Tracy, and welcome to AW!

Good luck on the contemporary fiction, Nina! Welcome back to AW!

greendragon - That is a kick of a movie, regardless of historical accuracy. (The songs do get stuck in your head, though. Just buy the soundtrack....

When I first started taking writing more seriously and began trying to hone my craft, I also got very overwhelmed with the number of "rules" and all...

My latest of seven books came to me as I was waking one morning. A young girl had been found sleeping in a park, unhurt, just naked and there. I...

I can't speak from experience, not being in the position to have an agent yet (said hopefully), but I would fully expect to have a conversation with...

As a layperson, I'd say the last one - "what makes a good leader?" - would be the ability to read the prevailing winds and get ahead of them. There...

One of the many things I love about C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner series is the way she handles languages, particularly humans trying to communicate with...

Yep, I totally understand that, Lisa. I’ll have to go track those down. I had some sites bookmarked for back in the old photobucket days that had...

Well, I've come back to the forum again after a break. Got my first draft done, so now I'm letting it rest for a bit before I jump back in for edits....

Yeah, the way this works is you find the emoticon. You send me a link to it. I try to determine who owns the rights to it, and if it's necessary...

Smokes! I had no idea, and I buy a lot of ebooks. If I knew that I'd forgotten it. Thanks for the reminder.

Day 25 New Words - 1087 Read through - historical: Finished part one. April - The ghost was wearing what looked to be a navy blue jersey...

ooooh. I’d be up for that, especially if there were an emoticon for evil laughter, someone going yargh and blowing up, a bunny (for plot bunnies),...

Amazon killed the actual stores for a specific site in October of 2017. And while I could build one, it's not clear that it would be worth it. ...

Good night moon - Shivaree

Moon River - Tony Bennett

For me the best treatment of vampires (and werecritters and etc.) is Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. She makes them...

I've been sporked!

I've been on a loooong writing hiatus that might never end (it will when the time comes, whenever that will be) so I participate now more as a reader...

Me: Hi, I'm here for my 9:45 ortho appointment with Dr. R. Them: I don't see you in the...oh, here you are. It's actually 9:15 Thursday. :|

DAY 25 (already?): Today I managed to write a 1,000 word short story for a writer's group and another thousand of just writing down whatever comes to...

Hah! And then the radical language purists would lynch speakers who used the new terms! (Or at least insult them in the supermarket as some such ...

We actually do purge threads selectively, and always have, in terms of whether they're viable content or not; old contests that are no longer open,...

That intro looks good to me, Erik! Welcome to AW!