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Have had the verification pop up far too often but have not experienced the other lag issue.

Ironically, if they worked together, they would both LOSE money, at least in America. Both organized crime and the pharma industry are profitable because of the laws on the books here

Ah, that's true - translations. Or the author removed it because it lost the monetization link(s)...

He hated the first book so much he didn't finish it. I haven't read any of them myself (keep thinking of picking up Twilight when I see it at the discount shelf but always find something better to spend the money on - I've heard Meyers actually was "coming into her own" as a writer with the...

Those were likely fanfictions that the author was trying to monetize, in violation of site policy.

I feel that. Sometimes reread old stuff looking for the names of "pass throughs" to use and spend the next hour reading and revising instead of writing what I had planned to.

That's how the woman who wrote 50 Shades started - her idea was have Bella be college age, Edward be a professional, and they meet in a professional environment - his "powers" come from sexuality (primarily BDSM) and she's an "innocent" who learns to like it, I think (have only read summaries...

Know that feeling. Have two projects I'm supposed to do 1k words a day. Been doing about 2k a week total...

Hey, I have a "Western" that is also a science fiction isekai, if you can image that mashup... Though it doesn't (and won't) have any sex scenes. Two other stories do - they don't reach smut level (IMO), but both Strange Awakening (superhero/urban fantasy/slice of life mashup on this site)...

Twilight fan fiction for people over 14? Didn't someone already do that, and call it Fifty Shades of Gray?

But isn't the point of a Writeathon to actually, you know, write, not post what you've already written? Or am I mixing that up with NaNoWriMo?

If you're writing comedy you can get away with a lot more stuff than you can writing "serious" fiction - one of the funniest chapters of Peter A. David's Howling Mad is simply: "It seemed the polite thing to do." Just one sentence, one paragraph, the entire chapter. Douglas Adams had some great...

I have two books signed by the actors who played main characters in them (Got Majel Barrett to sign my copy of Peter David's Q-In Law, a book that includes perhaps the most chilling line ever written - even more so when you realize Lwaxana Troi said it: "Relax dear, mommy's omnipotent."; and got...

Possibly. The Marquis's speech reminded me of the old "Deathstroke" module for the Champions role playing game. The villains hijack national television, prove they had a device that can cause any nuclear reactor to go critical, and then end their announcement with: "America, which would you...

Speaking as a writer, for both book and chapters, as long as they NEED to be to feel right. Speaking as a reader, chapters should be anywhere between 1200 and 3000 words, inclusive, and the book should have 70-100 chapters, or maybe a few more.

It has a paid version but works like Google Translate with nag screens for free: Old English Translator | Free AI Historical English

Actually found an app to translate between Modern and Old English... Knew it was different but not exactly HOW different until I played around for a few minutes...

Define "end"... probably haven't reached one yet... Well, except for the one I wrote when I was in my early 20s.

Ic wolde ondrædan þæt ic write an langsum auld Englisc gesceaft...

Add in surgically enforced gender-bender and that seems like the direction Netflix's "Back Street Girls" anime was heading in (the potential "femdoms" were male yakuza who screwed up and were turned into "idols" by their boss...).