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Now it's sounding like the crew list for "The Hunting of the Snark" (at least the musical version - don't remember if the characters introduced themselves in the original "Agony in Eight Fits" or if that was added by Mike Batt "I came as a baker on this escapade. I only kneaded the bread...")

Even worse - they read enough to feel your story might challenge another for a spot on Rising Stars and had to do everything to make it look bad and maybe even discourage you from continuing. That's a tactic there. The last time I checked there, I still had only one review and it was clear I...

As a guy married to a woman with a decent collection of Harlequin Romances that I read about a dozen of out of morbid curiosity - this is not QUITE true. They have FOUR plots that keep having settings cycle through (and, there are some "legacy stories" that add an over-arching plot that runs...

That would have us crying in our beer batter....

Got my start writing (badly) illustrated short "graphic novels' (of one to four pages in length - I was six or seven). From there, I moved on to try to write more word-based stuff and kind of and kind of stalled until, at age eleven, I was introduced to Dungeons and Dragons...

.Could be worse. Could have been threading... Then the OP would be subject to endless needling and ... oh, right.

Well-written, any sort of romance side plot can strengthen virtually any story. Badly written, it can tank just about any story. So... go for it, and don't suck... :D

This would be his first chapter if I ever get it to the point I'm willing/ready to share:

The hardest thing about being an editor (and I was only a volunteer/amateur one - did more proofreading than editing, really) was keeping in mind that a writer's style may "feel" wrong but not "be" wrong and forcing yourself to look beyond that for true problems rather than "Well, that's not how...

Just going through ones I never posted anywhere yet... From Ages Past (Superhero/Horror/Romance): An expedition to Egypt unleashes not one but two creatures from the forgotten past who fight an ancient battle in Atlanta, Georgia. (Ties in to True Blue thanks to two FBI agents) The Grey Files...

Heh. I've been "Friend One" in this scenario more times than I've been the author. Getting a dialogue going with the author was the key to figuring out what the problem was (when it could be fixed).

Write a chapter or two of each and see which feels more "natural" to you.

Well, some of the first, and (at least judging by the few openly gay people I personally know offline) best depictions I've seen were in the work of Mercedes Lackey (The Last Herald-Mage, etc.). From television, one of the best (played by Eric McCormack, an actor who, IIRC, had a wife and...

Gay characters "work" when they make sense in the story. In most of my stories, since the 80s, there has been at last one gay or bi character - in general just because that reflected the real world as I experienced it. They "fail" in a piece of fiction if being gay is their most important trait...

Oh wait... fiction? Uh... oops...

Coffee or water usually. Sometimes juice. According to dad, that was what his mom would call "coffee"... Sometimes she would actually let a few drops of coffee fall in the milk too...

Nice! Apparently I hit 12 once. Was down to 18 before I found out, and fell off the list, never to return by the next day.

If I listen to anything it is either not by choice, or something instrumental as lyrics distract me. Holst's "The Planets," Petrushka's "The Firebird Suite" and a few others, for example.

If I understand it correctly - may be off by a year at some point - she started taking college classes part time at 14. graduated high school at 16, got her basic education and mathematics degrees at 18, and was halfway to her masters at 20, and also teaching full time starting at 19. She is a...

To be a Teacher's Assistant you need to be enrolled in an accredited program, have a high school diploma and be at least 18. A full teacher needs at least a year beyond that (substitute teachers may be 20 if they have their basic education degree and are enrolled in post graduate classes). The...