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2002? Pshaw. First published in 1987 (unpaid stuff for a college literary magazine; first paid stuff was for a role-playing game in '89). Been writing "stuff" since '83... Nothing worthwhile until 2000 or so (or ever, depending on whom you ask) but writing stuff...

Oh heck, did that with a shared doc in WORD back about ten years ago. There wound up being three very different versions of the same document floating around, and one section I put a lot of work into vanished before I could get the three reconciled.

Either software glitches or stealth censorship are reducing word counts

I think their issue was that I submitted it to a contest on their site after it had been up here for a year... And they only found out when I mentioned it in the contract document (because they did not say it had to be new or original, just new to them in the contest brief). But since I have...

Why would you need a program for that when you could just ask MY wife?

I'd rather wait for the sequel ... then not read the sequel. Or see a classic James Bond movie "fade to black" where you know what's going to happen, and what happened, but don't actually experience it. But I suspect I'm in the minority.

Spell Valuable and Feedback correctly. Don't SHOUT AT EVERYONE. Fix those errors in the POST and maybe you'll get some more serious responses regarding your work.

Another option, one I've used a lot, is to outline the text in a color that makes it stand out - either a contrasting one, or sometimes just white or black will work. Experiment.

Have never done that before. Might have some time to work on it next week.. Edit: working two jobs, TRYING to keep up with writing and helping take care of two guest dogs kept me from giving this a go... Also just realized I tossed out two suggestions but would only have time to work at one...

So, essentially you're using scientific principles and trademarked character names to create your own high-tech werewolf story (it is unclear which of them - Kirby or Lee - tossed out the idea of a werewolf as a good guy, and which one cited "The Mysterious Case of Doctor Henry Jeckyl and Mister...

Yes. All, some, or maybe none of the above as the mood hits.

Absolutely - found out some of my favorite comedies were his scripts (especially the sillier, but still dark and sometimes scary, AIP stuff), his final (non-posthumous) published work was an illustrated children's book, and his last script was a standard comedy. He was also part of an informal...

The "Introduction/Climax/Resolution" structure (or the Introduction/First Arc/Twist/Climax/Resolution - five act structure) lends itself well to narrative role-playing games and that is where 60% of my writing prior to last March was done (and about 20% was in simulationist/dungeon crawl RPGs...

You want to give one of mine a try, Strange Awakening might work well in that framework. Also the one I posted to Honeyfeed (The Kaiju System) was kind of written with that aesthetic in mind.

Matheson is a legend for more than just that - he wrote a TON of stuff. Off the top of my head, "I Am Legend" (filmed under that name, as well as "Last Man on Earth" and "The Omega Man"), most of the alleged adaptions of Poe directed by Roger Corman for AIP, The Shrinking Man (filmed as The...

Real men are also often full of bull... :D

Maybe they're just looking for the Master Baiter?

I've seen some where the correct term is "collaborator" (though by collaborating with AI, you're collaborating with dozens or hundreds of people rather than just a small group).

Looking at it, I think most of my arcs are written in a three act format, but some arcs are one chapter long, while others take ten to resolve.