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I could see the great Dorothy Parker writing that one.

Two grant proposals. Hey, I'm counting them as wins. The deadline's Friday. ?

I have zero interest in love stories. I'm more willing to look at stories where women can have a lot of fun with no romantic strings to get tangled into. I'm a cynic when it comes to true love anyway. Give me a story like "Lady Chatterly's Lovers" or something any day. ?

Always. The kids just don't want to accept that. ?

The elders need to stick together so the kids don't come and start gnawing on our bones.

My least favorite now is "amplitude" because I must have heard it about 100 times today watching the Winter Olympics freestyle skiing finals. I'm serious, if someone had suggested you take a drink every time the sportscaster said "amplitude", they would be wheeling your sodden, stinking corpse...

Everyone of them is the father. South Park Rules. ? ?

Personally I think one must be born and bread to become a baker. Not me, I dread making bread. I never spread out my ingredients correctly, I don't use enough of my head, no matter what they said, and feel miss-led. After all the proofing, kneading, and baking, I just don;t have enough cred...

Or "breading", and we learn about their favorite recipes for scones, biscuits, and crumpets.

I had to be REALLY careful with that, yes. Not everyone is going to write like I do, so it's hard sometimes to "pull away" from me, and look at things from their side, their styles. But I never really thought it was wrong, just different. *^^*

It really isn't even that. The problem authors have, including me, is we don't like to have our work questioned or criticized. As an editor, that was my job, to hunt for what wasn't working and provide advice and ideas for fixing things. And I felt terrible sometimes if I ran into a book that...

Writer. I had to deal with too many authors with very fragile egos. I couldn't change anything that would hurt their deathless prose. I was never right, and always wrong. I just got sick of it after a while. I much prefer writing now. :love:

A professional editor isn't going to contact you. Period. Full stop. If you need a professional editor, find one on your own, reputable, with affordable prices. I was an editor in the early 2000s. I never cold-called anyone, emailed anyone, or anything like that. I simply had the usual ads in...

You really don't offer a very good case for your writing skills when you mistake "treading" and "trending". Or was that just autocorrect being a bitch to you? ?

Every year I try harder to understand this holiday called Valentine's Day. For us who are still a "single", fight to achieve love in their own lives, or who have sworn off relationships for life, it can be a really difficult holiday. And the holiday doesn't really express our struggles or life...

Are you suggesting the Lady of the Lake mi-grates?!

The Spirit of the Lake watched as the newcomer approached and cleared her throat. "I, um, offered him the sword with which he could rule. But, mortals cannot always handle the stress of being a ruler." She pointed to the corpse. "Sadly, this one has taken his own life." The retainer gasped...