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Beautiful! A great resource. Thanks for sharing.

"On the nose" means exactly what it sounds like... when you write everything - EVERYTHING - into a scene, when you can summarise it. :) Trust your readers. They can figure things out. They're not dummies. :) And speaking of which, I'd better get a move on and finish my latest chapter - and...

Sticky sentences?

I never have, nor will I ever, write sentences that are such a chore to read that readers will give up on them, whether on the train or in the sunshine, if I can avoid it in any way.

Sorry - let me rephrase that:

I don't write sticky sentences!

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:lol: Sounds familiar, indeed - except for two things: 1. I never learned much English in high school. Or rather, I learned the assigned reading by rote, and learned the assigned English Lit by rote. I never understood it until - luckily, in the same year - I picked up some books of literary critici...

Yes! Horror rules! At least, the old-fashioned Poe-esque horror. The new "Saw"-film-type horror? Not so much. That's not horror, that's splatter.

Sigh. I went to that spreadsheet, and just about everyone's contact details say DM [something]@[something] - no .com, no .org or .org.au etc. What does that mean? I understand they want to protect themselves from spam, but I can't contact them like this.

I can't see anything but a quote. Inspirational, yes, but still a quote.

Here's what inspires me...

Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat, K. 495. Sir Neville Mariner conducts the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, with Peter Damm on the horn. Heavenly! 

Yep, that sure is horrible advice.

"You're not a real writer until you've..." ---- yeah, just get away from me....

Yep. Many, many things might go wrong in the first draft. The mistake that beginners often make is thinking that no writer may ever make a mistake during that first draft. They think that writing must be easy, because it's looks so easy! :roll: And speaking of which ... 15 Reasons People Still Think...