Andy78

Four dozen? If you are talking times a day not so much, if you are talking times a year then at least better than zero.

Thanks for the review Stephen. Glad you liked it.

This is also a very naughty word in Sheep-ese

I think I'm early as well. Happy birthday, and hope you have a great day

Welcome to all our new members, hope you all enjoy the site

Wishing you the very best of happy birthdays

Happy birthday Cia Here's wishing you a terrific day

Very true Wayne. Though I think that points 2 and 3 don't just apply to leaving reviews, they are also very true of comments when editing and beta-reading.

**wonders who has angered the Louis, and would like to know if they survived the encounter** Thanks for sharing this pearl of wisdom *sniggers* and I hope everyone finds a nugget of truth and is now able to see the wood for the trees. Will add this to my own bag of tricks. **ducks from the very heavy objects being hurled in his direction**

Have you tried to explain yet that nails also means to have sex with?

Well shock and horror the sheep is still around! Yeah, I've been kinda absent of late, lots of stuff going on. Nothing noteworthy, just so many different little things taking up so much time. Anyway, this blog entry is about my experiment today with freewriting. It's not something I do very often, but I enjoy it when I do. For those who have never done any freewriting, it's actually quite easy. You simply write, without regard to spelling, grammar, subject matter, plot, or any of those other annoying pesky things that get in the way of us writing. Most of the time, I usually throw away my freewriting. It's not that it's no good, or that I don't want to share it, as most people who have done any freewriting will tell you, it can be a bastard and a half turning freewriting into a story that makes sense. Sometimes the basic idea survives and becomes a short story, but now I find myself with a story to either adopt or kill. A simple experiment has left me with an 8k Harry Potter fanfic, that I have absolutely no idea what to do with. I just sat down and started writing, and before I knew it, I was writing a bloody HP story So I either bin the story - believe me I've never ever sat down with the intention of writing an HP fanfic. I've written one very short HP story, but I'd much rather leave the HP epics to authors like Dan and Myr - or I adopt it, and not have clue one where the fuck to go with it or what the fuck to do with it. I guess we'll all find out over the coming weeks.

Congrats Sasha

I do love the flexibility of the English language. I doubt there is another language where you can create an adverb from an obscenity and then use it to split an infinitive

Can you say "Duck and cover"

Such slander Me not been feeling well with the heat. Had heatstroke during the week

Happy birthday Have a great one

I was actually led here by another of our hosted authors who disappeared Ghostryder15. I still haven't red anything of Dom's yet either **ducks from the heavy objects thrown by the outraged Domaholics**

Sounds like a good idea. I'd be interested. I'm not how the logistics would work though. Who would be able to post/edit the various chapters? (Could be a lot of work if everything had to be collated through one person) Who would the rep points for each "like" clicked go to? (I doubt GA stories is set up to be able to assign rep points to individual authors of each chapter)

Happy birthday Joe, have a great one

What makes Andy Murray's win even better is that it means an Englishman still hasn't won Wimbledon since Fred Perry **cackles insanely and waves the St Andrew's flag as all those English people celebrate a Scottish male doing what their beloved Tim Henman failed to do on soooo many occasions **

You (or indeed anyone) can always write an anthology entry as a play (or a poem or a film/TV script or a journal entry or whatever), it doesn't always have to be prose. We have more than enough poetry writers (and readers) here to be able to have a poetry anthology, but I'm not sure about a play anthology. My concern with having a "play" anthology is that it may not prove to be popular enough on two fronts: 1. that enough authors have the interest in writing plays to have the usual large glut of varied entries we get with the anthologies 2. even if we do get a sufficient quantity of plays written that there are enough readers on site who like reading plays In my opinion it's kind of the same reasons why the anthologies are theme-based and not genre-based. If the anthologies start becoming too niche I think we run the risk of making them less popular and more exclusive. If it does go ahead I'll happily support it (I know it doesn't sound like it given what I've already said), but I think consideration would need to be given to running it in addition to the existing quarterly anthologies; after all, the poetry anthology is given its own entry.

With one moon already called Nix, I was hoping on P4 and P5 being named "Nought" and "Nothing". There's a Scottish fairy tale NixNoughtNothing that I loved as a child.

Thanks for the review aditus. Quite often we don't see what's right in front of us, but would anyone really suspect that.

Thanks Wayne. Actually I was inspired by House of Wax, I was never a big Bradbury fan.

Happy birthday hun