Mann Ramblings

ZOMG!!! HOSTED!!! Congrats!!!

Happy Birthday, Cia!! :D I followed the "Wench" title to find this! Nice work, Lugh! LOL

Hi everyone! Just giving a little heads up that I'm working on something new here and I haven't forgotten anyone. My new story is a modern fantasy piece that is based off two writing prompts that Layla picked to explore a new plot. I'm having a lot of fun with this one and I hope you do to. There's still a lot of work yet to do and my schedule has been a little goofy as usual, so it will be a while before I'm ready to start posting. But I will definitely keep you up to date as we move along. Follow me as an author or this topic to further updates. Looking forward to seeing you online! In case you wondered, this is the prompt response that started it all: https://www.gayauthors.org/story/mann-ramblings/promptramblings/5 and to expand on that, this is a sneak peek into the story as well: https://www.gayauthors.org/story/mann-ramblings/promptramblings/6 P.S. If you've never read or responded to a Friday prompt, do it. It's a great way to get the gears turning when nothing else does. You'd be surprised with what you come up with.

I read this article on his blog and thought it was a good checkpoint into reviews and comments. I think it's a great idea to place it here on the Wednesday site article so even more people can see it. Hopefully it will encourage even more people to review and how to go about it in a way that benefits all of us. Good reviews and constructive criticism is how we write better stories and improve the experience across the board. I agree 100% with Sasha about how other sites' anonymous reviews are awful. It's a big part of why I came here rather than start elsewhere. Being here is more of being part of a community.

Time to look over all my work with a fine tooth comb... Oh no! A cliche!!

Ah!!! I have been maligned!!! Mark Arbour was in last week's Ask an Author!! I have been omitted!!! /sulking now...

It reads like the beginning of a coming of age story. Nicely done

Chardonnay, Dirty Vodka Martinis and Brandy to be more precise

I take that as a GREAT complient!

I'm glad you enjoyed it! It was a lot of fun to write !

Thanks!

To repeat: This is a great beginning. Expand. Expand. Expand. I think we'd all love to see what happens next. Great work.

I just couldn't resist making the vamps a couple of nasty, bitchy twinks. Thanks for checking it out.

Saved by projectile vomit. Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the review!

OO!! I haven't read this yet!!

I don't care how long it's been since I've gotten laid. There will be no more blind dates in my future. And I sure as hell will never let her plan one for me ever again. A secluded, candlelit romantic Italian dinner complete with violin playing waiter should have been a perfect setting. Well maybe for a second or third date, maybe. Or even an anniversary date. But for a first meeting, getting to know you kind of date? Not so much. Where did my mother find that idiot? I'm pretty sure he showed

This prompt was a bit of a challenge. The projectile vomit was part of the prompt details so I made it integral to the story. Not my usual, but I had fun nonetheless. Thanks for reading and reviewing

Mine's in!

well at least it wasn't titled, "Knob Polisher." I just couldn't have accepted that...

OOooo... I think I have an idea and time to play with one of these

Congratulations!!!

“How can I make this situation worse?” :D That is my mantra. LOL. I love all your points and wholeheartedly agree with every one. May we all use them successfully and create compelling fiction!! Good post, Libby. I think we all need a reminder now and again of what drives our story and makes it work.

not exactly. Even in his addendum, the tracking between words changes from line to line and the emspaces are inconsistent. Fully justified text doesn't always allow for that. His examples are lovely pieces of text, but hardly dispels the debate. Now if he was showing examples of left justified text to compare directly, I'd be more likely to agree with his thesis. I'm not saying the double space is wrong. It's simply a more modern convention.

From my typography class, I was taught it was a hold over from the typewriter like Graeme said earlier. On the typewriter all letters and punctuation took up the same space on the page, so the double space was to make a better visual break at the end of a sentence. With the advent of the word processor and letter spacing being dependent on the shape of the letter, (An "i" takes up far less space than an "m") the convention was dropped. So now, the expected standard is a single space after the period.

Loved the cameo appearances by JoAnn and Cassie! Tense chapter. I can totally see an overprotective friend pushing the new boys buttons until it bites him in the ass... or the jaw. Tyler's appearance can't bode well as this point. I'm curious to see if they can salvage the party with all this drama going on! Great chapter!