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Tell that to the kids who work their tails off every wrestling season, hoping to go to a school where wrestling is big, just so they can have a chance at the olympic trials. Wrestling is huge where i live, bigger even than football, and reading about it being dropped is a shame.

My spelling is horrible most days, I rely on spell check, dictionary, google, and my editor to catch my mistakes and I do mean with basic words too, I was in my 30s before I started to properly use your and you're correctly, so I feel your pain. The more you write, the most you'll come to fix the more common mistakes you make, and for the rest, there's great technology and getting yourself an editor can help a great deal too.

My roomies and I will have our annual anti-valentines movie night, which usually ends up being horror movies or action flicks. One roomie will make dinner, the other will handle the drinks and I'll bake a pretty pink cake, made to look like there are holes stabbed in it and blood oozing out, and we'll just hang out. Valentines day is too commercial, its not like you can really go anywhere and have a nice private meal because everywhere is packed with people looking to spend as much money as possible as quickly as possible just to try and prove something to the other person. My daughter passes out cards each year, and pesters her brother with questions about who he gave a valentine too. All in all, a fun day here. I made fleece tie blankets this year for everyone in the house, as gifts, since it's still really cold here. But no flowers, and no chocolates in this house lol.

I trashed 8 chapters of Guitars that completely avoided a key plot point in the story. Rewriting is so important, sometimes you just go the wrong direction, or things just don't turn out the way you want them to and a rewrite can yield much better results.

This had some wonderful humor to it, i love the dynamics between the characters. I am looking forward to reading more.

Man i have never screamed and cussed so much watching a single game! That was epic

I ran into the same issue last night and pasted my text into notepad, saved it, then cut and pasted it from there into GA and it was formatted fine. Try that, hopefully it will work the same for you.

It did make them laugh to see me down there, and my oldest decided to give me the lecture about homework i usually give him, when he came down and caught me surfing the net instead of drawing On a positive note though, week 1 grades came in this morning, and i have a 91, so at least i'm not failing it which was really a huge fear before i started working on the revisions. Thanks for all the hugs and support guys, they really help. 4.5 more weeks to go, yey, then this class is done, thats the only good thing about the classes at my school, they are only five and a half week long.

Yeah, it is a seriously sucktacular class. I redid one assignment already, and just got his feedback on it saying that there were still some things that needed to be changed and redone before shooting, so now i get to do it a third time. This is seriously getting to be annoying and from reading his feedback to others, I'm not the only one, I wonder if we can mutiny.

So my new class has started and I already hate every bit of it which is never a good way to kick things off. It’s an advanced 2D animation class and I figured out years back that 2D was not a style that I preferred, but this is a core class and the last 2D class I have to take for my major. The plus is that my classes are only five and a half weeks, the drawback to that though is that they are a very intensive five and a half weeks and the teacher is picky as hell about every little thing and that isn’t helping me much either. We were assigned characters, which took away the freedom to create, and what’s worse is that we were all assigned the SAME character, and given a character turn around sheet to basically copy the character from. Well, gee, I’m just so thrilled to have no creative freedom whatsoever, yay, I just really feel like drawing now NOT! He asked for thumbnails, and then said they wrong because they weren’t detailed, thumbnails are not supposed to have that much detail, at least not the way they were explained in other classes, what he’s asking for is a storyboard, only he sure didn’t word it that way so now the time I spent drawing last night was wasted because it all has to be done again. Joy. So why am I typing this rant instead of drawing….because I hate this class and I don’t want to draw some stupid, droopy, slacker human character for a comedy club skit when I hate comedies and think the script I came up with is stupid. Mostly though, I’m just venting before I sit here and redo the mess I’ve made of my work so I can actually move on to something more amusing till I have to draw again. If I don’t vent I’ll just sit here and stew and be angry for hours like a petulant little kid while my kids walk through the living room laughing at all the paper I’ve thrown all over the place and whispering comments to one another that “mommy’s pouting.”

As a writer, I have found myself grateful for every review and try real hard to respond to each and every one of them too. To have people write that they are rooting for a character, or that a characters actions angered them, or that something that happened to a character made them sad is just an awesome thing to read because it lets me know what I've written connected with someone else.

Ahh, in that case, definately try the editors corner near the bottom of the forums, that would be the best place to put up information about the story that you're working on and the kind of help that you're looking for.

If you go down to the editors corner forum, there is a place there to apply for beta's and editors, it explains the process in the thread as to what to include. You can also talk to editors in the chat room, maybe introduce yourself and strike up a conversation, give them an idea of the genre of your story and what it's going to be about. I'm not an editor, but I wouldn't mind reading and giving you feedback to help you get started with things.

This was a beautifully written chapter, and i have just loved seeing the progression this little family has made in dealing with space and work issues as well as growing used to one another. The feeling of contentment at the end that followed the talk with Steve's side of the bed was a lovely touch. I hope your writer's block is fleeting, I'm looking forward to reading more.

Don't let assholes like that tear you down and make you feel bad. it takes a ton of guts to write stories and share them with people, and someone poking and stabbing at them can really eat away at the courage it takes to share. I hope you won't ever let him or anyone like him do that. Those people aren't capable of creating, all they know how to do is destroy. It takes such a small mind to belittle and tear down and it's a shame those people don't spend more time finding their own outlets and creating something positive as they do being negative and mean.

YES! ground rules and a talk, that's perfect, that's exactly what they need. Loved this chapter. Keep up the good writing, it's quite enjoyable.

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Finally got to sleep a little after 6 am, at 8:15 my phone started going off....this trend continued all day. Note to self, NEVER leave cell phone tuned on over the weekend.

Watching a parent go downhill is one of the hardest things there is. Don't hold it all in and shut down, talk, rant, yell, scream, even if it's in the silence of the woods or outside in a storm, just let it all out. Come here and rant and rave all you need to, we're here to listen.

One day at a time, that's all you can do ashessnow. I'll be keeping you in my thoughts and prayers as well.

yup, 5:32 here, sigh. but i am making progress on the chapter i'm working on...i hope, if it reads like gobbdygook later in the day, i'll know it was a bad idea to try and work on it this morning.

sigh....it's 3:30 in the morning, and i'm awake again.

Hugs and well wishes to you too Joann

oh this was funny, poor smurfy looking guy and wooden cratehead

LOL Purple Chaos is when you soak sour patch gummi worms in vodka for about 2-4 hours, then pour in grape soda and a splash more vodka. Grasshoppers are 3/4 oz green creme de menthe3/4 oz white cream de cacao 3/4 oz light cream