Re: Nature of the Beast QA
Maria V Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> ... changing, as indicated in the comments? As> werewolves age and do not live for ever, I somehow> see it as more fit...
View ArticleYay, Amy! You're like the DWG superhero!(nfm)
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I think research is one of those things that grows on you. I certainly never thought of research when I first started writing fan fiction, and I think that's probably true of most people. I would hate...
View ArticleHelene, about Google translating French
Subject: Google translated "ma chere Mari" to my husband MariThis topic came up on the discussion board in the thread for Stan Hurd's story, Darcy's Tale. It goes off the subject of the story and is...
View ArticleDoes it help the admins to post a message to call out the obvious spam?(nfm)
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View ArticleRe: Does it help the admins to post a message to call out the obvious spam?
Of course we don't mind people wanting to be helpful, but if we are checking the Tea Room, we are likely to be checking the DWG board at the same time. A more helpful method is to hit the report...
View ArticleWoohoo!
This is my ninth year paricipating and/or lurking about the DWG and it has definitely led me to meeting some incredible people and I've made fantastic friends of whom I include you. My ultimate...
View ArticleWhat's your opinion on contractions?
According to the "You can't say that!" page that Heather linked, contractions other than I'll and you'll did not appear in print before the 1880s. I admit I always thought it a bit fakey and...
View ArticleDon't keep coughing so, Kitty, for Heaven's sake!
"Don't" appears six times in P&P and "won't" once, so I'd love to know where the author of that website draws his conclusions. And it was Robert Lowth in 1762 who tried to ban the use of "ain't"...
View ArticleRe: I've been here almost 15 years how did that happen?
Alyson! Your stories are some of my favorite, as well, of course! Did you ever finish revising Elizabeth's Story? :-)
View ArticleRe: Don't keep coughing so, Kitty, for Heaven's sake!
Interesting. I did pull up an online version of P&P and searched for a few contractions, but obviously they weren't the right ones. Like I looked for can't and didn't and um, didn't find them. I...
View ArticleRe: That wouldn't be Reader's Feast would it? (nfm)
I actually meant the Dymocks on Collins Street (near Degraves lane) which is very good. I was devastated when the Bourke St Reader's Feast closed - it was my very favourite bookstore in the city. I...
View ArticleYes, it helps
I check the Tea Room more often the DWG board because this is where people will post about something on the site not working as it should, and thanks to time zone differences, I am in front of a...
View ArticleRe: Nature of the Beast QA
What happened the Charles' research which he was supposedly doing? I imagine he would have to publish it anonymously, and the werewolves he studied would have to be anonymous too, which would mean...
View ArticleRe: Nature of the Beast QA
Look, it's your story and your vision. You clearly feel in a certain way about Elizabeth's choice. Even after your explanation, I don't see it and I still see what I imagined (so it's excellent for me...
View ArticleRe: Don't keep coughing so, Kitty, for Heaven's sake!
My characters sigh across all centuries and galaxies, so I get the blinking thing. ;)I wouldn't say I searched the texts I listed thoroughly, but the trend I did find is relatively few occurrences of...
View ArticleRe: Don't keep coughing so, Kitty, for Heaven's sake!
It appears to me that Austen only has characters she doesn’t like, or characters she doesn’t want us to like much, use contractions. I didn’t go back and search, but I’m pretty sure she does this in...
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