I think I am freaking out; make that I am freaking out! LOL

However, I have been critiquing and am happy to continue, I finished looking at Sabrina's yesterday (not sure of the Hatrack moniker) and will finish AWSullivan's today.

I will mosey over to the regular timetable and let them know that I am dropping in.

Leslie

I've been working on it and it's still not right. I feel the ending lacks punch and the main plotline is just not really solid.
Plus I keep finding typos.

I am a little concerned that my story is too light and fluffy for WoTF.

So, if anyone is interested in reading a first draft let me know, otherwise I will offer it when the regular timetable group gets going.

It's such a relief to get away from that story for a while. I've been concentrating on it for ever so long.

2.AWSullivan
4.BoredCRow
6.LAJD
8.Annepin
10.TheOnceandFutureMe
12.Zero

It's on its way.

Happy to crit whenever you finish.

Speaking of, the deadline for general second round crits is coming up. Just a week away. Nov 7th. A while ago Patrick suggested some new groups. For your ease in remembering them:

Group 1
Writerdan
darklight
KayTi
JenniferHicks
AWSullivan
LAJD
TheOnceandFutureMe

Group 2
Arriki
Icared
Patrick James
BoredCRow
Annepin
Zero

It's that little smidgen of backstory I tried to slip in there on page two. I cringe. It's so close to the opening. It could be the place where when reached it, they dropped my story into the return-to-sender pile.

I hope I could have handled the backstory better now. Hope, hope.

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Well, I'm not on the HM list. Sigh, I think.

It's that little smidgen of backstory I tried to slip in there on page two. I cringe. It's so close to the opening. It could be the place where when reached it, they dropped my story into the return-to-sender pile.

I hope I could have handled the backstory better now. Hope, hope.

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Or maybe you are in the finalist pile.

I hope some of you guys will give mine another look around the beginning of next month.

I hope to have some critting time in December, though, so keep me in mind. I can't promise anything in the next few weeks, Nano is eating my soul and I'm way behind on my slush pile reading.

Typically the way you do it is stick a tag for what you want to have happen to the word(s) in the straight brackets *before* the word, then *after* the word you do this again with the brackets, but include a forward slash before the tag

I'll try an example with curly brackets, because if I use the straight ones the bulletin board software will just try to parse the tag.

{b}make this text bold{/b}

then using the straight brackets

make this text bold

Italics are done with "i", to quote someone else's text you can write QUOTE in there, then paste the text you want to quote, then do /QUOTE inside the brackets after the text you want to quote.

I also use the URL tag, which is URL=yourwebaddresshere with brackets around it. Then in the space between that tag and the "closing" tag you write the "friendly text" for the web address. that's how you can get those clickable links that make sense, like "Go to CNN" instead of www.cnn.com.

Arriki, I'll read Cory.

I should have Faeries ready for a second read in a couple of days--make that weeks end, just to be safe.

Leslie

You see...I had this flash of inspiration. It's a subtle change. Reading, you might not even notice. It ties the Cory of the opening more strongly to the one who emerges at the end. May even make him slightly more understandable if not even a little sympathetic.

Thanks, annepin, for the link. I printed off the instructions. Now I HAVE them to refer to. Thanks, again.