You'd have to "hang a lantern" on it and show how the character got hold of the expression, and why they adopted it. It kind of reminds me,...
I think the implication is, "Your ideas are worse than useless. You have nothing to contribute. Leave my presence and do something your limited...
Not saying you're wrong. But if you want to sell in the Christian market, you have to pretend we don't. And that nobody else does, either. I had...
For what it's worth, this has come up in my Christian romantic suspense series. My female MC, a lifelong (Presbyterian) Christian, uses "Blast!"...
This is similar to what we're going to do. Sister-in-law is a veritable bean-counter, which made her great at eking out my mom's limited pension...
My sister-in-law (my brother's widow) called yesterday afternoon from Texas to tell me my mother had died that morning. Momma was 94, so it wasn't...
Somehow it seems bloodyminded to "like" a post like this. I mean, ouch!
Yes, I did, Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately, my carrier requires 72 hours to reactivate, from the time you inform them you've recovered the...
I'm brushing up on my Welsh, and we went out to the pub after class last evening. And apparently I left my phone on the table. 30 miles and a lot...
You mean people look at the backs of novels already prepared to suspend their disbelief?
Another question for all and sundry: Do I have to add in a call-to-action/puff paragraph to the end of this? On the order of Set against the...
Another question: What do you mean by "switch locations several times like that"?
You've got something there. To be honest, I was aware the prose didn't flow the way I like. It was me trying to use the least number of words to...
Isn't it? My gut inclination towards putting the last names in is to assure the readers who bought my first in series that we're continuing the...
Thanks for all the feedback so far. What's raising nervous laughter in me is that this is getting so pared down it's veering away from being a...
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