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cdreimer

  1. Time to catch up on writing those missing blog posts for this past week and start in on next week's blog posts. Busy, busy, busy. :P
  2. I missed snail mail submission days. All you had to do was write & drop in mail. Although 50 manuscripts in circulation was PITA. #writechat
  3. @GLHancock Let me think about that and get back to you. :P #writechat
  4. Here's a review of my short story ebook, "Some Bad Decisions," where I got skewered for misusing a succubi. succubus.net/blog/2012/04/2… #writechat
  5. The worse editors to deal with are those who insist on a WordPerfect file format since their college can't afford better. :/ #writechat
  6. @girl_onthego Longer/deeper/published version. I actually doubled the length of the original story. #writechat
  7. @girl_onthego Here's the first page of short story that was accepted after I made it longer and deeper. cdreimer.com/ebooks/fiction… #writechat
  8. @LexusLuke After having 40+ flash and short stories published in print, I think I have the practice part nailed down. :) #writechat
  9. @girl_onthego I seldom get feedback from editors unless they want a rewrite, which is often a request to write longer and deeper. #writechat
  10. Reading other writers - especially those boring literary writers - to learn different sentence structures. #writechat
  11. I think my grammar issues may be more of a style issue. I tend to use same kind of sentence structure over and over again. #writechat
  12. When you thought the Saw movies were over... @jephjacques: Sam designed my new hit character, Pintsaws! twitter.com/jephjacques/st…
  13. @GLHancock Which was why she had 250 stitches after I was born. From labor to birth: one hour. Didn't help I was a cannonball. #writechat
  14. I was born with a typewriter! :) @Erynn @glhancock #writechat
  15. @GLHancock Just repeating what I heard as a young writer. Plus double space between sentences and count 250 words per page. :P #writechat
  16. During my snail submission days, the old saw was you have to use MS Word because the editors used MS Word for grammar checking. #writechat
  17. I'm a high school drop out (9th grade). Although I have two associates degree (general ed and programming), my grammar sucks. #writechat
  18. What's the alternative to Word's grammar checker? @JohnElray #writechat
  19. Is Microsoft Word grammar checker bad for ebooks? Or are reviewers referring to something else - style, maybe? #writechat
  20. I've seen reviews for my ebook and others citing bad grammar. One reviewer called it: Microsoft Word grammar. So... #writechat