You know, I hasn’t bothered to look it up. Thanks for doing that for me 😆
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If you can’t think of names for your characters just go to the credits of any movie
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How do I gently tell someone their writing is bad (as in, needs significant work)?
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These are people who want to be mods of communities. If you don't understand the basics of how this platform works, you probably need to spend more time as a regular user before becoming a moderator.
Bosses hate this one. The things they'll do for a full office...
When you order something with 2-day delivery, it not only needs to be in stock... but it needs to be in a warehouse in your city. This requirement means there needs to be a surplus.
They don't know where the orders will come in, so they make enough to send them to every warehouse in the country. But if all of them got sold, the supply would drive the price down. So, they wait until a certain number gets sold (say... a few hundred) and then destroy the rest.
It's sickening that this is even a thing. But that's the world we live in.
Welcome aboard! I'll be your partner 🙃 (but I'll step aside if anyone else shows up and needs a partner)
Let's PM each other at the end of each day -- just a simple message saying whether you wrote today or not. This competition will run from Monday (7/17) through Sunday (7/24).
Don't worry... I'm also not terribly consistent, which is why I created this community in the first place 😉.
@[email protected] and @[email protected], welcome aboard!
Interest in this announcement is starting to die down (that's life in a small community), so we might not get another team for you to compete against. Let's go ahead and get started, because there's no time like the present to sit down and write! If another team shows up within the next day or two, we'll figure out a way to modify the rules to squeeze them in.
This competition will run from Monday (7/17) through Sunday (7/24). Be sure to keep track of the number of days you wrote for at least fifteen minutes within that range.
I'll post an announcement next week on Sunday, where you can reply with your score. In the event that you don't have any competitors, I'll pick a random number between 1 and 14. If your score is higher than that number, you win!
Edit: We have another competitor... hooray!
Thanks for the feedback -- I'm really excited about starting this community, and I think I overdid it on the promotion 😬
"Bilingual" is really hard to define.
I live in Taiwan (English is my native language), and have studied Chinese to be passably fluent. I can trick people into thinking I can follow advanced conversations, interjecting comments here or there (even though I'm mostly lost -- just picking out the tidbits I do understand and commenting on them).
But am I bilingual? At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. What matters the most is whether your level is "good enough" to do what you want! In my case, I just want to be able to go to the store, buy things, and hang out with friends. I can read the newspaper, but I'll never be able to read/write business contracts -- but that's not a goal of mine.
There are so many different shades of bilingual. Don't worry about it... and just be as good as you need to reach your goals!
Welcome aboard! I really hope this commumity provides the support you need. Keep writing!
That's a great perspective, and it's liberating to remember, first drafts are rarely perfect.
I have a novel that I've been setting aside for years because it has some major flaws I don't know how to fix. Someday I'll figure it out!
Wow, I hadn’t heard of that… I’m bookmarking this comment and adding that to my reading list!
Execution really is everything.