Thank you! Since I joined I've been doing some lurking in my spare time to get a feel for how this forum works (every forum has it's own personality - and personalities!).

I got sidetracked by a couple of ebook assignments on topics that were actually FUN and not corporate (I love when that happens!), one of which had me up until 5 AM this morning - late even for this night owl.

:) geechee_girl

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Zubby wrote:
"Here are some chocolate chip cookies for your enjoyment. Feel free to eat as many as you like as I have a never ending supply and you only gain virtual fat and not real fat. Hee hee. "
It would be funny, but I seem to have accumulated a lote of virtual fat on my...all over & every place else. They sure are good, though!

Just bumping this one up for anyone new!

zubbycat :)

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"Read! Read! Read! Write! Write! Write! Rewrite! Rewrite! Rewrite!" - Pierre Berton
"Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words." - Mark Twain

Yikes, I could spend the entire day just following this thread back and "meeting" all you guys. What a great site!

I am Marie Josette, living in Atlanta, GA. Mom of 2 girls adopted from China, life partner of (er, 23? 24?) years to another Marie. Most of my writing has been for my single client, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, being geographically correct for them and v/v. I cover and report on their meetings. Very interesting -- almost like getting paid to learn (is this what having a scholarship is like?) -- but I've been hankering to stretch my wings to something publishable. Long, long ago (I'm 55) I had an op ed piece published (paid for the stroller and baby stuff!) as well as some advertorials. I entered this last 24-hour writing contest and was pleased to feel that old familiar eu-stress in my solar plexus, forgetting time, etc., as I zoned out into the writing. I've still got it! Hurray!

Now, if I can just make a living at it.... :?

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...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
--- Mark Twain

Welcome to the asylum Marie. Straight jackets are free, rants are expected and (if you haven't figured it out yet) multiple personality disorder is alive and well and living in this forum.

writerdave

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Welcome to the forum, Marie. My niece was also adopted from China (she is cute as a bug!)

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Only to man Thou hast made known Thy ways,
And put the pen alone into his hand,
And made him secretary of Thy praise.
--George Herbert
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Haven't checked in here for a while and thought I'd better welcome everyone who's joined since the last time I looked.
Doing a little happy dance in your honour.

Marie - doesn't it get a little confusing around your house with two Marie's?
I get confused and there's only one of me!

Sometimes I think a multiple personality could be a real bonus in the writing realm! Thanks for the welcomes. And Wendy, it is occasionally confusing for there to be two of us, but since the girls joined our lives, it all ironed out anyway -- to "Remy's mom" or "Martika's mom." Parenthood seems to guarantee one also-ran status in the rat race of life!

So, how does one use t hese emoticons, anyway? They don't seem to drag and drop or copy and paste...?

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...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
--- Mark Twain

Whhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! ... Zubby to the emoticon rescue!!

Hi, Marie! Welcome! The emoticons on the side don't work. We get them from

http://bestsmileys.com/pageindex.htm

where you just cut and paste the image tag for whatever smilie you want.

Hope you enjoy hanging out here with us!



zubbycat :)
(*wondering if I'm one of those multiple personalities writerdave is talking about ... no, I'm not ... yes, you are ... am not ... oh ... so there ... hey, quiet in there, I'm trying to concentrate ... oh, sorry ... ahem ... ya ...)

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"Read! Read! Read! Write! Write! Write! Rewrite! Rewrite! Rewrite!" - Pierre Berton
"Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words." - Mark Twain

Cool! OK, I got the bar in my email; now how do I get it on the Explorer bar?

You get the idea, I'm totally un-geeky.

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...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
--- Mark Twain

I'm not a techy either. I'm not quite sure what you are asking though. You should just be able to click on the website link in my post to go to the site, and then when you find the smiley you want, copy the part that says

[img]whatever%20it%20says%20inside[/img]

and paste that into the forum reply box. The smiley should show up when you post.

zubbycat :)

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"Read! Read! Read! Write! Write! Write! Rewrite! Rewrite! Rewrite!" - Pierre Berton
"Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words." - Mark Twain

OK, I get it now -- thanks! I was confused because I got a whole tool bar of them in my Outlook program, but nothing on the explorer bar (and thought I should have). Let's give it a try.... well, later! Got a fiction workshop to go to!

Thanks for your help!

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...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
--- Mark Twain

No problem! Hope it works for you. Have fun at your workshop.

zubbycat :)

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"Read! Read! Read! Write! Write! Write! Rewrite! Rewrite! Rewrite!" - Pierre Berton
"Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words." - Mark Twain

Welcome Marie!!

You will find this to be the best forum out there. I have been to others but always come crawling home with my tail between my legs.

I have learned more about the art and business of writing from these people than from years of schooling. You are in a good place now.

Samantha

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Thanks, Samantha! I've never felt so welcomed! I'm still rasslin' with trying to get these smilie thingies outside of an email application. Let's see if I can do it -- I've got some on my Explorer bar now.

<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008_ZCYYYYYYYYUS' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/7/7_4_18.gif' alt='I Love Candy' border=0></a>

Well, that didn't work. I really feel like a dodo now. Any suggestions? How do you do this???

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...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
--- Mark Twain