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Andres’s comments from the Gathering Of Dedicated Scribblers group.

I reviewed it!

ugh, I hate those moments. You'd think I'd have better saving techniques by now but I still forget to hold reset before power.

Welcome the new GODS Scott and Tomas!

When you reach week 10 on Coursera, it will ask you do to a table reading. This is to read through your work, chapters 1-9. Rather than link my 10 coursera links, I would like to exchange word documents of work through email with someone. We can go comb through a partial storyline rather than an individual chapter read.

If anyone is interested when they reach week 10 please let me know.

Here's another one:

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This sounds extremely interesting I do like tough-guy movies (good fellas, the Irishman). However, I know entirely too little of this genre so with my ignorance, I might be a horrible reviewer for Rachel.

That's true. You can always have her mom bash her love interest and acquire the same effect.

"You should be with your own kind! Not with a human that can't even decide what gender they are!" or "Your human interest is even shun by "her" own people!"

Then Lucia could get defensive of Carl.
"Carl is not a her you ignorant fairy mother. They are not a he either but you would have known that if you cared for me in anyway! We don't have genders why is this a big deal to you all of a sudden?"

Anyway, I hope some of my miscellaneous banter may be of use to you =D.

My opinion would be to erase this from the Mother's email. I don't think you need to harpy on your main characters identification. She's a fairy. Faeries are non gender specific and we get that from chapter 1.

If you want to elaborate at all on the discrimination or injustice that happens around this terminology, do it with Carl. You character can share their pain, come to their defense and maybe even feel that they understand your main characters feeling of abandonment or exile because of their similar experience. I think Mother fairy would simply be upset that she is 300 years old and is going steady or engaging sexually with a human rather than her own kind. I do not think it has to go more specifically than that. Just my thoughts.

Is that any relation to the L.A. Noir video game?

I just received it 18August'20.
I am sure you can find more information about it if you visit the site.
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I myself have not tried the course so I cannot speak neither positively nor negatively about it. I simply received the email and thought I would share it with theGODS.

This was an article from The Write Practice dot com.
I thought I would share it with you:

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It's okay, pickles can be delicious =D

Yes, I seem to be further along but remember I enrolled into this class in April, so in reality I'm actually way behind lol.

Ah ha. So he might even still have some type of resentment with Calista and her daughters for leaving him. Mm. Very wise of you.

Hi Missy!

So now that your completed with the course what's your next step? Have you already started viewing KDP, LULU or Ingramspark? Are you inviting proof reads or cover artists? This is great news, some of the members will be in your shoes in a few months.

That's great! The more the merrier. Everyone needs to review 5 works and it's so much easier to review 5 stories you have been following along with than just randomness.

At the end of each submission I have been posting the GoodReads link, mostly in hopes that if someone enjoys my work they would want to continue reading it. There is no way to friend or link profiles on coursera.

Welcome Rachel. I hope you got the slack invite. There is only a couple of us in there and we haven't really spoken, or spoke at all in fact lol. We have been using this platform but your welcome to invite and use it. I'm sure you'd receive responses on either.

Yes, I'd love to read pitches.

Chapter 2. This read so much more wonderfully than the first chapter in my opinion. The letter from her mother and the reaction was like, woah. The emotion was good on both sides. Well done.

The only thing I have a question about is this" Carl is non binary. Like a fairy. We are beings that cannot be contained within two sexes. I live as a woman at this moment."

If fairies live past both sexes, would it really be a big deal if she was Bi-Sexual, Gay, Lesbian? This seems like a human term her mother would be unfamiliar with however the act itself she would be fine with. As a reader I'm thinking, cool a fairy loves whomever they love, there is no need for a description or term for what they are at that moment. She summed it up well in chapter 1. As her mother appears to sound angry now that she chose to be a lesbian, it makes the argument that fairies are contained within two sexes. I would suggest leaving this 'term' out of chapter 2 otherwise you would have to go back and adjust chapter 1. In my opinion of course. Great chapter. I'll read chapter 3 tomorrow.

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Yes, this is the major incentive for having a good community. May the chat be fun and light hearted and on its best occasion provide you with an amazing new thought. Ok, excelsior! I'm going back to write chapter 13. If you need me, shine your flashlight at the brightest start in the sky. I'll never see it of course. But, on the occasion that we randomly reunite, I'll pretend as though I did.

The most important thing is writing. When you start to feel yourself getting stuck or slowing down, that's a great time to go back and submit everything =D. At least that's what I do LOL.