Michael’s Comments (group member since Apr 12, 2018)

Michael’s comments from the Navigating Indieworld Discussing All Things Indie group.

I took a typing class in college, and the teacher instructed us to always type two spaces between sentences. (There are two spaces after my sentences, despite this forum's erroneous removal of one of them.) I am now rather set in my ways, and I don't see a good reason to change. Regarding the Oxford comma, I always include it. It appears that both of these are optional. The only downside of including two spaces between sentences is that computers frequently do not handle the extra space well if the next sentence begins at the left margin. Maybe computer programmers should take a basic typing class!

Many thanks, Anna. It appears to me that one can become totally consumed by the Goodreads forum. Any advice on how to keep from over doing it?

Fun, yes. But more than that: Very worthwhile.

I joined a writers' group that would provide constructive feedback for the excerpts that we read aloud--all feedback was positive and encouraging, even when the reader put us to sleep. I found the non-verbal feedback to be fairly brutal and honest. However, I felt I got honest, truthful, and encouraging feedback through non-verbals that manifested themselves with smiles, heads nodding up and down, and expressions on people's faces that cried out, "Keep reading; don't stop!"

Lulu has contacted me about publishing a book that I have written. How can I do my due diligence about Lulu?