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The Fossil is Back! - 6 years ago
A while back the Forums got a modification that make them NOT internet compatible. I was effectively banned. The problem remain. I just got a "proper" toy computer. Details available by request. So. Am I back? I hope so. Been a while. Think a P&P view is about due, especially after those feeble Knight Rider episodesby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Becoming a character in a JA Novel? - 6 years ago
I think I may have. See my Jane and Elizabeth’s Paranormal Journey from May 2015 in the "Fantasia Gallery. The "Me" is of another lifetime, but it draw from my experiences. It is worth a read; at least I believe so, or I would not have wrote it.by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Love DWG and Facebook?/Y & N - 6 years ago
When Pemberley.com and closed its forums, they went to a facebook page. Pemberley.com used to have very active forums, and only a snoozer, I know, I wrote a few, would go almost cobweb. Seem many Dwiggies were also Pemberley-ans, so they may dwell there in the new domain. I answered the "Subject" question with a "Y & N" for a good reason. I love DWG and I despise facebook to the degree tby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Distinguishing quotes - 6 years ago
Please avoid red text because that could serve as a Redline insertion. As to footnotes, see my "Author's Note" at the top of my Jane and Elizabeth’s Paranormal Journey in: https://www.dwiggie.com/derby/raeelaine1.htm Footnotes in web pages appear like end notes, and deserve the same disgust. My in-line markup serve well. Welcome to fan fictions, MorganA. I have dabbled in quite a few, but myby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Beautiful Friendship question - 6 years ago
Seem to me that if you are going to the work of posting an updated version on another site, it make more sense to post a link to that revision here. Let the systems do the backing up, &c.by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Seeking interest in... - 7 years ago
Happy New Year, all lovers of Jane Austen's stories, fan fictions, and those who love a good story! I am seeking interest in a story I wrote, long enough ago, to knock off the dust and post it to the Board for the Fantasia Gallery. The nut graf: The Bennet sisters are making ready ready to go into Meryton for general purposes and see their Aunt Philips. In another part of the universe, it is 19by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: An evolution in creativity, inside the gaps - 7 years ago
This is interesting. I think you are dancing on the difference between Jane Austen's novel writing and script writing. I think Andrew Davies, P&P2 (1995) and others, opened the door when he explained why he put in the scenes that she did not. Still, I believe non-fiction accounts have the duty to more tell over show. After all, some things must Not be left free to interpret, and can be bloby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Goings on in conversation - 7 years ago
Why is it? When I read many stories here and on other fan fiction sites, people are quite busy with their speech and in response to others' speech? I have been around in many environments, peoples, trades, &c., and I have Never seen anyone "color;" as does Jane Austin's characters, "breath caught in his throat," or "looked pointedly;" instead of directed, and others as I see from time to timby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
What is...?/Re: I loved it! - 7 years ago
What is a "DNF book?" Just in case explication break a forum rule, feel free to answer me via my e-mail address: hatfield at nwi dot net Thank you in advance.by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Turning off mobile view - 7 years ago
"That's not a bug. That's a feature!"by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Feetnotes/Re: Pugilist Peer is now out! - 7 years ago
Changing the footnote style should not be useful. Seem a problem with changing the content of a footnote. I have used WordPerfect long before v.5.1 in 1992 and since, and making a footnote content fix is harder to describe than do. I have learned that when I have a footnote (page) in a file, it appear as an endnote after conversion for the web. What software are you struggling with? Is it a fby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Am I permitted to advertise a friend's work? - 7 years ago
My dear Sarah. This seem like News! Is it news in the Regency Sense? I cannot say no.by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: betas wanted - 7 years ago
Thank you for the help. When I tried to fetch: http://drive.google.com/ I got Redirected to: https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=wise&passive=1209600&continue=https://drive.google.com/?urp%3Dhttp://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4 Where I could Not get through the "Create account" tedium. Should have been easy, but they want malignant access to my computer by; "In orderby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: betas wanted - 7 years ago
Uh oh. Google and "my drive" does not tell me how to do anything. When I tried: http://www.google.com/mydrive All I got was: "404. That’s an error. The requested URL /mydrive was not found on this server. That’s all we know. " The last time I tried Google Chrome with OS/2, it FUBAR'd my system (the kernel was okay because it could only protect itself and the file systems. However, Presentatby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: betas wanted - 7 years ago
I suspect I am too late to get in the active betas, but for future needs: What is "Google docs?" Is that something that my OpenOffice can use?by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Looking for Story - 7 years ago
{Bbrr bbrr bbrr bbrr...} Lydia, Rescue Lizzie, from Mr. Darcy at Pemberley? What paranormal event caused this? This may be a riveting read.by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Timing...? - 7 years ago
This is a problem with write -a- section, then post it. These interruptions buggered me out of reading a couple good stories, long ago, titles and authors since forgot, but one involved Col. Fitzwilliam and a lady of the Matlock family. Now, when I want a story, I go to the finished stories repositories. When I started posting my Jane and Elizabeth's Paranormal Journey, it was already written aby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Painting Jane's world. - 7 years ago
Look like art to me, Jim. If I can duplicate it, then it is Not art. If I tried that, it would look more like Sweethaven; Popeye 1980.by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
English/Re: " You cannot have been always at longbourn!" - 7 years ago
Agnes, I think your English, as a second language, is better than a lot of English-only speakers. English is not an easy language to learn the first time, much less as a second language. Where I am, we get a lot of former Mexicans, and with neighbors, I think I have seen some of the difficulties. One, English is not a *pure* language. It may have been at one time, but Arthur was king in Cameloby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: " You cannot have been always at longbourn!" - 7 years ago
IIRC, it is clear in the book that Jane and Lizzy spent much time with their Aunt and Uncle Gardiner in London, around or during their adolescent years. If Uncle Gardiner made a good living in trade, then he is not likely an idiot. Also, he married a woman that seem to have a great deal of sense. I think that is clear in the book, and the actresses of the three color adaptions of P&P revealby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: " You cannot have been always at longbourn!" - 7 years ago
I think you have something, there, Jim. However, and seem always a "but," I see the possibility of a lot of defects going past a proofreader, assuming that was a step in the process between an author(ess) submitting a manuscript, and the book coming off the presses. A penmanship manuscript can be a bit of a bother to sort out some defects. As I have looked at late-18th and early 19th century doby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Time Travel? Anyone? - 7 years ago
Another new thread has a bit about time travel. I have a couple time-travel stories, that need dusting off, that bring the protagonist into the Regency societies. One go to Highbury (Emma) and another tale go to Longbourn (P&P). If I can tease some interest, maybe many can be entertained by time slips.by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Were Lizzie or Darcy really good catches? - 7 years ago
Not initially. Lizzy would not have him and he turned up his nose at her. However, seem like after a year of life with curveballs and still frequent acquaintence, they did morph into good catches for each other. I think that is a Jane Austen plot bunny. Take at least one person, with an attitude problem, and get them to remedy themselves to be suitable.by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Help with New Stories - 7 years ago
A couple useful ideas: 1.Taking down a story is usually done when they go commercial. I think the new files could over-write the old as an "Edit." 2.I am available for editing, but I have found a couple big problems: One is a platform interchangeable file and; Two: a platform interchangeable file. WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, that may consider Triassic, does not deal with msft formats, and new mstby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Fyi: globophobia - 8 years ago
This took me another reading before I understood that the globophobia is of small balloons: Not hot air balloons. That could have a relationship to fear of flying, which may not paranoia when the plane is going down in flames. Perhaps it is the sudden, loud, sharp sound that is the root of the phobia. I wonder how many phobias have that trigger. I do not fear (phobia) "yapping rats," but theiby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: The not so charming Austen villains.... - 8 years ago
"Dittos!" Jim G.M. Been racking my brains trying to find a competitor for the calcum - free spine award. My familiarity with only S&S, P&P, and Emma enable me to omit the other Jane Austen male {stuff}, so I have tried to expand out into other dead - tree and video literature. The closest I can conclude, as of this writing, is "Uncle Joseph P. Carson" of Petticoat Junction, but once inby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Re: Of cabbages and kings? - 8 years ago
CABBAGES AND KINGS: a book title by O. Henry line in _The Walrus and The Carpenter_ by Lewis Carroll; an 1872 stanza: "The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings." Knicked from http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/walrus.html on or about 19 Jan. 2008.by Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Modes?/Re: Conjunction? - 8 years ago
Mari, your challenge fascinate me. I thought tenses were fairly limited to past, present, and future. Now, "modes" come to me, alien as E.T. I know of median, mean, and mode from statistics. Are these grammar modes taught above the tenth grade? (I was expelled during my tenth grade.) I just tried "modes" in a search string, and got results in terms of math, music, and machinery. If grammarby Rae Elaine - Tea Room
Roast me and bake me.../Re: How well do Filmmakers...? - 8 years ago
"Roast me and bake me, stamp me and post me..." :=} -My Fair Lady I knew the generations of the dream cast could be a problem, but with impossibilities, bodge over the time elements. Too bad I did not consider Heather Angel (P&P0) in the part of Kitty Bennet, but, that is a risk of posting later thoughts. Am I too cruel or harsh in my appraisal of the actresses and by appearance? After alby Rae Elaine - Tea Room