Dear Wings: In the USA, the latest kerfuffle is about a particular group eating dog and cat meat. And in Miami, recently we had someone who ate a man's ...
Dear Milt Re: "Stop me from chewing my nails" When I was a little brat, I also had a habit of thumb sucking and nail biting. To cure me of this addiction,...
Dear Wings, I suspect the BBC and other media in the UK are as guilty as the press in the US that employs the technique of dangling shiney objects to distract...
I have reworked this several times in between periods of working on Volume teo of the Mindswords. What do you all think? Jake, in his seventeenth year of...
Dear Jay, I am not sure who would respond positively to this pitch. Granted, there are people who love terror, but this suggests a story that would keep me up...
Hi Jay Not my cup of tea but horror writers of the past & present have been quite moderately successful. Jack Ketchum caused a stir with his: "The girl next...
Suzianne, Thank you for your feedback! I will add it all to the pile I refer to when I edit this again. Cheers! Jay ... From: ticket2write@yahoogroups.com...
Dear Wings, Thank you for your reply. Both you and Suzianne provided me several things to consider, not least of which is that you identified the genre as...
Mightier Than The Sword Since the start of year 2013 there has been a dearth of submissions to t2w and yet each member has in their hand a weapon, perhaps not...
Dear Wings: Perhaps one of the reasons for a dearth of submissions is that the focus here is mostly a single genre and for me, it is one in which I have...
Dear Wings, You have amazing timing. Thanks to the television series, Downton Abbey, people have become fascinated with the period between the wars. On the...
Dear Milt: I am so glad you wrote this response to Wings. I have been part of t2w for ten years or so and my interest has diminished, but I didn't know why....
Dear Milt I may be able to offer you some support with this as you appear to have knowledge of my early years. There were seven of us kids and I was the...
Dear Suzi Re."Downton Abbey" I have watched the series.Can39;t help it because that is/was always a 'must see' programme on a Sunday evening in our house. My...
Dear t2w writers and poets, This just in from Karla Decker, a nice old friend of mine from Lincoln, Nebraska: NaHaiWriMo (National Haiku Writing Month)...
Dear Wings, I must admit that I started to watch Downton Abby to see the hats and fashions, which are amazing. I soon became hooked on the characters. I hope...
Dear Suzi Re: "I will be like Dame Maggie Smith when I grow up" Sorry, I don't envisage such a role in life for you. Casting my mind back to my days of silver...
This is a classic example of a bad movie. "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" does everything wrong that concerns film production. The acting is terrible, the...
Dear Wings, I admire all of those ladies, but Maureen O'Hara would certainly be my choice of the lot. She was close to perfection with beauty, talent, a great...
Date: Sunday, February 24, 2013, 9:49 AM HOT NEWSÂ : week of Feb 25: Monday, Feb 25: Laura Madeline Wiseman & Fran Higgins at Crescent Moon Wednesday, Feb 27:...
Dear Suzi & all at t2w. I am a compulsive writer and use any excuse to put pen to paper. In this instance I wrote to our major hospital in Cornwall after...
Dear Wings: Now all you have to tell us is that the doctor's name was Fuller Schmidt and my day will be complete. I have never had a colonoscopy. My Momma...
Deadline is tonight at midnight. Can you write a six-word memoir?---by midnight? Tuition, room and board. WILD MOUNTAIN MEMOIR RETREAT (March 15-17th, 2013)...
I missed this, but very much am a fan of spoken literature. I perform whenever I can, and sit in the audience and cheer on those who do well. I just followed...
Dear Wings, I am sooooo sorry to hear you had to go through that, but give you a gold star for maintaining a sense of humor through the ordeal. Suzianne...
Dear Suzi Re. "GOLD STAR" Those four 'angels of mercy' attending me should be the recipients of gold stars. After they had finished poking about in my innards...
The Tale Of The Ugly Tree Quinella. It's always, in insane throes of drunken passion, that a `one night stand', is worst of all mistakes, I'll gather up strewn...