Hi,
Sorry, I need a bit of help. I would like to make up my own log-in password. The new site build required a new password and the ones sent to me are not ones I could ever remember. I'm not finding a way to generate my own password.
Thank you.

Hi!

I've already asked about this, but I haven't heard from you in a while. I can't get the system to load the upgrade account feature. I would like to become a member before I register for another class. I've tried it in both chrome and firefox, and the little loading symbol in the upper right-hand corner starts up but never loads anything. I mean, I walked out of the room, forgot about it, and came back 1/2 hour later and it still hadn't loaded.

From the same page, I've tried to enroll in the motivation course, and the same thing happens. I'm kind of bummed that because of this bug, I've missed the month of May. If you get this fixed, can I enroll at the beginning of any month, or only when it's advertised again? Or can I enroll mid-month and catch up? (because it isn't fair!)

Anyway, please let me know.

Thanks,

Marianne

This shows why English is so much more difficult to learn than other languages. If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud.


Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain .
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty , library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas .
Sea, idea, Korea , area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight ,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

English Pronunciation by G. Nolst Trenité

I am looking for a few tips to describe a situation in a way that it is not dragged on and on. But it is sweet and to the point. For instance, I want to describe a situation in a pub where boy meets girl. What should I do? Describe in a few short words what the scene looks like, the other persons and then concentrate on my main characters?

Hello. I have been a member of your forum for some time and I enjoy being a member of this community. I am also an amateur writer and I am taking a shot at my first real novel. But that is a story for another time

I have visited some other forums and there are a few things that I have been accustomed to which I do not see here. I think that they will improve the user experience here a great deal. Here it goes. 1) A recent threads box on a separate page showing x latest threads. That would be a good way to keep track of them. The New Post that you have here it makes posts disappear after you read them. 2) A Like and Dislike options for threads. For instance, there are a couple of threads that I like and I would like to be able to like them and then give a reason as to why I liked them. The same goes for threads that I dislike. I want to let that be known. And all threads that will be disliked most can be locked or moderated. These were what I can think for the moment. I do hope that you will take my request into consideration.

Best Regards,

Celeste

Hello,

We are experiencing technical difficulties with our chatrooms, but we hope to have it up and working as soon as possible.

In the meantime, the Bootcamp sprints won't be able to take place. We will post a message as soon as the problem has been corrected.

We apologize for any inconvenience.
The Savvy Crew

He claims his income is $450K a year. This is how he does it.

https://medium.com/@CharlynKeating/...m-the-app-stores-there-s-someone-ac5082d8de47

I am part of the BootCamp and can't get into the form, discussion, or report pages to report my word count or participate. It worked once, but now I just get blank pages with "148" in the upper left hand corner. I'm not sure what to do with that. Can you help me out?

Thank you,
Dianne Sagan

Hello! Am I just not seeing the print button on each post, or is there not one? I print out my lessons and read them at lunch, but when I use the standard print option on my computer it cuts off the very last line. It looks likes it's covered by the bottom box. Help!

I lost my ratings, my picture, my everything in the new set-up.
I have to start over and including from zero on ratings? my photo???

Rules for life also good for writers

1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short not to enjoy it.
4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will.
5. Don’t buy stuff you don’t need.
6. You don’t have to win every argument. Stay true to yourself.
7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.
8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for things that matter.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.
12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye… But don’t worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful. Clutter weighs you down in many ways.
18. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It’s never too late to be happy. But it’s all up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Overprepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words, ‘In five years, will this matter?’
27. Always choose Life.
28. Forgive but don’t forget.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give Time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.
35. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative — dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d
grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. Accept what you already have, not what you think you need.
42. The best is yet to come…
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.
(Source: reginabrett.com)

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2Pxc3...written-by-a-90-year-old?sthash.1J93Madi.tupo

I saw these two requests from Sahara and DMac about the videos of Pat Haggarty's class on Scrivener.

Neither were answered. Did you see them?

http://forum.savvyauthors.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=429&threadid=21022&enterthread=y

http://forum.savvyauthors.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=429&threadid=21010&enterthread=y

Are these videos archived on the site here?
Lyn

Holly Lisle says:

Writers of #fiction and #memoir nonfiction: How do you RELIABLY sell more books?

Right now, NOBODY knows.
Publishers have been using 'throw enough writers against a wall, and some of them are sure to stick' as their method for promoting books.
Publicists do great for most kinds of nonfiction, but have no reliable way to put fiction and memoir-type nonfiction into readers' hands.
Techniques like giving away free copies on Amazon used to work, but they aren't so great anymore.
There is currently no reliable way to promote your book and know it will sell for you.
A team of volunteers and I are researching what DOES work

I'm working with my UglyLaunch Mastermind group to figure out what DOES work to sell fiction and memoir-type nonfiction, whether indie-pubbed or commercially published.
I've built out a launch system based on the process I use to teach writers to WRITE fiction---and now we're going to see if that process can give those writers more readers for their work.
My UglyLaunch volunteers and I are putting together a series of launches of different books to:
test, re-test, and refine my process,
to understand the principles behind what writers can do to sell their fiction,
and to turn it into a step-by-step system ANY fiction writer or memoirist can use.
Our objective is to uncover the process that will allow writers to contact their readers from...
their mailing lists,
Facebook,
Twitter,
Goodreads,
their blogs and
anywhere else,
...give those potential readers cool launch content that will put them inside the writer's story during pre-launch, and create a LOT of sales of that book and that writer the same day the launch goes live.
OUR FIRST TEST LAUNCH is now less than a week away from pre-launch.
You can watch this in progress, see every step we take, read every email, watch every video, and find out when it's all over whether we got something that worked this time that we can build on to improve, or whether we have to go back to the drawing board and start over from scratch.
And you can receive notification every time we do a new test launch, and observe that, too.
When I have a process that works every time, I'll build a Fiction / Personal Nonfiction Launch course, and the folks who have been following along will get an EarlyBird discount.

Interested?
Right now, our test launches are available to you on free list, and even if you just watch the launches, you'll start getting a feel for what works and what doesn't.
So join us now

I'm excited about the possibilities. I hope you are too.
Cheerfully,
Holly Lisle

P.S. A few folks have had problems with just getting a picture (no join button) from the link above.
If this happens to you, you can join here.
But you'll be helping the whole test team debug the first part of the launch process if you try the top link first.

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I like to have messages within class links, for instance, emailed to me.

In the old site, the emails would identify which class they originated from and the classroom number - lectures and replies.

I'm taking a class and I've signed up for the 6 month special event. And all the emails I receive come through as [email protected]. There isn't an easy way to determine which forum or classroom they are for without opening them. And even then, it's not always easy.

Hi Everyone!

My name is Irene Roth and I am really looking forward to completing my MG novel.

I look forward to getting to know you all!

This forum looks GREAT! But it is a bit intimidating as I am lost as to how to even rely to threads!!!

Talk to you all soon!
Irene Roth

Hello All
We are super thrilled about our new chat capabilties. Right now I have it configured so that everyone on the site can chat with everyone else! Now, that's all fine and good for now but we may not want it like that in the future. I'd love to get your opinion on this!

Hey Savvy members!

My cohort, @Angel Leigh is working on the calendar for Sprints in April and May. If you have one hour a day to write, what's your favorite time of day? Let us know on the poll above! (Time is assumed in EST zones)

I am super excited for these next 6 months' worth of events! This is going to be a super fun half year and I hope to see LOADS of short stories published at the end of it.

Have you registered yet?

http://ce.savvyauthors.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.ViewPage&pageId=678

Can we have "paranormal romance" as a genre check-box, please? Thank you

Need some help to get started? We've got a Quick Start Guide to help you get set up and launched right!
Check back here often, we'll be updating the help as we add features to it.

FYI...Help is always available in the banner at the very bottom of the page!

However do not hesitate to YELL, PM...or even better tag @RJ Garside or @lesliedow or @Marilyn Muniz for help!

Welcome in many languages:
This means everyone is welcome.
Come in. Grab a cuppa your favorite. Tell us a little about yourself.

This community of writers become cherished friends as we write, edit. rewrite. edit. polish, final edit. Publish!

Come along the journey with us. You make this place better with your contributions.

I'm L R Davis. writer of non-fiction and fiction. Current WIP is a MG (middle grade) novel. I am writing short stories and learning my craft here at Savvy Authors.

Was introduced to Savvy Authors several years ago by Lea Schizas at Muse Conference Online. Both things changed my life. I felt welcomed. I have learned. I am learning more.

Welcome to Savvy Authors. May your life be rich with ideas, filled with friends and fulfilled by success.

Lyn

Our new site is based on Xenforo, a very cool forum out of the UK. We love Xenforo and hope you will, too! There is so much here but here are a couple of fun things to get you started:

1. Fully integrated chatroom
   1. Our new chatroom uses a Facebook-like chat look and feel. Its fully integrated with your friends so you can see when your buddies come online and chat iinstantlywith them. Join one of our pre-made rooms for sprints and hanging out.
   2. Want your own, private chatroom? Yep, you can do that too!
   3. Video chat! yep you can use video to chat with your buddies
2. Pathway to Quit your Dayjob
   Banners, Badges and Buttons..oh my! We have a badge, banner and/or button for all your writing achievements and earn points as your gain writing skills, achievements and give back to your Savvy community with our soon to be unveiled Quit your Dayjob tracker .
3. User tagging in all posts
   Type and "@" in front of your friends userIDs and have them tagged in your post...yes exactly like on Twitter! When you tag someone, they are notified that you have tagged them and sent a link to the post you tagged them in!
4. New Post Editor
   1. Cool post editor features with simple image insertion, state of the art copy-paste from MS-Word, Word count
   2. Recover changes via an edit history in posts
   3. The editor autosaves as you edit and will nag you if you try to close without saving.
   4. Use BB codes if you prefer!
   5. Paste directly from MS Word...yeppers this should work here!
   6. Quote multiple discontinuous lines from multiple posts! When looking at a post, select the content you wish to quote and click the "+quote" link at the bottom right side of the page. That adds the selected content to your quote queue, when you want to paste, click on an editor and the "Paste quoted content" link will appear....click the link, and et voila! your quoted content is pasted!
   7. Provide lots of feedback on posts, just use the rating system you see along the bottom of posts to give likes, hugs, rainbows and lots more!
5. Post your status...Let everyone know what you are up to. Just click on your name and a small overlay will appear where you can access your profile, private conversations and status updates.

C'mon in and take a look around. Fill out your signature, check out the Facebook-style chat at the bottom of the page and tag your friends in any post with the @ character! Right, @RJ Garside?

See something weird? Post in our Bugs and Feature Requests forum!

We are not fully live yet but love to hear what you think about our new digs!