Hello everyone! I just officially joined the group (I have been getting the newsletter for a few months). I am excited to be here. I will poke around the site to learn more about what offerings there are, and other resources and tools. I am signing up for the Plotting online class that starts tomorrow (January 9) with Becky Martinez. I may do the entire 2-part series if the first class goes well!

Like many of you I'm sure, I've had a life-long love affair with the written word. I have been keeping a journal, by long-hand, since I was 8 years old. My non-fiction book, "The Ultimate Life Organizer: An Interactive Guide to a Simpler, Less Stressful & More Organized Life" was published by Peter Pauper Press in 2011. I have published many articles on topics such as productivity, life-work balance, business, law, and entrepreneurship.

But in the last few months, I have been drawn back to my first love of creative writing, and I am presently working on a novel and a memoir. I am excited (and scared and nervous!) about fiction writing, and curious to see where it takes me after so many years of focusing on nonfiction pieces.

For the past four years, I've resided in beautiful Northern California with my veterinarian husband, where I am a professed community theater geek, an avid runner and cyclist, and enjoy spoiling my crazy but lovable rescue mutts!

Looking forward to connecting!

Warmly - Lisa

Apologies everyone if you had issues accessing the site earlier today. I messed up a server file (Proofread, Leslie, PROOFREAD) and did not catch a typo, so some of the direct links to the site looked odd to be sure. >.<

Anyway, thanks to the tireless efforts and txt message of @Walker I fixed it. Finally.



There were no data losses due to my phat phingers, the site just went sideways for a bit.

Thanks!
Leslie

I joined last year and wasn't able to participate in ANYTHING because of, well, life. My goal for 2017 is do more. I do have my first book out - self published - working/struggling with #2. I missed some really good sessions last year...hope to make up for it this year! Write On!

So if you have not looked it over and planned all the great classes and events you will take...be sure to do that Today!

We've got a new crit group matching program starting Monday! If you have not checked it out, please do. We aks you to complete a questionnaire and then match you with a set of crit partners. We're also providing some crit training and best practices based on some of the critique classes that have been taught here.

Hello all, I'm Genevieve, a newbie.

I've been lurking for a while and getting to know Savvy Authors. Now I'm ready to become more active. I write speculative fiction that blends in elements of romance and maybe fantasy. I never feel quite knowledgeable enough about these genres. I worked out a four-part novel or series a while back. The four parts are too short to be individual novels, but together would add up to a monster, so I'm once again stumped about what to call it. Now I'm writing a prequel and wrestling with a sequel. My main goal as a writer is to find readers who would enjoy diving into my word worlds.

Hello, newbie here. Waving hi to all. Is anyone else from Oz or NZ?

Hello,
I would like to self publish the novel I have finished, but I'm not sure where to start. I'm looking for any tips or information on how to get started. I would like to have a couple of printed editions for the few friends and family that refuse to read e-books, but have it as an e-book for anyone else. I have done some searching online but there are so many different sites I'm not sure where to start. I have also found people that say they will e-publish for you for a fee. I don't want to put my book and money in just anyone's hands so I'm looking for something that other people have used and swear by. Any help would be great. Thanks, Rain

Hello everyone! I'm new to this site and still learning my way around. I fellow writer friend of mine told me how wonderful and informative this site is, so I joined to learn more. I write novels in several different genres and poetry. I've been told I need to just stick to one genre but I don't like to put a cap on my imagination. I need to learn how to use descriptive writing better as I tend to go a little overboard with it. I do not have any published novels, but I have one finished and am weighing the pros and cons of self publishing. I have several poems published. I hope to participate in the classes and chats to gain more knowledge and advice on writing.

Hi there, my name is Kathryn and I am very new to SavvyAuthors. I used to be much more prolific in my writing but over the past few years I've fallen out of practice. I've taken some college writing classes, and am definitely going to look into the classes here. I'm very much looking forward to seeing what this site is about and getting to know more writers.

You'll probably see me around quite a bit, once I figure out how this site works!

So I just joined and frankly while I've written a lot in my high school years I never have had professional opinions on my work and I don't know where I stand skill wise. I would like to learn as much about writing as I can and make this my career. I hope to get to know some of you well.

Hi @lesliedow

This NaNo bootcamp I had a workshop as well. When I was trying to move back and forth between the bootcamp event and the workshop, I found I could not use the drop down list.

In the attachment, you can see the drop down list does not list the special events, only the classrooms, so when I was in the workshop, I could not go quickly (using a drop down list) back to NaNo2016 (although it was possible to go to NaNo2015).

Instead, I had to back out of the workshop, and then drop down the NaNo2016 and then go to team arena and then my team and then the thread I wanted--a lot of extra steps.

Is there a way to have the events and classrooms drop down list have the same drop down as is available in the first drop down list? Special Events, too?

Thanks,
Lyn

Hello folks! I'm a new member, just joined this morning. Looking forward to meeting other writers and getting involved with groups and the forums here at SavvyAuthors!

I've been writing stories ever since around the age of four (I'm forty, by the way)- Mother has the annoying habit of pulling out some of those carefully saved tales to embarrass me show her pride. Currently I am working on two works, one fiction (LitRPG is the sub-genre), and one non-fiction (a biography of Louis Sockalexis).

I am horrible at introducing myself- I either do not say enough or have people backing away in horror from too much information, so I will leave it at this.

Is it possible to make "linked type" automatically show as bold? If you look at the paragraph below, you can see that the two exact same words: sprints are both linked, but one is light and the other is in bold.

Links don't seem to stand out in a paragraph as a link, until you happen to run the cursor over it and it turns pink. For example, I was looking for the calendar for sprints. But it wasn't as easy to find as when I posted the calendar for sprints in our forum and after linking typed it in bold. In fact, if it is typed in bold before the link, the link will un-bold it, so it becomes pale.


I always go back after and highlight and bold, but it an extra two steps and I wonder if it were possible to make it automatically bold the link.???

I know you are busy, but I thought I would put it on the list of requests. In fact, I'll go to the forum and re-post this.

Hi, newbie from south Louisiana here. Looks like a great site.