Recent content by Rigor Mortis

This one is a bit long: The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the Monday morns. The whacks, the moans, the cracks, the groans, the welts, the squeaks, the belts, the shrieks, the pricks, the...

A lot of years ago, an aunt came visiting from London to be greeted by a collection of us at the family home. As I opened the car door to help her out, she turned and said, "oh, Rigor Mortis (not my real name) you look like a movie star." One of my brothers standing nearby added. "yeah, Danny...

Much appreciated.

Aw man!

5 pages since my last lapse and I'm only here to say don't do it. It's a trap. It's a traaaaaaaaaaaaaa Oh, Not necessarily.

I started to delete workshop posts but tired after a couple. If you could delete mine, too, I'd be grateful (i.e. B.E. Nugent)

Now that we know the button's there, is it reasonable to expect us not to click it? I, for one, will need a third hand to swat away the other two.

Putting aside the crisps, I going to make one more go at this. Context changes things and there are no absolutes, except for that one and even then I'm not sure. What I don't get is people who want to become an "author" who say they're not interested or bothered to read other authors' work. I...

100% agree, though would argue your example differs massively from someone setting out to do exactly what your uncle refused to do. There are natural story tellers and literacy isn't their primary attribute. I'll lay money down that your uncle loved to listen to others tell their stories...

Avid can mean a number of different things and not necessarily relating to volume. I do consider reading important to ones development as a writer. If nothing else, it's a reminder of the power of the written word. It also helps to formulate the methods needed to complete a written piece of...

Amongst the varied and evolutionarily questionable creatures that inhabit the virgin territories of the new writing forum, the moose, seemingly docile and content with lush grazing, struck fear into all his fellow inhabitants with a great, sonorous bellowing response when pointed out that his...

I clicked no email on preferences, but still received email notifications on two threads. I followed Moose's suggestion, unwatched the threads, clicked watch again and have received no further emails except those I chose to keep.

And now the flashback is complete.

This exchange gave me a flasback of Dad on the roof adjusting the aerial for TV reception. Can you see it now? How about now?

Speaking of which, I don’t know what that points tally measures and assume it hands out discounts on beer and wieners at some stage. I expect bonus points if I ever win an argument with @Louanne Learning .