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How to Find Ideas for Creative Writing

This wizzley is such a helpful resource. The first through the third sentences to the first subheading, Why can't I come up with ideas?, considers that "My difficulty has always been the inability to come up with ideas which I feel confident ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 02/29/2024

Carl Offterdinger and his vintage illustrations

Thank you! The first paragraph under the first subheading, The hare and the hedgehog (Fairy tales by Grimm Brothers), considers that "When we are talking about vintage German illustrators, fairy tales by Brothers Grimm came first to one's mind ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 02/29/2024

How does an author establish a unique niche when marketing a children's book?

I think that is the (literal) million-dollar question. When I show you my next book, I will show you. I think it is about the uniqueness of the theme.

Jo_Murphy, on 02/29/2024

Daniel Kotynia - From the Extreme to the Sublime

We certainly do! I wouldn't have thought of that now that you have said it. It makes sense.

Jo_Murphy, on 02/29/2024

OpenAI and Watermarks

I certainly can - and will!

Jo_Murphy, on 02/29/2024

Green Funerals

A small tree.

frankbeswick, on 02/29/2024

Benedict XVI

A committee of cardinals headed by the Secretary of state runs the church, and a cardinal called the Camerlengo organisesbthe funeral.

frankbeswick, on 02/29/2024

Benedict XVI: a life

The pope did not design the garden, but his successor in the Vatican does not deal with matters of the gardening kind, he leaves the gardeners to deal with them. The Catholic Church is authoritarian about matters of Faith and morals, but as to ...

frankbeswick, on 02/29/2024

Rewilding the Isle of the Thundergod

Rowan trees are spread through the British Isles, naturally in rocky terrain, but in lowland areas as an ornamental.

frankbeswick, on 02/29/2024

A day at the Harrogate Flower Show

They are growing in popularity.

frankbeswick, on 02/29/2024

Bodnant Gardens: one of Wales' little gems

There is some information in printed form, but not a great deal.

frankbeswick, on 02/29/2024

Lord of the World: a review

Lots of them. I don't bother with such predictions. When some one asks me whether I believe in the end of the world I reply "yes. It might be in five minutes, it might be a million years, but as I am seventy three unless it happens in the next ...

frankbeswick, on 02/29/2024

Macclesfield Treacle Fair

I have not heard of this usage. But earl grey may be regarded as a dessert tea, and possibly white tea also.

frankbeswick, on 02/29/2024

Macclesfield Treacle Fair

Thank you! Unitedstatesian diners sometimes associate certain coffees and teas more as dessert-course drinks than as, for example, breakfast or brunch or lunch or supper main-course or snack-time potables. Does that happen in the British Isles?

DerdriuMarriner, on 02/28/2024

Lord of the World: a review

Thank you! The film The coming convergence came out just before the COVID shutdown on the western side of the Atlantic pond. The aforementioned film declares that all the signs of the Second Coming end up realized by 2017. It features ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 02/28/2024