One of my favorite variants, as both writer and audience are the "familiar environment turned lethal" locations. I think that's a big part of the appeal of subgenres like disaster adventure,

Wow. You and I seem to have watched entirely different movies.

Sure, you can quote me. And I'm published a number of other places (it's not difficult).

The bottom line is that work has to come first, before group identity or friendship or ego. That doesn't mean a critique has to be unkind, simply that it has to be honest. An honest critique requires

I'm not discouraged, I'm just realizing what this site is, and that it's not what I thought it was. It doesn't have anything to offer me.

I'll be doing my resisting via the door. Steemit sounded like an interesting idea when I first heard about it, but the more I see the less I like.

The bottom line for me is that quality is irrelevant. I joined this site because I wanted to share my writing, and I was under the mistaken idea that was the primary function of this site. As you point

I want to get the whole novel up here, and then write a post with links to every chapter and start promoting that. Right now I haven't been able to spend as much time on here reading and commenting as

Yes. The Hunger Wolf is just one of the Grimm's titles. Not to be confused with Grandmother Wolf, who is just a morauxe.

Nicely put.

I am really enjoying your comments.

Thank you, I appreciate you taking the time to write that out. Sounds like a plan to me.

Thanks for your comments, and you're right, it should be "shone".

Yes, I think so. I was aiming at a kind of ambiguous character with Sam--he had the power to be evil, but he's chosen to be good.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Interesting idea, but I don't consider 500 to 1,000 words to be a story.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.