I love this way of looking at it. My first novel was crap – I just didn’t know it.

But the only way to advance through the levels is to write.

Keep writing!

Congratulations on winning this week! If you have content to promote, please let me know what two links you’d like to have pinned at the top of Sunday’s announcement.

Keep writing!

What’s the purpose of the megathread? I’m so confused what’s going on with this community…

What are you upset about? $0/hr is a generous salary.

Oh! I just thought of something – disconnecting my computer from WiFi! I’m going to go try that as soon as I get a chance ☺️

Oh, old school paper… never thought of that! I’ll have to try doing something I can do to help get the thoughts out. Hmm…

Yes, my username on discord is caspianxi. Feel free to message me!

You know, that’s exactly what I did – a whole truckload of suggestions at once.

I have a very critical eye when it comes to editing, and I was eager to help. (Also, I forgot to say anything positive about her writing.) I think it came across as an attack against her writing.

Next time, I’ll remember to give the critiques one at a time. Thanks for the feedback.

In hindsight, I was too harsh. I was so focused on helping her improve that I forgot to say anything positive.

But that’s a good point about stating my genuine intentions to help. I think I tend to be overly critical as part of my personality, and it doesn’t really come across that I have good intentions.

Sorry, I posted this too soon, and didn’t provide any context. I’ve edited (as in – completely rewritten) my post to provide more details.

I just sent you a message. The messaging system on Lemmy is a bit clunky, so let me know if you want to switch to another service. I have email, google hangouts, LINE, and What’s App. Let me know which one you prefer :).

I write a blog on Medium.

You need to have a ton of content to make any amount of money. After writing 200 articles, I started making a consistent $100/month. Not quitting my day job any time soon, but I have a lot of downtime at work, so it’s a productive way to pass the time.

Oh, and the $100/month is pretty consistent. I took a month off from writing, and they still sent me money for the read time on my old articles. The pay is low… but my boss wouldn’t send me a small stipend if I decided not to show up for a month. So, I really can’t complain.

Idiots are way too easy to write, but it takes a genius to write a genius. That’s why we have so many idiots in books and TV…

These are people who want to be mods of communities. If you don’t understand the basics of how this platform works, you probably need to spend more time as a regular user before becoming a moderator.

Bosses hate this one. The things they’ll do for a full office…

When you order something with 2-day delivery, it not only needs to be in stock… but it needs to be in a warehouse in your city. This requirement means there needs to be a surplus.

They don’t know where the orders will come in, so they make enough to send them to every warehouse in the country. But if all of them got sold, the supply would drive the price down. So, they wait until a certain number gets sold (say… a few hundred) and then destroy the rest.

It’s sickening that this is even a thing. But that’s the world we live in.

Welcome aboard! I’ll be your partner 🙃 (but I’ll step aside if anyone else shows up and needs a partner)

Let’s PM each other at the end of each day – just a simple message saying whether you wrote today or not. This competition will run from Monday (7/17) through Sunday (7/24).

Don’t worry… I’m also not terribly consistent, which is why I created this community in the first place 😉.

Thanks for the feedback – I’m really excited about starting this community, and I think I overdid it on the promotion 😬

“Bilingual” is really hard to define.

I live in Taiwan (English is my native language), and have studied Chinese to be passably fluent. I can trick people into thinking I can follow advanced conversations, interjecting comments here or there (even though I’m mostly lost – just picking out the tidbits I do understand and commenting on them).

But am I bilingual? At the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter. What matters the most is whether your level is “good enough” to do what you want! In my case, I just want to be able to go to the store, buy things, and hang out with friends. I can read the newspaper, but I’ll never be able to read/write business contracts – but that’s not a goal of mine.

There are so many different shades of bilingual. Don’t worry about it… and just be as good as you need to reach your goals!

Welcome aboard! I really hope this commumity provides the support you need. Keep writing!