Janice Sebring @ChartnCompass

Author of "Fearful Breakers," 18th century historical fiction. Tall ship aficionado. LCMS Lutheran. Vienna, VA Joined May 2024

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@JoshuaBarzon 2. Strong, easy to read font, prominent cross. I don't like three because the cursive makes it too casual, like an ad for herbal supplements.

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@triffic_stuff_ To be fair, they need those prison cells for the real criminals -- Facebook bandits and Twitter perps. Britain won't be safe until every pensioner has to check their post three times for unapproved thoughts before posting.

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2 days ago

@SsempalaEd23472 I think a battle between two characters, because you have to balance two different perspectives,. Make it a melee, and then you've really got a challenge.

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2 days ago

@visegrad24 Why does she feel unsafe? Is she there illegally? And if she feels unsafe in a place that sends lawbreakers back home, perhaps she should find a country that welcomes lawbreakers where she will feel more comfortable.

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2 days ago

The left have lost all concept of decency. Any pretence that they speak for "the marginalized" is stripped away by this. Who could be more marginalized that a tween from a troubled background, made sexual prey by older men, and ignored by all responsible adults? Yet they remain unmoved.

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2 days ago

@SsempalaEd23472 Make the reader emotionally invested. However you manage to introduce the world and the plot, you have to do it in a way that grabs the reader emotionally. Assuming, of course, that we are writing a novel and not an accounting textbook.

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7 days ago

“If the Turk attacks, the Emperor's duty is to defend his subjects... not as a Christian fighting for the faith, but as a ruler protecting his people, just as a father protects his family." ~Martin Luther

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a week ago

@japan_nobunaga Mushroom, sweet pepper, and anchovy.

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2 weeks ago

@doggintrump That makes no sense. With a larger population, there should be a larger number of election officers. Both Wyoming and Texas manage to get their ballots counted promptly -- why can't California?

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2 weeks ago

@thehjelliott Tea, tea, and more tea.

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2 weeks ago

USA. A backyard. One man guarding a grill for four hours. He never left it once. Everyone else drifted and drank and laughed. But one man stood alone before the flames, turning meat with a long fork, immovable. I knew him at once. The keeper of the sacred fire. I took my place beside him and said nothing. After a while, he spoke. "Low and slow," he said, eyes on the coals. "You can't rush it. Rush it, you ruin it." I bowed my head. A blade, a tea, a life. None can be rushed. I had crossed four thousand miles to hear my grandfather's words from a man in a "KISS THE COOK" apron. "Everything worth doing is slow," I agreed. He glanced at me. Something passed between us. "My wife says just use the oven." He shook his head at the fire. "She doesn't get it." "They never do," I said. And this is where it turned. For the first time in years, this man had been understood. And he rose to meet it. His back straightened. His voice dropped low. A teenager reached for the grill and the man lifted one hand without even looking. "Not yet." The boy retreated. He was becoming what I already believed him to be. A woman asked when the food would be done. "It's ready when it's ready," he told the flames. Three people approached. Three were turned away with a single word. By the fourth hour, no one questioned him. The whole party had arranged itself around the man and his fire, the way a village arranges itself around a shrine. Then he handed me the fork. "Watch it a sec. I gotta pee." I have been trusted with castles. I have never been more honored. He served everyone before himself, and ate last, standing, still watching the coals. We never traded names. We did not need to. He believed he had finally met a man who took his cooking seriously. I believed I had finally met America's last samurai. Neither of us will ever correct the other. So tell me, America. Who is the man at your gathering who will not leave the grill? Have you ever once asked him why? I think he is still standing there. Guarding the fire. Waiting for one person to understand.

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2 weeks ago

@tonyhenandez790 It's historical fiction and I'm am currently processing the comments by the developmental editor.

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2 weeks ago

Socialism revealed. It's not about helping the poor. It's about deciding who's rich and who's poor.

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3 weeks ago

Everyone’s yelling “communism” about Mamdani’s housing plan. They’re missing the actual trick. His own plan says the city will “engage lenders to trigger foreclosure” on landlords. I’ve done real estate 20 years. Here’s what that means: they let the building go distressed, force

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3 weeks ago

@Gentleman_Ways Gutenberg. By making books more widely available, he created a demand for literacy. As books and reading proliferated, the exchange of knowledge made subsequent inventions so much easier.