Passion: Presents Style

Hi Annie - and everyone else.

Just testing the new system to see if I'm able to post.
I've been trying to find my way around and I'm glad I've found our  Presents thread!
Happy New Year and Happy New Community to everyone

Now to see if this posts  - and if my signature still works!

 Kate

- No - no picture and no signature. Hmm - have to look into that when I have time . . . .

I'm finally figuring things out(that's not meant in a bad way, I'm having way too much fun buzzing on around and learning how it all works )

I especially like how I can add the forums to my favorites... save me clicking and clicking and clicking!

Looking forward to meeting everyone!  Nice to see you again Nicki! 

Cole 

Hi all,

Took me a little while to be able to post on this thread for some reason.

Nicki good luck with your contest entry. Still working on mine.

Happy New Year to all.

Chris.

Hi Annie, Kate, Nicki, Cole and Chris!  And anyone else I may have missed.  I am so glad you made it.  We had some issues last night with posting, but now we're up and running.

Kate, you can update your bio, signature etc by clicking on the profile link and adding your information.  Let me know if you have any questions.

Nicki, I love your emoticon!

Cole, I am so glad you're enjoying all the new features.  I am still testing them out and playing around.  I am sure there is a lot more to discover.

Chris & Nicki, good luck with your contest entries.  I will keep my fingers crossed.

Jeanette
eHarlequin.com Community Host
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Hi Jeanette,

Loving the new site.

Carol glad to hear that everything is going well with you and the boys. I'm amazed that you find time to do any writing. Good luck with your contest entry. Nice photo by the way. I'm hoping to get a nice pic now that I've had my hair cut and tamed somewhat. Keeping it that way is proving a challenge though

Chris.

Hi Carol!

It's nice to hear from you again.  I am glad Nathan is doing well. 

And you have got me thinking back to my one year maternity leave.  I got a lot of reading done as well.  I miss those days!

And I watched some really awful TV!  I remember catching old episodes of Miami Vice at 3am.  Very sad! LOL

Best wishes with your writing,

Hello to everyone here.  I found my way here but still have no idea how to add anything to "my favorites." 

Hope everyone is doing well!

Lidia,

At the top of this thread there is an "Add to Favourites" button click that and voila it's in your favourties

 Good to see you here. 

OK -- I clicked on the button and added it to my favorites.  Now -- where on my favorites does it appear?  When I check my favorites on internet explorer this thread is not there -- so how do I find it?

I have to laugh to think of myself as being "computer" challenged. 

My job is implementing software and I work with computers all day long.  LOL

Lidia 

Thanks for the tips everyone, especially about using favourites. I can see I'll take a little while to pick everything up, though at least I now have a pic - hey, I'm a real person!

Good to see so many familiar faces. Carol, best of luck with your writing with bub. As you say, feeding is a great time for reading too. Who else is writing? Are there many? I suspect I may be web-challenged in the near future as I have a book to write and a looming deadline so I'll keep popping in but I may not be here as regularly as I'd wish. I hope that lots of you are tapping away on entries for the Instant Seduction Contest! Wouldn't it be great if the winners were from here?

Daisy, how is it going in wintry Ireland? It's warm here and Melbourne, where I'll be next week has been getting temps above 100 degrees F this week. Oh joy!

Annie

Hi everyone and happy new year,

 The boards looking great, even if it does take a while to find your way around.  Now I just have to work out a way of getting a picture organised.  Hope everyone's writing up a storm.

 Sharon

Hi,

Well, this is different. Your turn your back for a moment -- well, ok, for a couple of weeks! -- and they completely rearrange the furniture! Very nice, if I do feel a bit, um, dazed and confused.

I'll go check out the 'favorites' and see if my pic turns up -- and if not figure out how to get it here (I hope).

I've taken off the last few weeks while we were doing Christmas and then some house projects while dh was still home from school between semesters. But now he's back at the teaching again, so I'm buckling down on a new book.

Hope everyone had good holidays. Glad to hear that Nathan is doing well, Carol. I remember all the reading I got done being a big perk of breastfeeding. And there was the convenience factor, too. Enjoy your books -- even at 2 a.m.

Daisy, hope you feel better soon. Yes, I'm looking forward to Melbourne. The break away should be lovely. My first in a while.

Anne, good luck with the new story. I'm about to do the same. Let's hope the words flow...

Waving hi to everyone. Not sure if I'll be back before my trip away. Hope you all fit in some good books (either writing or reading).

Annie

Hi everyone!

I'm just back after a fabulous beach holiday with the family Downunder and trying to find my way around the new and improved ehqn site. Hope you're all having a fabulous January, wherever you are in the world.

Trish Morey, off to find out whatever else she needs to do here...

Wow, eharlequin has such a great new look! Fabulous!! Great to see some familiar faces here, as well as some new ones...

Kate Hewitt

www.kate-hewitt.com

 Well, it looks as if everyone is startin g to find their way back to us - lots of familiar faces  coming back in here. And I think I'm starting to find  out how things work around here. 

Well - trying for an emoticon worked!

Becca - i'm with Daisy on the use of films and magazines  for research (in fact I've written a post for the Pink Heart Society on just that topci)  - also 'lifestyle' programmes - plus a healthy dose of imagination - just imagining how you'd love things to be! When I first started out,  I used to collect up pictures of fabulous houses, clothes etc and refer to them when i was writing.

 Welcome back Trish and Anne  and everyone else. Annie I hope you're having a great time. I envy anyone with some sunshine today - it's raining here again it's been wet for days and days  - still, my editor would say that that means I can stay indoors and write.

Oh and I mean to write a blog about that Presents contest - I just keep getting distracted! Good luck to everone who's entering.

Kate

Thanks for the great tips!

I went online and saw that Harpers' Bazaar had a year subscription for only $10, so I went for it.

Carol you continually amaze me! Where on earth do you get all that energy from?? Great that you've managed to get 14k done. I'm about the same I think. The first chapter still needs work but I'm giving myself a few days break from it.

Waves to everyone else.

Kate it's nice to see your face. It seems like ages since you've been here.

Chris.

My current ms is lending itself far more towards the H's point of view at the moment. Basically due to mistaken identity the h doesn't know he is a billionaire businessman and thinks him an ordinary man, the uncertainty this throws up in him means he has the most at stake in a lot of scenes, hence they're from his pov.

Things are probably about 75%-25% in the H's pov in the first three chapters, although this may change further on.

It's very different to anything I've written before and I find myself consciously trying to shift into the h's pov -- so my question is it necessary to do that? Is being to heavily H pov oriented potentially a problem, or should I just continue telling the story in the way it seems to come out the best?

P.S Don't I look like an absolute post hog at the moment? These pictures are really revealing.

Glad you had a lovely holiday, Trish!

Hi Kate H! I read The Italian's Chosen Wife over Christmas and loved it. I'm counting the days until I can get my hands on your next one!

Glad the cold's gone, Daisy.

Glad to hear you're writing up a storm, Carol! I'm seriously impressed. Interesting to hear how your ms wants to be written in the H's pov. And it'll be interesting to hear whether the published authors think you're in the heroine's pov enough.Me, I love being in the Hero's head and would probably say write it how it wants to be written and make a decision about whether you need more of the h's pov when you've finished the first draft. I've got the opposite problem to Nicki, in that my first chapter needs fleshing out rather than paring down as it's very bare bones at the moment.

Heard from the ed who has my full that she intends letting me have a decision within the next month. bites fingernails! 

waving to everyone

Sue 

Hi there, nice to see you Sue, that's great news about hearing within the month - leave your fingernails alone! I'm sure it'll be good news, how exciting!

My bizarre cold went and then came back...hmmm. very strange. I'm reading Anne McAllisters One Night Baby at the moment and I'm enthralled and again astounded at how effortlessly well she writes a story. It's making my own ms seem like a pile of incoherent sludge. 

Carol as for your question about POV, I'd be inclined to listen to Kate. I've even been thinking recently along the lines of writing purely from the heroine's POV because I read some older books recently and they're so powerful. The hero's POV does definitely add and new richer dimension, but should only serve to heighten the tension, without revealing too much of his inner thought process - hark at me, preaching what I'm trying to do! But that's my tuppence worth anyway if it's any help. Good luck!

x Daisy

Daze - what you do is this

1. Click on the little smiley at the bottom of your post set-up - oh and make sure your programme will allow popups

2. Wait a moment - it seems to take a while to load

3. After a moment a little extra window will appear - it has pictures of all the emoticons

 4. Click on one and it will appear where your cursor is on your post

 OK??

Kate

It's not working?

Wierd!

What bit isn't working??

Is it an Apple Mac thing?

Or just a Daisy thing?

Hmmm - me thinks we need a hostie in here to help or some such.

Hope someone can help

Kate

It's not a mac thing alone but

It could be a browser thing along with

a mac thing

I'm on a mac using firefox and it works

They come up on a separate pop up box so two thoughts:-

1. Maybe look at your open documents to see if the box has opened but is in the background.

2. Maybe your virus software is blocking pop ups so you may need to switch that option off.

My I sound techie don't I? It's just that I've had the same problem before, not on a Mac though.  Hope you get it sorted, an emoticonless Daisy it not like you at all.