Only 4 unresolved discussions left

You rock!

I am just glad those 0 ones are finally resolved!

Skip and no thank you?

Those last two discussions did have tags but I started them before I had a list of friends so I think they were just lost in the shuffle.

After I realized how often I choose skip when asking about tags and choosing no thank you to add things to my profile, I figured I would start calling my children skip and No thank you. My son is Skip because he is all over the place and my daughter is no thank you because she is always so polite. HEHEHE

You are hilarious! Took a peek at your daily article stuff earlier. Good luck with it all!

Oh, the daily article stuff... HEHEHE. I was totally off when pricing because I wrote a question to the help and I was told $10 per 200 words. Let's just say no one else prices that way. I will be taking my stuff off and then resubmitting at a lower price because I did it wrong. LOL I guess it's one of those things. When I signed up they were actually having problems with the site and you couldn't see any articles or prices. I kept getting error messages. When I finally got to the page to submit I put in the pricing that was recommended. Needless to say, I will be having a sale soon. LOL

Before you do that, let me ask you about your writing history. Do you have any bylines with magazines or other other periodicals offline? How long have you been writing?

Unfortunately, I am not a professional writer. I love writing and write stuff just for me all the time. As far as anything being sold, I know something was sold through AC but I don't know if I was credited with it or how it was submitted into the magazine. I know I was told it was bought and that was the end of any magazines buying my stuff. OH WELL. Any information you can share will be helpful.

The first thing you might want to do is check out the most current edition of the book "The Writer's Market." It gives you an idea of who is publishing what and what you can expect to earn.

The fact that you sell anything at all is a major accomplishment as one doesn't wake up one day and become a writer. If you have never taken classes you won't write the way the established editors are expecting and you will be less likely to get published if you don't know how to fix that.

Being a good writer is something that it takes time to develop. I would suggest looking at Writer's Digest and any articles you can find on writing for the particular market you are interested in.

Look for ways to constantly refine your writing and just keep plugging at it.

I might have to do that. I know where my limits are and I know I need to change my writing style unless I do just editorials. They don't pay. LOL It's good you suggested that.

I used to have that many and I just started whittling down the list. Now I think I only have 1 left.

Good for you, as you have suggested that you have a list of discussions with no response.

I hope you will choose a BR for your one left discussion too!

It has only been 5 days. That may be too soon to choose.

In fact I have checked, I had 18 pages of unresolved discussions and now it has come down to only 7. I think in recent days, I will be able to clear that out!

Good for you! One thing about having unresolved discussions is that I am alerted to new comments that I have not received email notification about.

I didn't get your point!

I am glad to get rid of the 0 ones finally. I haven't been starting many because I just haven't spent as much time sitting in front the computer with enough leisure time to anything other than catch up on emails.

Yes well I've stopped making discussions for the most part even though I've been itching to make some. I find it faster to respond and easier! Happy Email surfing!

It is faster to respond. I hardly start any these days just because I am trying to get caught up with all the emails.

Yes, I know that emails can be a hassle. I have three different email accounts, of which two I check regularly. Mylot delivers atleast 50 emails a day I think. Ofcourse they are hard to get through but I like the ones where I just don't know what to say and can delete! Opps, Sorry for adding yet another email to your list.

Guess what? After a point myLot doesn't email any more for further comments! I have missed a few and not responded for weeks because I didn't know they were there!

I try to think of something to say to all the discussions but some I do end up deleting as well.

I did not know that, I am so glad you told me that. I feel bad now because I might end up missing out a good conversation. I opted for the emails just so that I could get everything!

I only found out because I was looking through my unresolved discussions. I suppose I should go back through some of my others as well just to double check.

Hmm, maybe I should do the same. Although I'm not sure that I've gotten any comments on my own discussions through email.

I keep meaning to go through even the resolved ones but you know how that is...

Lots of people do but only respond to discussions they think they can relate to in some way. Some people are really good about looking in the margins or the various locations for keyword based related discussion recommendations and they can find a way to contribute to a friend's discussion even if they have nothing to say on the subject.

The ones I had with no response were started early on before I had friends or knew about the hotifications and all that.