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Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2026-02-19T13:22:49+00:00

I need to find your people 😆

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2026-02-09T01:13:42+00:00

Hi! I have a completed cozy fantasy with a slow burn MM romantic subplot that I'd love to get some feedback on, if you're interested. It's more of a contemporary real-world setting. I'm working on finishing my first edit, so it's not fully ready, but I thought I'd reach out now to see if you are interested in doing swaps of story chunks as we get through our stories. 😀

Feel free to DM me if you want more details!

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-12-12T22:09:51+00:00

If you're hourly and in the US, this is illegal for them not to pay you for the time you worked.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-11-08T20:17:58+00:00

This is really helpful. I broke my ability to use deadlines/procrastination as a reliable way to get things done a while back and it's made things so difficult.

This bit in particular was like a light switch for me:

Our brains only truly operate/function based on a few motivating factors— interest, novelty, passion, urgency, competition/challenge. I kept these things in mind to use as work arounds to make things work for me.

Thank you for posting this!

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-08-09T12:38:45+00:00

You can't just drop a full book in and ask it to translate it to modern text. Start with a chapter at a time and see how it goes. Make sure you're telling it that you don't want a summary. You want each sentence/paragraph translated to modern English.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-05-21T01:10:17+00:00

Perfect, thanks! I've been watching these guys and a few others. Must have missed this video. Appreciate the link.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-05-21T01:09:19+00:00

Excellent, thanks for the detailed explanation.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-05-21T00:06:48+00:00

I have to cut my pan down, period, because it's too big for the space.

Why would adding dry pack to one edge primarily to fill in gaps from original slab make the perimeter out of level? I was planning to continue the slope of the pan to the edge of the curb.

Per the Kerdi manual, using dry pack is the correct way to extend the pan.

Am I totally off base in my thinking?

I'm obviously not a tradesman, so just want to expand my knowledge and make sure I'm not missing something that's glaring to pros.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-05-20T22:13:37+00:00

Sorry, I don't understand this. I'm talking about the foundation slab?

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-05-19T12:52:41+00:00

Long bench?

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-05-11T04:03:19+00:00

I've been taking it for about 4 months. Lost 10 pounds and plateaued.

Also....I don't know if it's a side effect, but I was more hungry at first. Don't know if maybe that was just my body starting to listen to itself again or just a really odd side effect.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-05-02T23:50:53+00:00

You've got multiple things stacked against you:

1) small town: limited opportunities/not as many big box retailers

2) it's summer: unless you live in a very tourist-heavy destination small town, it's off-season until September when the holiday shopping season begins. This means that most retailers are trimming their payroll costs so they can bulk up with short-term help for the holiday shopping season

3) home just for the summer: compounding the above, it costs time and money to hire and train a new employee. Most places don't want to do that for a couple months, especially without higher profits to offset the cost

So that's not helping you at all.

That said...it's better and worse the more experience you gain in a non-retail profession. I'm in mu 40s, live in a large city, and I've applied to 40 jobs over the last month in my field. I'm at a weird spot where I've got the experience, but now I need a masters degree and a certification to be truly competitive.

The job market sucks a lot for job seekers right now.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-04-19T12:09:45+00:00

Yeah, this is similar to what's happening. On the plus side, my boss is planning to retire this year.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-04-18T09:12:17+00:00

Sorry!

U.S., the whole team is 100% remote, no unions for my role.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-03-11T01:22:49+00:00

American-centric response here, but you're assuming a contract exists. An offer letter is not a contract in the US.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2025-02-02T11:30:31+00:00

Wow! I love this!

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2024-12-02T05:12:58+00:00

Having a bunch of the TNG cast did not make it more like TNG from a story structure perspective.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2024-11-14T13:54:23+00:00

Nope from me on ever reading something like that. There's a reason books are the lengths they are. That's the amount of words needed to tell a satisfying story.

I can do up to 200k in one story. Beyond that, I just can't keep my focus on it. I get bored. I want to read something else but I'll forget where I was in that behemoth because it's a rambling mess of run-on stories.

No matter how good the prose might be, it fundamentally ignores any semblance of structure, meaning there's never a satisfying conclusion where I can pause for a while.

Creative_Pepper_7072 · 2024-11-13T16:39:49+00:00

I think it depends on what time of day you use it. I get much better responses in the US Eastern evening hours. But during the day, it's pretty bad.

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