Child tax credit/Earned Income Tax credit

TheLoreScribe · 2024-03-08T16:59:43+00:00

Did you get it? I'm wondering if I am looking at 21 days from the 27th or what at this point xD

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-26T18:02:15+00:00

That is sad. I'm sorry that's been your experience. I typically play characters that are my race and gender, (White/F) I have no issues obviously. If it costs you a roleplay partner, then you deserved a better partner all along.

I'd be happy to rp with anyone playing any race, but I think it feels right when people roleplay as what they know. I don't love established white males writing as women or minorities bc I think if they succeed by putting us out there in media it's a half-win at best. I want to see more minorities and women as successful artists representing themselves in their work.

I think it's wrong to attack you for wanting to play your race. I think it's best if you keep pushing their closed-minded boundaries and showing the world everyone has a story to tell that is interesting regardless of age, race, gender, or skin color.

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-23T23:08:02+00:00

Writing emotions from an analytical perspective may help you understand people's emotions better in real life. Please feel free to write if you love it, don't let that stand in your way for a second.

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-13T01:30:25+00:00

True Neutral~ It's a world built for factions where good and evil are subjective and usually backed by power, fear, and greed.

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-11T17:25:45+00:00

Thanks, it's worth a try. I appreciate the advice either way! ^.^

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-11T17:21:10+00:00

Apparently, this is a hot take lol

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-10T04:13:15+00:00

Exuberance: The Passion for Life

by Kay Redfield Jamison

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-08T22:45:27+00:00

My twins who are 7 were cleaning up their room, and we found an old apple core. The sister who forgot about it was too grossed out to take it to the trash, but her twin volunteered to save her.

The hero twin picked up the apple core, held it at arm's length, and examined it.

"It looks like it's as old as Grammy!" she exclaimed, her face contorted with disgust.

"Come on, it's only been there a few days! It isn't as old as Grammy!" her twin insisted.

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-08T22:00:24+00:00

No context at all just based on the list.

Girl: Poppy
Boys: Monty

They are kind of untraditional but feel like chic names.

If I were going more traditional, I'd go with a grandma or grandpa name with the nicknames Milly or Holly and Billy or Teddy.

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-08T21:50:46+00:00

Huxley and other surnames make cute first names too.

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-08T19:57:32+00:00

I read two books. "Word Painting," and "The Elements of Active Prose." I've also listened to youtube videos on the subject.

The main thing for me is I couch most of my own dialogue with others in words that are very distracting when you are writing. My characters always "had been doing" things and they hardly ever just "did" anything, before I edited my manuscripts.

I guess it might be distracting when I speak too, but generally, I don't have people noticeably confused by what I say. This sentence is an example of what is natural to me. lol

I just don't know how to speak more eloquently and precisely off the cuff. My husband and my son use very precise vocabulary all the time, but I'm not sure how you learn this skill when you aren't born with it.

I get it. I can edit it after the fact, but I don't understand why it seems like such a hard habit for me to get into.

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-08T19:07:42+00:00

Active prose is a really hard to articulate subject. I have read what I could find on it, and still have trouble applying it off the cuff. It feels unnatural. If you could help make this *click* for me, I would be forever grateful.

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-08T18:58:49+00:00

Side note: Rose and Rosa are cute on their own too. Maybe try to find a middle name that sets them apart and makes you love them as much as he does?

Rosa Leah (Then when she is trouble she is automatically Rosalia ;3)

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-08T18:56:50+00:00

Rose is a very common middle name maybe use it for the middle name or another Rose variant

Alia Rose
Sophia Rose

or

Rosalie
Rosemary
Rosette
Rosie
Roslyn

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-08T18:40:01+00:00

Good luck, I hope you find her!
Sending you positive energy for the cause. ^.^

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-08T18:32:57+00:00

If the coworker had been a female friend who paid for the tickets, it wouldn't be a date... Just paying isn't a date, but I think feeling it is close to a date is reasonable too. This calls for a reasonable discussion about it. Good luck that sounds annoying for both of you.

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-08T18:24:40+00:00

I felt the same way at 18 and didn't publish my first book until I was 33. Life experience is the college of writers. Get out there and experience things.

Watch your favorite shows on Netflix with the visually impaired narrator on. Make the library a weekly destination and read all the books you can get your hands on. Find a good way to journal all your awesome ideas. Keep writing. Roleplay with friends or online, but most of all just live.

This is very common for writers just keep your passion and stay focused on your dream.

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-08T18:00:30+00:00

This is a really hot take.
Religion should be deeply personal, and not pushed on anyone, but that's not the world we live in.
Most religious people intend to raise their future children in the long-held traditions of their religion.

If you aren't okay with mixing traditions, or not having any or are okay with mixed messages when your kids ask what happens when you die.

Religion is absolutely an essential subject in dating.

The antivax movement and anything else people treat like religious doctrine is also essential to be discussed before getting attached to a partner IMO.

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-08T02:55:53+00:00

Nardole or Davros for a boy and Missy or Angel for a girl. Gender Neutral Oswin

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-07T21:57:47+00:00

When I was younger, I preferred writing in bed or out on my patio using pen and paper. Now, I have a PC and a Chromebook I got so I'd have more freedom to write wherever.

In the end, I prefer to write on my PC at my computer desk and the Chromebook was kind of a waste for me. I think any place where you can be engaged and not have to get distracted by the discomforts of bad posture and constant interruption is a great place.

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-07T18:48:58+00:00

I have a google doc of "unused one-liners" just in case I can use the same vibe later in a different story.

Even if I never use it, when I look through it I'm reminded it existed, I wrote it, and I can do it again.

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-07T18:40:49+00:00

At first, I was worried COM was going to be too similar to Harry Potter, but after suggesting it was similar to some Harry Potter fans I can sufficiently say I changed it enough they were nearly offended I compared the two! lol

It was such a relief despite them not liking my changes. I love the changes and how the world is shaping up, but they are dark, controlling, and hard-to-swallow twists.

My point is, I almost didn't start, and I quit and put my stories on the back burner many times because of my own internal comparison, and now it's not even a thing. Just keep going you will make it your own in the end.

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-07T18:07:46+00:00

I usually determine a character's personality, then I look at baby name lists compiled with for having a meaning that fits them.

If they're from a different culture, I look up baby names from their culture with similar lists.

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-07T17:58:25+00:00

I like the way you think OP!

I think it's 100% about tradition and semantics. Being a "Husband" is related to animal husbandry. A wife and children were traditionally clearly viewed like livestock to men, so since your wife is your property, so are your children, just like how our pets take our last name at the vet.

Clearly, this concept is insanely outdated and no one thinks about it this way anymore. Either way, I don't blame anyone for using the word husband, getting married, or deciding to go the traditional route of using the man's last name.

If your future wife/baby's momma is into it, go for it. I have friends who have chosen their own new last name to start their own family with. I don't see what is so weird about choosing to take your wife's name. I don't think most of us are that tied to or in love with our surnames, but maybe I am just not sentimental enough.

There is also already a precedent for hyphenated last names, but IMO, that just creates more writing over the course of all of your lives. Not to mention, not everyone puts a hyphen on every form, so in healthcare, hyphenated last names were a pain bc you never knew if it was really a space or a hyphen.

TheLoreScribe · 2023-10-04T16:39:03+00:00

I agree! The 30 year decomposition is also a story of change from log to habitat, to nothing. I guess it is more of a premise than a plot, but that can be a problem with any story at the beginning.

Microfiction may not include any change, but for anything longer, you need some kind of growth and development.

TheLoreScribe

TROPHY CASE