• Where's Ol' LIJ Red?

    Where's Ol' LIJ Red?

    biographical blurb
    from 12 reviews.
    General  Fiction

  • Old 260797 whines

    Old 260797 whines

    a symmatrina of sorts
    from 8 reviews.
    General  Poetry

  • Baa, Baa

    Baa, Baa

    word lover's club shorty
    from 4 reviews.
    General  Fiction

LIJ Red:

The software tricked me somehow. I meant to put a leprechaun on my post, but hit banana supreme instead.
Now what?

June 15, 2019 at 4:53PM
    Jannypan (Jan) : You can still promote it yourself. Just go to your portfolio to the poem. Look for 'Promote this" click there then scroll down to where the LL certificate is mentioned and click on it.
    June 15, 2019 at 6:51PM

LIJ Red:

I have a curious problem...the last person mentioned in my will just died.

May 25, 2019 at 6:17PM
    WryWriter: St. Judes Children's Hospital.
    May 25, 2019 at 10:32PM
    WryWriter: That is, if you aren't referring to your own signature. ; )
    May 25, 2019 at 10:38PM
    Colin Lowley : That's a horrible situation to be in if they were family and something we all dread I guess. On the other hand you should be applauded for surviving the longest and so I would give it as long as possible and treat yourself or do the old bucket list thing If you had a mind to.
    May 27, 2019 at 8:38AM
    Ms. Snyder: So sorry to hear that Red, if your taking applicants for beneficiaries I can think of a couple of people in huge need in and around Georgia!
    May 28, 2019 at 1:05PM

LIJ Red:

Hey, everybody! If I review ya and the rating is less than five stars without a preachy rant attached, yell at me. The site software sometimes seems to choose its own number of stars and I might not catch it..

May 9, 2019 at 4:38PM
    sandramitchell: That's always happening to me! So embarrassing! :(
    May 9, 2019 at 4:52PM
    giraffmang: Same thing happened to me a few days ago... grrr
    May 10, 2019 at 6:18AM
    Ms. Snyder: I would never yell at ya! I might - holler! LOL Cheers, Fonda
    May 11, 2019 at 7:34PM
    BeasPeas: Hi Red. I do the same. Never less than a 5 from me. May include suggestions or not. Who am I to rain on anybody's parade? Marilyn
    May 21, 2019 at 3:58PM

LIJ Red:

My sixteen-year-old Persian lookalike was attacked by a fast aggressive cancer, and I had to have her put down today. RIP, Wadd. (she appears in many of my scribblings)

April 29, 2019 at 11:40PM
    Jannypan (Jan) : I am sorry for your loss of your dear Wadd.



    April 30, 2019 at 12:05AM
    damommy: Oh, Red, I'm so sorry. I know you loved her very much. She knew it, too, and had a wonderful with you.
    April 30, 2019 at 2:01AM
    sandramitchell: I'm so sorry, our pets are our children, and to lose them is so very painful. I'm sure she is looking down on you. Sending a hug. xx
    April 30, 2019 at 1:32PM
    LIJ Red: Thank you very much for the kind words...that old cat dated back to the time when I had a wife, a mother, a job, and a few friends, and a horizon beyond the trees on this hill...
    April 30, 2019 at 11:58PM

LIJ Red:

Doodling and googling...an inch is .0254 meters
a pound is .4535 kilograms
BMI is weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared
I joined the Navy at 21 at a 17 BMI.
Hey, I have doubled my investment!

March 25, 2019 at 5:47PM
    DR DIP: hahaha very funny Red you made me laugh
    March 27, 2019 at 4:33PM
    Ms. Snyder: I do not like this calculation. (for me) Hmm. But very funny! And what's worse is we shrink as we age... LOL
    March 28, 2019 at 3:32PM

LIJ Red:

I paid a whole fifty cents at the junk store, and lost the dang book...today I found it. Two poems I liked as I sat on the ivory throne of relief...the Bard on fornicatin' "The Expense of Spirit" and Marianne Moore on "Poetry so derivative as to be unintelligible." Go girl. But I can see how far I am from significance...

February 1, 2019 at 12:30PM

LIJ Red:

Must be deer season...hunters hit the woods and the deer forsake their territories and end up in strange places... Nice fourpointer in the neighbor's yard yesterday and a doe run down at my mailbox this morning. (pieces of red plastic car scattered all around). Not the frontier anymore...

December 10, 2018 at 4:29PM
    Dean Kuch: Well, if you live in redneck country you can always find something to shoot at, Red.
    Just sayin'...

    (Sorry, kiddies...heh-heh)
    ~Dean
    December 12, 2018 at 10:45PM
    CD Richards: Wow, cool pic, Dean. Is that Don Jr, or Eric?
    December 13, 2018 at 3:43PM

LIJ Red:

Clobbered again in the Story of the month contest, but noted once again, my entry had seven reviews and 24 views when promotion ended weeks ago, and now it has eight reviews and 25 views...vote for ourselves and our pals without reading all the entries? Surely not! So losers, have no fear, it does not mean you are a hopelessly bad writer...

November 9, 2018 at 3:36PM
    Six-Star Writer: Yes, your post isn't a big surprise. I've noticed a theme here: people voted for people they like. They don't care about your writing, so much as you are a part of their inner circle. This group of writers doesn't use objectivity when factoring into how they will judge a work or, ultimately, vote for it. They simply allow favoritism play a part when making their choices. So basically, it becomes an "I'll vote for your story, if you'll vote for mine, friend," situation. I, too, have gotten very good reviews for my writing, save for those few writers who aren't capable reviewers and don't adhere to FanStory reviewing guidelines and arbitrarily award fewer stars for a work than they should qwith no real explanation of why they gave me the stars they did. Having stated this obvious bias and favoritism atmosphere, and the self-righteous, political, religious, and myopic worldly-view mindsets here--which should have no place in a creative venue--I keep posting my work. First, and foremost, because I love to write, and have loved to write for the past 45 to 50 years, and second, because I appreciate the feedback I get from the unbiased group of writers here who don't care about the clique, high-school-like banning together thing. Can't wait to write more. Regardless of the way I've been treated here at times, I absolutely love FanStory, and I hope to be a member for years to come. As for my writing, I have not now, or ever, questioned that I have a unique gift and voice like no other. And I will never doubt that--whether I am granted the privilege of continuing to post here or not. No one will ever stop me from picking up a pen or pencil, or finding a computer keyboard on which to place my fingers on which to crank out my works. And if all else fails, I'll take to grabbing a piece of charcoal and writing on caves, the way our ancestors did when trying to get their thoughts out!
    November 9, 2018 at 4:47PM

LIJ Red:

I remind myself occasionally to be discreet when clicking on a reviewer's name to do a return review...they might be in a blind contest...

October 28, 2018 at 10:35PM
    Six-Star Writer: Sorry for the typos and messed-up wording at times. Wrote that on the fly.
    November 9, 2018 at 4:59PM

LIJ Red:

My trademark possum came calling. He is huge for the species...twenty pounder or close...

October 20, 2018 at 9:02PM
    damommy: I think possums are cute. I have one that visits every night. He's after the cat food, and I always put out enough for him and the raccoon that comes.
    October 21, 2018 at 5:52AM
    LIJ Red: No name, not totally sure he is the same marsupial, but looks and acts like him...this one likes cat food, dog food and Red food...
    October 21, 2018 at 5:10PM
    country ranch writer: They will eat what you put our but our does not like gree stuff like beans or collard greens.
    December 14, 2018 at 10:08PM

LIJ Red:

Looking back at the songs I've been listening to tonight, I see a sad pattern....Queen of the Silver Dollar, Old Hippie, and Hey Nineteen....

September 4, 2018 at 11:21PM

LIJ Red:

Huh. Hetty crashed her SUV.
Good grief- I am older than she is!

July 4, 2018 at 7:11AM

LIJ Red:

11:45, 4/16/18, 34 deg F with snow flurries. Global warming.

April 16, 2018 at 11:53AM
    Jannypan (Jan) : 4pm, sunny, breezy. 91*--93*Tuesday with big wind
    April 16, 2018 at 4:59PM

LIJ Red:

Heard the Voice of The Turtle today, and have a bumper crop of daffodils. Went to read the porch thermometer as darkness fell and saw three really big does mowing my lawn for me. Seventy degrees. Not good, just feels good. Everything is budding and there will be another killing freeze...

February 23, 2018 at 2:21AM
    damommy: Definitely a freeze to come. I have daffodils, too, and that's what I call the Snow Tire and Daffodil Festival. We always have a bad freeze afterwards. lol
    February 23, 2018 at 12:54PM
    lyenochka: Who's' 'The Turtle?
    Well, at least, the deer won't eat your daffodils.
    February 24, 2018 at 12:56PM

LIJ Red:

I never realized we had any minor members. I can adjust my posts accordingly. Sorry, young ones.

February 8, 2018 at 12:07AM

LIJ Red:

One AM at 34.76N x minus 84.53W and the snow has stopped at two inches. Twenty degrees and dropping...

January 17, 2018 at 1:13AM

LIJ Red:

No, it's not that sly little dig, "You have no rank." It's so cold dog won't even walk with me, so I sit here snacking and getting fatter and abusing my keyboard. But I post a lot of stuff.

January 3, 2018 at 4:03AM
    damommy: It's cold here, too. Right now, it's 19 degrees. Brrrr. But I love it. Stay warm. Your dog is smart. lol
    January 3, 2018 at 11:54AM
    DR DIP: huh?
    January 3, 2018 at 4:04PM

LIJ Red:

It's 26 Dec.,1:28 AM, fifteen degrees on the hill, and there is a stinkbug crawling across my keyboard. Epiphany!

December 26, 2017 at 1:33AM
    flylikeaneagle: Red: we have -21 degrees. I'm reading poetry and drinking tea. My Husky dog is barking outside and wants to go for a walk. Anyone want to join me???? Gotta fly.
    flylikeaneagle - nancy
    December 26, 2017 at 4:54PM
    TAB_that's me: wow! wish it was that warm here. 5 degrees here and no stinkbugs.
    December 27, 2017 at 2:10PM

LIJ Red:

Five inches of snow, and a hard freeze during a thirty-hour power outage. No so much fun as in the old days.

December 10, 2017 at 7:31PM
    mrsmajor: Be careful, I called my niece in Roswell, (?)it was bad too...Stay warm...
    December 10, 2017 at 11:28PM

LIJ Red:

Three inches of snow and falling fast, lights flickering out here in the hills. Oh, well, got plenty of firewood. See y'all on the flip side.

December 8, 2017 at 12:53PM
    damommy: I hope we get some soon. Stay warm.
    December 8, 2017 at 8:15PM

LIJ Red:

Those Santa Ana inspired California wildfires sound scary. I was checking web news about them and had a thought-Jay Squires is a Bakersfield man, not far from The Jawbone Complex. Wish those folks had some of this cold Georgia rain...

December 7, 2017 at 11:21PM
    Jannypan (Jan) : & Michael Cahill lives near Bakersfield. Pray for all involved.
    December 7, 2017 at 11:57PM
    michaelcahill: Nor is out here too, but we're north of things. Brooke is closer actually. I think she's okay though. I had a doctor's appt. in that direction, right on the border where it's closed off. It's a shocking sight. It looks like the world's on fire. It's areas where folks are used to fires though and evacuations are orderly etc. Still ... staggering loss.
    December 8, 2017 at 12:22AM
    nor84: I live 90 miles from Mikey, who is closer to Los Angeles than I am. As for Jay, he's probably OK too. Bakersfield is not close to Los Angeles, it's in Kern County, and so is Ridgecrest, where I live. I haven't heard the fires are affecting Kern County, which is quite a ways inland.
    December 8, 2017 at 8:51PM

LIJ Red:

Vaporized by a Fusion bomb, I were.
Sugarless lemonade ain't half bad. (swap white grape juice for half the water)

November 14, 2017 at 4:48PM
    damommy: Sounds good. Maybe I'll try it.
    November 14, 2017 at 9:44PM
    Gloria ....: One average size lemon contains 2 grams of sugar.
    November 15, 2017 at 2:29AM

LIJ Red:

My Sunday post was written before I heard the news about the Texas massacre. The churches sound similar.

November 5, 2017 at 8:24PM

FanStory wrote to LIJ Red:

Congratulations Recognized Writer Oct. 2017!

October 11, 2017 at 6:28PM
    michaelcahill: Ahhh. THIS is what I was looking for. Congrats again. :))

    recognized1
    October 11, 2017 at 6:38PM
    JennaG: Congratulations to you! :)
    October 11, 2017 at 7:27PM
    Irish Rain: Congratulations!!
    October 11, 2017 at 7:56PM
    Dean Kuch: Great choice... make NO BONES about it!

    Congrats, Red.
    October 11, 2017 at 8:30PM
    Gloria ....: Way to go, Ellijay! You earned it.
    October 11, 2017 at 9:20PM
    rama devi: Congrats!!!!! :-))))
    October 12, 2017 at 2:05AM
    F. Wehr3: Nice! Congrats!
    October 12, 2017 at 9:50AM
    Joy Graham: Congratulations!
    October 13, 2017 at 5:02PM
    ~Dovey: So well deserved! Bravo!! :)
    October 14, 2017 at 11:24PM

LIJ Red:

Recognized writer? I'd post a wide grin, but it broke my camera. Thanks much, Fanstory, and all you folks who endure my scribbling.

October 11, 2017 at 12:58PM
    damommy: That's great!
    October 11, 2017 at 2:23PM
    Gloria ....: Congratulations to you, Ellijay!
    October 11, 2017 at 3:08PM
    zanya: Congratulations Zanya
    October 11, 2017 at 3:48PM
    michaelcahill: recognized1

    A truly unique voice here. Glad to see it. Congrats!!!
    October 11, 2017 at 4:30PM
    humpwhistle: I've been trying to tell you, Red. Congrats.
    October 11, 2017 at 5:21PM
    IndianaIrish: Congratulations on this huge FanStory honor, LIJ Red! Keep smiling.
    October 11, 2017 at 6:34PM

LIJ Red:

Last time I flew on a airline or stayed in a motel...the TV was full of Dahmer, and I heard the first Tom Petty song I liked. I guess he's Learning To Fly. RIP

October 2, 2017 at 7:58PM
    Mustang Patty: Congratulations on your Recognition for Writer of the month!
    October 11, 2017 at 11:02AM

LIJ Red:

Don Williams dead at 78. One of my favorites.

September 9, 2017 at 9:55AM
    damommy: Mine, too. He was great!
    September 9, 2017 at 1:36PM

LIJ Red:

The wooly worms are dark from end to end and the katydids sing at noon and the satellites show a unique picture, three tropical storms in a row. And the rock cried out, "No hiding place."

September 8, 2017 at 1:22AM

LIJ Red:

The music died for Red, long ago, like TV.
But, "In the stillness of the midnight" a beat or two of an unfamiliar song borrowed by a TV commercial sets him off on a web dogpaddle. Something about a hero.
Mariah Carey...nope. Bonnie Tyler...bingo, but disappointing heard in toto. But since he has wandered away from the Fanstory site, he finds and listens to a few songs to see how his new notebook sounds. Says things about him and his journey.
Suzanne. (Judy Collins, not Leonard)
Angel of the Morning (Juice Newton)
That old Feeling(Alison Krauss)
He is Here (Grace Larson)
He Leadeth Me(Cluster PLuckers)

August 28, 2017 at 11:31PM
    michaelcahill: Most cool journey. I didn't know "Suzanne" was the name of that song. "Angel of the Morning", one of my favorites.

    Well, you got me off site too and led me to this little gem I may never have run across. Bluegrass ... yeah!



    August 29, 2017 at 12:26AM

LIJ Red:

Speaking of eclipses, in the 90s I used a small nail to punch a hole in the bottom of a cardboard box to make a camera obscura. The image of the sun will be projected through the hole onto a surface for safe viewing.

August 21, 2017 at 9:22AM
    Jannypan (Jan) : Smart--thanks for sharing. Where I live there was a story of a woman who looked at a partial solar eclipse through a glass window & damaged her left eye permanently. Why do people not believe that looking at the sun in any way without protective glasses will damage eyes?
    August 21, 2017 at 1:05PM

LIJ Red:

Huh? A banner ad for thaicupid. com? Aw, c'mon.
Tried Edge again and it worked poorly. Back to Chrome.

August 14, 2017 at 2:23AM
    nor84: I put Adguard on my computer and no longer have this problem. Check it out online.
    August 15, 2017 at 1:23AM
    LIJ Red: The ad was a symptom of a computer losing it's way. It had Adgard once. It came unglued, had to be reset, then died. My new, cheaper PC is still being shaped.
    August 17, 2017 at 1:57AM

LIJ Red:

Rats! Looks like my mancave is about fifteen miles from
the Aug 21 Solar eclipse path. Oh, well, I have seen two
already, and a partial where every speck of sunlight was a crescent....

August 10, 2017 at 9:56PM
    Jannypan (Jan) : Rats! I have jury duty that day. I don't believe the judge will call a recess for me to step outside to see it.
    August 10, 2017 at 11:36PM

LIJ Red:

Several times I have clicked on a four when I meant a five.
If I give you a four, read my comments and you'll know why. Otherwise reply, "Hey, Red, get yer foot off the mouse."

August 10, 2017 at 12:53PM

LIJ Red:

I am in denial about birthdays. The string of them, like Marley's, is a ponderous chain. That said, thanks for all
those heartwarming PMs!

June 2, 2017 at 2:14AM
    Nika2016: Congratulations on Poem of the Month nomination, Red!
    August 3, 2017 at 12:12PM

LIJ Red:

Can't be a philosopher with a toothache or a decent reviewer with gout. I shall return.

May 23, 2017 at 4:17AM

LIJ Red:

Powers Boothe, dead at 68. Red Dawn. Southern Comfort.
Lots of other films.

May 15, 2017 at 12:13PM
    damommy: Oh, dear. I liked him.
    May 15, 2017 at 12:16PM
    Gloria ....: One of my absolute favourite actors. Gonna miss him.
    May 15, 2017 at 12:17PM
    giraffmang: I've been re-watching season six of 24, where he's the vice and then President. He was awesome. Will be sadly missed.
    May 15, 2017 at 5:06PM
    F. Wehr3: Ah man, that's terrible. I used to watch the old Phillip Marlow series and based a character off of his narratives from the show. RIP.
    May 17, 2017 at 1:01PM

LIJ Red:

This time the beard lasted ten days, to a quarter-inch of iron-grey barbs. Oh, the joy of shaving against the grain!

March 5, 2017 at 4:32PM
    hvysmker: Hint! Rub it twenty or thirty times in the same direction on pubic hair and it'll become magnetized, pointing in the same direction and easy to shave. That is, if that sharp stubble doesn't cause her to slap you silly first.
    March 12, 2017 at 5:24PM

LIJ Red:

From the news: if the star Trappist 1 has seven planets,
and is 40 light years out, and the fastest humans ever were those who made a re-entry in 1969 at seven miles per second...that's right, one megayear at that speed...
save the earth! Save the earth!

February 26, 2017 at 2:40AM
    Gloria ....: Yep, couldn't agree more, Ellijay. We are light years away from terraforming another planet.
    February 26, 2017 at 3:51AM

LIJ Red:

Great story ideas in the news today. "feral Hog Apocalypse in Texas." my kind of storyline exactly. And "student's gender rights threatened"...my gentle old agnostic uncle, who loved to shock people , said of a similar headline,
"No gender, no rights. If you swap genders we are obligated to stone you to death as the Torah requires.
Or used to before the PC editors got to it"
People who think like that and wild boars. Fun!.

February 22, 2017 at 12:21PM

LIJ Red:

Rough week, weatherwise. A fifty degree drop in one day is a bit radical for mountain Georgia, not a desert yet.
Moving the ol' Cyclorama across town? Glad no one told me I had to do that before quitting time.

February 10, 2017 at 11:03PM
    Jannypan (Jan) : Saturday to be 92*, then Monday 38*. Here in Texas we can, and do, have 4 seasons in a few hours many times.
    February 11, 2017 at 1:04AM
    Jannypan (Jan) : Cyclorama?? Just now found it online. What a huge undertaking. Hope all goes well.
    February 11, 2017 at 1:56AM

LIJ Red:

Found the missing Norton anthology in the basement restroom and it had the quote that was bugging me.
No memory of having starred
makes up for later disregard
or keeps the end from being hard.
Frost-- Provide, provide.

January 31, 2017 at 12:25PM
    DR DIP: nothing like toilet graffiti lol
    February 1, 2017 at 1:58AM

LIJ Red:

It is not about dragons, it's about a goose opening a can of whooparse on a chihuahua.

January 5, 2017 at 6:43AM
    Realist101: LOL! Love this!
    February 12, 2017 at 1:44AM

LIJ Red:

Holy gouda, Ratman, everything turned red.

December 19, 2016 at 2:01PM
    Gloria ....: So weird. Even your name did, Ellijay.
    December 19, 2016 at 2:17PM
    damommy: Isn't it nice?
    December 19, 2016 at 7:20PM
    Delahay: That is one ugly cat on your rail!
    January 22, 2017 at 1:37AM

LIJ Red:

The artwork with a fine poem on the welcome page reminds me I was a mean young man. The wife's granny had a copy of Walter Hunt's painting, "Found" on her wall. I told the wife and her young cousin that the feral dog had killed the lamb and was calling the pups to dinner...

October 25, 2016 at 5:48PM
    Delahay: Red,
    That's the ugliest cat I've every seen in my
    life.
    D.
    November 24, 2016 at 11:46AM

LIJ Red:

I bought a wifi tablet today. This country has a crying--no, screaming--need for people who can write clear instructions!

September 1, 2016 at 1:49AM
    kiwisteveh: Watching the younger generation with tablets and phones, they just seem to work everything out by trial and error and some sort of instinct. If they need any help at all they get it from their peer group, one of whom is bound to know how the thing works. Written instructions? You're showing your age!
    September 1, 2016 at 4:15AM
    LIJ Red: By guess and by God as the old souls say.
    Never had a tablet before, just had to try one. Type everything in with one pinky nail? Forget it. Back to the old desktop with the big, wide keyboard! Good way to check the weather and take pictures, though.
    September 1, 2016 at 8:18AM
    Adri7enne: I find it gets harder and harder to understand written directions. I bought a pedometer a few days ago. The instructions were written in such tiny print I had to use a magnifying glass. It took me two hours to program. Then this morning I dropped it on the ceramic floor and it hasn't worked since. I'm devastated! I guess I'll have to start all over tomorrow with a new one. Bummer!!!
    September 2, 2016 at 2:21AM
    Delahay: I just want a phone that is a phone. Is that too much to ask?
    October 12, 2016 at 2:53AM

LIJ Red:

Waah. Sniff. Threed by a newbie. Woe is me.

May 2, 2016 at 7:43PM
    robyn corum: That's the same reviewer William Ross was crying over. The one who said his entry for the Elvis contest sounded too much like Elvis. (=3)
    May 3, 2016 at 6:39PM
    Turtle... who?: 😯

    Try not to let it mess with your mojo... Standard reviewers tend to not realize the effect or meaning of ratings. There is the option to not have to deal with them by turing off non-writer reviews in the advanced options of any work posted, too.
    May 3, 2016 at 11:41PM
    Delahay: I can tell that you will live with it o.k.
    October 12, 2016 at 3:01AM

LIJ Red:

Agreed, it's not a perfect world.
Something I'd like to see tried. Eliminate cent pumps. Have the Pot for poetry and the Chest for prose promotions. Three days for each. Give every promoted work four hours on the front page. Have a committee do spot checks at random on the quality of reviews. Have a hot list of the ten current promotions with the most stars.

May 2, 2016 at 12:21PM
    michaelcahill: The "well-received" is sort of the top ten with the most stars or the highest average rating.
    I'm totally in favor of spot checks on the quality of reviews! There are some thieves out there posing as reviewers for sure!
    May 2, 2016 at 1:18PM
    TAB_that's me: Amen to that! Every poem or story get paid the same. Stories should cost more for the certificate and thus pay the reviewers more.
    May 2, 2016 at 1:19PM
    nor84: I'm all for having a committee do spot checks on reviews... but then what does the committee do?

    If somebody comes up with a workable plan that includes this feature, they should PM Tom with the idea. He doesn't read all the forum threads all of the time.
    May 2, 2016 at 5:44PM
    Gypsy Blue Rose: I second that! I have wanted to do that for a long time. I hardly promote my work so not too many people read it but the ones that do are the ones I care about and respect the most.

    Ranking level, some healthy competition, and the respect of my peers are all important to me but not as important as writing. That's why I'm here.
    May 20, 2016 at 10:36AM
    Jay Squires: Do you know how many people spend hundreds of real dollars buying member dollars? Nor do I, but I'll bet it's sizeable. Point is, if you're FS and you have a huge cash cow, and a few dozen members suggest FS do away with the member cent pumps, do you think Tom's gonna put the cow to pasture? It's economics.

    If you refuse to play the game and promote your work you should be proud of the stand you've taken. So collect your two or three reviews and stand tall. I salute you.
    June 13, 2016 at 10:41PM
    Delahay: I do think that stories need to pay more somehow since the reviewer spends more time reading and there is more to review. The problem with giving posts four hours on the front page would be that a lot of people would not see it in that time frame. I don't really know a good way to make the system better though.
    October 12, 2016 at 3:04AM

LIJ Red:

MSN says Stephen Hawking finally got around to reading The Mote In God's Eye (Niven and Pournelle,1974)
Light sail plus laser cannon equals zoom...

April 12, 2016 at 3:11PM

LIJ Red:

Fired one potlatch. But I may have misread the prompt. Maybe I should have written about the repo man.

March 26, 2016 at 6:32PM
    Gloria ....: Ha! I loved your free verse poem, Ellijay! Is the repo man something that never goes away?
    March 27, 2016 at 1:25AM
    Joy Graham: Happy Easter, Ellijay! Love that name :)
    March 27, 2016 at 11:45AM

LIJ Red:

Saturday's starting rough. Out sixty-nine bucks, I'm back...

March 26, 2016 at 8:44AM

LIJ Red:

Beware the Ides of March.

March 15, 2016 at 7:13PM
    Linda Engel: It seems to bring the pollen!
    March 16, 2016 at 9:43AM
    I am Cat: Pollen has been here since November... worse through winter for me... after least March brings the winds. Spring pollens are so much better (for me) than winter (tree) pollens...
    Bring on the Ides!
    March 16, 2016 at 9:57AM
    ~Dovey: It brought snow here lol
    March 16, 2016 at 2:15PM

LIJ Red:

Ole Anonymous Member is gettin' kinda tiresome...

February 20, 2016 at 12:55AM
    DIS-illusioned: Tell Ole to guzzle down some Gatorade and get exciting again. :-)
    February 20, 2016 at 11:04PM

LIJ Red:

I just got a one-star review on content with no suggestions for improvement. I invite the members who are protesting this to view ratings on my latest post, and see if this was one of the people you were
upset about.

January 28, 2016 at 4:10PM
    Gloria ....: That's the one, Ellijay. Your poem is top notch writing, so report her to Tom. I've just heard also that she is telling people to go to Paramount Song and I Google Paramount Song and it's apparently a big scam.



    January 28, 2016 at 4:13PM
    LIJ Red: Thanks, Gloria. I'll do that later. For now, I'll let my first solo star shine...
    January 28, 2016 at 4:21PM
    Taffspride: I have just read your poem and the one star review. I have to agree with Gloria, you need to report her to Tom. It is not just that is a one star review which means the work is poor and needs improvement (It does not) It is a review based on her personal feelings about it. We all need to take a stand against this kind of reviewing
    January 28, 2016 at 5:02PM
    mrsmajor: Yep, that's the same one, and if one reads his comments, it has nothing to so with you...You should report it to Tom, we really need to work together on this, Tom should be told...This is not the first time...all of his reviews are basically the same...he rates on his personal feelings, and that not acceptable..
    January 28, 2016 at 5:39PM
    F. Wehr3: Mrs. Major, I think its she, but don't change it. It's funnier that way.
    January 28, 2016 at 5:46PM
    nor84: I didn't know about this reviewer when I wrote my essay, but she was brought to my attention later by a friend. Tom should definitely be made aware.
    January 28, 2016 at 6:08PM
    giraffmang: This is the same one who refuses to use a dictionary.
    January 28, 2016 at 6:18PM
    Taffspride: Truly they make themselves very unpopular and if they refuse to look-up the meaning of a word or even a phrase, then they actually appear illiterate. What is going to happen is most members will block them, leaving no-one to review their work. This same person gave a one star review to an excellent piece. Once again, time to report them to Tom.
    January 28, 2016 at 6:33PM
    mrsmajor: Yep a she...and I hope she's reported...
    January 28, 2016 at 7:19PM
    kiwisteveh: I just had a peek into your portfolio and I can't see the review in question - I hope this means something has already been done about it.
    January 29, 2016 at 5:17AM
    shelley kaye: did tom remove the review? couldn't find it....
    January 29, 2016 at 11:13AM
    LIJ Red: The site indeed removed the review.
    January 29, 2016 at 12:16PM
    Dean Kuch: Well, the site did NOT remove a crazy, whacked-out review on a recent limerick I wrote. Of course I received four stars, not just one. But I would have at LEAST liked the review to pertain to the limerick in some way.
    At the VERY least!
    ~Dean
    February 1, 2016 at 5:41AM
    Ricky1024: I've got really like that because I forgot to add it when I talk into the phone but that's understandable but the other one star review because grandma Kors Atlanta, it is enough content human energy is wonderful only got to try to fix our reviews is sure if the person is either new or the decidious India I fought that so many times with Tom and have been restricted now in the past 4 years 5 times is made is amazing and he doesn't do anything about it and I know I said that you know that can hurt the younger writers here that are just starting out their careers and found a great place to do it because you don't do anything to stop it you do you cast as the person who has been punished with a terrible review and they and he does review the comments that are given but I don't know if is restricting those people he doesn't tell me he is and I'll that's my fault when its arm see Lucas one throw away a wonderful piece about reviewing here on fan story so you should check it out for you looking up that was probably 2 years ago through it took awhile to get to it or you could just friend request him here the flower your work English trolley or he will cuz he's in Western writer I'll tell him your favorite hero was a John Wayne interview board her but them and then he'll reposted for you and let you know what it is but the the meantime
    March 8, 2016 at 2:08AM

LIJ Red:

1/22/16 0930 Roaring gale. Spots of sky. Low clouds traveling North, high clouds traveling East. I've seen this before. Uh-oh.

January 22, 2016 at 9:58AM
    I am Cat: Did you blow away yet?
    January 23, 2016 at 12:52AM
    LIJ Red: 1/23/16 0430 Two inches snow, minor damage to timber. Hope it's over...
    January 23, 2016 at 4:44AM

LIJ Red:

Hey,when I click on Home/Fanstory I get technobabble. Is this going around?

January 11, 2016 at 10:09PM
    LIJ Red: I did the "Contact Us" bit
    January 11, 2016 at 10:42PM

LIJ Red:

Wow. Pretty in pink.

December 24, 2015 at 9:20AM
    Gloria ....: Top of the season to you, Ellijay. :))
    December 24, 2015 at 10:13AM

LIJ Red:

Does anyone know how Smurphgirlsasha is doing?

December 10, 2015 at 6:17PM
    Gloria ....: I was wondering the same thing myself, Ellijay. Haven't seen a post from her in a while.
    December 10, 2015 at 8:23PM
    rama devi: She reviewed me today and sounded in a good mood...so she is around...I asked her how she was but haven't heard back yet...
    December 10, 2015 at 10:58PM

LIJ Red:

Wish FS had a way to classify the VIEWs,those who came in and looked but didn't review or that skipped. It would really help to know if
A. the post was too long.
B. the subject was ick.
C. the viewer was just reading(never happen)
D. the post was a mess, too far gone to correct.

November 5, 2015 at 2:48AM
    Turtle... who?: It kind of does... you can see that number in your portfolio, but you have to not be searchable else I think there is false hits.
    November 5, 2015 at 6:07AM
    Turtle... who?: Ya I checked, if your not in classic, just go to my>portfolio and on the "posted" line is 'views' which is any refreshes too I think, so if one person opens, closes, or refreshes, might be two views.
    November 5, 2015 at 6:13AM
    nor84: The thing is, VIEWS don't necessarily even mean the work was seen by a person. VIEWS can also include attempted hits by search engines, or so Tom told me a few years ago. As Turtle said, could include refreshes, etc. Of course, some of them are people who took at peek at the story or poem and thought "not what I was looking for."
    November 6, 2015 at 1:42AM

LIJ Red:

Rutrow. North Koreans? FS runs amok.

October 21, 2015 at 3:47PM
    I am Cat: Gremlins! Must be the Gremlins!
    October 21, 2015 at 5:32PM
    Oblio and Arrow: Very true and a good observation. Thanks for reading and commenting -
    November 1, 2015 at 9:28PM

LIJ Red:

I enjoy reviewing, and practice writing almost every day. I post things sometimes and wish I hadn't. What think ye-when in danger or in doubt, post-or flee?

October 19, 2015 at 2:28PM
    michaelcahill: POST IT! Half the time you're glad you did. Then you post something you think is harmless and everyone has a fit. HAHAHA! Post it all, you can't win anyway. :)))
    October 19, 2015 at 2:36PM
    Gloria ....: Post and flee. Then post and flee again. Then have a nice glass of wine. :-)
    October 19, 2015 at 3:58PM
    I am Cat: Have two glasses of wine and THEN post! and then come back, read it and UNpost it... i'm known to do that a time or two. Fleas? Who has fleas? *scratch scratch*
    October 19, 2015 at 6:05PM
    mrsmajor: Post and Flee, and then Post and Flee again..and then have a cup of Hot Ginger Tea...LOL
    October 19, 2015 at 8:19PM
    trumby : He who fights and flees away, lives to write another day!!! lol
    December 26, 2015 at 8:06AM

LIJ Red:

People zero to fourteen years old have decreased from thirty-four percent to thirty percent of the world population.
People over sixty have increased from eight percent to ten percent of the population.
The average age of a human being is 24.3 years.
There are approximately 7,300,000,000 human beings alive today.
Why will no one read my stuff?

September 12, 2015 at 10:27AM
    michaelcahill: All of them think they can write and promoted to the first page...
    September 12, 2015 at 10:35AM
    mrsmajor: Oh my that's something to think about..for me, I just don't think they like the way I write, or the things I write about..or maybe because I don't read enough of theirs...could be a lot of reasons..
    September 12, 2015 at 11:25AM
    Linda Engel: Now Red, you know I read and love your stuff. I've been busy helping my husband heal from back surgery. You've got a few I have to catch up on.
    September 13, 2015 at 2:12AM
    Delahay: Well Red it's not because their reading mine.
    I've found a lot of folks avoid things they have to think about.
    DeLaHay
    September 26, 2015 at 12:22PM
    Gloria ....: Oh geeze, whine much, Ellijay? Just keep writing.
    September 27, 2015 at 3:13AM