Gerhi, I deleted your last letter (and your e-mail address) by accident and would like to remain in contact.

You are welcome to phone my office. The number is in the Pretoria directory under Uys & Coetzee Attorneys.

I am sure I can dig up your email address Daan. Otherwise email me at: my first name with an x behind at friendly Google’s free email service.

I appreciate Cindy’s sharing of her method. It has helped me a lot with being comfortable in the way I am working.
She said:
“I struggled for many years until finally I trusted what worked best, then I started analyzing it.”

I would like to do that, except the first struggling bit. I haven’t tried to write seriously for more than 10 years. To kick of now and trust what I’m doing is the right way is very difficult.

I have found that everybody has a system and 99% of other people’s systems won’t work for me. They would in fact stop me from working altogether. So I take the titbits from other people’s methods that I can use and I chuck the rest.

The only trick is to know what to keep and what to chuck.

But I’m not sure toilets are the right thing to call them. Loo’s doesn’t seem right, lavatory is worse. Is it Men’s and Ladies or what.
We used to talk about the little boys room and the little girls room.

So, the question in two parts: what do you call a public loo in America, and how do you deal with these regional language anomalies?

Those are fun web addresses! Technical question on this … what method do you use to forward them to your www.advancedfictionwriting.com site?

I’ve been confused on whether you do it “temporary” or “permanent”, and if permanent, what method. I’ve heard you can be dinged by the search engines because they think you are posting duplicate content when you actually are not.

I am also writing characters and setting outside the familiarity of my country. I am trying to learn what idioms and expressions are used in modern day Scotland and have begun looking for a pen pal there who can help me find the correct idioms and phrases to use. I hope to find an author, actually, or someone with an understanding of the current language.

It’s funny how easy it is to forget that another English speaking country would use entirely different phrases and expressions. What’s up with that?

I’d also be interested in a doc with all the steps in one place.