If what you seek is mediocrity
Then you’d better not follow me
Though I fight and sometimes struggle
These are only minor hurdles
I will jump them one by one
Until my dreams and goals are won
I will not settle, will not stop
Learn from all I’ve gained and lost
I will rise, I will succeed
Be prepared for this if you follow me

If it’s true we each have 15 minutes of fame
Then I choose to relive mine, again and again
They may not know me, but they’ll know my name
And when I’m gone, that part of me remains
It’s not the reason that I write
Not the reason I share what I have inside
But I must admit, when the day is done
If any of my words have touched someone
Then I’ve fulfilled my purpose, my job complete
And I’ll share it all with you, if you’ll follow me

Don’t follow me if you want just to survive
Because each day I strive to be more alive
I want more than to just exist
To live in love and peace is my fondest wish
I am glory and honor bound
While my feet are planted on the ground
I can walk, but I choose to run
Toward that moment in the sun
It’s not the end, but the beginning I seek
And you can find it too, if you follow me

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So everyone has been anxiously awaiting the winner of the third Accentuate Writers Anthology Contest, and I promised to have them up by 7 tonight, so here goes….

Let’s start with two honorable mentions – these entries did not hit the third place position by mere points, I’m talking one point on one and three on the other… THAT is how close this particular contest came down to. I would love to have them all win too, but we are limited on space in this particular anthology book, so I can’t. So what I’ve decided to do is offer all of them one free copy of the anthology when it comes out, and give them a free entry into next month’s contest!

#299 – Wild and Intangible – by Tanya Katerina Noegel
#910 – Wind in the Thorns – by M. Lori Motley

Congratulations to these two well-written stories that were so close to the winner’s spot!

The other entries who made the finals will all receive one free copy of the anthology when it is finally released too – it was a most difficult decision. All entrants get one free copy, while all finalists will get an extra one this time, so if nothing else, everyone walks away with a free book, and some with two! Our honorable mentions this time will get a free entry to the next contest as well and an honorable mention HTML banner/badge for their website.

Now, let’s get down to the nitty gritty.

I will tell you this – there was one point separating the third and the second place winner. One point. One lousy, stinking point. I mean, that’s like saying (almost) that a misplaced comma might have made the difference in who took the higher ranking here.

Keep that in mind when you submit your entries for the next contest, or any professional contest. Sometimes, when things are really competitive, it does come down to just that one piece of punctuation, or that one misplaced modifier, or that one misspelled word that you forgot to catch. In fact, to be quite frank, there was one entry that would probably have won this contest is story ALONE was all that matter and not mechanics of writing.

Okay, enough of that. You don’t want to hear my preaching. You want winners. So here they are….

In third place:

Entry # 347 – Troy Spencer, by George Kramer

Mr. Kramer wrote an exceptional piece about love, reconciliation, perhaps forgiveness and acceptance, and he interweaved elements of the theme into the story, perhaps a little bit too much, but it did fit the mood and feel. A few mechanical errors that require a really good copy edit, and a slight fleshing out in some places, but all in all, an award worthy entry into our contest. Congrats, George!

In Second Place:

Entry # 240 – Last Caress, by Steven Thor Gunnin

Well, Thor is back and better than ever. What a horror story this is, and yet, even in the midst of it, we do find some hope, and perhaps even expectation, but then we see that seedling of hope crushed by self-loathing and guilt. Low on gore, but high on fear, this is a good story for its genre. I must admit that this is not the genre I prefer to read, but the story is well-developed, interesting, entertaining, and for those who like this genre, it is most definitely a winner, and for those who don’t like this genre, it’s still an excellent story. The ending, well, let’s just say, I can personally relate to the feeling, if not the actions of the character. Oh, you don’t know what happens? Guess you’ll just have to buy the book to find out!

And now for our first place winner…..

The first place winner wrote a story both touching and realistic, with some heavy subject matter, but dealt with it in a light manner, that though the story is sad, there is a lighthearted mixture of hope and happiness to it. I have to be honest here, writing mechanics on this story left a little something to be desired… that is something this writer will need to be aware of, but have you ever heard the old saying that a good editor can do a lot with mechanics if there is an exceptional story upon which to start?

That’s this story.

This story was fully developed, the characters felt whole and complete, which is often hard to do in a short story, and it was emotional. All three of the professional judges and the fourth judge who is a ‘reader’ judge, were swept up by the emotion – this story, quite frankly, made them feel. How’s that for a compliment on your writing?

For me, what pushed it ahead of the pack was all these things, but also the exceptional and unusual use of the theme for this contest.

So, congratulations to our first place winner:

Congratulations to everyone! Don’t forget, the fourth Accentuate Writers Anthology Contest is underway – send in your entry today!

http://www.accentuateservices.com/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=2120
Love and stuff,
Michy

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I haven’t been posting much in the AC forums recently. The general tone of the forums, IMO, has changed, and I just don’t enjoy being there as much as I used to enjoy it. I like to lurk and watch for important changes, issues, problems, or see if there’s someone floundering and not getting their questions answered.

I go into the forum couple of days ago, and everything is changed. AC is bragging about the new forum. The front page looks different. Cool, I think, the forum needed some work.

Yeah, the front page of the forum looks nice, it does.

After the front page, nothing else aesthetically has changed… but functionality plummeted.

Do you ever see a revamp of a website and wonder, “What they heck were they thinking; don’t they ever USE their own site?”

In this case, I was pretty sure that at least some of the AC Admins used the forum from time to time, but obviously they do not use it enough to see just how much functionality they removed from it.

The first major change is there is an ‘entry’ page now. They call it the ‘forum index’. That ‘entry’ page has no forums on it. The only thing it has is some pretty icons that are meant to categorize parts of the forum into sections: AC Central, Guides & Tutorials, AC Connect, Talk Back to AC.

I clicked on AC Central and am taken to the General forum with four topics: General Discussion, Welcome to AC, Town Hall Meetings, What’s New at AC.

Cool, great. Now I want to go back and see what’s in the Guides & Tutorials Section… Oh, wait, uhm, I want to go back. Uh, hello? Back? How do I go back? Well, fortunately I’ve been on the internet long enough to know I can use my browsers back button (or for me, it’s the little button on the top of my mouse), but not everyone is going to know that. Where’s the navigation?

Having a site’s navigation rely on browser buttons is sloppy and inefficient for any site, but even more so for a forum where navigating is absolutely required for functionality.

Eventually, I did find that at the top of SOME pages in the forum, there are some navigation links that will take you back one tier. They look like this:

See the part in Yellow? Well, it’s not in yellow on the site – as you can see, it’s likely very easy for most to miss, and it’s only at the top of the page, so if you have to scroll down at all, you’d have to scroll back up to navigate. Plus, this navigation link area is not on every page of the forum, so you can’t count on it.

Certain things found standard on most forums is missing on the AC forum. For example, there is no notification based on your last visit of which folders have new messages since your last visit. There is no notice currently (though I think this was there before and will be coming back) as to who made the last post in a folder.

It is impossible to see at a glance where something should be posted. For example, it took me twelve clicks and 11 back browses to find where they had put the Concerns & Complaints folders. This isn’t exaggeration. I counted them. If I were a new content producer and didn’t know there WAS a complaints folder, I probably would go to the AC Central and post my complaint in the main folder.

With the recent negativity on the forum, I’m sure someone would come along and call me names, make fun of me, provide a sarcastic or flippant remark about how I didn’t look for anything, and then maybe, if I’m lucky and I’m not already in tears or thinking about leaving AC altogether because I needed help before I could even post my first article, someone, eventually, might actually answer my question too, and then they’d probably tell me where to go – uhm, that is, send me to the complaints folder.

All right, I know that seems harsh, but I can totally see the scenario playing out in real life… some of you probably know what I’m talking about.

Twelve clicks to find one folder I need, and that’s with me knowing that folder exists.

Then, AC took away a couple of popular folders and the natives are up in arms about it. I don’t have an issue with them taking away the “Other Online Gigs”. For nearly three years now, AC has allowed content producers to post leads to other paying online content and writing gigs.

It was a good forum, provided in good faith by AC, but it also was a breeding ground for problems too. I repeatedly saw people posting affiliate links in there, scam sites, tons of arguments between CPs who accused and/or posted in there. Additionally, there were a lot of paid to read, paid to click and survey crap postings, when it was supposed to be leads for producing content. Some of the posts even said things like, “If you’re sick of AC, go here instead…” which is like coming to a backyard BBQ and saying, “Hey, Jenny has better beer, let’s go there instead!” Lastly, it was an invitation to spammers. People signing up to do nothing but post in there.

Hey, if you want real paying gigs, my forum has them - they are verified, they are legitimate, they are for people who want to make real money. I put up fiction, non-fiction, web content, SEO, magazines, newsprint, paid-to-blog and more. Many AC producers can attest to having received ongoing, real income from some of the leads I’ve posted. It’s free, it’s easy, it’s real.

I don’t blame AC for removing that forum. I do, however, think it was cruel and unusual punishment to remove that forum without telling anyone. There were ongoing conversations in there, links people relied on, just poof, gone one day, without warning.

Another missing forum is a general ‘chat’ forum. Every single themed forum I’ve ever known has had a general area where folks can talk about anything, get to know each other, blow off steam, have fun, socialize outside of the itended purpose. If you give people a playground along with purpose, you keep them coming back, make it feel like a place to get all they need. Well, AC did put up conversation ‘categories’ but we shouldn’t have to be limited to discussing only what AC wants us to discuss. Bring back the misc. anything goes forum.

The change to allow us to subscribe by topic so we get an email when a new thread is started was brilliant – that’s a huge plus. For avid forum users, you know how easy it is to rely on email updates, and forget to look for new threas. This will definitely help some people be more aware of new questions and that’s a good thing.

However, the email notifications for new posts in an ongoing discussion suck. On my board, when someone replies to a topic, the email not only tells you WHO replied to it (let’s face it, we pay more attention to some people’s posts than others, right?), but it also takes users directly to the new post itself, so you don’t have to wade through tons of posts or remember where the last place you read was. AC’s forum notifications take you to the front page of that thread. If there are 50 pages, you have to navigate to the last page, wait for it to load, and then try to see on that page with 20 others posts on it already, where the last place you read was.

Anyway, there’s a lot more being said in the forums about this in several locations. Because of the changes, no one knows for sure exactly which one is the official thread, and interestingly enough, AC has it at the top of the forums to send an email to admin in order to report any problems with the forum.

Now, wait a second – get ready for this – AC usually posts a thread in the forum to ask us to comment on the changes or report bugs – BUT – the forum gets updated and they ask us to email the already overwhelmed and saturated email admin inbox, the inbox that is so full we frequently don’t get responses to our question, INSTEAD of using the forum to comment on the forum.

You mean, AC doesn’t even want to use the new forum?

(giggle) Sorry, couldn’t resist.

I’d lvoe to tell you where to go to read the official thread on the forum upgrade, but there doesn’t appear to be one, and as anticipated, there are several threads on the matter, in several different locations on the forum, and since navigation is so clunky right now, who knows where one should go.

I will, however, link you to the two most important threads on the subject, as I see them: (be sure to log in first before you click)

http://forum.associatedcontent.com/forum.shtml?thread=23346

http://forum.associatedcontent.com/forum.shtml?thread=23342

EMohrman posted a very good compilation of what he believes the problems are, and he’s updated it as new things are found.

So far, the only official response from AC is from AC’s Darnell, who is a NY Community Manager (not sure what that is exactly), and he says, “…please spend a couple weeks getting used to the new structure before passing final judgement.”

I know he’s thinking we just are rejected ‘change’, but that’s not really it. I don’t like change; I admit it. The problem isn’t the change though as much as it is a bad design. Well, not bad, but I’d rather say, “Unfinished.”

See, I know AC’s forum was built internally, and that the person who is designing and building it is likely both very proud of it but also frustrated with the lack of praise toward it. I would also imagine that all of us ‘hating’ it so much doesn’t make his ‘job security’ any better.

Here’s my take, upon final analysis: The forum is greatly improved from the ugly and clunky forum we had two and three years ago. The forum is a work in progress, and that new things are being developed and code written and features added, since it’s a work in progress. Eventually, we’ll have most of what we ask for.

That said, the single most important part of this post is going to be said here:

AC, we have asked you before to improve communication, get our feedback BEFORE a roll out and not after, and inform/prepare/warn us when something major happens.

With this ‘upgrade’, you neglected to do all those things, and just look what happened.

Lesson learned?

Probably not.

Love and stuff,
Michy

PS: I have a great forum at www.writersforum.info, with paying leads, online gigs, chat, and even an AC discussion group. You can leave your opinions off-site of AC on my board, and check out the other features it has to offer.

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One frequently asked question about grammar is how to punctuate titles, and there are a couple of different aspects to title punctuation. I want to start first with how to punctuate titles in a text, such as whether or not to underline, italics or quote (single or double quotes) the title, or how to do it when there’s more than one title, or it’s a work of art, etc.

There is a ‘big’ and ‘little’ rule when deciding how to punctuate titles. There is a ‘big’ thing and a ‘little’ thing when it comes to things like books, magazines, CDs/albums, etc.

• The big thing is the book; the little thing is the chapter.
• The big thing is the album; the little thing is the song.
• The big thing is the magazine; the little thing is an article title.

Okay, now that we have that, let’s look at how to punctuate them:

The BIG things are put in italics and the little things are put in quotes, particularly when they appear together in a sentence or text.

Example: Duran Duran was a band in the ’80s that released an album called Seven and the Ragged Tiger, in which the song “The Reflex” appears.

Keep in mind, when using the MLA style guide (one of the older style guides), considers that italics and underline means the same thing. One reason for this is because in some typefaces, italics are hard to see, and underline is easier to see, and thus typesetters won’t accidentally miss it. In print, in particular, you might still see it underlined. These essentially are interchangeable – but always follow the publication’s guidelines or use the style guide they suggest when writing for them.

As for publications, the books is the ‘big’ thing so it is italics, while any chapters or individual works (like in a book of poetry), would be quotes. The same for magazines. The magazine’s name is italics, but the articles inside the magazine are quotes.

Works of art, such as painting or sculpture or photgraph names are italicized, if they are stand alone works of art. Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Michealangelo’s David.

Now, photographs are slightly different since they very rarely stand alone. Generally speaking a photograph is either attached to another work, like a story, or included in a book of photographs. If this is the case, the photograph is a ‘little thing’ and its title would be in quotes. If, however, the photograph is framed, is sold separately as its own work of art, then it is italicized.

I’ll talk in a future blog about how to use upper and lower case and periods, commas, quotes, dashes, colons and such inside a title, so stay tuned.

Until then – just use this rule when punctuating titles in text:

BIG things are italics (or underline)
Little things are quotes

Have a great day!

Love and stuff,
Michy

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Accentuate Writers is pleased to announce its FOURTH short story contest!

Each of the top three writers from the contests between now and December of this year will be included in the anthology if they so choose.

In order to be considered for the contest, you must follow these rules 100%… the judging will be done in three rounds, and if you have not followed these rules to the letter, the first round judges will not move your entry on to the second round of judging!

There will be ZERO exceptions to adherence to the submission guidelines for this contest. We’ve been through three, everyone can read through the old threads in the Accentuate Writers Anthology forum to see common mistakes made during submission. Get it right or get disqualified! (I hate to be mean, but hey, it’s important as we grow that we all grow together!)

1.) All entries must be written in MS Word as a .doc or .RTF format if you do not have Word. (I can accept .docx files from Word 2007, but prefer .doc files – this won’t affect your chances of winning. However, Word 2007 does have the option to allow you to save the file as an older version of Word. 2003 is the preferred format.)

2.) Please use the following standards to submit your entry:

A. 12 pt. font

B. Times New Roman (Absolutely no fancy fonts – all winners will have the proper font changed before publication.)

C. 1″ margins, all sides

D. Double Spacing, set as double spaced, no line breaks

E. Auto-indent, using the auto-indent feature, not tabs – the use of tabs will automatically disqualify you and make Michy fume about people who can’t read the submission guidelines and she might post about you on her blog! Auto-indent at .3.

(This video will show you how to set auto-indents: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYxdYJdZbao, or you can read this blog post: http://michysthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-set-auto-indents-in-ms-word…)

F. Left Justified (Left, Right, Center, Full – choose Left)

G. Do NOT double enter after paragraphs. That’s why you indent. (had an entry last time do this!)

H. Use a centered * * * between scene breaks, if necessary, not a double enter. (Be sure to remove the indent on any centered lines but ONLY on centered lines, otherwise, they won’t be centered.)

I. Do NOT tell us ‘THE END’ – when the words run out, we generally stop reading and assume the story is over, though sometimes, understandably, that might be hard to tell. If it’s hard to tell, you might want to consider a revision.

3.) All entries must be UPLOADED to this thread:

http://www.accentuateservices.com/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=2119&page=1#pid21975

If you are not a member of the forum, you will have to sign up for a free membership to be able to participate! No entries will be accepted this time from anyone NOT a member of this forum!

The password to get into the thread is: password

I put it in the password protected thread so that your stories are not indexed in search engines and can only be viewed by registered members and even though they win or are entered in a contest, they won’t eliminate you from selling the story to someone else!

Yes, you will retain all rights to your story, although I am asking for first publication rights, North American, print – if you win.

4.) You have until the last day of October, at 11:59pm Central Time, to pay your fee and upload your entry. It’s recommended you pay your at least one day prior to contest close, because contrary to popular belief, I do not sit on the computer all the time and if I don’t send your entry number by the contest close, you might not make the deadline!

Plus, the deadline for entry this time is Halloween. I might be turning into a witch or a frog or a vampire or something that night. Who knows?

5.) Entry fee? Yeah… You see, there is no limit on the number of short stories you can enter, but to ensure writers do not just throw anything they write up and actually put a little bit of themselves into the contest, we are charging a small entry fee to ensure your sincerity in entering and to help offset some of the cost of the prizes and publishing the book!

The fee is only $5.00 per story – you can enter as many stories as you’d like, but it’s $5 each! You can send it one story at a time or you can add it all up and send it together, BUT you must pay the fee first BEFORE you post your entry.

You can send it to PayPal: michelle@accentuateservices.com

If you do not have a PayPal account, we also take credit cards, debit cards or bank account transfers through PayPal without you having to sign up for an account. Just go to the bottom of the post here and pick a button!

6.) After your entry fee payment is received, you will be emailed an ENTRY NUMBER. This entry number is what you will use in the title of your post in the entry thread where you upload your document and at the top of your document and as the document name too.

This will help us keep the entries separate, and will be used by the judges to ensure judging is blind.

ENTRY GUIDELINES:

1.) (again) MS Word or RTF file, double spaced, left justified, 1″ margins all around, using the auto-indent feature at .3″. DO NOT use tabs or spaces for indenting new paragraphs. PLEASE use the auto-indent feature – if unsure how to do this, read above and visit the video and the blog that explains in detail how to do this.

2.) DO NOT put your name on your entry. Instead, wait until you receive your entry number and put only your entry number on the top of the document you upload as well as in the title of the thread you post and as the document name. The Word document name should be JUST the entry number.

3.) Entries must be between 1500 – 7000 words, give or take a few hundred either way, as long the entry tells a full story with an intriguing storyline – if your entry is outside of these limits, you’d better have a darned good story to tell and email me first before you submit it.

4.) Use proper grammar, spelling and style when writing the story that complements the story – sometimes, grammar does take a backseat to the story, but you’d better know why it does if you’re gonna break the rules! (yes, the gonna was intentional) The most common mistakes are: not checking spelling (can you imagine not using spell check at the very least?), dialogue tags and proper punctuation of dialogue, using all caps or multiple punctuation marks at the end of sentences!!!!

THEME: 5.) All entries must use the theme: FIRE & ICE

I’m not telling you what that means or how to use it, so don’t ask. Part of what your entry is going to be judged upon is the adherence to and creative use of the theme. The more creative it is, the better chance you have of winning.

The theme doesn’t have to be ‘in-your-face’. In fact, it’s probably better if it’s not. It can be subtle, but be sure that it’s not so subtle that the judges can’t clearly see you used the theme.

6.) DO NOT use headers of footers, and DO NOT number your pages.

7.) Oh, did I mention to: Give us your best work!

Keep in mind, one of Michy’s goals with this forum is to help aspiring writers – if you think our guidelines are strict with the contest here, it’s nothing compared to what a publisher is going to require – so consider this practice with publication!

At the same time, there are some professional and published writers entering this contest too – so while you might be practicing, they might be polished – so I repeat, give us your best.

LEGAL STUFF

YOU will retain ALL copyrights to your short story, but if you choose to accept the publishing contract and include your winning short story in the Accentuate Writers anthology, we do ask for non-exclusive, first print publication rights.

After the story publishes in the print anthology trade paperback book and winners have received their free copies they won in the contest, all winners will be allowed to buy additional booka at a 50% discount off the retail price. ALL registered forum members can buy the books at 10% off the retail price and any contest entries who did not win can buy the book at 20% off retail price!

THERE IS NO PURCHASE REQUIRED, PERIOD, EVER! We simply make the book available at a discount to those who want to give it as a gift or make it available for sale on their own website and make a little money from selling it. We will never require you to purchase a single copy of the book – but we will be giving away copies as prizes for free!

YOU WILL NOT BE ASKED TO PAY FOR EDITING OR CRITIQUE SERVICES. Editing is part of publishing, so all stories that win the contest will be fully edited for free. Last month, we had a special $5 critique offer, but that was completely optional and had no bearing on the contest results, since the judges didn’t have a clue who did and did not pay the crit fee.

THERE IS NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. While the $5 entry fee is required per entry, there is no additional cost whatsoever to enter, no required purchase, nada, nothing, zero, zip, zilch.

Some Notes:

This will be the last short story contest of 2008. It will end in October, with judging in November, and prizes will all be paid either in late November, or early December, guaranteed no later than December 15th.

Accentuate will announce a poetry contest in the next week and that contest will run between now and December 15th, with the prizes being paid out on December 17th. Up to FIVE poems will be chosen for inclusion as filler between theme breaks in the anthology. More on that to come.

That will close out all contests for 2008, and then we will finalize contracts, finish editing and proof/galley copies, and send the first ever Accentuate Writers Anthology to print, with an anticipated public release date of February 25th, 2009.

Contests will be held approximately every month between now and December, when all winning entries that have returned the release forms back to us will be compiled for preparing for print.

New contests will begin January 5th, 2009 and will run either monthly or semi-monthly, depending on the number of entries as the contests progress. Current plans are to run the first series of contests from January through July, with a second anthology published and released in October, and then run the third anthology series from August through December, with the third anthology published in February again.

However, if entries increase to the point that there are enough quality stories to fill more books, Accentuate reserves the right to make the contests monthly, and close quarterly for four print anthologies per year. We will never increase that number, since running these contests and preparing the anthologies is time consuming and expensive, and we also want to keep the competitive nature where being published in one of our anthologies is a true competitive honor, limited only to the best of the best of each contest.

FINE PRINT:

No single author will have more than six stories in one book, so after the sixth story, they will be ineligible for future contests until the next anthology compilation begins. Should any single author reach this level for one anthology compilation period, we will make them an honorary judge of the next contest until they are eligible to enter again!

Only first place winners will have their names listed on the cover of the anthology. All authors will be listed on the interior title page, the LOC page, and will have author bios included in the back of the book, with photo and contact information if they so choose. All author’s pen names will be listed in the description field on Amazon.com and other online book retailers.

Winners will get author copies for the prizes they win, even if they win more than one. That is, if a person wins first place in June’s contest and then wins second place in July’s contest, then that person will get 5 free books for June and 3 free books for July, for a total of 8 books.

You must be an ACTIVE member of the forum in order to participate in the contest. This simply means you must register for a free membership on the forum and post your introduction. While we would prefer you continue to stay and chat with us all, this is all that is required for the contest.

Any contest discussion should be held in this thread:

http://www.accentuateservices.com/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=2116

All entries should be uploaded to this thread:

http://www.accentuateservices.com/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=2119

Password: password

For prize information:

http://www.accentuateservices.com/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=2118

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Last month’s short story contest for July/August was the biggest one yet – we had 18 qualified entries. I know that doesn’t seem like much compared to some contests, but let me tell you something – YOU don’t have to judge them. It’s tough! There were highly competitive entries this last time.

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Recently, I’ve received a couple of emails asking me when the most recent page view update was on Associated Content.

Just a quickie this morning, but you can see this information your page under My Content.

It’s right here:

See that part in the yellow there? That shows you when the last update took place.

No, you won’t get an email when it updates, and no, there is no other way to know when there is an update except to log in and see that there has been one.

When you do log in, click on My Account (if it doesn’t take you there automatically) and over on the left-hand side, you’ll see something similar to the image here.

And then you can see the date last updated.

Right now, AC’s last email newsletter said they try to update at least twice per week. No, there is not a set date to when they do this, or even set days of the week, though the forum constantly seems to try to figure that out. While it can be consistent for a couple months at a time, it could change at any moment, so don’t count on a specific time or day for updates.

That’s it for today – just a quickie from me.

Okay, not that quick, but you have to admit, for me, it was short!

Love and stuff,
Michy

PS: Keep writing!

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