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I'm new here and not very computer savvy. I haven't seen how to respond to a thread and I'm not at all sure what you want under'quote' but I'll find out eventually. I'll add my books later when I get more familiar with the set up.
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When you go into a thread, at the bottom is a white box with 'Write comment' at the top.
Type your response in there and click 'post comment'.
You only need to use 'quote' if you want to quote something another poster said.
Welcome to the forum. Would you like to tell us a bit about yourself?
I live in Worthing and write novels, belong to a group called the'Sea Scribes' and blog on wordpress but most of my contacts are in the USA so I'm looking to chat to more folk in the UK. Can you explain the use of the word private on some posts? Does this mean restricted access whereas all other posts are public? I'm eager to learn.
We have all sorts of writers here, at various stages in their writing, published and unpublished and we are quite friendly so hopefully you will have a good time here.
There's no need to use the feature if you don't wish too.
'Flag' is when you want to bring something to the editor's attention (we call him Webbo and he's quite house-trained).
'Send PM' means you want to send a message to one of the writers.
'Thanks' - click on this and at the bottom of the other person's post will be a little blue goldstick to say you've thanked them. 'Like' means you like the post. I clicked this on your first post, and you get a balloon with 'like' in it.
If something goes wrong when you're typing, and you don't see it till afterwards, click on Edit, and you can change it. I've just added this to my post in that way.
Welcome, goldstick! You'll get the hang of it just by using it.
It will be interesting to hear about your blog posts- we have a thread called Blog Updates, so when you do a new blog post you can add a link on that thread.
Once you press submit, the link will be live, and if you go back into the thread your link should show up as blue, and if you click on it, it should open your blog page.
I don't think that would be sensible.