Mate, I’ve tried to encourage you here, but if you can’t even be bothered to find out what plagiarism is, and how wrong it is, I have to say your chances of ever getting published are precisely zero.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism

Can I make a suggestion? You clearly love your writing, and as an amateur writer myself I understand and respect that. I have a fiction project that I love to polish and get just how I want it, but I don’t really expect to ever see it in print. I also had one aviation title published in the dim and distant past, and from that experience I’m sorry to say that I think there are way too many problems in terms of style, grammar, punctuation, structure and even basic spelling with your work to ever get published. Sadly, passion for your subject (which you clearly have) is simply not enough without the basic tools to make it readable and acceptable to others. I think the danger here for you is that you are going to fall between two stools, whereby you won’t get published, but in the attempt you lose the stories you love and the pleasure of creating them. So, with the greatest respect, maybe you should set aside any idea of getting published professionally (BTW, don’t be tempted by “Vanity Publishers”) and go back to writing purely for your own pleasure.

Please read and inwardly digest this: http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=98114 It’s hardly rocket science.
GA

True, but “If it is the post directly above yours, don’t quote it” (my crime was quoting two lines, apparently) is hardly the sort of thing most of us will have even seen in the 3 days since that guideline was posted.

If Mrs Creosote were to buy me, say, a new drill, I’d consider that a “treat.” Isn’t that the same kind of thing? :diablo:

A lad of about 20, about 6′ 4″, built like a brick sxxxhouse and with a scowl that Grant Mitchell would be proud of, walking to work in the freezing early morning damp in a flimsy black teeshirt. Can’t be easy, being so ‘ard.

Years ago, on holiday in Hong Kong, an elderly American couple asked me where in England I came from, and when I told them Lincoln one of them replied rather condescendingly “Why, I’ve never even heard of that.” “Really?” says I, “but you named one of your Presidents after it.” Never bothered me for the rest of the tour…

Somewhere on a real news site this past week…honest, it was CNN or MSNBC….there was a story about a new…how can I phrase it for this audience?…”female simulator”.

Where it differed from other “deluxe” models currently on the market, which the article said were realistic looking, warm to the touch, equipped with all the right bits and could move…was its ability to initiate speech: ask questions, start a conversation.

It could even be programmed to discuss items of interest to its owner (here’s your chance to have a “female” express interest in old aeroplanes…she could probably even complain about XH558).

The cost was expected to be $7000 and it’s builder, a former AI expert in the computer industry, said he’s been swamped with inquires and orders.

Does it get ratty and unpredictable once a month?

Must have been very embarrassing for them. I bet they wished the floor would open up.