No, Paul, the original poster decided that he couldn’t be bothered to do a simple check.

Try again, old chap, with http://forum.keypublishing.com/search.php?do=finduser&u=21698, this is the url for the search rather than the results.

[QUOTE=’568 crew;1494358](albeit the Air Combat is A LOT longer) ……. [/QUOTE]

Please bear in mind that when the fuel runs out the combat has to stop.

Allen, if bumblebees follow the disastrous colony collapses that have affected honey bees they won’t just be disappearing at this time of year.

Some of these threads are very quick to read due to the number of ignored posters.

I recommend that everyone PMs you in future if they have any holiday plans.

I find it hard to comprehend that you ran this search and failed to absorb the information that you were seeking when it’s right under your nose. There’s absolutely no need to start threads when the information’s so very easy to find.

Old Shape, all you had to do was list her posts and you’d have found your answer to both the location question and the fact that she’s posted recently.

As the Meerkat says, “simples”.

New Zealand. Don’t you bother reading threads or using the search facility?

Allan, that’s great advice and I hope our budding author takes heed and appreciates the effort you’ve gone to to lay things out so concisely.

The only other thing I’d add is that I think our budding author needs to read far more of other peoples’ work in the subject area. Perhaps “read” isn’t the right word, “study” is probably nearer the mark.

If you read a story/first-person account and you enjoy it, why did you enjoy it? Take the work apart and analyse how the plot’s structured, the level of technical detail and the language used to get it across, the continuity and flow of the perspective from which the story’s told. Good stories rarely flow off the keyboard unchanged and concise, engaging text is the product of a great deal more effort than rough drafts. It’s not just about laying a story down on paper, it’s about endowing the story with the attributes that make people want to read and enjoy it. To some this may come naturally, I suspect that to many successful authors it takes a lot of hard work.

I vaguely remember a quote, I think it was from Samuel Clements, that went along the lines of “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead”.