It's weird, but I can't find the thread we were posting in earlier. It just disappeared!  So I thought i's just start another one.

Nothing much to say though lol

That's awesome!

Yes, I do!  I always read the first Harry Potter book to them and usually the second; I let them vote on if they want to read the second one or something different, but they always vote to read Chamber of Secrets.  We haven't even started Harry Potter yet this year, but a lot of them are already into it.  I think we've come to the point where their parents are the generation that grew up with Harry Potter and are passing the love for it onto their kids, which is cool to see.

Sounds like a fun time. Do you still read Harry Potter to your class or did you move to another book?

Thanks!  I still haven't finished Fairy Tale, nor have I read any of it since the last time I posted. 🤦🏻‍♀️  I've been reading children's books for school and writing instead.

Nice to see you're writing again Mare, I'll have to have a look

I'm still catching up on Julie's, I read a chapter last night now that I've finished the other book I was reading (one by Cecelia Ahern called The Year I Met You, which I quite enjoyed)

Yeah, I kind of figured that comments were going to be a rarity. I’ve only gotten one. The other was my reply to the first one lol I hit reply but it came up as it’s own comment. I’m kind of going by kudos and hits. I already surpassed Why I’d do it all again in both those things and I’m only two chapters in so I’m taking that as a sign. Hopefully I’ll develop a following and some interaction hopefully.

LOL That is exactly how I felt when I started playing The Sims again for the first time in decades.  Not the same thing, obviously, but I had to look up all the cheat codes I used to know by heart and how to enter them.  It does come back to you, though.  It takes a while for something to become a habit, so stick with it!  It'll get easier in time!

I'm glad you were able to get two chapters done so quickly, and I saw that you already have comments and kudos, so you're off to a great start!  AO3 is a HUGE site.  I'm sure it varies from fandom to fandom, but they seem to place more emphasis on kudos than comments.  I get far fewer comments there than I used to here, and many of the people who have commented on my stuff are friends who followed me there from here.  (Thanks, Steph! LOL)  Yet, if you sort by comments, the stories I've written since I started posting on AO3 are among the most commented BSB fics, so I can't complain.  It just seems like there are a lot more silent readers there than there were here because we always made such a big deal out of leaving reviews.  I still miss it here!

I’m using Word but I might try google docs. It’s all such an adjustment. It’s been such a long time that I forgot what the short cuts were to copy and paste lol

I’m really rusty writing wise but I got my first chapter up and am almost done with the second. I haven’t gotten a writing groove but maybe it’ll happen again eventually.

It’s hard to say if anyone is reading but I’m going to go by hits I guess? Im still trying to figure out AO3. It’s a big site. Never realized it had so many fandoms.

As far as Stephen King. Mr. Mercedes is a trilogy actually.

It’s Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers and End of Watch. Technically it’s called the Bill Hodges trilogy. They’re fantastic.

I have not read Mr. Mercedes, so I will hold off on Holly.  I didn't realize it was related, so thanks!

I was happy to see your tweet the other day about writing again!  I hope you give it a shot!  Archive of Our Own is the site we all moved over to. https://archiveofourown.org/  If your computer doesn't have Word, use Google Docs!  It's very similar to Word and saves automatically, which is nice - no more risk of losing stuff if the computer randomly shuts down.  It will open Word docs, so you can upload your old documents to Google Drive if you want to look at anything you had in progress.  It's a bit of an adjustment at first, but once you get used to it, you won't even want to go back to Word.  My computer doesn't have Word either, and I don't miss it.  OpenOffice is another word processor you can download for free if you don't like Google Docs.