About Me: I'm a British-Cypriot-Mexican translator/writer born in Germany, living in Mexico, looking to spread the wings to Canada. I follow Forn Sidhr as a way of life, and share my home with three Belgian Sheepdogs. One is black and bearlike, the other is black and huge and bearlike, and the third is salt-and-pepper and wolflike. The black ones love their plush hippogriffs (as they should), the other favours a dragon and two (plush) skulls. And a monkey. Don't judge. No, they're not called Sirius, Padfoot and Moony.

Not sure why.

They definitely act like them.

~ DND

On Reviews.

I like them, as a rule, as long as they're not outright flames. If I read something, I'll review, if only to add an emoji, and I've realised that even a "liked" or "disliked" would make my day. Because, for us writing here for an unseen readership, knowing if what we wrote deserves a "like" or "dislike" helps us loads in figuring out where the story should go, if we succeeded or failed in telling what we meant to tell the way we meant to tell it, and the response it's getting.

Especially for those writers dreaming of being published authors one day and having us others write fanfiction about their books, reviews are crucial.

If the review has more information in it, even if it's not about style or punctuation and goes something like, "SQUEEEE YOU UPDATED" it helps because we know more about how we are telling the story. Because nobody squees over a badly-told tale. There are many stories that could have been told better (I'm living that process now, every time I reread a chapter of Time and want to alternately hide inside a paper bag and scrap the thing and start over), and reviews help us as writers to know if we got the message we wanted across the way we intended, or not.

To me, playing in another writer's universe is a great exercise, and in my line of work, it's been downright helpful. Other writers on this site may feel the same way.

So, review you guys and gals of the internets. You can do it in any language you like, I gots the Google Translate. Or just, y'know, tell me at least if you're liking or not. I won't hold it against ya.

~DND

Latest News:

My phone bit the dust before I could sync the latest update for Runaway and Bond of Blood, so this week there won't be anything new. Sad, I know. I just hope they'll revive it without losing Scrivener! Happy weekend!