J.A. Marlow

Definitely preparing outlines. I’m also working on the story bible for the heart-project, in hopes that I’ll have the big stuff already figured out when it comes time to go full-tilt into the writing. Not that it usually works out that way, but hey, it’s a plan. 😛

Originally I had 3 outlines ready to go, but I’m already writing on the first o…[Read more]

New site is live! See post on the front page for more details.

Thank you! 🙂

I had to update the PHP version used on the hosting site, as the old version used isn’t being updated any longer and has several big security problems. As you can see, it broke part of the current FM site. However, the new site is working just fine on the more secure version of PHP.

So, I’m giving notice. I’m porting over all of the users and…[Read more]

Big testing is done!

Software has now been cloned to the new FM site location, and is up and running.

For the next week will come more testing, and then I will do the big import of the users and forums from here to the new site. At that point I will be pointing the domain to the new folder and the new site will be live.

I’ll post here just…[Read more]

The work on the new FM site continues. I have all the major elements in place and am now working on the smaller items. My goal is to get the new site up and running before Nano. So far I am on track for that.

And I agree. It will be nice to have all of the activity centralized again. Hopefully we’ll have more visitors into live chat!

Mooseythehut wrote:
For Chat, will the Writing Groove Chat remain active and move over to FM with the existing logins or will we have to re-register at the FM site after the move?

Thanks for the question, Moosey!

I own the chat room that is currently at Writing Groove and can embed it anywhere. It is not tied into the Writing Groove user…[Read more]

Writing Groove will remain up until I’m absolutely certain that the new FM site is working and stable. That way we can use it for support in the interim.

When the main testing is over the new website will go active as the main site. At that point I’m hoping (HOPING) it will be an easy thing to move this site to a sub-domain under the main domain…[Read more]

The progress bars are from a plugin called “TDD Progress Bars”. I went through quite a few plugins before settling on this one because it allowed me to choose colors and have more than one. Thanks for the compliment!

The warp speeds are on purpose (and no you are not an idiot ). I didn’t go with the “Pulp Speeds” of DWS because no everyone writes at that pace. This site is to encourage writing and forward progress no matter the speed. However, for anyone else who is curious, look at the FAQ on the warp speeds and at the bottom you will see what higher warp…[Read more]

Welcome to FM!

Welcome to FM! Join us in getting down to business and getting the words written.

Welcome to Forward Motion!

You can do iiiiiiit.

Welcome to the fun and insanity! It’s been great fun writing and chatting with you in chat.

Lots of hugs! I hope you heal right up!

Welcome back! A lot of us write in many genres, including me. Hey, go with what the story needs. Most of all, have fun writing it.