Reading some agents' blogs they definitely want manuscripts that are polished as much as they can be. Most officially or unofficially encourage others to read them before the author queries. Make's everyone's lives a bit easier.

And they kept the buddies on the list!

Awesome work Fred!

We're sorting out what's up with the buddy list. Please remain patient.

Cool! Thanks Fred

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Two awesome day threads.

I don't have any first hand experience but I used to do some work at a residential treatment facility (not rehab because it included more than those recovering from chemical dependency). But about 1/3 of them were recovering from something, though that wasn't always why they were there.

Almost all of them fell into a pattern that went something like: craving-->stress-->score-->relief. Craving was the instance where they first felt the need to use, stress came after. Stress for some of them was just a feeling of irritability, others experienced trembling hands, but the one I remember more than the others said that just before he'd score said that his eyeballs would itch, and his tongue tickled his teeth.

Looks like you ticked over to 10,000 posts recently. That might have something to do with it.

So there are perks other than a cool new title that asks me "Seriously?" every time I log in? Awesome!

I normally don't do that kind of thing but I really liked the sound of that word.