Hi Niall, Thanks for your read and response. The more "modern" approach is to stay with the 3rd person (or the first) but shorten the distance between the narrator and the reader. This is sometimes called "close" POV. Practising with 1st person POV is a good way to start. Listening to conversations on public transport can give you an insight into modern dialect. Everything becomes shorter for writers today. (Not al!) Read 21st century authors who you like and go with that. Many readers still love the classics too. Do a comparison.

@anne-skyvington-16052 I'd like to be added to your publication. I write memoir style articles about psychological and spiritual growth, always based on my own stories.

Thanks for your suggestions about publishers, Linda! Will look into that.

Sage advice, Kristina! I, too, love writing on Medium. Let's keep hoping and improving like Medium may well be doing.

Yes, that's me! I've always used the term eclectic. But MPC sounds better. Thanks.

Beautiful thoughts and words, Rebecca. I believe beauty is not only its own reward, but, as Plato suggested, a reflection of something greater and bigger than us. Like humor and love, it's linked to something deeper within a person, that can be enhanced, by strategies that you suggest, or depleted and dissipated by your actions.

Congratulations, Alan! And thanks for accepting my stories on NEC. A great Newsletter. A Fan

This is the best and worst About Me story I have read: You know what I mean: you understand irony! Which I love. Thanks! I thought you really had a pet goat for a while. Surely you wouldn't have enough time for it! What a great advocate for all of us with disabilities of any kind: mine's old age!

Thanks, Kristina, coz I'm a short form sort of writer! Will look into these ASAP!