unable to post new WIP

Tao I stay permanently signed in. However I am occasionally asked to sign in again. I think the same thing happened to you as happened to me yesterday. I tried to get into My Account from the Gallery, the form to sign in came up, I just put in my login and was directed to My Account. Try just using the form that appeared to sign in (not the one to register as you've already done that). Then with any luck you'll be directed back to WIP and able to post your lovely peony there.

I found myself signed out a few days ago - though this isn't specifically your issue - got to the log-in page, found my email address displayed, the password box blank. But it gave me the option to sign-in with the password used for that email; clicked on that, and bingo, in I got. Whether it helps that I use Google Chrome, which remembers passwords, I don't know - my technological expertise is but slight. However: to your specific point, if you're logged in, you should be able to post your comments in whichever subject area you like - but I use a pc, not a tablet, or phone, or laptop: I've no idea what problems those devices might throw up. I wouldn't worry about being thought thick - just about all of us over a certain age (that being how old we were when computing went mainstream and quickly took over communication) find technology a challenge, because we were never taught it formally and have had to pick up our knowledge from books, or those young people patient enough to sit with us while we tremblingly approach the keyboard: I was given a tutorial by a young man who helpfully muttered 'BANG' as I asked what would happen if I did this or that..... Little swine. And it did help that while I knew nothing about computers, I WAS trained to touch-type.