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The bigger problem is regardless of how you save it (button size, color, whatever) you can't get back to it from the red (Draft) icon on the home page nor the work you are reviewing. You must remember possibly a year from now that the red draft icon does nothing and you have to go to all your reviews posted to find the dang thing, which is totally illogical imho. Take care. Vern

Well, he didn't say what year. When will December 3 be on Saturday again? Something to look forward to. Take care. Vern

The way I look at it, a first person narrator is in effect one of the characters in the story and is going to have a distinct voice much like the character whose story is being told in first person. As such, unless the character who is being represented by the first person narrator also speaks technically correct in his/her dialogue then it would seem unlikely that the same person as a narrator would speak technically correct all the time. The "voice" would sound unnatural in such a case in my grammatically ignorant though socially experienced opinion. Take care. Vern
Edited for PS: ***Well, when Tom and me got to the edge of the hilltop we looked away down into the village and could see three or four lights twinkling, where there was sick folks, *** Appropriate sample from the first person narrator, Huck Finn, using the voice -- and the me -- of the character.

This is not a confession, but I've found drowning and crunching them critters before flushing the remains down a dark hole to be the best method and leaves no evidence. Take care. Vern

I would think that using a sprinkling of the words for the police officers, etc. which will likely be addressed directly throughout the story would suffice to give an authentic feel. Names of churches and such which you are now pondering probably aren't going to be addressed directly and will play no "active" part within the story so could be excluded without any loss of authenticity for the reader who will most likely fill in the blanks naturally and not give it a second thought. The story is the key. If it keeps interest, then the little idiosyncrasies of which words to put in Italian will fall by the wayside with little more effect than an unnoticed stranger in the crowd. Just my opinion. Take care. Vern

Or you could just say the arresting "officer" read him his rights. Really no need to quote the exact words unless it is pertinent to the plot. The translation to English will probably not be exact anyway. Just look what happened to the Bible with all those different translations. Take care. Vern

I understand Trump is on this and the perpetrator will soon be sent back to Russia for a parade in Red Square. Just an alternate fact. Take care. Vern

Hmm, or a best seller. Take care. Vern

Well, my mom, who had a second grade education, would say write any damn way you want and if it sells a million copies you can tell all the naysayers, "I told you so." But if it sets on your shelf and you sell only a few copies to friends and relatives, then you might want to reassess the broken rules dilemma. From the excerpt provided of Johnny Ringo ( a good cowboy name) I wouldn't read any more of his novels, not because of any grammar rules, but because it just seems boring. To each their own. Take care. Vern

Simple always seems to work best: If you don't want folks looking it up, use a different author name and title on site -- or out there. Hard to google something which doesn't exist. Take care. Vern