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Hi, Shaina,
At the bottom of every page posted here you will see 'Copyright 2018' with your name after it, followed by 'All rights reserved'.  You can sue if anyone decides to steal your work.  Haven't heard of that happening here, and I've been here for 10 years. 

Welcome to the site.  Hope you find the help you're seeking.

MJ

Given the person praying in your chapter, I believe he wanted to show reverence for God.  Here's something that may help:  https://www.gotquestions.org/capitalizi … s-God.html

Think it depends on the situation.  But it was a prayer.  Doesn't get much more reverent than that.

Me is having the same problem, but me thought it was just I.

I just have a simple question:  In a 70,000 word novel, assuming an average of 3.5 characters per word, you'd have a total of 245,000 characters.  Is one more little comma added to ensure your reader isn't confused gonna be a huge problem for you?

All this new-fangled stuff bothers me.  Now editors and publishers only want one space after a period instead of two I learned to use when typing.  I've been typing for 50+ years.  Do you know how difficult it is to change now?  Ain't gonna happen.  If they want only one space, then they can go to Find, hit the space bar twice, then tell Word to change to one space.

I've used serial commas for more than 50 years.  Not gonna change now.  Just like using a comma before the word 'too.'  Not gonna change that either.  I, too, am sick of changes that don't work any better than the old way. 

I personally am over fixing something that's not broken.  I draw a line in the sand and say use the damn serial comma, use a comma before 'too,' and quit telling me to use only one space after a sentence.  You'll never teach this old dog new tricks.

Sincerely,
Set-in-my-ways in Georgia

“Who’s been inside since the body was discovered?”
“Just Father Coppola, the paramedics, and I.”

Break this answer down as follows: 
“Just Father Coppola.”
“Just the paramedics.”
“Just I.”

As you can see, the “Just I” doesn’t work.  If you change it to me, it works.  Since it’s dialogue, you’re free to use whichever version you so choose, but she’s not in the habit of using incorrect grammar in any of the previous sentences, so why would she here?

I suggest:  “Aside from myself, just Father Coppola and the paramedics.”

Hi, Pakhan, and welcome to the site.  Hope you will like it here.
May I suggest that you join the Premium Group and edit your post to include that group to publish to?  That's where you'll get the most exposure and the most reviews.  As it is now, you have posted in groups that I am not a member of, and we're only allowed membership in ten groups at a time.  Premium is the largest group here. 

Good luck.

Hi, Helena,
I'd love to review your story, but I'm not a member of the groups you've posted in.  We are limited in the number of groups we can join.  You've posted in New Novelists, NEWBIES, Anime & Kpop, Christina's Group of Music. By not being a member of any of those, I can't see your work.

The largest group on here is Premium group.  Would it be possible for you to re-post your work in that group?  It's a simple fix.  Just join Premium if you haven't already, go to your name at the top right, click Portfolio.  You will see a list of your titles.  Click to the side for Edit, then go to the publish setup.  Click Premium.  Then save it. 

You'll get more help there.  Just food for thought!

Cheers,
MJ

OMG!  You made me laugh with those, Temple!  (Sorry, Dirk, but 'tis true what she said!)

Congrats and kudos!  How exciting for you!

MJ

Yes!  I cried when Mellie died!  Though I haven't finished For the Love of Mellie yet, I got attached to her very early and cried when I had to eliminate her!

MJ