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Omer dokey

Janet, in the areas where I just said, 'delete', I usually just mean this is an area where you can thin for tighter prose. In other words, the sentence says much the same thing without overlap/redundancy.

Not 100%, but a feeling a lot better. Sleeping 44/48 hours helped a lot. Poor me. Time to take another nap...

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I haven't fallen off the face of the Earth, but it feels like it. I'm missing out on the 'Trials and Tribulations of Being Merran', as well as "Matt and Cathy boink."  I'm hoping to catch up on "Ghost or God: Talking To Ones Self When No One Else Is Listening in Modern Rome," as well as "Dragons Are Cool so Shut Up and Read!"

K's contribution will be, "I Write Books For The Sole Purpose Of Getting My Characters' Children Into The Storyline," followed by, "Oops, I Forgot Those Powers Could Do That But I Published So It Has To Be True."

In all fairness, somewhere in here, I need to write more of my "Never Ending Story and The Endless Crypt Meets Flowing Gillis Juice." Sigh. I've got red on my ledger. Time to make some black marks.

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Too late. Google bit him and now he'll never forgive.

I'm getting to your side of the thread. But I'm back to the coal mines and working a bunch. Today, though...it may be a pajama day. I may get some time to bond with my computer.

That's OK. I just went over to his apartment and spit on his door handle. We're even.

That was K giving me crap about the name 'Gillis' because I use it in a singular sense, as a pleural and as a counting unit.  (Although M as a gladiator is a hoot to think about).  I tried to come up with a similar-use noun in comparison. Gladiator was one attempt.

So either I need to count them as a single unit (a gillis), or multiple (gillises/ gilli/ Gillis/ cluster of gillis) or like a murder of crows, flock of sheep, quarum of dwarves...maybe a 'pouring' of Gillis?

Just for fun...
Haggle of Harpies
Kingdom of Dragons
Swarm of Orcs
Clutch of Kobolds
Hive of Howlers
Gentry of Giants

Janet,

I would love to see C and M in different places and times…living out a variety of situations where the clues come together to solve the mystery. Maybe something that the reader is given to understand but the characters never see because they are too immersed in the action.

It would be a great way to keep these characters that you love active and part of your storyline. And it gives their love a timelessness that could really appeal.

In return, maybe you can consider writing some Fantasy. Maybe a ghost mystery placed in the same time period as NS?

Brass tacks. That's our boy.