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(17 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)

Holy giant chapter, Batman

Hey Dirk. This will boil your mind, I bet.

I've been getting riddled with caps issues on "Earth". eg: "Bye everyone, I'm headed to Earth."

but "I would travel to the four corners of the earth" apparently the rule is lowercase.

Kdot and K. can't be called formerly.

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(260 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)

There should be an emu in this thread.

I don't recall this, but it's been a while since I last read it. So much going on in that book yikes

They survived here. Making money now, thanks to Covid

Weird example since stranger isn't a job yikes

A minor addition, "teacher" can be made to pass the uniqueness rest.
Imagine your 5-yr-old running in the door:
>Mom! Dad! We caught a bug today and Teacher let us keep it

(Later same book, talking to a friend)
Dad: Our son's teacher gave him a bug.
Here, Dad cannot use capital because uniqueness lost

Another example, the Lone Ranger & Tonto walk up to two villains.
Villian: Hey lawman (Addressing Lone ranger as one lawman among many)
vs
Villain: Hey Lawman (Using a common term that everyone in the scene understands who it is)

In this above case, I'll take either as long as it's consistent that no other good guy is also Lawman

38 Special wrote:

Teacher, teacher, can you teach me?
Can you tell me all I need to know?

However I would expect the caps if teacher was shortened.
>Hey, Teach! How you doing

Revenge of the Sith (opening night) was my last excursion to the theatres

I have a high incident rate of female names ending in -a but I don't fight it. Most readers don't spot that

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(23 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)

Heh ShutterStock (where I buy some cover properties) is sneaky. I bought the 5-image pack. Turns out it has an auto-renew and automatically bought me 5 more images back in March

I logged in while working on another cover and found these extra downloads about to expire. It would have kept rebilling me until I caught it on my statement. Although I check my statement monthly, my "usual billers" such as Google, Amazon etc dont get much scrutiny. I mostly check for large bills and unexpected/unrecognized transactions. They could have snuck another 2-3 through before I found it

https://blog.bookbaby.com/2020/08/the-r … nfographic

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(68 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)

oki. post & run

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(68 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)

https://blog.bookbaby.com/2020/08/the-r … nfographic

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(17 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)

I should qualify: I'm not expecting the story to deal with any of these philosophical quandaries.

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Seabrass wrote:

You're making assumptions about what them gods can and cannot do.

Ha, not really. I'm clocking them over the head with simple causality (A variation of the omnipotence paradox)

Builder has no problem letting people climb out of windows that are not there.

Ok in this case, the ugly causality for Builder is that Bev can claim there is a window (She can see out of it... she could exit through it in case of a fire... provided she did not completely exit (say had one arm or leg through it so she could find it again) she can traverse back inside of it... etc).

Bev may hereby claim the window exists; she merely cannot see it. (eg it's a window hidden with magic or science in a way it cannot be perceived from the ground)

Builder may counter argue that no, he did not put a window there, but a window-sized layer of treated mustard.

Bev may counter-claim that the mustard:
a) has no properties of mustard
b) has visual properties of a window
c) has physical properties of a window
Therefore is a window

Builder's mustard is Bev's Window. Both characters are correct. eg: Despite Builder's attempt not to make a window, a window has been created from Bev's point of  view

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-ee303148fa032264abc40ceaa316143c

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(17 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)

Right, so to prove the existence of the windows is easy.

1. Ask a friend (I know she doesn't have many) to stand outside.
2. Lean out the window and wave

http://www.skyfire.ca/kwan/tnbw/BevF.jpg

Now, the most important element is the lean. As long as you stay inside you obey the rules of the tower. By ensuring you are bodily outside the window, you can get into the friend's space with her. You could throw a ball to her right? At the point you see each other there must be a physical line leading from her to the window (or to your body merged into the wall of the tower, which explains a lot as well, just in a different way)

Problem: What if you lean out and wave and she still can't see you?
Also easily solved. Assuming the thrown tennis ball always falls short and you're certain it's not your aim at fault

1. Tie a rope to a solid, inert object such as a bed frame or Ukee
2. Climb down the rope
3. Don't fall
4. While holding the end of the rope, walk up to friend
5. Look back to rope which should now lead to the window (provided you didn't let go)

That was the first book I liked in my original pass through the series.

Yep I suffered through books 1 and 2 to reach a good part. Something I'd never do nowadays haha

Will have rejoined anonymously

You wouldn't write "Vice President Pence" all the time tho. It'd get exhausting. Couldn't shorten it to "president" so you'd probably end up just saying the name and hope the reader knows who he is after one mention

the no long term immunity is a problem to the herd immunity solution. But the human genome has seen other corona viri... and it's survived x-thousand years... I have confidence it'll figure this out. In the meantime, I'll be sitting in my plastic bubble

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Any special characters such as ampersand in it?

Actually, I lie

I would tell him to get rid of it in a debut novel. Anyone who's worked their way to a book 3 (book 5 in your case) will sit through the world building -- even deserves the world building

I would tell him gt rid of it too

And get rid of 75 pages of a guy studying sand

You could get away with that in 1980 but nowadays, people are off to facebook the moment they get half-interested where flashing games scream play-me-now-Seymour