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I generally avoid involuntary movements unless it brings out some important characteristic.

So we have Laurie in a suddenly crashing air plane...

True, her eyebrows shoot up. I mean she's as surprised as I am.
True, her fingers curl around the arm rests. Mine would too

Reality of her POV is staring at the ground rushing toward her. Oxygen masks dropping. Dull screams from the adjoining cabin or a steward losing his footing.

It's a question of where the camera is pointed. Are we looking out from the POV seeing where they look vs turned to stare down the POV and how they react

Zombies move quite quickly in World War Z.
https://gamerant.com/fast-zombie-trope- … ays-later/

Apparently the deadline is the 28th but registration opens on the 17th (eg tomorrow). This is good because I have 3 mandatory chapters to pen and 2 optional. I can churn through 3 chapters comfortably by Thursday. I could rush them all on Sunday but they'll read rushed, so I better pace myself.

WordPerfect acutally has 4 dashes (counting hypen)

A-
A–
A‒
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The review site where I'm getting my spellcheck done. They have a (seemingly) semi-annual full book review thing where 2-3 users will do an end-to-end.

I posted my dark-angel book and they came back with buckets of useful stuff. They said MC cries too much (Three times in 100k words). I had thought three was okay, but for strangers to catch this independently really is problematic.

I figure I'll pen the last bit of VQF in the next 9-10 days then out it up both over there and here. It'll be a good indication if all that padding has turned it into a yawner. My gut feeling is no, it's fine but ya never know.

Apparently the older model worked well enough, so I see no issue going back to it

What are your posting plans for this vs Connor?

I've been kinda following in the background but haven't reviewed as yet. Curious which one is higher on your radar for completion.

shrinkers and master-shrink <--- I can read these with having to pause and think
tsantsas <--- couldn't parse this one (not without a google or your explanation) As you say, it'd take some setup.

I'd suggest Brainial Ward or Department instead of Unit.

Don't laugh, but for the staff, I'm partial to psychiatrist and shrink (as opposed to Freudians and Pinels) only because of term-occlusion.

(eg in VQ I could have called androids "Bills" or "Gates" or "Jobs"... maybe even "Babbages" but to do so, I'd need to do a lift to ensure the terms fit well and the world-history supports it. This would naturally put pressure on the competing terms that show up after she "dies" thereby crowding the story)

"Linear" meaning closely mimicking human learning. No one reads two books at the same time. Or a movie and a radio program. Or drive a car while threading a needle. In theory a modern computer can do all of this without breaking a sweat. So our computers are not a linear learning model but logarithmic (accounting for heat & power)

Our consciousness tends to drift from one to the other. Even people who claim to be multitaskers, it's been proven that they simply switch back & forth at opportune times.

Eg, biological creatures are sequential learners. So linear seems appropriate.

But I'm years from publishing this, so I have time to re-invent the acronyms

I may after many years part company with the term "Android" reverting to the more classic concept that an android is simply a (dumb) robot that looks like a human. Dumb here meaning it could be ChatGPT V 200 smart but you'll never find one chasing a butterfly because it wanted to.
For the more advanced machines maybe Quantum Independant Linear Intelligence ( " Kirin" ) after the Japanese mythos.

Yes, I was able to circumvent the copy-block, but I feel spammers won't take the time to do so