Look up the Rezvani Tank.

Maybe instead Italian plates?

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Thank you, K.

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A very quick note:

I'm tied up both with other projects and with figuring out how to organize my thematic material and weave it into the large-scale, multi-volume plot.  It's becoming clear very, very slowly, and more in my mind than on paper.  I've got reviews to do and should get at least four done in the next twenty-four hours.

Good news, sort of, is that one insight is good for Books Two and Three, if I can do it.  This is looking into the real face of evil and writing about it.

Look at the wiring diagram, page 2, box c: https://www.jameco.com/Jameco/Products/ … 620576.pdf

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CJ: I just got four email notifications for updates to your story.  Your portfolio shows me nothing new.

I'd love to see some new work

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From the world of old NYC subway announcements: Please lean off the doors.

Rachel (Rhiannon) Parsons wrote:

In literature, you can say what you want, so if you want to say someone died from poverty, sure, go ahead.  You'll be in the tradition of Dickens, Victor Hugo, Zola, and others who did this.  Strictly speaking, it's one's responses to poverty that might lead to death.  Zweig, a real world billionaire, became that way because he was born in poverty.  Hollis Brown (yes, a fictional character, but hey, that's my point) killed himself and his family because he lived in poverty.

Don't forget Niels Henrik Abel!

Good for me.

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If the contest is in a group (eg Premium) the content ought to be visible to members.

The SCARF Model

Not a complete and perfect model, of course, but valuable

Sometimes people answer the most recent question, issue, or argument instead of the original ... like I'm doing now.

Asteroid Omega.  Omega rock.

Low Bidda Bing, Low Bidda Boom

Good info.  I tried one of kdot's links on the same page and it worked.  Maybe something about the spacing/punctuation in the name confuses the code that puts the link in?

I suspect this is a problem everywhere, but here's the page where I find it: https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post35528.html

I move my cursor over the highlighted author name at the left.  I get a tooltip "Go to {author}'s profile".

The link does not go to the author's profile.  It goes right back to the present article.  It used to do what the tooltip claims.

You might try reading =Stranger in a Strange Land=--the as-writtem version, not the abridged, originally-published version.   The full version has the phrase 'real as taxes' in the second sentence.
Point is, Valentine Michael Smith is the ultimate innocent ... in a dangerous way.

Dialogue is ruled by the speaker's voice, and narrative by the narrators.  In a close PoV, you may want to hew near the PoV character's voice.

Before the days of method acting, there were books published full of diagrams of postures and gestures to accompany any emotion.

It doesn't hit those points directly, but if you haven't read Matt Bird's =The Secrets of Story= you need to put it on your list.

Is the =Raiders of the Lost Ark= series derivative of  =King Solomon's Mines=?

Not Rock Bottom?

TCME The Company that ...
OCME One Company to ...

Royal Hinkley
Royden Hinkley
Royalblood Hinkley

Minnow Thinkley?

I like the 'Think' names.   Elbrecht van Thinklage?