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Dan, all problems I've had myself.  When I find more I'll be able to write about them!

Or go without the contractions but drop the 'for you' in the second case.  In the first  'but I am following'.

Whazzup wit' NJC?

Well, I've reached a point where I see how my work isn't good enough, but I'm groping blindly for better.  I need to push on through this.

I also need to renumber chapters ... which suggests I also need to manage structure better, to do more in less, to give each item more roles to play.

I give myself 'til midnight Friday.

"You've given me a lot to think about  I need to understand why you've suggested these changes and how I can use that within my own style."

I sometimes push hard in reviews, but I try to explain.

The glitch seems to have disappeared.

Hmm.

"The Secrets of Story" by Matt Bird.  Maybe a bit more foundational than the others, but very good.

Read my comments.  Nine and sixty ways.

Romances somtimes switch PoV mid-sentence.  They're like the circus equestrian standing with each foot on a different horse.

The right word is economical.  It delivers great value to the reader with minimum interpretive effort, and no distraction from a need to assemble a picture from multiple words.

"Romance is divine and I'm not one to knock it, but  ..."

There are standards for handling this, but there are also variations that various people/organizations use.  The canonical response to a violation of the standard is to drop the suspect character, because if two different readers interpret it differently, the difference might open a security hole.  What you're seeing is not a drop, but a translation of the character to a question mark, though even that might open a security hole.

Unfortunately, Microsoft is not known for strict adherence to standards.  I don't know what library TNBW is using, but it too might decide that non-latin characters (including the barred symbols used by some latin-character Slavic languages) are unsafe.

I suspect that the transfer is made using HTML, which should be unambiguous even though Microsoft violates the standards left, right, east, west, in, out, and six times on Sunday.  That means that TNBW ought to be able to handle it.  But depending on how well the code base is organized by separation of concerns, it might be a hellacious fix with lots of problems introduced mid-flight.

Trump has a virtue that may yet save him.  He learns from his mistakes.  I cannot see that in any of our currrent crop of politicians, for too few have had to pay for their mistakes.