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Had distractions. Was trying to get a demo box with my flasher circuit working for one family confab.  I finished Test Article 4, finding an interesting and possibly useful failure mode along the way.  Useful, that is, once I fully understand it.  I bought some materials for working with Surface Mount devices and got to the point where I could solder the beasties (that's 2.5mm x 2.7mm x 3.2mm) well enough, then started to assemble the final board.

And hit a failure mode that has me flummoxed.  I need to spend serious time trying to figure it out.  There'll probably be a Blinding Flash of the Obvious at some point.  And I haven't begun cutting the openings in the housing for it.  That's the sort of careful work I usually muff.

Meanwhile, I learned a new word just when I needed it.  Well, a new phrase: "false document".  It means a work (eg. a book) that exists only as a name within a work of fiction.  Like an Encyclopedia Galactica, or Fleetrow's Guide to the Universe.  Or The True and Complete Record of the Instructive Adventures of the Daring and Sagacious Count Hulhausen Lundersot, And of His Life and Times.  Only, as you know, I am trying to put a bit of that fictional work, complete with the Count's own recounting, and the sorcero-cinematic-virtual-reality experience thereof, into my own work of fiction.  (Maybe in another fragment, I could have the Count peruse a copy of one volume of the supposedly apocryphal Sorcerer's Progress.  Only I'm not sure my cheek is large enough for that kind of tongue.)

I spend Wednesday eve reading a trade paper copy of The Secrets of Story.  I recommend it HIGHLY to everyone here.  It is a rapid-fire discharge of Blinding Flashes of the Obvious, complete with stunning afterimages thereof.

I'll be visiting my brother for a few days starting 12/10.

I'm way behind in reviews as well as in work.  Amy and Rebecca, you should expect reviews within about 20 hours.  Oh, and Amy, I think you used tomato sauce before.  Just remember that the tomato is a New World plant.

Now for some rest.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/ar … ot-so-good and read the comments.

Also, if you are looking for reciprocal review relationships, it helps to post in groups that use points.  You might also look for stories similar in style or subject and do a few reviews on them (collecting the points) to see if you can drum up recip relationships.

Politically Incorrect America

Use s solid backgound in a color that seems to blend into your cover.

I'm always up for a review.  There's  that fractional near-porn chapter I put up a while ago ...

Others have investigated this, and found that things are visible.  Kdot made a particular study of it.

I don't think money is the issue.  This is free-as-in-speech, not free-as-in-beer.

But membership in TNBW includes an agreement to respect copyright.  The key is that the work is available to members, but NOT to everyone on the web.  If it is available to everyone on the web, then it's been released publicly, not to a private, copyright-respecting group.

I'm working now on another of Merran's virtual reality spell experiences, and will put it in the same chapter (and repub) when done.  This will be a short episode from Being the Record of the Instructive Adventures of the Daring and Sagacious Count Hulhausen Lundersot, and of His Life and Times (short name The Instructive Adventures of the Daring Count Hulhausen Lundersot).

I'm having far too much fun with this one.

You could also move the series identity above the author name ....

I'm always open to reviews on my very rough and incomplete work.

Had some ideas about story threads from B2 through B4 or 5.  I'll be mulling these over the next couple of weeks.