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I'm waiting now to be called for surgery: ultrasound via a probe through th veins to see if I need stents in either of the big veins draining my legs.  That might explain why I've been so prone to these infections--and why this one is responding so slowly to treatment.

Not social media, though there's a fair amount of banter.  We're here to work.  Many of us hope to have fun from the learning and sharing, and many of us do find pleasure in it.  But the center is working together, not hanging out.

I'm still a bit woozy with sickness, and there is some prejudice in my opinion.

If you have a light or redemptive outcome, blunt the sex scenes.  See how much they want.  But if the ending is dark, consider the erotic romance side--if they don't ask you to lard it with too much more sex than you had planned.

48 hours seems excessive, though.  With all the terrific work the IETF has done,  why would they create an "unusable or unsafe for two days" scenario?

Bacon.  You mean 'bacon'.
To quote Glenn Reynolds, "Is there anything it can't do?"

The current two volumes in The Sorcerer's Progress are Children and Beasts and Earth by Fire.  (Titles are officially provisional, but the first two given are pretty solid.)

The first is in need of editing, and has some inconsistent edits.  The second is collecting chapters and ideas.  Right now the two timelines in book two are separated, lying in different chapter sequences.

There's a character name change in edit process: Mellaen => Melayne.   No change in pronunciation; it's to help the reader's eye.

The first few chapters have been heavily reviewed, so although you may want to read them, you shouldn't feel the need to review them.  The chapters a little after, that bring the characters into contact with a fellow named Erevain, have got to be cut severely.

The reviews that will help the most are those of what I've just written.  That's a lot to ask, since you'd be dropping in without knowing the world or the backstory.

But you did me the honor of examining the chapter.  Thank you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGb8pMIeY6w

I'm not really eager to come into this debate, but I disagree with this point.  Tolkien wrote Fantasy, but his world has its laws.  They are rooted in myth rather than in modern physical science, but there are laws.

I would argue (and don't want to argue at length!) that Science Fiction is characterized by differences from our world that are expressed through the physical sciences, whereas Fantasy is characterized by differences from our world that are expressed as myth or craft.

Consider my recent chapter A Lesson with Kirsey (sitting, for convenience, as ch 94 of The Sorcerer's Progress, Book 1: Children and Beasts).  Does the introduction of wave functions turn it from magic into science?  I don't think so, but you might.

Erudite

No, sadists.  Macavity, Macavity ...

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