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It looks like I can pull it off, but it requires a few role changes. Christian becomes an overly self-assured gay crown prince; Joseph and his mother live in South Haven (the worst of the havens); Paul becomes a background character, good for a few scenes; Andrew is Joseph's best friend who gets killed off early; Adam & Eve are unchanged.

In v2, Joseph's travelling companion bounced back and forth between Paul and Christian for story reasons. In v3, I can have Joseph and Christian together the whole time. I'll need a way to get Christian down to South Haven where Joseph lives, minus the royal security guards. Kidnapping? Also, Christian needs to forgive Joseph for the video that the media say provoked the riots that killed the queen. They then take off together on the slaver.

Voila? This book is going to be ten years in the making.

It also breaks a lot, but I definitely like the idea, as long as I can give him a poor teen's perspective.

I've gone through most of my notes. The todo list is 44 pages, all color-coded, but in no way organized. Organizing it will probably take a week. Many of the todos require searches/edits across four seperate Word files. I'm probably better off combining all four acts into a single file for doing all of the minor edits, then split them up again before moving on to v3. Fortunately, Word has a document map for navigation.

Tom, I received that error message as well. I think it's due to the author of the post deleting it after the emails have gone out. That was my assumption.

Some days I could swear you're rebuilding the NJ power grid. PSE&G needs serious work. When NYC blacked out many years ago, the stories at the time were about how fragile the whole grid is and that it could have easily brought down several states. After a week or two, nobody gave a damn.

Thanks!

Yes, it's world building (or should I say worldbuilding? :-). "Personal AI" as the name for smartwatches sucked. I considered other names for smartwatches, such as wisething, wise thinker, and doohickey. However, I decided yesterday to add smart contacts to the book, so I need two names. I kind of like wisething (watch), in spite of (because of?) its sexual connotation, and wiseeyes (lenses). It would be a little weird for adults to use the term wisething, although my book is silly enough that I could get away with it.

I should note that intelli has three syllables, whereas wise has just one. There is something to be said for brevity. Also, i-watch and i-lenses are no longer options. Too close to Apple.

Tech naming party:

I'm thinking that anyone who's anyone wears wiselenses and a wisewatch. There is overlap in functionality, but only the watch can speak. The lenses can display textual responses visible to the wearer. A multi-party mode is also possible (e.g., connect me to your lenses).

Following are possible names (3 or 4 choices for each numbered list):
1. wisewatch, wise-watch, wise watch (same for lenses), often shortened to watch, lenses, also contacts.
2. intelliwatch, intelli-watch, or intelli watch (same for lenses), often shortened as above.
3. w-watch, e-watch, ewatch, or i-watch (no iwatch, same for lenses), shortened as above.

Examples:
I lost my wisewatch and my wise lenses.
Well, then, dumbass, use my intelli-watch and intellilenses to find them.
Why don't you shove your e-watch and elenses up your...?

Votes?

You yourself pointed out that it doesn't exist since that would "break" the first six episodes.

Thank you, Elisheva. I like the idea of a single device because of its simplicity. With smartcontacts I can do audio/video in and video out. I just can't do audio out unless I add the extra device or find some technobabble way of doing audio out from the lenses. Perhaps some way of constructing the lenses so that they briefly numb the eye while an audio out is happening.

One other possibility is awatch, which is short for Acme Watch (Acme is my major supplier of all kinds of tech, delivered by Mama's Little Shipping.