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I like this one best so far. What most intrigues me about your story is that there's a character who can live in his books. Plus it covers the threat to the real world, all in two sentences.

Professor R. Hinkley is from Gilligan's Island but with Roy abbreviated. It's intended as an homage. Too similar?

Congratulations, Janet. Keep it up!

Tried it. Closing a thread does not delete it, and you can even re-open it.

Thanks, Janet.
Dirk

One of the most click-intensive features is the pop-up text boxes when doing an inline review. It would be great if the cursor was inside the box without the extra click.

K caused all kinds of work for me in the Caligula! chapter. Changes still in progress.

That's because they were written as cute 2D kids. Imagine how much better Ani would have been if he had been a sadistic child when the adults weren't looking. Or someone who was teased by the other kids for being a slave. He had a tormentor, we'll call him Biff-Biff, who made his young life a living hell. He's too weak in the Force yet to defend himself, but he's practicing twisting the heads off newly hatched baby Rancors. Then, as he and Padme lift off from Tatooine, the camera pans down into a waste pit with Biff-Biff inside, his head twisted off in an all-too-familiar way. The viewing audience would be salivating for this kid's next move. Probably couldn't take 5-year-olds to see it, though.

Can you tell I've been writing Caligula?

Give us some hints that all is not well with young Yunker. Make him into an interesting puzzle. Eavesdropping on Anver and the others. Caught trying to sneak out of school at night. A series of recurring bouts of magic sickness, typically caused by practicing dark spells that Yunker has no access to. You get the idea.

He may need his own book.

I find the interface generally easy to use and logical. I went through it briefly tonight and following are a few areas that could be more convenient:

- It takes a lot of scrolling on the home page to get to those "lists" that I'm interested in. I know you want maximum exposure for all work on the site, but I rarely stop to read an essay or poem. My interest is in new books/chapters and new work from my connections. If there were some way to minimize the others (varies by user), that would be a breath of fresh air. It's even worse on my smartphone, since I have to swipe my way close to the bottom to get at my groups' forum posts.
- The search icon on main screen (the magnifying glass) should include the ability to do a quick search in all forum posts (in addition to search for writer and search for works). That feature is currently too well hidden.
- The detailed search deserves to be more visible, too. That thing is a gem. I think it would eliminate some of the gripes about forum structure if you can easily find an old post by keywords. The detailed search could use tweaking as well. The list of groups to search should be sorted alphabetically and there should be a control that selects "all of my groups" in the list with one click.
- Ideally, it would be nice if the quick search and detailed search could treat the words in the search field as individual keywords, rather than treating the whole field as a single string. Sometimes you can remember a few keywords of an old post, but not the exact string. If someone wants a single string, they can put them in quotes.
- My Reviews screen should default to Inline Received instead of Regular Received. I think most would agree.

Hope this helps.
Dirk

Perhaps it could be a series of very short stories/parables that Anver tells Yunker that are directly related to Kha's experiences as the book goes on. Of course that breaks with your current storytelling style of independent books.

Thanks. Ponder my navel, I must.

I started by researching dark energy for power production this evening. To achieve the amount of dark energy believed to be in our universe only requires the mass-energy equivalent of 4 hydrogen atoms per cubic meter of space. I was going to drop it as a power source, but I found another article that talks about harnessing dark energy for everyday needs, although not in the author's lifetime. So I've got only a few hundred years before Professor Hinkley is supposed to make his major breakthroughs in astrophysics. I'm trying to think if there's one unifying concept that allows for FTL, flight cocoons for atmospheric-like mechanics in space, a great source of power, and cool weapons.

I'm going to punt this topic over to my thread, so I don't hijack yours.