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It's probably overkill to worry about this, but Kdot mentioned that my characters should have turned into salsa inside the raider they were in when the ship was physically struck by an enemy starfighter. The raider ends up spinning end over end while those inside vomit. They're strapped in so they don't fly out of their seats. Also, there is artificial gravity, although it's largely overwhelmed by the ships crazy spinning. Emergency stabilizers kick in to right the ship. Throughout this, I have an inertial damper (splat inhibiter) in effect inside the ship.

What have I missed? Should I just ignore the splat inhibiter and ignore the inertia?

Thanks
Dirk

For fun, I fed your whole post into Google. No porn this time. Google spat back an error! Wow!

Thanks, Vern. I don't plan to add the extra detail in the story. I just want to be sure I'm portraying it accurately. From what I've read so far, they will pass out before decompression kills them. That's the correct order of events that I was looking for.

Chapter 35, battle chapter two of three, is up.

Not only did I blow my target date by over half a week, but I had to cut the material in half, leaving room for a Joseph chapter.

Thanks.
Dirk

Yikes! Nine pages and counting, with lots left to tell. I'll probably whack it in two and give half to Apollo and the 2nd half to Joseph. That gives me enough room to breathe. This is the climax of the book.

What do you think of this for Joseph's chapter title: The Lord is My Shield, His Words are My Sword? It's for a chapter where Joseph accompanies a squad of marines to seize the enemy flagship. He's never killed before, but he's armed. I wonder what he does. "Thou shall not kill!" remains the likely alternative.

Hmm. Only two pages this evening. Life intrudes and I need to reorder what I've written. Nuts.

Or, since it's Joseph's chapter, we could go with:
- the Lord is my strength and my shield
- the Lord is my shield (not a direct Bible quote, but catchier)
- thou shalt not kill

Either way, my U.S. retirement account is going to take a beating. I was going to sell pending this vote, but was lulled into"do nothing" by pollsters and Wall Street analysts.

I think I mentioned before, but DO NOT forget to file FBAR/FATCA forms by the end of the month.Nasty nasty nasty forms.

Elisheva, consider deferring retrofits until your next whole draft. I tried going back to keep the beginning of my story up to date but found it impossible the further along I got in the book. The way I do it now is to treat all future chapters as if the change had been made. I then add a chapter note that an important continuity change has been made and describe it briefly. For example, Caligula's secret scheme will require changes across numerous early chapters. I've also made changes that I subsequently refined or even punted without having to go back and fix the whole book.

Janet, how did the bookstores find you?