Fortunately, you can still read. Hint. :-)
I wish I could but people don't post
Au contraire, Monsieur. My epigraph is up as a short, which some people (ok no one) has read. Do I need to beat you all with a stick? Actually, it's just noise while I ponder the first chapter of Act IV. I'll give you a hint: Caligula!
Whaaa? CHS (can't hear shit). It makes it easier during phone calls thought. I don't have to plug the other ear in a noisy room.
Fortunately, you can still read. Hint. :-)
Five-year-old Galius Julius, founder of the Imperium, regularly plied the family dog with Giacomo Conterno Barolo Riserva Monfortino 2123 - a very good year.
flaming bits of destroyed plot scattering in the breeze
You must be describing Star Wars VII. I just finished watching it. God, was that painful. Highest grossing SW film ever? How?!!
Excuse me while I go immolate myself.
Found it. Thank you.
Where is there a button the sign up? The join button takes you to a page to pay for membership.
Thanks.
Dirk
Does anyone know whether Bible, New Testament, and Old Testament should be italicized in writing? The editor's blog I posted to this forum says that the name of books within fiction (e.g., in the narrative/dialogue) should be placed in italics (e.g., Bible) but that chapter titles should be placed in quotes (e.g., "Genesis").
Do you agree that Bible should be italicized? Should all references to Genesis (or other parts of the Bible) always be in quotes? I'm also inclined to treat New Testament and Old Testament the same as Bible, since they're more like books than chapters.
Thoughts?
Dirk
I found a really great blog at http://theeditorsblog.net/fularchives covering many writing topics. I highly recommend it.
One of the blog entries is about the use of quotation marks vs. italics for certain words or titles, which cleared up many cases for me. It's located at http://theeditorsblog.net/2014/05/12/ma … tion-marks
Hope it helps.
Dirk
I think #3 describes my normal state of being.
And the answer to njc's question is yes.
Time for an epigraph about the Julii family, beginning with a stupid question for Dr. Ess. Is the following sentence correct usage of exhibit: The family also exhibits a large number of psychopaths (the way one is said to exhibit symptoms)?
"A man and woman on either side of a door - it was such a horrible piece of art, I felt compelled to cut off my ear."
Janet, can you please send me the link about titles. I'll be eliminating many of my 'My Lord' and 'My Lady' in the next draft, but I'll still need a few. I remember I didn't like the fact that Joseph's mother is addressed as Your Majesty, but the Emperor merely as my lord, so I went with caps.
For the most part, I'm going to use the historical honorifics Caesar, Augustus, and Augusta (when addressing the imperial heir, emperor, and empress.) Apollo's father's given name (currently Augustus) will become Nero, to keep things simple. 
Emperor and Empress (or maybe Imperator and Imperatrix?) willl be used when referring to them in the third person. Got all that? Now imagine writing it so that Amy doesn't have kittens all over my chapter. I'll probably use an epigraph just to explain this, including some of the family tree. I guess that means I should name the first emperor, too, huh? The changes will probably blow up in my face somewhere, but I like the historical connection.
Caligula will keep his honorific: Little Bastard. :-) Based on some last minute changes to his character, he'll get his revenge. I can't wait to write his chapter (next up), but taxes and procrastination beckon.
I kept going back to keep the beginning of the story updated with suggested changes as I plodded on. Eventually, that became too hard. If someone gives me a good idea for chapter 3, it easily could have a major effect on later chapters. Over and over, ad nauseam. I still have a whole act to write and just came up with a major change for Caligula, which will affect earlier chapters. I'll play with it as I finish the book, and it may yet get tossed after I'm done the current draft. By then, much of the early feedback about the book may be irrelevant.
Cogito ergo sum.
No no... Tolkien did not get these right. I'll go find five people who complain he describes grass more than he describes characters.
Here's one.
Juice is loaded with sugar, which suppresses the immune system. Go with water, lots of vitamin C, and zinc lozenges. And a few shots of apricot brandy to make you feel damn good.
This would be the same King James who commissioned the Bible, i presume? I'm surprised he let 'Thou shalt not kill,' make it through final edits. One of these days, I'll have to research when 'kill' was replaced with 'murder.' It was probably in the original NT, otherwise they would have had to rewrite the OT with its deity-approved wholesale slaughter.
I'm itching to get back to writing after so much chaos with my move. It's now tax season in two countries, so the final carnage of the second draft will have to wait until May. The only big unknown in the final act is whether or not it all falls apart. There's a major 'unbelievable crap' moment coming up right at the end, assuming you haven't already reached that conclusion. :-) Book two yearns to be born!
I find conversations where he is being addressed, but when I look for his posts, they're not there
Yeh. I'm not leaving my posts around for Google to harvest. I try to delete them within 72 hours max.
Hopefully, you haven't deleted all of your old posts to my own thread. I refer back to them from time to time....
I thought Amy blocked us from internet prying...
K appears to be winking in and out of our universe. I find conversations where he is being addressed, but when I look for his posts, they're not there. It's possible Professor Hinkley's time machine has disrupted the spacetime continuum. Perhaps K (aka Gilligan aka guy with the cool hat) has always been in 1966, sending us posts from his smartbanana while his head rests in the lap of a beautiful woman. The only question left to be answered is: Ginger or Maryanne? The camera pans up from K to follow the curvaceous outline of his buxom paramour. The neck comes into view, thrice encircled by glittering diamonds. We move up over the chin to the full mouth with ruby lips surrounding pearl-white teeth, so perfect they could be ... dentures? WTF? Mrs. Howell, K?!
NJC, you don't automatically lose your old reviews when you post a new version of a chapter. If the old version is made invisible to reviewers, *you* still have the ability to see it and its reviews. If you want reviewers to have access to the old reviews, you can leave the old version visible alongside the new version. That way everyone will see the old version and reviews, as well as the new version.
Nah, swords are the best!!!
Pffft. Wait until the Almighty reigns down his righteous fire of destruction on your pathetic literary spawns of Satan. Hallelujah!
Congratulations, Janet. It was a pleasure to read.
Harder.
njc wrote:amy s wrote:Elisheva, go to bed :-)
This is our time of day!
I don't even get off work until 10pm.
As far as the summary goes, I've decided to deal with it once I'm done with the first draft. Until that point, most of the plot is subject to change anyhow.
-Elisheva
I routinely tell TNBW members to make the book summary here on the site as if it were the back cover of the book. It's your primary chance to nab would-be readers, whether here or when published. You can always update it anytime you want as the plot and characters evolve.
Here is another attempt for Dictates.
In Dictates of Faith, Jaylene comes back from the dead, a sure sign that the goddess needs her. But for what? The same day, someone tries to kill her. But who? As the plot is revealed, she will need the help of a friend to unravel the answers. They journey into a series of underground caves…where magic is real and even the gods are in danger.
Still boring?
This I like. Who is Jaylene, btw? Your summary is worded as if we should already know her.
Here's a variant:
In Dictates of Faith, one in a series of four books, a character named Jaylene is brought back to life by her goddess to unravel a mystery where magic is real and even the gods are in danger.
