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Hmm. I need a demon in human form to impregnate a woman in my story. I set it up in the exorcism chapter by giving the chief exorcist a complete human body, including on the inside. That means he has bodily fluids, including blood and semen. The tricky part is whose DNA does a demon carry? There has to be a male chromosome since the offspring will be male. It's not enough for the demon to possess a male body and use his DNA for that purpose. I need the offspring to be part demon. That's how the child will inherit demonic powers.

Suggestions?

Thanks
Dirk

We finally agree on something. :-)

Thank ye, kindly.

Couldn't find the von Neuman, but the Symphony of a Thousand is decent. Not my preference for background music while writing, though. Il Divo is awesome, too. I prefer that while driving.

Ray & Kdot, please ignore the comment at the top of my latest scene (the gravedigger) that the detectives already believe they are hunting the Antichrist. There simply isn't enough setup for that assumption yet (all they have are sightings of someone powerful and a ring). I'll see if I can work more evidence into Act II that causes them to change their minds about whether it's a demon (their working assumption) or the Antichrist. TBD.

You probably already thought of this, but I usually put something at the top of the scene/chapter (centered) to indicate time jumps. Those also serve as the markers for scene breaks. My first chapter of Galaxy Tales was an extreme case. It fast-forwarded through key childhood experiences of the two kids in the story. I jumped four times in a single chapter, resulting in four scenes. Something like:

AD 4005

Four-year-old Joseph lay in his big-boy bed...

Five Years Later -- AD 4010

Seven-year-old Apollo sat in the game room...

Seven Years Later -- AD 4017

Sixteen-year-old Joseph descended the stairs...

Same Year -- AD 4017

Fourteen-year-old Apollo rode in a four-man swampcraft...

The references to N Years Later meant that the reader didn't have to go back to the beginning of each scene to figure out how much time had elapsed between scenes. Also, the scenes began by giving the age of the POV character of each scene. Finally, giving the exact year allowed me to orient the reader as to the millennium in which the story takes place, especially 4017.

Cool. I wrote the draft interrogation of the gravedigger in one day. I'll clean it up and post it sometime Tuesday. Still have to make up names for the new characters and try to verify a few Italian police procedures, assuming I can find any in English. There wasn't much the last time I looked.

I'm debating whether the Antichrist should be more hands on in the murders of the cardinals. Currently, the suspicion of the detectives is that they are pursuing a powerful demon who may be taking his orders from the Antichrist, who is a supernatural human. If the Antichrist is hands on, that means he's personally involved in the break in at the orphanage, the killings, the attacks on Connor, and the videos of the dark being. I think there's more tension in hunting the Antichrist directly rather than one of his demons. Also, demons are easy to spot. Throw some holy water on someone and, if they disintegrate, they're a demon. That doesn't apply to the Antichrist since he's human. Makes him harder to track down. The only tricky bit is that humans can't slip under doors like my current demon does, so I would have to fall back on the Antichrist's supernatural nature to make that possible. The other advantage of a hands on Antichrist is that I don't have to waste time linking the demon to him. The clues lead directly to the Antichrist, not his henchman.

Just watched the premiere of Witcher, a Game of Thrones wannabe. I lost count of the number of people, places, and things named in the first fifteen minutes, and I have only a limited idea of what the episode was about. Moving on...

Is it the concept of glowing irises that you object to our the word itself?  FYI,  Connor has increasingly sparkling blue eyes as his powers grow. I was trying to reserve glowing for red eyes and sparkling for blue, but I'm open to suggestions. I stayed away from yellow because it was used in Star Wars and the Exorcist as signs of evil.