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Don't forget Sherlock Holmes. If I remember correctly, the mysteries were told from perspective of Dr. Watson. I have yet to plan out Romano's guilt trip, which should make him a more interesting character beyond him carrying Connor's water. I'm not sure yet how far too push that subplot. He'll definitely be interacting with his dead ex soon. Unlike my last book, though, Romano will have to verbally communicate with his ex. Makes it much more interesting to write.

Zzz. Just kidding. The current draft is focused mostly on working out the plot and characters. Next draft will include more showing, as long as I don't kill the pace. I'm also not doing enough internal monologue in some scenes, the exorcism included. I might as well be in Connor's point of view, given how little Romano had to do or think in that scene.

Nuts! I'm reading The Exorcist and there is far more overlap between my chapter and the book than there is between my chapter and the screenplay. I was afraid of that. However, I only use a fraction of the prayers from the Rites of Exorcism compared to the book. I even went with a different subset of the prayers compared to the screenplay, but the book uses some of those, too. No wolf-like growing or biting yet, although the girl does make animal noises. At one point the exorcist reads the verses from Luke about Legion, but fortunately, there is only one demon in the book, whereas my reverend mother is possessed by all of Legion. I have more to read tomorrow, butt I'm hoping the similarities don't get any worse.

That is so funny.

If you think the last example was bad, check out this one I just noticed in the chapter:

:-)

Nice catch. I've been encouraged recently to replace name references with pronouns, assuming no confusion. It didn't occur to me how it reads because I'm too close to this chapter.

Thanks
Dirk

The answer to your first question depends on whether you can make the chapter names important, such as a hook, a little misdirection, or foreshadowing (e.g., The Emperor's Fate). I would definitely include a chapter number, otherwise people have to remember what chapter name they were on when they last read from the book. Given that you probably have dozens of chapters, I would use Arabic.

Dune & God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
The Heechee Saga by Frederik Pohl

I took a look at one of your chapters. They appear to be formatted like everyone else's, so formatting shouldn't be a problem, unless I've misunderstood something. Once you open a specific chapter here on the site for editing, an edit box appears around the text. That's when you use Chrome's Find feature to mark all of the text items that match your search. It actually looks inside the text box for all instances of the search words and highlights them so you can them quickly. Unfortunately, you then have to manually change each one, but you shouldn't have to reformat anything, unless it's to manually apply italics, bold, etc. I don't know of a find-and-replace feature, although I've never looked for one. For minor name changes, it should go relatively quickly.

If you're using Google Chrome, you can use its Find function to highlight all instances of a word in a chapter, then replace them one at a time.  You have to be in TNBW edit mode for your chapter. The other way is copy your new chapter from your manuscript into the same chapter here in the site. Use Ctrl-c to copy (eg from a Word document), open your site chapter in edit mode, hit ctrl-a in the text box to select the entire old version of the chapter, then ctrl-v to paste in the chapter from Word that contains all your changes. Then save it. Hope that makes sense.

LOL