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Thanks, Lynne. I did a trial of that a few weeks ago but didn't like it as much as grammarly. I'm still running Office 2007 (in 2018, eek), so the integration may not be as good as with newer versions of Office. I'll try them again when I get closer to a final draft. Meanwhile, I have to set aside some time to work through a good grammar and punctuation book.

Cool item. Islam has an Antichrist and foretells of the return of Jesus and the Mahdi (cue Dune music) during the Day of Judgement. The Mahdi will rid the world of evil. This will be great for book two, where the Unholy Trinity attacks all Abrahamic religions. Naturally, Judaism also has a Messiah at the end of days.

Well, there's the Pope, his Council of Cardinal Advisors, the Catholic orphanage, "perpetual adoration" in the orphanage chapel, a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica, rosary beads and prayer, a priest as one of the main POV characters, a lengthy trip through the Holy Land retracing the footsteps of Jesus, an exorcism chapter, several healings, dead cardinals and bishops, events from Revelation, the Vatican, visions of ancient events from the Bible, Satan, the Antichrist, the False Prophet, and Jesus Christ himself.

Pretty much a Catholic series, which was my intention from the outset. There is already a series of novels called Left Behind that tells the story of Revelation from a Protestant Dispensationalist POV (a literal interpretation). So many Christians think that's the Catholic POV, too, since there are no comparable Catholic novels.

The books are Connor's journey.

Let's not forget the Ewoks. Apparently, even The Empire Strikes Back had its haters when it first came out. How can anyone not like a huge dose of Darth Vader and Yoda? Lucas originally worried people would say he put Kermit the Frog in Star Wars. I can't believe he had the guts to make him green.

Christine, you convinced me. Back to Kindle...

Google Chrome. Latest version. I cleared the browsing history and cookies, and restarted the browser. The problem still exists. Was there any work done on x-line view?

If anyone else is seeing this, please comment here.

I'll email you a screenshot.

Sol, check out the latest review I did for Stephen Carter's book, Germ Line: Revolution. It's not displaying the comments correctly (the comment boxes are huge).

I watched a long YouTube video yesterday about Jesus, and I made notes on paper as it played. Halfway through I got bored, so I paused it. That's when I saw another tab in my browser with the same video, paused at almost the exact same spot. I checked my notes file and, sure enough, I had made virtually the exact same notes.

Another video was about the finding of a tomb that some argue contained Jesus and his family. There are bone boxes inside for a man named Jesus (son of Joseph), James and Joses (brothers of Jesus according to the Bible), one or two Marys (there's some confusion about the inscriptions), and a son of Jesus. The argument was that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and they had a son, which would have been the norm for men of Jesus's age (most or all of the apostles were married). It turns out, though, that Jesus and Joseph were two of the most common names in that period, making up almost ten percent of Jewish males. Probability analysis suggested that it was still very possible to find all those names in a tomb without them being Christ's family.

My estimate for finishing the majority of my research by the end of April wasn't even close. I'm still months away from having an outline for the first book. In the meantime I'm drowning in notes. What I would give for a better way to organize this stuff.

That book I read about the Via Dolorosa being the wrong route for Christ's final steps through Old Jerusalem is going to play a big role at the end of book one. $2 and time well-spent.

My latest book is called Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus, which I'm about 40% done with. I still have to convert all of my Kindle highlights to Word, though. Tedious.

The mother of all research efforts will be my recently acquired Ignatius New Testament Study Guide. Fortunately, mostly I just need the Gospels for now.

V2 of the book summary. I shortened 'living in a Catholic orphanage in Rome' to 'an orphan in Rome', and used K's word order. I also trimmed elsewhere. Although not strictly required, I chose to keep Catholic in the summary, but moved it down. 'from the possessed' also isn't strictly required, although I prefer to keep it for now. I also decided to limit the dying to bishops and cardinals, no priests. The Antichrist would be after the Vatican leadership. Although 'Council of Cardinal Advisers' is a mouthful, I chose to use the Council as the proxy for the Pope. The Pope is ailing, so the head cardinal (the Secretary of State) will serve as my main Vatican leader. Connor will meet the Pope at the end of the book.

The two paragraphs take up 2/3 of a well-spaced Word page, so that should easily fit the back of a book cover.

My thanks to K.

In definitely thinking about trimming it to be sure it all fits on the back of a book, but I hadn't considered shortening the first sentence since the target audience is Christians, especially Catholics. Also, I think the fact that I mention the setting being in Rome is a plus, although it's mentioned later, so I don't need it in the first sentence.

Ponder, I will.