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No rush. Yoda voice: rest, you must. It may help to tell you I'm only planning to do light edits at this point. Slap me around a little, grab the points, and go back to sleep. Seabrass's final edits are already included in most of the posted chapters, and I'm about to add K's edits, so it should be in decent shape by the time you see it. I'll take a few hours this week and update all the online chapters. Depending on how far back you're reading, I have some late changes to post.

I totally forgot about Acme (not ACME, since that'll get me sued) and Aussie as I was revising my latest chapters. I'll have to go back and see if I can find more use for them. Did you know that I once forgot to use God in an entire chapter? Had to make a chapter checklist after that, which I keep forgetting to look at. I now have five ghosts in Joseph's head, so it's going to be hard to use them all. There's particular overlap between Joseph's mother and Admiral St. James. I knew that might bite me eventually. I'd retire Admiral St. James, but she's his military advisor, which should come in handy in act IV.

I thought Roman history research was hard. Try coming up to speed on the inner workings of the Catholic Church and the Vatican (for my next book about the Antichrist). Especially with my memory. I need notes just for my notes. I've bought two books just to understand Revelation, plus Catholicism for Dummies. :-) Every time I go deep into Catholic documents (e.g., online encyclopedia, the Catechism, etc.), I need a religious dictionary. There is a large DVD set all about the Catholic Church that I will probably buy, but it's $70 used, so I'm holding off until I get over the guilt of how much I've already spent. Had to buy a Blue-Ray drive and software just to watch the damn Exorcist Anthology, which turned out to be mostly crap. If I had thought to check rottentomatoes.com first, I could have saved myself a bundle. The worst of the five films has an 11% freshness rating. I miss having access to US streaming. Netflix Canada is all we've got, and it's relatively slim pickings.

I'm now officially in act III of IV with my revisions (about 15 chapters to polish). Four months or so to completion, allowing plenty of time for Catholic research. However, after some discussions online, I decided not to publish Into the Mind of God until I return to the story (after my next book), which means probably four or more years from now. I'm hoping the Antichrist book will be more polished and make a better first publication. Marketing will be a time-consuming bitch, so I want to wait until I've done a better book.

G'night.
Dirk

While it's been pounded into me from day one not to get too fancy, I would use some of the entries on the forbidden list (e.g., snapped, stammered, urged, etc.). If it conveys more information than who exactly is speaking (i.e., it does double duty), I'm all the more likely to use it. The beauty of self-publishing. I do, however, agree with the idea of not using tags when a little action will do nicely (e.g., Mary turned to Joseph. "Did you finish your essay?").

I may rename Babilus Danasius (the car recyclling plant manager) to Babilus Sibrassi or something similar. Or maybe rename Leonardo, the Crazed Cabbie.

Bzzt!

Can you pay a copy of the list on this site as well?

My first line begins with "Battle stations!"  The whole first chapter (a prologue) is intended as an Indiana Jones-style opening.

I'm aware that many classics do it. I can even think back far enough to some of them. I'm more interested in modern trends. Almost all of the books I read here and elsewhere use multiple POVs. I mentioned the genre (supernatural thriller), since I've never written one and there may be best practices to follow that differ from sci-fi, which is what I've been writing. Even the best-selling sci-fi novel of all time, Dune, which was written in the 60's, used multiple POVs.

Yes, the person initiating the thread would control the categories. I suggested text strings for the categories so that there can be multiple of them without a cumbersome interface. You simply add a text field to new forum posts (similar to subject, but for categories). Naturally, the search control on this site would have to be modified to search categories. The search control also needs to be brought out of hiding. I'll bet most people don't even know it exists.

One crude way to do this already exists, but it would require people put category keywords at the end of their subject lines (e.g., my subject - marketing). The search control already has the ability to search for keywords specifically in subject lines. Since the original poster retains the ability to change the subject line, they can always go in afterward and add/remove categories as desired or when requested.

Either way, the search control should really be made more accessible in the system. If you're in a forum, it should be one click away. Right now, you need dive down three screens to get to it. The list of groups to search in also needs to be sorted.

Either approach can then be used to categorize posts in any forum. The search control has the option to search across multiple or even all groups, so it could be made to search for a given category across groups. That way it doesn't matter if you put your posts in a specific group or in Premium.

I have insomnia. The two entities share the same name/alias and may be the same individual (i.e., the AI/CEO of Acme). I plan to have the authorities slowly come to the conclusion that Acme's CEO is, in fact, the mastermind and begin to tighten the noose. Wait'll you see what happens to her. Right now I'm rewriting references to Aussie from act I. There's a big epigraph/news article about the manhunt for Aussie at the beginning of South Haven Strikes Back that I'll post here in my thread as soon as its rewritten. Most of the violence in the rest of the book will be tied to Aussie. I'd go long on Acme shares if I were you.