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Happy to have you back, Denise. Really happy to hear the surgery went okay. That's what's in store for me if these steroid shots don't do the trick any more. According to my doctor, I have "De Quervain Tenosynovitis" in both my wrists. It isn't especially painful, but more of a steady pain that never goes all the way away. But, you probably know how that feels already, so I'll shut up.

Welcome back.

Bill

You go to your Portfolio and then on the right side is Action button. Select Publish Setup.

Drop down to the chapter you want and click the Active button. It drops down and you select Inactive.

You can still edit it and revive it the same way you made it inactive.

Bill

Here's the skinny. AT&T became evasive when I asked them the current state of their links and DNS servers. They grudgingly admitted that one of the backbone hi-speed servers went down and they had to reroute traffic a little. I affected some URLs but not others. I found four more of my sites (ones I don't use that much) that were slow or timed out.

I did a total system restart on my uVerse modem and when it came back, Everything was a lot faster -- including this site. I ended up with a completely new IPV6 subnet address address as well as a new "normal" IPV4 address. Apparently, they weren't kidding about a server going down. This clears the DMS cache and reloads a fresh set.

I hope it stays that way.

Bill

Thanks, Marilyn. I think the program you're thinking of is Revo Uninstaller. I use that extensively. It allows the normal uninstalled (if any) to run first then it charges through the Registry and finds every instance of that deleted software, letting you pick what to get rid of. I've disabled Grammarly, but not uninstalled it. That will be done.

The delays are a naggy problem that has cropped up before on this site. I think NJC may have the right idea. I have a home page link set up for tNBW and when I click it, the status line shows "looking up www.thenextbigwriter.com". That remains there for as long as 10 or 15 seconds before finally changing to "receiving data from www.thenextbigwriter.com" and the page loads. Firefox won't display the first indicator unless the DNS server(s) isn't/aren't responding fast enough. AT&T recommends that I reboot my modem, but that can take up to ten minutes so I have to find a good time to do that. This could/would/might cause the DNS server cache to be cleared and rebuild. It has helped in the past.

I'll give it a whack when I go to lunch.

Bill

Funny you should mention Grammarly, Marilyn. I only had it installed for a day before I kicked it out of my browser. It was intrusive and appeared on EVERY site that had an edit box or some form of operator interaction. I slowed down things badly. So, now it's gone and I still ahve delays - but only on tNBW.

Bill

Thanks, Vern.

According to AT&T, all the DNS servers are online and functional. Yet, when I clicked the link to this thread in the email, I was told "cannot locate thenextbigwriter.com make sure you have spelled it correctly blah blah blah" I had to put the URL directly into my browser address bar in order to get here. Something strange is going on here. I'm going to try flushing my DNS buffer and see if that helps. It might for locating the site, but not for the delays I'm seeing.

Bill

My own take on this is now leaning toward not messing with it. I'm sure to have a few more bits of input, and I'll heed every one of them, though. I've written up notes on where I could eliminate the backstory in dialogue, but I'm reluctant to just rip it out. However, if I go with the two intro chapters from each POV, I can still leave the dialogue because they don't know how each other got to where they are now.

Bill

That's good advice Al. I could do that and eliminate some of the backstory in dialogue that Marnee and Shell have. As for Marnee's POV, I have noted several places where I could include a chapter only from her perspective. In fact, there might be as many as five or six chapters spread out through the novel that would be from her viewpoint. I've found that writing in first person and showing reaction from others is hard to do. Changing POV is a good way to do it. I've read several books that intermingle POVs in the same chapter, but I always have a hard time keeping the timeline straight between them. I suppose i could insert a long break with the person's name between asterisks or something, but that also is disruptive.

Let me wait and see if anything else turns up for discussion.

Bill