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Yup. That's a good point, Sol. I didn't think of it that way.
~Tom

You can also just hit the space bar (in Firefox/Pale Moon) anyway. That zips you down to the bottom.

Control-End and Control-Home work also.

~Tom

Me too, Karen. I type at the speed of light (around 120-130wpm) and since I'm a touch-typist I am looking at the screen. Word takes quite a while to catch up to where I am, so I sometimes miss the tiny red underline. But, spell check doesn't help me that much either - I need a reliable checker for 'passive voice'.

The toughest word I always misspelled was "restaurant".

~Tom

Good question, Dirk. My stories tend to run a linear timeline: start to finish. I am not a big fan of flashbacks, but they can be done in a manner that that makes it clear to the reader what just happened.

In your case, perhaps some sort of date/time header (a la WEB Griffin) mgiht be devised for those chapters with alternate scenes taking place simultaneously or nearly so.

~Tom

Something is wrong with the word counts. I just reviewed on of Lesley's chapters and saw it was 55 words. I clicked the Post Regular Review button and when it posted, I found it was only 49 words - and I didn't get the points.

So, which is it? The word count in the edit box of the review, or the final count when posted? How could they be different?

~Tom

Sounds like a great idea to me. I don't see many songs posted here.

~Tom

Archeologists of the future will be digging those little cans of squirty goo up and going nuts trying to figure out just what it does.

I have no idea.

~Tom

But aren't you applying the science of NOW to the far future, Dirk? Perhaps by 4017 some new processes would be fairly simple. You have a 'black box' the size of, say, an 18-wheeler with an input chute. You drop the air car into it and the box hums, slurps, crunches, lets off condensation in the form of simple steam, a buzzer sounds and several bins along the side of the box receive ingots of whatever metals are in an air car. You don't have to explain it, it just is.

Call it the Stanislawsky Car Rendering Asunder Process (SCRAP).

~Tom

I didn't know there was another one either. I'll stick with this one.

~Tom

For whose of you who might be interested, and can get Turner Classic movies (TCM), the movie "Now Voyager" is on at 8PM (Eastern time).

~Tom

Sol:

Strange things are definitely afoot here. If I am at any other site, or doing anything else on my computer, my keyboard is just fine. But, on this site, there are periods of time that some keys (they seem to occur at random) will fail. I hit them, but nothing shows up. Just doing this post, the "v', "c", Enter, and "e'" keys failed on me. If I highlight the text I've already done and copy it. I can refresh the page, paste back, and all the keys are back working just fine. Sooner or later, another few keys begin to fail.

Is the site editor at fault? Are you filtering for special keys or something?

~Tom

When I do that, the wife gets on my case. But, I have done it. What happens is that the spaces between the letters seem to get smaller and make words harder to separate. Here on this web site, I have to zoom in quite a ways to read all the tiny fonts, this forum included. Doing that, in itself, isn't too bad, except it reformats the text to some extent.

My lousy eyesight is limited to a distance of about 24 inches. I can pass my driver's license exam without my glasses. The 'far vision' section on my trifocals is plain glass.

~Tom