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Outstanding! Another one out there in the world. Good news for us all.

Bill

Happy Holidays to everyone. Gloomy day outside, nice and toasty warm inside. Looking forward to our pork loin dinner.

Bill

Is the MC's on-stage performance an integral part of the book plot? If so, brief snippets (especially if they have a bearing on the plot) might enhance the story. If the show is only mentioned as a part of the MC's job, then maybe only 1 short snippet of the show might help the reader understand what a script even looks like. Script formats vary quite a bit, so whatever you put down would be fine.

Bill

How about something like a lead-in stating "a frantic exchange of shouted conversation took place during the rough and tumble session." Suitably worded, would that work?

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Not necessary. Just curious.

Bill

Only 946.59 here.

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I had the misfortune to be drinking tea when I first saw it. Took me an hour to clean my keyboard (and my sinuses).

This is a great thread.

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Polly wants a WHAT?

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Welcome to TNBW, Njoki. Great bunch of writers here.

Bill

I haven't tested it on this site, but on some sites, you can include an ampersand by preceding it with a backslash "\", which means "take the next character as a literal."

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I've had no problems posting from either Open Office or Word (depending on which computer I write on - Linux or Wondoze). The formatting always stays the same from source to destination. Where a person runs into trouble is MODIFYING text already posted with edits inside TNBWs edit panel. Formatting can, and most like will, go wrong doing that.

If I decide to alter anything at all in a chapter post, I highlight ALL in the source document, hit COPY, then move to TNBW and highlight ALL inside the edit panel. Then, choose PASTE. This will completely replace everything you've posted previously with the new version, and thus preserve everything as you want it. I rely somewhat heavily on italics and, as you say, they are not kept using Notepad. This process also preserves the complete copy of your source document should you ever need to recover it from TNBW for whatever reason.

Bill

If you're on Windows 10, try going to "Backup and Restore". It could very well have backed up your latest works, but you have to tell it to retrieve them by doing a "restore". I think there is an option to restore to somewhere else other than the original location. That way you don't overwrite your newer stuff.

Using Windows 10, you can set up a task in the task manager to do an immediate backup whenever you insert an external USB drive.

I have my Linux machine set to do an incremental backup every 4 hours to an internal 2Tb drive.

Bill