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Marilyn Johnson wrote:
Shaina BAKER wrote:

Since I am new, may I ask how safe it is to put a novel here without risking anyone stealing it..

Hi, Shaina,
At the bottom of every page posted here you will see 'Copyright 2018' with your name after it, followed by 'All rights reserved'.  You can sue if anyone decides to steal your work.  Haven't heard of that happening here, and I've been here for 10 years. 

Welcome to the site.  Hope you find the help you're seeking.

MJ

Awesome. Thanks Marilyn for your answer.

Dirk B. wrote:

My thanks to everyone for their thoughtful feedback. The series is intentionally focused on Catholicism, even though I hope others will read it. As a result, my gut tells me to respect Catholic traditions throughout. I'm going to go with lowercase for now and make the final decision when I've finished the first draft of the book.

Thanks
Dirk

You do what you gotta do, but know that few Protestants will consider reading a Catholic material. As someone put it out, if you want to go ecumenical, using capitalization means a lot to Protestants while Catholic wouldn't care at all. You will therefore take an informed decision, with no surprise as to who picks up your book.

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Eh bien, le monde est vraiment petit. Lol. Thanks Mariana for your input. T'inquiète, I have not expected them to write it for me, although I appear to express so. I have started by writing the blurb, for I sometimes read books from the ending chapters big_smile

Since I am new, may I ask how safe it is to put a novel here without risking anyone stealing it. Please don't think I am being negative.

Thanks Kdot. Enchantée.

Thanks Will. Good advice there.

With y'all, things will get simpler. Kisses.

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My name is Shaina and I am a new member and I have just discovered this site. My first language is French. I have the idea of a novel but desperately need help to write it. In other words, I have no manuscript yet, only the blurb and some ideas on paper. In other words, it is all from scratch. I have looked for a freelance ghostwriter, but prices are crazy. I have to write it myself in English for this reason and also a couple of other reasons: I could not find a site like this in French, I have no problem writing in English although my English is sometimes stiff, and I would like continuous feedback from natives.

I have browsed the site to see if a manuscript is required in order for someone to find the help she needs but found nothing. I really look forward for any help anyone can provide me. Thanks in advance.

Memphis Trace wrote:
Dirk B. wrote:

Thanks, everyone. The technically correct choice for Catholics is to lowercase the pronouns, although some (many?) Catholics don't realize it. The most common Catholic Bibles in North America don't capitalize the pronouns, nor does the Catechism. I like capitalizing, but the primary target audience is Catholics and the most knowledgeable folks on the Catholic.com forums say not to do it. I'll think about it some more, but I'm probably going back to lowercase.

Thanks for your help, everyone.

Relevant in what way?

My opinion is that Dirk B. should capitalize God pronouns in his story because by doing so he will win the hearts and minds of folks in his target audience who think it shows respect for God to do so. Few, if any, readers will rush to the Bible or recent literature to determine that Dirk's creation of a minuscular Christian god is, in fact, respectful.

Dirk's main job is to get the folks who buy religious oriented books to read his book believing the author is respectful of God. I seriously doubt that he would offend anyone who felt God's pronouns shouldn't be capitalized. Indeed, I think readers favoring the minuscular would fondly embrace Dirk B. with the thought Gee, I know more than the author, but I'm glad he is being respectful of God!!!

Capitalization (or not) of the Deity is a human convention. As such, those who wrote the Bible determined that capitalization (or not) was respectful.

Memphis Trace

I agree with that, because that reminds of a book preview I read on Amazon where the author said that she did not capitalize the "s" in Satan because of the wrong he did by her. I did not check if she was Catholic or Protestant, though. Crazy, but capitalization of pronoun related to God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit (holy spirit?), has a meaning of itself and is sometimes sacrosanct.

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My name is Shaina and I am a new member and I have just discovered this site. My first language is French. I have the idea of a novel but desperately need help to write it. In other words, I have no manuscript yet, only the blurb and some ideas on paper. In other words, it is all from scratch. I have looked for a freelance ghostwriter, but prices are crazy. I have to write it myself in English for this reason and also a couple of other reasons: I could not find a site like this in French, I have no problem writing in English although my English is sometimes stiff, and I would like continuous feedback from natives.

I have browsed the site to see if a manuscript is required in order for someone to find the help she needs but found nothing. I really look forward for any help anyone can provide me. Thanks in advance