The Galaxy Tales - Dirk B. (Page 48 of 49)

Since T^3 reminds Amy of Terminator 3, what about: Reliable Systems?

Fyi, I reserve the right to go with T^3, although the name probably won't be explained until well into act one.

Rock Solid Systems
100% Uptime

Rock Solid Systems is in the lead.

If you produce garbage tech, you need a lofty name.

Chapter 39 of v3, Joseph's Sword, is up. It's a cleaned up version of the same chapter from v2. I incorporated reviewer feedback, removed a whole bunch of saids, and cut way back on exclamation marks.

I use way too many exclamation marks. My old editor once said "A dozen per book is about right". I'm probably north of three times this limit. But my characters tend to shout and scream a lot, and it feels awkward to write:

Bob screamed, "Fire."
or
"I hate you." Bob punched the wall

Chapter 40, Post-Battle, is up. It's a cleaned up version of the same chapter from v2. Painful number of edits. I left a few of the larger problems until v4, like the fact that Joseph and Apollo should be at each other's throats. Of course, Joseph is more focused on throwing himself off a cliff.

Only one chapter to go!!! Not sure if I should split it in two. It has a very short final scene for each of the MCs.

Thanks for reading.
Dirk

Tonight's episode of Gilligan's island included a buffet of props and costumes. Phil Silvers guest starred as a producer whose plane went down near the island. According to the radio he was planning a new musical and Ginger pretended to be various Broadway characters as she served him dinner. When she asked for a part in his musical, he laughed at her overacting. To help Ginger, the castaways put on a musical of Hamlet, one of many books that they brought with them on the tour. I've lost count of how many textbooks the professor had on the show over three seasons. They also had fancy butler and maid uniforms for Mr. Howell and his wife, as they were forced to serve Silvers until his rescue boat could arrive. Mr. Howell even had on white gloves. For the musical, they had records and a gramophone from the Howells, crowns and royal robes for a king and queen, multiple wigs, and a fake beard for the Skipper. They wrote silly songs related to Hamlet to go with the records, which were instrumental classics. Silvers slips out at night when his rescue boat arrives. They subsequently hear on the radio that Silvers is planning a musical version of Hamlet, his most brilliant idea to date.

Definitely more entertaining than The Last Jedi so far.

If you go with option a) you get that kickass scene where Luke appears so powerful, he can literally withstand concentrated cannon fire from half a dozen walkers. Too bad i knew the spoiler. Otherwise, I probably would have been cheering in the theatre over that one. My apologies for revealing that before you saw it.

Next on my hitlist... make it through any one Transformers movie. Maybe Austin Powers if I can find it

Good luck with Transformers. When the autobots fight, all you see is metal on metal all over the screen. A lot like the crazy effects in Dr. Strange.

THE LAST JEDI SPOILERS. The final two hours of The Last Jedi aren't as bad as I remember. The ski speeders on Crait were pretty silly, though. Must be old tech. Killing off Snoke near the beginning of his character arc was dumb, but it makes room for Kylo Ren. Not sure why he would put Rey ahead of Snoke, but so be it. I still think they're playing out Jacen Solo's character arc from the non-canon books. It remains to be seen if Rey kills him or not. I'm guessing not. Far too simplistic to kill off the bad guy and have a happy ending. And they definitely should have let Finn take out the cannon on Crait. That would have been a powerful ending for him. Let's face it, they have to start killing off some of the good guys to get down to Kdot's Rule of Two (Two characters left standing? Place your bets!)