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@Dirk re "and then" I was doing some checks on a release from last year and found:

which transforms into a weird:

Curious if you trip over the two "and"s

Just back from seeing Nightmare Alley. omg what a bucket of drivel. If it's on your list, consider watching something deeper like Spiderman or grass growing in the Sahara. How did this film get 79% on Rotten Tomatoes? Did they even watch the same movie as me?

I'd love to wax poetic about the ending, but I didn't see it, as I was already driving home by about the 75% mark. I was the last to leave the theatre -- everyone else got bored and wandered off around the 50% mark. I was determined to make it up to the point where they electrocute the hot female co-star. After that, all bets were off.

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Core issue I had was how unlikeable the entire cast is. I mean the FMC/MMC are basically swindlers, not much different from Bonnie and Clyde, except more wooden. They're working for a carnival show of swindlyer swindlers until Cate Blanchette shows up and has to be even more blandly evil than the 40 other baby-evils in order to create a good guy in the miasma.

That explanation may sound more convoluted than it needed to be lol. Basically, I couldn't root for anyone in that large, steaming pile of donkey sh*t. At times, I found myself wishing a giant bladey thing would pop up from a secret underground vault and blend them all and then the movie has 35 minutes of white noise followed by the credits (which would have immeasurably improved it).

This was 2h20min that was not bad for the first 30. After that, the pilot seems to have jumped out of the plane leaving it on autopilot and full of snakes (and the plane was still sitting on the runway, and it's on fire).

1 star out of 5 and it's that high because I gave them a bonus half star that when a character of significance got sick (flies were growing in him?) they dropped him off for dead and went out for steak dinner. Shortly after, they elected some rando to replace the lost guy and tossed him in a cage. I don' t think they even said rando's name. Just a "Hey you, you're in a cage!" and they move on to more important business. So +0.5 stars for that for a total of 1.

Actually, I had googled Midnight Mass when you first mentioned it and read the episode summaries start to finish.
Looked fairly well executed, but some of those twists would be mind-bending

Talking about Star Wars in the other thread I stumbled across Disney possibly losing exclusive copyright on Winnie the Pooh
https://www.themeparktourist.com/news/2 … oat-willie

I agree re the name change. I suggested one per genre to make things easy to connect up in the site, although there may be too many genres (haven't checked recently). I hope he doesn't try to rip out groups completely since that would be a huge undertaking and would take a long time. Looks like he may not include buying points for cash. Too bad since I would definitely like to give them as gifts. However, I collect more than I need to publish, so I'll just have to be a little stingy with my gifts. How's your supply of points? I have a mere 2500.

I feel like this forum ought to be safe from the purge, I mean, we actually talk about stuff over here. Though maybe there's a way to stash it just in case.

hah Lenore (as with her set of characters) is a common enough name I don't need to hide it from google. Trag, I think is the only unique name, but she's getting renamed to Victoria

Also she mentioned Phanuel is her great great (times 8) grandparent

I typically only send it out for proofing. This runs 0.005$/word. So your 200K document = $1k. More than worth it if you find an editor you work well with. Admittedly, most of my releases are in the 50K word count which makes the hit more digestible.

Line edits I trust this site to handle. At $0.0095/word, your document would hit ~2k and then proofing after would bring you to $3k which is a bit prohibitive.

However I had a line editor back in the traditional days who, aside from being Mr Evil, really tackled stories like a reader which is important because writer-writer reviews are slightly more forgiving. I'd happily fork that money over if he ever went indie (though he might be retired by now)

I may try to hire Seabrass as an editor. :-)