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I thought only I did stuff like that. I once wrote and posted and entire chapter of Galaxy Tales and completely forgot to include God in the chapter. That shows you how useless that character sometimes was to the story.
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Things aren't going well for Laurie on the other site. They're already uncovered three nasty holes in the plot which only acrobatics will patch. Ignorance was bliss
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Well, at least you're getting more than isolated chapter feedback.
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They're capitalizing "niche" when it's used in the general.
Bob walked back to Redhill Niche. Sally parted ways, headed back to her [N](n)iche.
Just when I thought I had evicted all the capitals in general use, now my head's boiling
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>>Just when I thought I had evicted all the capitals in general use, now my head's boiling
Ah, the accursed memories of capitalization in Galaxy Tales 1, 2, 3 and Archangel Syndrome 1 & 2. 
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Actually, chatting with them, I can kinda see why they're using the capitals, since I'm kind of re-purposing an existing word. Unlike City/city or Village/village, niche generally can't refer to a settlement on its own. I should consider coining my own phrase.
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That's hilarious. I feel the author's pain. 
I forget how many times I went back and forth between imperial and Imperial in Galaxy Tales/Archangel, but it was too many. I finally settled on lowercase because that's what Star Wars did in its books, but then Jack argued that I should treat it like Canadian. Eventually, I went back to several sources and discovered I had somehow screwed up the earlier research for imperial in Star Wars. They do capitalize it. Not sure how I screwed that up. It became absolutely clear as I toyed with different names to replace Realm. Most of the names fell into the same category as Jack's example, where it definitely required caps.
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They're near the end of reading, and I fear the fate of yet another draft has been ascertained. Pity. I thought this one was finally headed out the door.
If I can stick to a firm One-chapter-a-day, it'll take about a month. But I really want to be working on my angel story. Choices, choices.
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I decided to go back-fill the old chapters leading up to the ship. Please ignore
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So I face this weird problem where Dirk mentioned my characters mis-quoted the verse count in Deuteronomy.
I checked a random online bible and my French version: Both have 69 verses. Eng KJV: 68 verses. Some online KJVs differ
68's:
This NIV has 68: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?s … ersion=NIV (Their KJV version also 68)
MIT: https://web.mit.edu/jywang/www/cef/Bibl … UT+28.html
69's:
https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/D … %2028%3A69
https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.28. … p;aliyot=0
I feel there is no one choice I can make that half the readers don't trip up
Edit: It's the spot with all the curses promised to sinners, and we learn here that due to the android massacre if the Antiquties, the world has added few more curses to the end such as don't sleep with an android etc. This will be extremely important later on, so the particular chapter is perfect for my needs, though I could theoretically just invent a new "chapter 28.5"
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May I suggest using an alternate timeline? 
See Deu 29:1 for discussion on 28:69 vs 29:1. I suspect the Bibles you checked that are missing 28:69 have it as 29:1.
https://www.revisedenglishversion.com/c … eronomy/29
