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Chapter 35, “Lights up!”, is uploaded and available.

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41622 [Eastern, KY, which is not to be confused with Eastern Kentucky]

Hi, Ghost-of-a-Chance and all. My advice would be to make sure that whatever you do to train “X” makes sense in the world of your story, and that you explain it in a way that doesn’t bore the reader. “X” is being transported to another world, and being given “mystical powers” by a guardian spirit. So, you’ve already kissed reality goodbye. You’re also implying that “X” is going to have physical strength beyond what is realistically possible for most human women under any “reality-realistic” circumstances. Your “400 to 600” sounds like a number of days, so a period of between one and two years for “alien technology and training” or “exotic and forgotten non-Western cultural practices” to make “X” super-powerful can be explained. Use more than one sentence, less than one book, and make it interesting enough that the reader is willing to continue suspending their disbelief. Simple enough to say, but it’s a bitch to actually do; I know. But I’m sure you can do it. Good luck.

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Hi again, BronxWench. Something I should have mentioned in my last post but didn’t was that the italics text attribute is not stripped from the reader’s view, even though boldface is. Go figure. Thanks.

Hi, @manta2gand @BronxWench. I’ve just confirmed that at least the boldface text attribute does not carry through on the archives. Text set to bold stays set as bold, and if saved will remain bold if you come back later to edit the page again. However, the boldface does not display to the reader. Thanks.

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No problem, George. When I haven’t been editing my own stuff today, I’ve been taking peeks at Depravity Falls; where “Pine” describes both the name and the shape of the family tree. 😄 Cheers!

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The Ghost of Molly McGee’s Chastity perhaps? Or, maybe Infectious Affection? Perhaps Scratch Tries Stopping the Itch? Good luck.

41571 [Varney, KY]

Hello, Desiderius Price and all. I am downloading and saving the ‘missing’ chapters. I’ve also been fixing them as I’ve gone along, which is why I’m only up to and working on Chapter 8 right now. Just downloading and saving each of the few chapters I don’t have on this computer would take very little time to accomplish, even manually. While I was “in the trade” myself, my skils have run far more on the O/S and hardware level, rather than the level of DBAs or webpage authoring tools. Admittedly, I can also be lazy at times, just like anyone else. If I get to the point of wanting a multi-machine network running at the house again, the cron or launchd suggestion has merit, along with Time Machine.

Same here, Desiderius Price. I still have the “older” chapters of my stuff “here and there.” But when I checked the computer I’m using now, I noticed that I hadn’t moved quite a few older chapters of Lincoln Way to the current computer. So, rather than tearing into the other computer(s) that don’t exactly work to retrieve them, I’ve started downloading them from here. Of course, since there are several continuity errors I needed to fix anyway, and a few other places where I wanted to polish things up a bit, I’ve also been fixing the early chapters I’ve downloaded, saving the changes, and uploading the updated text. I’ll have Chapter 6 up and be working on Chapter 7 before I call it a night. The ‘new’ text editor doesn’t screw up the formatting like the old one did, so the uploads are almost effortless. But downloading (actually copy-and-pasting) the existing chapters back into Word screws up the formatting there. So, I’m having to relocate paragraph breaks as well as reading everything over and making changes. It’s much easier (at least for me) to put the initial paragraph breaks back in where I had them, then change it up and move it around rather than just getting a 13,000 word ball and try to tease it out by itself. Do you know of an “easy” way to replace the word “paperboy” with the word “papírák”? I sure don’t, but that’s one of the smaller changes I’m making. Word won’t let you paste into the ‘replace with’ box, but the archive text editor does. Back to the original request, I’m having enough trouble with timelines and birthdays, and the character ages and timing are actually important to the story-lines in the plot. I really don’t want to also try keeping notes of how many time I opened the displayed story to figure out how many “Dragonpoints” are actually other people. It might not be possible for manta2g to turn off tracking logged-in author peeks into the Dragonprints like I asked. But if they can turn it off, I don’t think it hurts to ask. The other “big” story I have here is much further along over at “St. Elsewhere,” I’m still stuck on how to lay out an important conversation and portray a later important event on it, and I’m not missing any chapters of that one. Thanks.

I’m still working on this story, and have posted up to chapter 34. I am also re-doing some of the earlier chapters so that I have backups of them and to fix some continuity errors. I look forward to any constructive criticism. Thanks.

Hi, @manta2g and all. The subject line sums it up nicely. We aren’t all writing She’s The One. If I look at one of my stories, the Dragonprints counter counts me just the same as an actual reader. While some authors might like running up their counters, I would rather know if someone else is looking at the story. Since I don’t have my stories here completed anywhere, and since I don’t have a beta, I end up looking at a chapter multiple times to get it where I want it, especially if a change to a story creates a continuity error. Thanks in advance either way.

41565 [Speight, KY]

I’d have no problems with you recommending one of my stories or adding it to your reading list. I’m not sure anyone would. Of course, leaving the recommendation or reading list add in place instead of just toggling it would be nicer, but either way, just let me know. Thanks.

Hi, BronxWench. I have yet to try an outright chapter or story deletion, since I have nothing to delete. Editing and changing existing chapter content, including completely replacing the contents of a chapter, has worked. Of course, these change have not imposed the new style sheets, even on chapters whose entire contents have been replaced. Thanks.

41563 [Shelby Gap, KY]