AP2 DRAFT 7: COMPLETE!

I finally buckled down to solve the ‘should character Z survive the book’ problem. If you recall, I was going to ask Kim about for help at my 30th high school class reunion. Here’s a picture of the event, by the way. See? I’m right there in the back almost smiling.

Kim was not feeling well, so she wasn’t able to go. It was a bummer, but I was able to talk to a few other people instead. Like Andy, there in the front surrounded by women. 😐

I also got a free T-shirt! Or a $40 dollar T-shirt, since that’s how much this little shindig cost. I made sure to take as much food to-go as I could to prove to everyone what a master mooch I had become. 😅

ANYway, back to Abandonment Party 2 and the problem of the alive/dead character. I did make a choice on my own, but I’ll keep it a secret for now. And it did give me a bit of extra work. Just about one page of explanation about how ‘character Z’ survived/died, but it didn’t take too long.

The only thing I really need to do now is check all of the pronouns to make sure they’re all consistent. For example let’s say I’m checking ‘hex door.’ I’d open up the ‘find and replace’ feature and type in ‘hex door.’ Then I’d slowly go through to check every time that term appears and make sure I didn’t do something weird like put in a hyphen or capitalize it. (There’s an option to ignore capitalization when searching for the words. Very handy.)

There’s also a good amount of numbers that I’ll need to double-check. I’m terrible at numbers so I should probably quintuple-check. That’s seven times, right? 😅

THEN I’ll have to actually upload everything to Amazon and have fun remembering how to even DO all that again. I hope they still have the ‘check to see how everything looks on Kindle’ program. I’ll have to read the entire book on there at least once to make sure it’s all working correctly. (Even though David said his Kindle version of the first book was wonky in places. I could have been his settings, and no one else complained so I really have no idea if it’s something I can fix.) 🤔

Now, let’s get to Stargate SG-1.

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AP2 Draft 7, chapters 19-27: COMPLETE!

And here we are again: at the chapters leading up to the book’s finale! I made some cuts, but not many. I have also not solved the problem of ‘should this one character die or not.’

As of now, the character lives. And there is nothing this character does following the event in which they may or may not die. Not in this book. Which means I can still have them die or live without making any major changes.

This is also a secondary character, but their death would affect one of the main characters. So I have that to consider as well.

I’d normally ask Kim about this problem, but she’s also having a brush with death at the moment with her rare cancer. Maybe I’ll try asking anyway. I haven’t been able to visit her, either. I’ve tried to visit twice now, but she always says she’s worried about germs and turns me down.

Kim DID decide to go to our class reunion next month. 30 years. Maybe I can talk to her there. Continue reading →