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Sunday, December 21, 1997
Well . . . looks like That Fated Shore is going to have *23* chapters! (I was hoping to keep it to 400 manuscript pages because editors get pouty if they have to read more than 400 pages for a novel but, it looks like I'm going to be somewhere around 450 at this point . . . if not 475. Ah well. Too much story to finish up!)
And it doesn't look like I'm going to get it done by Christmas so I'll be writing over the holidays.
I need to update the membership files but with all the work at the church, I've fallen behind on my postal mail. Hoping to get caught up on that soon as well and then I'll do an upload for the membership files.
Doug Brooks sent along a fun little nit from Titanic this week: It's an outstanding movie of Oscar quality, but lo and behold, there's a huge nit. In one scene, smoke can be seen coming out of all four smokestacks (or whatever they're called) on the ship. In reality, the fourth smokestack, the one closest to aft, was a dummy. It was simply for show; smoke never came out of it.
Finally: BAD NEWS, BAD NEWS, BAD NEWS: Someone sent me some kind of gonzo-big file last Thrusday and as I was doing my downloads I ran out of space on my hard drive and lost eleven messages. So . . . if you sent me a message yesterday and you don't getn an acknowledge in a day or two, please send again! Sorry.
Monday, December 22, 1997
Uploaded more reflections and nits for Mortal Coil and added a plot summary since I finally saw the episode!
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: The Brash Reflections for the third season of Voyager are officially frozen. However, you may feel free to send in additional nits for the episodes. I will keep the information for future reference and possible inclusion in a Voyager Nitpicker's Guide. Also frozen are Trials and Tribble-ations, along with all movie files. Also, aside from "Trials and Tribble-ations"--which was a special case, there aren't any Brash Reflections for DS9 on the website. Sorry. Just don't have the time to do another series and I started with Voyager when I started the homepage.
Tuesday, December 23, 1997
PLEASE NOTE: My vacation begins now! I will be off line for several days. Sometimes it's just nice to get away from the Internet! ;-) So if you don't get a quick response from me, I'm just enjoying a bit of family time!
Wednesday, December 24, 1997
No uploads planned.
Thursday, December 25, 1997
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY! No uploads planned.
Friday, December 26, 1997
No Ask the Chief this week. Taking some vacation! (Click here for last week's column.)
Saturday, December 27, 1997
No uploads planned.
United We Nitpick!
Phil
P.S. While you're surfing, be sure to stop by my Shameless Plugs page and the
Bantaam Doubleday Dell Home Page. Of interest,
the Spectra Science Fiction Forum
(http://www.bdd.com/spectra) and the
Star Wars Forum
(http://www.bdd.com/starwars)!