When in Doubt, Leave it Out
@just4him (323168)
Green Bay, Wisconsin
July 9, 2021 4:05pm CST
I've been working hard on Vendetta. I have ten more chapters proofed against Grammarly, so halfway through the manuscript. I also read through two more chapters. I'm not quite as far with the readthrough as I am with the Grammarly edit.
I made minor changes, one that I couldn't find info on in the Chicago Manual of Style, so I took out the name. No need to get into trouble needlessly. I know you can't name product names without permission, but I couldn't find information regarding airlines. So, I took the name of the airline out. Better safe than sorry.
Other than that, not much happening. I made a little headway with packing and getting my exercise. Though I didn't go to the Y this morning. My left hip hurts to the point of muscle spasms, so it's best to take it easy and let it work itself out. I hope I can do that with all the packing I need to do. I'm still packing the living room. I have two more boxes packed. I might still have two or three boxes left in there before I start in the kitchen. The picture above shows the majority of what I have in the living room with books and knickknacks. It doesn't show the entertainment center's two shelves or the secretary with its two shelves of books. Plus I have the shelves and pictures on the walls to pack. Anyway, lots to do.
That's what's happening here. How about you? How's your day going? Time for me to get off the computer. I'll return tomorrow for more interaction before I begin work again with Vendetta and packing. It looks like it could take the full two months to get this packed.
Thanks for reading. The picture belongs to me.
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@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
9 Jul 21
Wow, it is probably going to take you a long time to carefully pack all those KnickKnacks and figurines. How far away is your new place? Is it just across the courtyard or something?
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@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
13 Jul 21
@just4him ha, as long as my don't get confused and wa k to your old building by mistake!
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@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
10 Jul 21
Every book I've been reading has spelling and typo errors! Why? I can't imagine how this happened.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Jul 21
@NJChicaa I find them all the time in books. My brain trips over them when I see them. I'm a typo freak. I can't stand them and do my best to get rid of them. Scarred has three editions. I didn't realize all the typos in that book - homonyms. I took care of them in the second edition. The third edition is because I fired my editors and needed to get their names off the book.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Jul 21
@kobesbuddy It's easy. The author and editor weren't paying attention.
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. You are very busy especially now that you have a lot of packing things to do. I had a busy day, too. Have a nice weekend.
@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
9 Jul 21
It's a long, long way for Vendetta to see the printing press yet.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
11 Jul 21
@just4him Anyway sooner or later it will be done.
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@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
10 Jul 21
You will have both things done before you know it.
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@Dena91 (17029)
• United States
10 Jul 21
I am sorry your left hip has been hurting you. You are making progress both with Vendetta and also with getting ready to move. I know that you are excited to.
I took a friend to the eye doctor this morning so she could get a shot in it. She goes every other month for one. The month in between she goes to be checked and have scans to see that the shots are working. It is a long process. Mike's dad went through the same thing.
Hope you have a blessed evening. 
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Jul 21
Thank you. It's a little better this morning. Either that or the Ibuprofen hasn't worn off yet. I'll go with it's doing better. Yes. I'm excited to move. I expect this will be my final move. I don't see myself moving again unless my kids put me in a nursing home. I don't want that.
Thank you. It was good. I hope you had a blessed evening too.
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@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
10 Jul 21
Packing things away carefully, so nothing gets broken. That's the part of moving I don't like:(
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Jul 21
@kobesbuddy How cute. I bet I know who that someone was.
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@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
10 Jul 21
@just4him I have two oil lamps. One was in my mother's bedroom, as a little girl. Someone's child put a marble in the top, which was never taken out
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@MommyOfEli2013 (89474)
• Rupert, Idaho
10 Jul 21
Sounds like a busy time there...didn't know you couldn't use product names in books.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Jul 21
@MommyOfEli2013 It becomes easy the more you do it.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (89474)
• Rupert, Idaho
10 Jul 21
@just4him Well that really stinks. Good thing I don't write. So much I don't know....
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
10 Jul 21
A lot for yuu still to do.
I have always used older towels or anything matetial to pack delicate things in.
Well it worked for me at the time.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Jul 21
I'm considering that for my oil lamps. Yes, still a lot to do.
@prashu228 (37518)
• India
10 Jul 21
It's better to make changes instead of getting trouble..
It's Saturday morning here.. just woke up.. mylotting for a while..then will have ?? honey water
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@garymarsh6 (23979)
• United Kingdom
10 Jul 21
Good luck with the packing. I am dreading the thought of ever packing up if we move to a smaller house. I will have to be quite ruthless as my wife is an horrific hoarder.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Jul 21
I hope you don't need to move. It would be horrendous.
Thank you. I think it's going well.
@porwest (112717)
• United States
10 Jul 21
So far as I remember from my editing days, you can use brand names so long as they are used in context with the brand itself. For example, I can have my character eat a Whopper. This is perfectly fine.
What the rule generally refers to is referring to something that is a brand used in a generic way.
"She wiped her nose with a kleenex." It is not capitalized and the word that should be used is tissue of course. Another common example was Xerox. "She handed me a xerox of the document." Of course the proper word is "copy."
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