Easiest way I know to mark your spot is keep a piece of paper by the computer and write down the number of the page you leave off on. Since I do all my editing on the computer anyway, it's the best way I know of making sure I can find my place again.

Cool! I hope it works out well for you!

I understand the practice came about as a way of encouraging bookstores to stock books during the Great Depression, at a time when bookstores had little money to buy stock. Bookstores didn't want to give up that advantage once the actual need for it was gone, and since the publishers needed the stores to sell their books, they allowed it to continue. It's enormously wasteful these days. Big chain stores moving to new quarters in the same city think nothing of shipping back all the books in their old store and ordering new for the new store. It's mind-boggling that publishers don't put their collective foot down about such a wasteful act.

nonplus--completely perplex; confound, puzzle, confuse, shock; colloq. faze, flummox. Nothing like character quirks to make a character seem like a real person.

We do tend to see what we think we wrote when we look at our own work. It's nice to have someone help us really get it to what we thought we wrote.

LOL! Okay, now you've got me wondering about the origins of those words. I'll probably end up spending time hunting them down, if possible. Oh, and welcome, Barbara!

I can usually just drift along with the narrative. It takes a really bad movie to make me get up and turn it off. Welcome, Alison!

Sorry to see you go. I've enjoyed your posts.

Well, not that it counts for much, but I bought both your books. Not the same as getting a bailout, but might help earn out your advance. Enjoyed them, by the way.