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Reply #120 - Feb 28th, 2017 at 9:13pm
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Cool! Sounds good! Thanks SnowLeopard!
  
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Reply #121 - Mar 11th, 2017 at 5:20am
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Update…

This story, now featuring no fewer than three fencing sessions courtesy of my fight arranger Wink , has acquired the title 'The Brotherhood' and has been assembled into a not-quite-first draft and shot off to DebbieJ for her comments. Even incomplete, it runs to about 33,000 words, so far. I have a closing scene to write and several gaps to fill, so it'll grow a bit more yet.

Oh and Moo… The Fairbairn-Sykes makes a non-appearance  Wink  Straker needs a weapon, but circumstances dictate that the only things available are kitchen knives. Straker selects a suitable candidate - and being one of those olde-fashioned country-cottage kitchens, they are old, heavy, and sharp - but he wishes he had something a little more professional! As things develop, it's just as well that his marksmanship is as good with a knife as it is with a gun!
  
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Reply #122 - Mar 11th, 2017 at 10:47am
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The attribution will now read:

"Acknowledgements

My thanks to Harlington-Straker Studios for the loan of their fight co-ordinator and technical adviser, DebbieJ; and of one of their weapons, loaned by their props supplier Moo  "
  
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Reply #123 - Mar 11th, 2017 at 3:08pm
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Blades by Moo... I may have to start a company by that name. If nothing else, the F-S fighting knife would make a lasting impression as Alec's choice of toothpick. Doing so without cutting his mouth to ribbons would be a great show of dexterity.

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Reply #124 - Mar 11th, 2017 at 6:18pm
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I'm still laughing at the acknowledgments because I've never worked at a studio before. Great! This could go on my resume. LOL! Thanks again, SnowLeopard!
  
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Reply #125 - Mar 21st, 2017 at 7:34am
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I'm trying not to visualise that, Moo… Wink

Perhaps H-S will give you a job, Debbie!

'Brotherhood' is now at roughly 50,000 words (estimated at 5 chars/word) and counting, but the bits are linking together nicely. I do my composing mainly in a plain-vanilla text editor, and load it into LbreOffice to get an RTF file, when I also get a proper word count. Just me being quirky Cheesy
  
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Reply #126 - Mar 21st, 2017 at 12:59pm
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I'd be so lucky to get a job with HS, SnowLeopard! It would have been so cool to have worked closely with Ed and Paul (grins and bats eyelashes).
And I see Manhunt is up. Will print it off to read later at home tonight. Cool!
  
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Reply #127 - Mar 26th, 2017 at 6:37am
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'Brotherhood' Update: I've filled in some of the gaps, and shuffled a few bits  around a little. Still working on the finish but I have a few ideas how to wind it all up!
  
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Reply #128 - Mar 26th, 2017 at 5:42pm
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Great news, SnowLeopard! Can't wait to see what you come up with.
  
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Reply #129 - Apr 5th, 2017 at 1:01pm
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Hey Debbie, I've just  sent all 4 chapters / 61000 words of the first draft in your direction! Shocked Shocked

Now to clear down my brain and reformat   Wink
  
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Reply #130 - Apr 5th, 2017 at 6:49pm
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Yup, I got it and responded back to your e-mail. I'm not going to print these out though. I'll wait until it's totally finished and posted on this site to do that since it's going to be a lot of pages when I do print it.
But check my e-mail back to you. I told you what I was going to do. Thanks, SnowLeopard!
  
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