Banadin: Blog

My most sincere apologies to the residents of Craig Colorado, for moving their fair city. When choosing Craig for my story, I looked up US Route 40. One of the first cities one comes across is Craig. Unfortunately the directions was from West to East, not East to West. Now rewrite everything or hire United Van Lines to haul the residents home at the end of the tale. I think we shall move them later, after all it is all true give or take a lie or two.

More than fifty readers pointed out two errors that I made in the last chapter.
1. I had conflicting statements whereas in the prolog it referred to two passports, but later said he never knew about the British one. I changed the prolog to remove the conflict because it didn't change the storyline.
2. I called the early BankAmericard, Visa, shame on me, I remember the name change very well. Anyway I fixed it my removing references to BofA and Visa. They aren't important to the story line. I did find out from readers that there were metal cards in use in some major cities prior to that. Since I really was a small town kid I never knew.
I wish I could have finessed these like I did my error on when Yale went coed but there was no saving it.
My self imposed punishment is to reread the entire story to refresh my mind.
Keep those eyes sharp, and thanks.
Oh there were major errors on Ricks insurance situation but I think I have a fix for that.

I've had several emails asking about the movies in my story. Sir Nicklaus and Bandits of Sherwood are made up. Hell fighters and The Bravados were real, but Rick only was an extra in the first, and had nothing to do with the second.

The one that I thought people would question, It Never Happened, with John Wayne and Elvis in it, was not questioned at all. The fact is Wayne and Presley never appeared in a movie together, hence the title. Other than the possibility of a cameo Rick will not appear in RL movies.

When I started Ninth Grade 1958-1959 I really didn't give the title much thought. Later I realized the name is like so many others that confusion would eventually reign. I have changed the title to Ninth Grade 1958-1959 the Richard Jackson saga. That way those that are reading will be able to find it easily. The next story, God willing and the creek don't rise, will be Richard Jackson Tenth Grade 1959. At that time I will change the title of Ninth grade to Richard Jackson Ninth Grade 1958. Hope you find this as confusing as I did.

Since I've started writing I've found that if you pay attention to reader feed back there is real gold, "in thar hills." In this case a kind reader pointed out the one time in ten thousand words that I used "then" instead of "them". It didn't make the story any less readable, but offended my sense of right (write?).

Being a lazy sort I and not remembering the sentence he pointed out, I just searched for "then" with the plan of correcting that single error.

What I found instead is that I've been using "then" too many times! I've corrected and reposted, while cleaning up other errors.

Buy paying attention to my readers, I have improved my craft slightly.

Thank you all
Banadin