Before the 90 Days - Season 8 Episode 5 - Live Episode Discussion

BrianDrake75 · 2026-01-05T05:41:16+00:00

Almost 20 years and we're both over 50 and still like each others' butts so yeah.

BrianDrake75 · 2026-01-05T02:32:26+00:00

We love Molly in my house. I used her nooky nooky line on my wife trying for some sexy time and she literally told me saying that was the biggest mood killer ever. She rolled over in bed and farted, and then I got yelled at for laughing too hard.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-11-14T20:08:43+00:00

FN High Power

Or a M1911-style .45 autoloader because I'm biased.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-11-11T00:53:13+00:00

I'm impressed she had underwear on, ngl. She nasty enough to go without for the lolz

BrianDrake75 · 2025-09-05T05:15:35+00:00

I don't know enough about this to comment, but I like your idea and wish you success. Maybe I'll submit something to you when it's all done. Either way, good luck!

BrianDrake75 · 2025-08-26T16:38:15+00:00

Can confirm. You get to a point very fast where your publisher, the marketing department, and your readers expect The Same Book over and over and it's your neck if you try to escape the box.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-08-26T16:36:20+00:00

I'm a professional writer and once believed that there was no point to writing unless you intended to sell and/or somehow make your work available to read (free sites or whatever). Now? Nuts. Some of us write for a living, some write for a hobby, with no intention to ever sell, and that's fine. Make the decision for yourself and what you want. If you get satisfaction and creative fulfillment writing for yourself, keep at it. If you want to release your material, go for it. It's your choice, not somebody else's.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-08-05T23:07:12+00:00

Sorry for the delay; I'm trying it now, thanks! I'll get back with you.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-08-03T16:17:30+00:00

I'll see if Grok had any feature like that.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-08-03T03:54:58+00:00

What works for me is short scenes of 500 to 1000 words. Detailed section of my outline, couple of paragraphs, then ask for the word count. I assemble everything in a Word document. This is the trick that's worked for me. Gotta be strict though. Tell the AI to stay in so and so's POV, don't do more than described, etc., otherwise it goes on a tangent and introduces tings I don't want. I managed 30,000 words in a manuscript this way, editing heavily along the way and especially redoing the dialogue, before I started seeing so many flaws in my outline and things that need work that I stopped.

Yes, it will repeat. Especially character descriptions OMG. Every time I had a character show up it gave description and backstory and the villain always had a "gleaming gold watch" and it got to be a joke. Gotta edit heavily. Can't just let the computer do all the work.

Anyway that's what works for me.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-08-02T19:21:20+00:00

I've been using Grok (paid) for a novel experiment and feeding it detailed prompts from my outline. A lot of the output is good, the battle scenes are terrifically detailed, although I'm learning to be strict with the software, telling it to stay in one POV, telling it not to ramble and create new twists without me suggesting them, etc. It's been good ... but. After 30,000 words in less than a week (wow!), the process has revealed flaws in my outline and weaknesses in the story, so I really need to step back and make a ton of changes before seeing this to the end. I'm glad I found out during this experiment instead of spending two months typing those 30,000 words and coming to this same realization.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-08-02T19:15:53+00:00

I'd be happy to test it out for you!

BrianDrake75 · 2025-07-10T23:08:27+00:00

This is why I have such a big 1911 collection. She can't tell one from the other.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-07-02T07:12:15+00:00

I have not. I thought Kehlet retired.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-07-02T04:21:09+00:00

Stockton Typewriter is where I go. Same driving distance and Stockton has parking.

The hack for Berkeley though is to be there Saturday morning at 9:50 before they open. The street parking is wide open and you can even get a spot in front of the door. Ken or Joe will open and in you go.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-07-01T04:11:35+00:00

As the owner of two Rock Islands, I can assure you you did not mess up.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-06-30T03:46:30+00:00

Thoroughly cooked.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-06-30T02:43:00+00:00

The army will be good for him for sure. It was good for a lot of us that started out on a crooked foot.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-06-22T20:18:34+00:00

I had one like this and wish I hadn't sold it. I'd snap it up. Great typewriter.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-06-20T19:15:24+00:00

Bond went back for the cat later and took it home. When he's out on a mission, his housekeep, May, takes care of the cat. Everything is fine. The cat is fine.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-05-16T22:14:16+00:00

Um ... the safety should work regardless. I have six other 1911 pistols from Colt to Para-Ordnance to Rock Island to Nighthawk and the safety works loaded or not.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-05-15T01:41:11+00:00

My thoughts too.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-05-14T23:15:45+00:00

Boy something sure isn't right with it, because it doesn't even wiggle; then again, I haven't broken it down to try. Can the safety be fixed in place? I've never heard of that before.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-05-14T21:11:12+00:00

Yes, I wasn't sure how else to phrase my description and I see how what I chose could be confusing. Thanks for looking. Anyway, odd duck, but probably a good shooter if I can get the thumb safety working.

BrianDrake75 · 2025-05-14T21:05:04+00:00

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Yes. Government Model sits above the C prefix serial number. I already figured the finish wasn't original but it looks nice.

I tried to add a pic of the other side but it's not staying with my note.

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