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Diamond Tail Upgrade
By @iktapop
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Jason Fleming will do a thorough line-edit of the entire novel, cutting the excesses, untangling overly-complex sentences, and making the entire story read quickly and cleanly to the modern reader.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHere are the opening paragraphs of the original novel:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: rgb(156, 156, 148)\"\u003EThere was a good deal of loose skin on Charley Thomson\u00e2\u0080\u0099s neck, dry wrinkled skin, which caused one to wonder how he stretched it to shave. That he managed it someway, day by day, was as evident as the hills around Saunders, for never a hair had grown long enough to interfere with his mouth in all his years in the town. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EA great avid mouth, like a cannibal fish, elongated by wrinkles at the corners, which bent it downwards with a sneering cast; a clubbed, fleshy nose, purple, immense; small eyes, squinting from a life-long habit of drawing them to points to increase his look of shrewdness and inscrutability. Not a handsome man in one line of his rascally old face, not a nice man in one habit of his daily life, yet a man with something about him that caught upon the perception like a burr, and argued convincingly for some strength which lay beneath the smoky rind. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EAs long as he had practiced law in Saunders, and that ran back to the territorial days of Wyoming, and far back into them, at that, Charley Thomson had garbed himself with unvarying sameness. A blue woolen shirt, loose about his lean neck as the folded skin for which he had no use, nearly always lumpy in the corners of the collar, as a woolen shirt becomes after much washing; a black necktie, pulled almost as tight as the hangman\u00e2\u0080\u0099s noose which he had helped so many who deserved it to escape, the ends of it tucked into his bosom; a long black professional coat, glossy on the back from long rubbing against various articles of furniture, even church pews; an old black hat, weathered and rain-beaten, sweated and greasy, deplorable and disgraceful altogether. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHere is an example of how the editing will improve it (the following is not necessarily final):\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255)\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"\u003EThere was a good deal of loose skin on Charley Thomson\u00e2\u0080\u0099s neck, which caused folks to wonder how he stretched it to shave. But shave he did, every day, for never a hair had grown long enough to interfere with his mouth. \u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThomson had a large mouth, like a cannibal fish, that bent downwards with a sneer; a clubbed, fleshy nose; small eyes, squinting from a life-long habit of trying to look shrewd and inscrutable. Not a handsome man, not a nice man in his daily life, yet a man with something about him that telegraphed an unsettling strength.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EAs long as he had practiced law in Saunders, going far back to the territorial days of Wyoming, Charley Thomson had clothed himself in an unvarying uniform. A blue woolen shirt, loose and nearly always lumpy in the corners of the collar; a black necktie, pulled tight as the hangman\u00e2\u0080\u0099s noose he had helped so many guilty men to escape; a long black professional coat, rubbed smooth and glossy on the back from years of wear; an aged black hat, weathered and rain-beaten, sweated and greasy.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe resulting changes will be extensive enough that it will be registered for a new copyright unless the final stretch goal is met.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cb\u003EMain Goal:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf this project fully funds, the new book will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license (CC BY-NC-ND) under a new title, such as \u003Ci\u003EShowdown at Diamond Tail Ranch\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cb\u003EStretch Goals:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIf it funds to 150% (9,750,000 Satoshis, or 0.0975 BTC), it will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIf it funds to 200% (13,000,000 Satoshis or 0.13 BTC), it will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC BY-SA).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIf the campaign reaches 300% before the editing is complete (19,500,000 Satoshis or 0.195 BTC), it will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAnd if it gets to 400% (26,000,000 Satoshis or 0.26 BTC), the new work will be released to the public domain under a Creative Commons Zero 1.0 License (CC0).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"4":{"app":"publisher_messages","dataset":{"title":"Messages","position":5}},"page_state":"published","page_tag":"43iqw9","page_template":"fundraiser","page_summary":"George Washington Ogden's western novel The Baron of Diamond Tail is a great story, hiding beneath somewhat ripe, Victorian-style prose. iktaPOP Media published the original, public domain novel on Amazon in early June 2022.If this project gets fu...","categories":"21"}
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