I probably wont get a new update in before it goes to print, mainly because it's just too time consuming to fix, rescale, flatten, change to RGB and upload so many pages, but this is the thing that I really appreciate about this blog; I am learning so much stuff that I never would have otherwise. Thanks again for taking the time to explain this.

Thanks for showing me, Sonja (you include the DAC here)

Hey, Sonja, hope you don't mind… (you left out one of the two DACs)

You got it, Sweetie! (You left out the DAC.)

The DAC is somewhat controversial, in that some authors omit it as a matter of style. This is discussed at copyediting.com. However, to some readers, the omission of DACs simply looks careless or uneducated. This is particularly a problem when you sometimes use the DAC, as in the first example on this page. This could be an example of the trailing-DAC style, where the DAC is only used when the direct address comes at the end of the sentence. This is somewhat reasonable, since that is where the comma can actually change the meaning of the sentence, as in this example from <a>thewritingresource.net<a>

Let's eat Grandpa!

Let's eat, Grandpa!.

So my advice is to use the DAC throughout, but I can appreciate the argument for leaving out the DAC or using only the trailing DAC.

Putting it online was kinda a last ditch effort to try and get a few followers before I print so I don't go straight to the poor house when nobody knows it exists. But now that I've been posting it online I can see that it's taking a life of it's own. I might have to take 6 months off between the first and second book just to get all caught back up again. I'll still post things every week but we will see how fast I can get the second book up to speed.

Anyway, thanks again!

Also, Victuals is an amazing name for a cat. :)