The Sorcerer's Progress (Page 16 of 62)

Okay, I had six hours to work on the chapter(s) bouncing around in my head and spent eleven of them, but Book 2 Chapter (provisional) 27 is up, right before (provisional) 28.

It's about Melayne.  If you don't like her, you probably won't like the chapter.

Fair point.  I don't have workable synonyms, and I have a lot of 4+2-principle assumptions mixed into how I envision the story.

Were you one of those who wondered why I capitalized certain words?

But there are things to work on in these chapters, including the effect of turning down the heat when the cooling is still at max.

And don't forget that I do hit lots of this in Book 1.

Shoot, durn thing threw away my reply.  WiFi problem.

Continuity is my friend.  I depend upon it, establishing the (AND NOW IT SUBMITTED BEFORE I FINISHED, -not- A WiFi PROBLEM) distinctions early and holding to them.  I use the opening training session, and the extended training llater, in Book 1, to drive the distinctions home.

I need to do the same near the start of each Book.  The chapters in question are not the start of the book.

This is why I started capitalizing the Elemental uses versus the tangible.  I should look for more ways of reminding the reader.

Okay, I've got the last part of Melayne's Void of Fire journey in place.  Now I have to earn back the thirty or forty points I spent.  And I have to get back to Erevain.

KH: I hope eventually to have journeys to all six Voids.  At least one of them will require multiple people.  I'm hoping for a cooperative ensemble on another, and maybe ... a battle either at a Void or around ... well, What happened then, Well that's the play ...

This isn't a red shirt story.  If someone dies, it will hurt.  You'll know when it happens.

Karin,

Don't be discouraged when he says no. If you persist, he sometimes sees reason. I know this to be true because I'm a nag.

KH: Meant to add, Melayne is saving the lurymant world by bringing back enough Elemental Fire to repair the damage Shogran did to the poison-smoke mountain.

Interesting point.  I might use it.  (Actually, I did use a version of it, when Merran and Glaselle are lost in Vyznt and Glasias is poking through crossings looking for them.)  The full answer is that a brick wall may slow a sorcerer down, but probably it won't stop hir.  Melayne, for instance, can choose between climbing over it and just blasting a hole in it.  Merran has to learn a lot, but she could blast her way through or hit it with enough stones to knock a hole in it.

Incidentally, I'm planning to have Jamen study with Kirsey at some point, and I'm looking for a way to have Merran be Threkesrom's last student--off the Academy grounds.  I'm still deciding just how much potential Merran has.  (That digression in Ch 3 about Melayne and Caneth choosing each other has a point.)  Does Merran have the raw potential to equal Pike?  Or to be the strongest sorcerer since the Sundering?  The latter would lead Kirsey to send Merran to Threkesrom, Academy be damned.

K,

How does Kajo build a supercomputer when every part needs to be crafted by hand, construct a sword for Kim, deal with full time petty politics, fight a war, break every bone in Kim's body and then nurse her back to health without full time help, and then spend major quality time with Jenna...all in one month?

And you are giving NJC flak about a wall? No wall can be built because the entry points move with the cosmic tides. A sorcery manual is less of a road map than a map of currents in the sea. How did I do, New Jersey?

(Snap:-)

Working on a flashback between Nikkano and Erevain.  For this backstory I've needed to create backstory for their building and location (so it makes sense) and to refine another bit of will-reveal-about-the-Academy.  And now I have to weave that, and character, back into my flashback scene, and without giving too much away.

It takes several hours to get myself into scene and story, and then I run out of time to work.

Got it. Tonight hopefully.

Janet, if a side bit about some abusive soldiers will get you to read a chapter ... well, when Jose Luis Borges picked up The Napoleon of Notting Hill he said that the opening, less than a complete sentence, convinced him that the author was a master.  Anyone who could throw away a line like that must surely be sitting on a wealth of story.  The opening?  "The human race, to which so many of my readers belong ..."