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You DO have M say it, near the end, in the conversation before the wench gets involved.

Too much Kirsey, then?  Too mich Obiwan, not enough Luke?  Remember that you're seeing a chapter stripped from its context.

That scale does not apply.  Kirsey could frost almost anyone's flakes, excluding Pike's and Threkesrom's, and maybe a couple of other Masters.  Threckesrom now might be good for one or two strong spells, but he's old and tired.  I may give him a minute or two on stage, through.

I'm looking forward and seeing what raw material I'll need and what I'll have.  I may include a comet or two in this solar system.

Ooorf.  I'm way behind ... in reviews ('pologies, all!), in Erevain, in some edits on the Kirsey-Erevain-0 chapter ... and on top of it all I've had an insight on future thread development.  And I am, as the Commonwelth folks were wont to say, knackered.

Merran and Jamen will be running into trouble at the Academy--and they'll end up there several times.  One time, I think Merran will be alone, with the fading Threkesrom.  But that's not all I need.

I'm thinking now of an ensemble, four to seven people, with an informal center and sometime leader.  He'll be a lot like Pike--talented, easygoing, always busy, never busy, always helpful, and always at the center of every gathering of his friends.  Male or female?  I don't know.  There should be a second, maybe in love with #1, with a great faith in #1.  #1 considers thi #2 flighty, but will tie the Worlds into a knot over something that Really Matters to #2.

I'm still working on the others.  They won't show up for a while, but when they do, they'll be strongly aligned with the Academy--except that #1 is far too much live-and-let-live.

Thoughts?  Pitfalls?

I need to improve my note-keeping on characters; this may put me over the edge.

Pity Camuir will be denied the chance to redeem himself in mortal combat with the real villian.  By this time there are plenty who would be happy to settle for a tenth of him so long as they were assured the other nine-tenths were half as well taken care of.

How do you define 'that difficult'.  Hw do you weigh the development effort and possible inconvenience (to someone who hits the button accidentally, perhaps?) against the gain in time and preserved mental concentration of the users who benefit?

Of course, I still think that moving the 'negative' links under each of these posts to the side opposite the quote and edit buttons would be a good use of development (and testing) effort.

Would it make sense to add enough detail to Onnen's mention that it becomes a teaser, suggesting that there are details to be unfolded?

But there's more.  I've been mulling it, and I'm not at all convinced that this is the birth of a hero.  This could be as great a hunger as the two that contend at Blossom.

Except that some people with those differences nevertheless lead responsible lives.

In the language of anthropology, both are considered 'mutilation'.  Ear piercing and tattoos are also considered mutilation for this definition.

A great deal of polemic mischief is done by deliberately conflating the specialty (anthro.) meaning with the general meaning.

Language can conceal a lot of specious argument.  C.S.Lewis makes a point of this towards the end of Out of the Silent Planet, inspired in part by his education with 'Kirkpatrick'.  See Surprised by Joy, if you don't mind a long read for a single point.

I don't know if I can.  If I can't do it in 2015, I might yet be able to do it in 2018.  And if I never can do it, there may well be authors who can.

To say that you can't do it does not mean it can't be done, nor does it reduce the value of the achievement for those who can.  As I recall, a fellow named Aesop had something to say about the question.

Are you saying that you cannot imagine-create a scene that will move you to tears, or that reading such a scene after you've written it will not still move you to tears?