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1,426 2016-08-29 11:28:54
Topic: New Inline Review Button (5 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
1,427 2016-08-29 11:10:14
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I'm not sure they'll ever get fully reconstructed.
I just tested the naked circuit board for the redesigned/rebuilt LDO 12v regulated supply. It doesn't work. I know where the wiring error is, but I'm not going to fool with it now. (It looks like there may be two complementary errors.)
Time to wash up and get to writing.
After this I have a long list of partially finished electronics. The first couple of items on the list aren't too big a deal, although they may take an hour or two. After that I have a somewhat larger project, though it should be straightforward (crosses fingers).
1,428 2016-08-29 05:49:52
Re: Question: How to contact someone not on your connection list (4 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
I believe Sol deliberately ruled that out.
1,429 2016-08-29 04:33:17
Re: Question: How to contact someone not on your connection list (4 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Quickies, which are public messages.
1,430 2016-08-29 02:42:09
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Every writer is a Dr. Frankenstein, whose creations may start making their own decisions.
1,431 2016-08-29 01:39:18
Re: The Galaxy Tales - Dirk B. (1,217 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
A mad science superwoman comes into her powers. Hilarity ensues.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090803
Under all ot that, it's an amazingly well-crafted story. All the parts hang together, at every level.
1,432 2016-08-28 22:48:27
Re: The Galaxy Tales - Dirk B. (1,217 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Norm d'Plume wrote:Perhaps a "blaster" with multiple settings?
1. I forgot the sunscreen
2. I'm wearing a red shirt
3. BBQ
4. Liquify
5. Reactors look balmy compared to this
6. Mushroom cloud
7. The sun is jealous
8. Sh*t, I just melted the planet
9. We don't need no stinkin' solar system
10. Big bang
1,433 2016-08-28 15:49:28
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I created it. Two and a half days later it was not with any of my notes.
1,434 2016-08-28 12:36:36
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I lost a page of notes and spent about three hours more or less reconstructing it. I got a lot, and a few things I missed last time, but I missed things this time too. This is a list of disturbing things that Merran finds in her first few hours at the Academy. I've got three sequences to write for all this, and yes, I'm skipping ahead because a bunch bof ideas came together.
I'll work again this evening.
1,435 2016-08-28 03:59:58
Re: NorthernSkies or NS - Janet (213 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
He's not going to recover from a femoral artery opened with both entry and exit wounds. He's liable to suffer a severe blood pressure drop and go faint. And then loose consciousness, and then die. (This is for her final attack on Peter.)
1,436 2016-08-28 01:47:16
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I took a jump ahead a bit to record something that's floating around in my head. But found that I need to get a few inconsistencies out of the topography. I'll be working on that tonight.
1,437 2016-08-27 10:57:23
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
That's what I wrote!
1,438 2016-08-27 09:20:35
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
The only cross-world trade is what sorcerers carry. Well, not quite but I haven't developed that yet.
The correspondence isn't exact, but a World-dependent mix from the twelfth century to maybe the fifteenth, with some things ahead or behind. (Kirsey's math is pushing the nineteenth.)
1,439 2016-08-27 09:13:20
Re: NorthernSkies or NS - Janet (213 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
In her state? Even if she sets out to do that, I don't think she'll have time to orient.
1,440 2016-08-27 09:11:00
Re: The Galaxy Tales - Dirk B. (1,217 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Could just be local wierdness, until that part stabilizes. Who knows, it might give the ship motion sickness.
1,441 2016-08-27 08:22:30
Re: The Galaxy Tales - Dirk B. (1,217 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Depends how strong it is. (Remember, it will fall off as the square of the distance from the generator.) Close up it might fry electronics; further out it may just scramble logic circuits, requiring a restart to clear. If those logic circuits are controlling power switching equipment like motor controllers, something in those circuits might be fried when the control circuits space out. Further out still, it's severe RF interference (QRM).
1,442 2016-08-27 06:56:47
Re: NorthernSkies or NS - Janet (213 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
C is not a trained fighter. From her knees, lunging for the groin is a logical reaction.
1,443 2016-08-27 06:50:57
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I mean not in the world (universe), and not just in that particular World. None of these characters has even heard of such a thing, with the very slightly possible exception of Kirsey and Master Threckesrom.
Remember, in our world distilled spirits, even by your dates, did not become widespread untill the 1400's.
1,444 2016-08-27 04:49:50
Re: The Galaxy Tales - Dirk B. (1,217 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
You can design the exploding shells to be mini-EMP generators, too.
1,445 2016-08-27 04:47:10
Re: New Menu test & other changes (33 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
It would appear that the software wants the portfolio to be set to full internet access, which allows people who haven't agreed to Terms of Service to see it. Those Terms of Service protect your copyright on your work.
1,446 2016-08-25 23:25:30
Re: The Colorless Dragon Thread (354 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
So give Maya reasons to lean one way, then the other. When she makes her final decision, it should hurt.
1,447 2016-08-25 23:23:28
Re: New Menu test & other changes (33 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
And helpful.
On the subject of floating objects on the page: nearly all of them are for advertisers or for the convenience (profit) of the web page owner. The only one I've seen that is of genuine help to the user is the column headers used by DigiKey.
1,448 2016-08-25 21:11:43
Re: New Menu test & other changes (33 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Seems to work okay, but the saturated color is a bit distracting.
Floating overlays, even top bars, consume space on the screen. On small (smartphone) screens, every bit of space is precious.
1,449 2016-08-25 21:06:59
Re: The Colorless Dragon Thread (354 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
So you need a plot event or sequence that will change her mind and provide the character development. It can start small, making the Empire a thing to avoid or push back against, and then get serious. You probably have to start with something that she cares about.
1,450 2016-08-25 21:00:11
Re: The Galaxy Tales - Dirk B. (1,217 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
You don't need nanoids. All you need are bullets that are high-explosive, delayed-fuse shells.