Probably the Prelude(s). I have an idea of what I want the covers to look like, and I'll probably have to spend on some custom work.
126 2020-03-11 11:02:13
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
127 2020-03-10 20:12:01
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I've got outline material for about two thirds of Prelude to SP: Kirsey. I found myself filling in a later chapter (or maybe several) dealing with Caneth, Melayne, and friends leaving the Academy. It has a certain slapstick quality and I'm wrassling it into a second draft. Again beginning in the (late) middle, I hope to have it up in 60 hours. It's also the beginning of the end for Kirsey's career at the Academy.
128 2020-02-09 06:59:59
Re: Too good to check (8 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Not any more.
129 2020-02-09 00:01:37
Topic: Too good to check (8 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
I just saw a quote attributed to Heinlein.
"Always leave a few errors for your editor to correct. After he pees in the soup, he likes the taste better."
Real? I don't know, but Heinlein considered editors a species lower than the most ignorant reader
130 2020-01-30 10:10:38
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Temple Wang wrote:
Mustachioed monkey wrench
You've not read the latest from the Babylon Bee.
131 2020-01-30 10:03:17
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
These parts all belong to one book, and probably one of moderate size. A prequel of sorts, it traces the youth of the super-sorcerer Kirsey. Maybe as far as taking up with the wolves, maybe not. I'll see how many I can construct. Actually, when I get to the actual text I'd love you to review it. At which time you can point to placed to recip.
132 2020-01-30 02:07:08
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Still working, slowly, on scene outlines for part two. But some big-issue answers for part 3 came to me as I was sleeping off a bug of some sort, and I've got parts of a top-level outline for part 3. I don't know yet just how much is going in part 4, and whether there will be a part five, or it will all go into part four.
133 2020-01-29 23:41:14
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Scarlet herring
134 2020-01-28 09:04:04
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
"I'll waggle you proper."
135 2020-01-28 04:03:49
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
"Don't praggle me, boy; I' ll quang you proper."
136 2020-01-28 02:21:51
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Temple Wang wrote:
ass wipe
Donkey Wash
137 2020-01-26 21:54:23
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Gremlins in a black hole
138 2020-01-24 23:40:20
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I made two, before the Winpocalypse.
139 2020-01-24 09:55:43
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Oh, I owe reviews. My computer is getting the Dreaded Windoze Upgrade. I'm not sure how long it will take me to get everything else working again. ((insert three lines of imaginative imprecation and blistering, intemperate invective, garnish liberally with fuming anhydrous frustration))
140 2020-01-24 09:50:38
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Still working on the backstory. I've got a rough but workable outline for part 2, and a rougher one for part 1. Part 1: Kirsey's young childhood and his heritage. Part 2: Kirsey taken away to be trained at the Academy. Part 3: the problems of a young man too good for some Masters and too young (and inventive) for others. Part 4: Finding a place in the Academy, and losing it.
Part 2 looks like it might run 3,000 words, and Part 1 a bit shorter. Parts 3 and 4 will probably be similar, so we're talking about a novelette. But my numbers may be off.
141 2020-01-18 18:41:51
Re: Elusive Paradise (9 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
You can subscribe month-by-month if you like.
I took a look at your chapter and have some thoughts. I'll try to do a review today or tomorrow, maybe one of each kind, for different issues. I'm not hurting for points but if I were I'd look for stories that would earn them on reviews.
142 2020-01-13 12:47:54
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Is that F or C? -27 C is 'only' -22 F.
143 2020-01-09 01:18:59
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
What demon? Does a demon come into existence at conception, or does a demon already in existence take up residence? In Larry Corriea's Monster Hunter universe, demons take over when someone succeeds in animating dead human flesh. Risk of a spoiler:
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The Frankenstein myth gets invoked.
144 2020-01-07 23:04:42
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
While I wrangle with the bigger questions, I'm working on a backstory bio for Kirsey. Part one isn't too hard. Part two will be a bit harder. Part three might be a substantial challenge
Estimate 20,000 to 40,000 words.
If it works out I may do more of them. Shogran will be a challenge.
145 2020-01-07 02:37:30
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
The sentence doesn't reinforce the PoV, but it doesn't contradict it.
As to holding info back: mystery writers do it all the time.
146 2020-01-04 03:21:30
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
ray ashton wrote:
njc wrote:Mahler, Symphony of a Thousand. The von Neuman recording, if you can find it.
Yes, good stuff, although I prefer the first movement of his unfinished 10th. It's all too complex to write by, though.
Dvorak's Symphony from the New World, almost any Sibelius Symphony, either Book of The Well-Tempered Clavier, or a good organ recording of The Art of the Fugue.
The symphonic presentation of the LotR score.
147 2020-01-03 02:15:42
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Mahler, Symphony of a Thousand. The von Neuman recording, if you can find it.
148 2020-01-01 01:18:54
Re: Breaking Time (6 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
I may have to pick up one of those epics that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read, and see how the author does it. Suggestions?
149 2019-12-31 18:44:12
Topic: Breaking Time (6 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
How do you show the passage of time--days, months, even years--between scenes and chapters? I've got a very few tools, but I know they aren't enough.
I don't recall this question being handled in any books or blogs I've read, so suggestions on them would be most welcome. Suggestions on books that do this very well are also welcome, but that's probably 20 percent or more of what's in print, and I haven't picked up enough from reading. What can I say, I'm dense.
150 2019-12-31 18:36:41
Re: Best way to group scenes into chapters? (1 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
You could keep them together, or you could look for memorable breaking points, cliffhangers being the extreme case.
