1,951

(1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)

Okay, got what MIGHT be a workable battle progression.  I'll see after about ten hours of recuperative sleep.

I also have another half-dozen plot notes for the future.  What I mean to do to good people will give me nightmares.  But bad guys must have consequences.  (Amy, I'm considering one of your suggestions.)

Good intentions without the direction of Practical Wisdom also have consequences.

The grammar is harder for me to read through than the spelling.  Since Drech (presumably) has little difficulty, we should have little difficulty, so stay in his perspective.
IMO.
YMMV.

I think it's harder than it needs to be.

Nobody suspected that Alexander Grey had a weak heart until the night his girlfriend startled him, and after that it didn't matter.  --The End

1,955

(1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)

The waifs are the orphans.  The Indebted are the minions his charm summons.

Outvoted will suffice ... but my opinion stands.

1,957

(1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)

Starting 6-hr session working on =Shogran's Waifs=.  Have to decide how fierce the battle, how much of Shogran's work to reveal, how badly the kids get threatened, etc.  I've discarded some ideas as too much for the characters at this point in the story.

Shogran's minions will be called his =Indebted=.

1,958

(172 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)

njc wrote:
Dill Carver wrote:

I know that my teacher was frustrated about having to tow the line. In the after-school book club he could go off-piste and introduced us to some wonderful literature.

Wet noodle time, Dill. You do see your error, don't you smile ?

Actually ... I prefer what we have now.  It's easier for me to notice and read over than the change in grammar.

1,960

(172 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)

Conventions of the age.  Literary style, as we know it, was still in diapers.

NOBODY has risen to my wet-noodle challenge.

1,961

(1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)

Thing is, Norton was peacable and amusing, not manic.  CCFCCP suggests 'manic' to the uninitiated, not just 'inaccessible plane of reality.'

1,962

(1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)

I owe at least two reviews now.  I'll  try to do them in the next 18 hours.

I'm under the weather again.  One warm, wet day and I'm strepped.  I've spent two days in bed and am slowly getting back to work.  I'm about halfway into a new version of =Shogran's Waifs= with the hard part in front of me.

1,963

(172 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)

Dill Carver wrote:

I know that my teacher was frustrated about having to tow the line. In the after-school book club he could go off-piste and introduced us to some wonderful literature.

Wet noodle time, Dill. You do see your error, don't you smile ?

I recall once, getting caught reading 'Brighton Rock' by Graham Greene in class. I had the paperback open inside of the covers of a bigger book, one we were supposed to be reading for the lesson. I was engrossed and didn't notice the teacher walking between the desks, so I got caught. He seemed more pleased than angry, and took the confiscated contraband novel to his desk at the front, where he settled down to read it, whilst I had to get back to the mind numbing dirge that is 'The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, or maybe it was 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I can't remember.

I didn't think the Hawthorne story was that bad, though I admit I didn't have to read it for class.
I was introduced to LoTR by a student in front of me who was reading it during our English class.  I suspect the teacher was pleased enough to see a jock reading Good Stuff for pleasure that he overlooked it.

1,964

(10 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)

If you don't want to delete the old one you can re-number it 99 (or whatever) and make it inactive.

But I think the time has come to ask Sol on this one.

1,965

(1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)

CTD is Circling The Drain.

Your example is the triumph of the regulatory state.

1,966

(1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)

Actually, the question was for Amy.  Would HH Norton I, a generally peacable fellow, be CCFCCP or something else?

1,967

(172 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)

Sorry, Poppa saying "I certainly am" feels to me like a great moment in personal courage, a slap in the face of a wicked orthodoxy.  Maybe it's better theater than prose, but I read the two together.

1,968

(1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)

It would be interesting to know what expression German hospitals use for CTD and CCFCCP.  (What was rhe other one?)

What would you use for His Highness, Emperor Norton the First of the United States and Mexico?

The hungry snake follows a scent amplified by the closed space of the cave,

Might have to be a big weasel, and weasels might know better than to attack two at once.  See Thatch Weave.

1,971

(1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)

For prefixes?  I'm looking for rules, not specific cases.

"This s*** writes itself by yourself." ---not quite an idiomatic translation.

In the first case, GT has a hard time dealing with'bats*** crazy.'  Split the first word and you get Fledermaus, which just doesn't have the staccato ring.

Come un pipistrello fuori dall'inferno, if I've got that right.  Tempo indication on the last mvmt of a PDQ decomposition.

1,972

(1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)

Please also excuse my slow activity here.  We had a big weather change and I may have another strep throat.  I spent most of the last 24 hours sleeping, and my body won't take any more sleep--but I've got no mental energy awake.

1,973

(1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)

While your at it, please explain to this non-Deutsch-phone what the 'ver-' prefix means.  I have the impression it creates something like a participle or maybe a passive.

1,974

(10 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)

I'm pretty sure that the versioning system was meant to replace the repub, but they may have taken some of the value away.

1,975

(10 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)

I think you have to copy the content to a new version (increase the version number).  All the reviews remain with the old version. sad