Amy, I don't mind you using the name either way, though Slash and Tazar seem well provided for. I'll be thinking on this for a while.
2,026 2016-02-18 04:14:22
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
2,027 2016-02-18 04:09:10
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Dey come from Brooklyn?
2,028 2016-02-17 20:51:48
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Working on Merran and Jamen getting those two waifs, and trying to get Shogran for interrogation. (Merran plans to use everything she learned fighting Erevain.) Not gonna go right, but I have to get the events laid out in detail. Then I have to rewrite it FOR detail, making sure all the pieces are in place, and make a polishing pass, before typing it up and editing it again in the process. 36 to 48 hours, mebbe.
2,029 2016-02-17 19:05:40
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
That's just it. I don't want someone who sounds like a thug ("I'm gonna veto dat. Hey Vito!). I want him to sound like he -could- be a little urbane.
2,030 2016-02-17 13:07:41
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
But a little coarser, maybe? Hmmm mmmm mmmm.
2,031 2016-02-17 10:04:02
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
On the subject of names, I let Merran and her parents fall out of the naming system. I should fix it.
Any opinions on Carreth or Carth instead of Caneth. (I need to get the 'r' in it, so that 'Merran' is derived from both her parent's names.)
2,032 2016-02-17 06:34:49
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I should have added, at the end of your review, "Wait 'til you hear The Rest of the Story."
(Engalt, I think.)
2,033 2016-02-16 04:24:41
Re: NorthernSkies or NS - Janet (213 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Can the need be linked to some damage related (overtly or covertly) to the villian?
2,034 2016-02-15 13:30:04
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I've taken most of the review comments on Breadcrumbs and Bacchanalia and integrated them. If anyone feels a need for a repub (for points) I'll do it, though I prefer not to (to keep the old comments visible).
2,035 2016-02-15 05:42:59
Re: NorthernSkies or NS - Janet (213 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I answered a couple of your questions in new review comment replies.
2,036 2016-02-14 13:40:44
Re: Joke's on you (52 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Dill Carver wrote:
After ... gags ... like this I like to recite parts of A Little Priest from Sweeney Todd. Squire on the fire? General, with or without ... his privates?
2,037 2016-02-14 05:15:03
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Not about writing ... but here's one for Amy's evaluation: https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2016/02/0 … epage=true
2,038 2016-02-12 11:43:18
Re: Joke's on you (52 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
A comic is not someone who says funny things.
A comic is someone who says things funny.
2,039 2016-02-12 10:27:32
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Well, I've got about 4+3/4 pages at about 700 words a page in (nearly) final form (finally). This is Melayne and (mostly) Kirsey fixing the mountain. You'll see there's little chance of Kirsey being the Deus ex Machina. Let's see if I can type it up Friday night.
2,040 2016-02-12 08:16:27
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Wait until you read that chapter about my version of a dragon. I'll hear you scream out here on the Jersey Shore.
2,041 2016-02-12 07:25:03
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
According to David Kahn's =The Codebreakers=, the last individual able to read heiroglyphics as his native writing probably died around AD 300. Not so very long ago.
Oh, I've read that the rebus-structure of the writing indicates that the spoken language is very close to 'modern' Coptic. If Boko Harem, ISIS, and company succeed in murdering all the Copts, we will lose that living link to both the New and Old Kingdoms.
2,042 2016-02-12 05:53:28
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I've added a few more notes. The last one is about large families and tenant farming.
2,043 2016-02-12 03:05:34
Re: Plot Mapping (7 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
These days it seems that if you can't garnish it with crudities, it's not worth saying.
2,044 2016-02-11 20:35:02
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Salmon. They come in mixed packages.
2,045 2016-02-11 11:10:54
Re: Joke's on you (52 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
The shares are a penny and ever so many are taken by Rothschild and Baring ....
2,046 2016-02-11 07:08:37
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Things to convert to story are piling up. Here's my latest note on Merran's (first?) side journey in B2: 
Extta credit if you spot my mental typos.
2,047 2016-02-11 07:07:13
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
K. wrote:
njc wrote:KHippolite wrote:For example, in my stories, telepaths call themselves telepaths and muggles call them "tele-creepos". This latter term has appeared in derision occasionally, but it never really sees the light of say because I'm so rarely in the villains reference frame that it never gets firmly established.
Teeps and Creeps?
I've just formally stolen this
You can't steal what's freely offered.
2,048 2016-02-10 07:12:14
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Okay, I've got a few little scenes filled in under B2 Ch 29. Only about 650 words. I've got about 4000 more to add to fill that gap in.
2,049 2016-02-10 06:15:36
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I think putting the healing in the shadowbook would put too much in that particular trug.
2,050 2016-02-10 05:54:28
Re: Joke's on you (52 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Those of us old enough to remember the Carter Administration will remember that Mistah Cartah had a no-count brother named Billy. Someone paid him to allow them to call their product 'Billy Beer'. (As I recall, it was a brewery that was even despised by college students.)
Anyhow, the joke goes that Mo Udall bought a can of the stuff, took one sip, and sent it off to be analyzed by the Department of Agriculture. He got a letter from them a week later: Dear Mr. Udall, We are sorry to have to inform you that your horse has diabetes..
