Only if the roots are blond.
2,052 2016-02-09 17:34:06
Re: racking or wracking (1 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
In the opening of A Christmas Carol, the good Mr. Dickens offers a defense of the expression 'dead as a doornail'. I would apply it here.
2,053 2016-02-08 11:32:02
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
These aren't winged. They are particularly nasty reptiles whose mouths sometimes glow at night because of the phosphorescent algae they pick up from swamp ponds. The have bad breath, and worse flatulence.
2,054 2016-02-08 09:32:23
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Amy, another place you could mention Anver's surname is in the Council with Geron, when Anver is offered the school.
2,055 2016-02-08 08:27:56
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Okay, I've got two scenes from Kirsey and Melayne in Sgolyabank (the lurymant world).
Elisheva, you won't like it, so let me say these dragons are not your dragons. These dragons are in quote marks and you'll get a better picture of them from reading Book 1, Chapter 34 (Rite of Return). The dragons are only a small part of the story there, but they are a major danger.
2,056 2016-02-08 08:08:34
Re: Titles in The Pendragon and The Beast of Caer Baddan (206 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Worse, 'dinky' sounds almost like 'dinghy'.
2,057 2016-02-08 05:59:24
Re: Weird Chapter 2 not showing up (3 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
If you have two chapters in the same title, only one (the last one, I think) will show up.
2,058 2016-02-07 21:06:59
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Oh, the reason for a feldic or intermediate rock is because mafic rocks are usually dark. I want a tan-to-orange rock. I think granite, grandiorite, or dacite would work. All are plutonic and found in dikes and sills; all can get the color range that I want.
2,059 2016-02-07 20:22:14
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Oh. You can see it, you can copy it. I don't plan on wiping it.
2,060 2016-02-07 09:20:54
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Free Body Diagrams are a lot more basic than orbital mechanics. I'vd never done OM, but I could derive the basics from the basics. I could not demonstrate the stability of the LaGrange points (which speaks to your out-of-phase moons). There are good Wikipedia articles on FBDs and LaGrange points, and I'd give pretty heavy odds on there being a good OM article out there.
2,061 2016-02-07 05:52:01
Re: Titles in The Pendragon and The Beast of Caer Baddan (206 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Toper.
2,062 2016-02-07 02:26:51
Re: The Colorless Dragon Thread (354 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Given that purses are either bigger inside than outside or, for the very fashionable kind, much smaller inside than outside, you'll have to write that as either Sci Fi or Fantasy.
2,063 2016-02-07 02:18:29
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Yee-haw for that fine arts education!
Yes, but can you draw a Free Body Diagram?
2,064 2016-02-07 01:28:51
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Getting to the point.
2,065 2016-02-07 01:27:05
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Reaalized I was changing the geometry/geography of that mountain, so I've gone back to B1 =Fire and Water= to review it. That peak is an igneous intrusion, plutonic, of granite or granite-like material. Not mafic, I think. I'm not sure what's in the hot chamber beneath.
2,066 2016-02-07 00:45:50
Re: Titles in The Pendragon and The Beast of Caer Baddan (206 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I don't think you need to set the cutoff at 200 years. WWII, or even WWI (100 years) will do, with room to spare. The word 'role' entered English somewhere around then, I think. C.S Lewis put the French hat on the 'o' when he used it.
2,067 2016-02-06 13:57:37
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Coloratura
2,068 2016-02-06 09:17:03
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Raiders is not Temple.
2,069 2016-02-06 04:16:21
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
But it is an icon for a brand of 'adventure' that consists of ever-faster motion, long before the approach to the climax. What Amy has is adventure with mystery. The reader needs time, not so much to solve the puzzle as to learn it well enough to understand the solution when it unrolls piece by piece.
2,070 2016-02-06 03:08:05
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I'm concerned that you'll end up with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: A roller coaster ride that never stops and leaves the reader wrung out rather than nourished.
2,071 2016-02-05 22:55:16
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
You'd also be changing the ensemble mid-stream. Sure, it can be done, but it's another hard thing to do, and if you don't do it very, very well it's also another task for the reader.
IMO YMMV
2,072 2016-02-05 13:24:24
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Maybe one of the healers, seeing Anver faced with double-grief, took Anver aside the week before and told him that Anda was Alina's victim?
Remember, Kha tells Anver about the twins later. If Anda was intact when Kha went away to Earthwound he couldn't tell the story so cleanly.
2,073 2016-02-05 12:58:17
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
If you actually have the event then, you may be overloading the villiany, never mind Anver. If you have him learn now, it would be a little less overwhelming.
... caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster followed fast and followed faster ...
2,074 2016-02-05 09:04:45
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Only thing is, Anda was Anver's tutor. Then Anver ends up her boss. Needs to be explained?
Don't worry about payback. I'll try to give you plenty of chances!
2,075 2016-02-05 08:19:14
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Huh? You lost me there. You're wiping out the duel and all the rest? You've got me scared, since I think that's a strong part. Flipping Anda to Tilly will lose some character material on Tilly and may make it harder for Anver to bond with Kat.
Hope things went OK at work.
