2,251 2016-01-05 00:56:47
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
2,252 2016-01-05 00:06:22
Re: Group access vs. display vs. visible? (48 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Please?
2,253 2016-01-04 23:59:57
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Acme Products
2,254 2016-01-04 23:51:20
Re: Group access vs. display vs. visible? (48 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Yes, but you're chasing a horse out of the Barn Door ... and across borders.
Amy's doing the best thing possible under the circumstances. It might be worth quickying other group owners with a pointer to the discussion.
And I hope Sol and his team get to work on it.
2,255 2016-01-04 23:47:41
Re: The Colorless Dragon Thread (354 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
If something's burning a hole in your mental pocket, write it down! If you feel you have to polish it, then consider posting it, even though it's provisional. (I have). But don't feel obliged.
2,256 2016-01-04 04:39:47
Re: The Colorless Dragon Thread (354 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Hmm. Maybe I misread the future ...
2,257 2016-01-04 04:35:26
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
2,258 2016-01-04 02:29:28
Re: The Colorless Dragon Thread (354 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
So somehow slip in the 'common knowledge' part. There is a tie between that heritage and the dragons, is there not? You don't need to tell the reader just yet what it is, do you?
2,259 2016-01-04 01:50:15
Re: The Colorless Dragon Thread (354 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Nana doesn't need to tell the creation story. The narrator fills it in for the reader--after the reader hears from the characters that there's some kind of secret or mystery going on.
2,260 2016-01-03 22:33:02
Re: Titles in The Pendragon and The Beast of Caer Baddan (206 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
We see a man's true upbringing in his acts -- Drech will be troubled first, however briefly, at the thought applied to him, and after he will see Sir E in that light.
2,261 2016-01-03 20:34:45
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
I like a man wit a callasical edeucation!
2,262 2016-01-03 10:30:29
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Everrybuddy's got to get inta de act! (said whom?)
2,263 2016-01-02 05:10:03
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Rings a bell ....
2,264 2016-01-01 08:59:05
Re: The Colorless Dragon Thread (354 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Have you considered putting the 'myth' second, after the human prologue, so that the secret of the human prologue introduces the creation myth? My suggestions about the register and style of the prologue remain.
2,265 2015-12-31 19:20:15
Re: Titles in The Pendragon and The Beast of Caer Baddan (206 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
The paradox of painting, photography, sound recording, and cinema is that they let us see a glimpse of the past as though it were there when we know otherwise. We can fall in love with Judy Garland, ache at the longing in Satchmo's voice or the richness of Connie Francis's, be charmed by the young Shirley Temple, enjoy the youthful performances of Nimoy and Shatner, hear an orchestra under the baton of Toscanini or Bernstein, just as if we'd lived with them. Creepy? A little, maybe.
My advice, for what little it's worth, is to consider the last verse of Tennyson's =The Lady of Shallot= and make your peace with this time travel.
2,266 2015-12-31 16:57:55
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
s'gulp!
2,267 2015-12-30 02:21:17
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Cold call telemarketer.
2,268 2015-12-28 15:12:46
Re: Extremely useful site (5 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Another potentially valuable site: www.iohai.com .
John Boyd, 'the fighter pilot who changed the art of war', quietly eclipsed both von Clausewitz and Sun Tzu. He distilled his life's work into a set of briefings, which may occupy military theorists for the next century--or two. It was his habit to give them himself, but they have survived him, and can be found on the site above.
2,269 2015-12-28 15:07:04
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Symmetry
2,270 2015-12-28 00:33:45
Re: Titles in The Pendragon and The Beast of Caer Baddan (206 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
First rule of writing an Epic:
Never define your story as Epic. Always let someone else do that for you!
Right. You let your editor and book designer or cover artist do it for you!
2,271 2015-12-27 23:37:45
Re: Northern Skies - Janet! (520 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Anant the review: my tongue is definitely inside *my own* cheek!
Two or three days for Matthew without Catherine, and Catherine without Matthew? They'll be like springs bent to the breaking point. But that's what you planned, isn't it, you cruel author?
2,272 2015-12-27 20:26:41
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
By all men bond to nothing/Being slaves without a lord,/By one blind idiot world obeyed,/Too blind to be abhorred.
2,273 2015-12-27 03:36:51
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Bond, James Bond.
2,274 2015-12-26 23:49:50
Re: Northern Skies - Janet! (520 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, or mineral / I am the very model of a modern Major General!
2,275 2015-12-26 23:33:52
Re: Northern Skies - Janet! (520 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Good points. Yes, I've assumed that Peter as the most workable motive--gain. But what about revenge? Who would go this far and endanger this many people for revenge? Of course, it's always good to have your reader fixated in the wrong direction.