Are you going to make me look up 'Kell(+)'?
2,426 2015-12-02 02:31:39
Re: Northern Skies - Janet! (520 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
2,427 2015-12-02 00:04:27
Re: Northern Skies - Janet! (520 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
You're assuming that H's kids are his. With a winner like that, would it surprise anyone if she had a hobby as well as a hubby?
2,428 2015-12-01 23:36:40
Re: Northern Skies - Janet! (520 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
But how does anyone in the story know that H is the problem? The assumption can always be that it's C's problem, assumption unchallenged until experience proves otherwise.
2,429 2015-12-01 05:22:15
Re: Northern Skies - Janet! (520 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Why not just have H. sterile, reasons unknown?
2,430 2015-11-28 04:08:09
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
You should see their Lab Full of Exploding Things #5.
2,431 2015-11-28 02:32:01
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Xline is for viewing the review, not for composing or submitting it. Don't use Xline until after the review is submitted.
2,432 2015-11-27 23:13:47
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
So ... evil (the Defiler, presumably) can cut into Behira's magic ... but whatever has preserved and restored Jaylene can also do so ... and that something APPEARS good, but might actually be trying to manipulate events toward its own ends, more likely ill than good. So does Zyrt know what's happening?
2,433 2015-11-27 22:56:10
Re: Say the first word that comes to mind... (1,634 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
2,434 2015-11-27 22:48:39
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Do the whole set of comments AND SUBMIT (not save!) w/out hitting the XLINE tab. Use XLINE only once the review is complete and submitted.
XLINE is nice, but it was patched in afterward and wasn't part of whatever req'ment=>analysis=>design process they used (formal, semi-, in-, or un-).
2,435 2015-11-27 05:45:29
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
No, make it some detail inside the mouth or nose, where they have to open it up and look--carefully, for tho' you'd have said that head was dead, for its owner dead was he, it stood on its neck with a smile well-bred and bowed three####################################################it still reacts to Behira.
2,436 2015-11-27 05:40:11
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
The turtle lives twixt plated decks
Which practically conceal its sex.
I think it clever of the turtle
In such a fix, to be so fertile.
---O. Nash
2,437 2015-11-26 17:06:34
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
So either Jaylene was not most sincerely dead, but only mostly dead, or else her resurrection involves death magic? But the only death magic we've seen has involved dead matter acting as though it were alive.
One seems sure: there are mysteries yet unfathom'd at the Earthwound.
2,438 2015-11-26 16:55:44
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
"Spell him well" was your own usage at one point, when Anver was recovering but did not want to use magic for the purpose.
No, Collins succumbed to opium addiction. (In =The Moonstone= there is a character revealed near the end to be caught between painful, terminal cancer and the painkiller he uses to remain functional.)
2,439 2015-11-26 05:17:30
Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (1,905 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Good add. Do they have to spell Tazar well?
Now ....
If Behira's power couldn''t raise Jaylene, does that mean that Alda is someone else's conduit? Not Behira's big sister, surely?
But the original version had Jaylene feeling Saundon's hot breath. Hmm.
-Edit-- Does Zyrtec worship the informational Saundon?
When you have this done (and not before) you should read =The Moonstone= by Wilkie Collins. Not quite a detective story, so Poe comes first, but the first true mystery novel--and a whale of a story. It's a shame that Collins, like Mozart, died young.
2,440 2015-11-25 05:33:45
Re: Places to find reference reading (32 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
I meant to say that I did not find a link to his site on this site, thus I wasn't duplicating info. But I might have done something erroneously.
Thank whoever left the link for me to find. Might have been the Blogfather, Glenn Harlan Reynolds.
2,441 2015-11-25 03:00:46
Topic: Places to find reference reading (32 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
I don't know where I found Dan Koboldt's site but Google didn't find the site name here, so I'm guessing it was somewhere else. There are a lot of articles--over 60--on everything from viruses to the history of warfare and medieval occupations open to women. They're not very deep, but they seem good enough to make the writer smarter. And it looks like a new article is added every few weeks.
2,442 2015-11-24 15:59:10
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Sealed with ***wax?
2,443 2015-11-24 11:54:05
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I've finally got Dianen into the story. All that work, and she's dead before the story begins. (No KH, no need to comment. Mind your own earwax.
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2,444 2015-11-24 10:05:28
Re: Suggestion for inline review points (69 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
See the entry for The Hamster.
You're welcome.
2,445 2015-11-23 23:30:13
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Sometimes that works for me. Sometimes it doesn't. When I'm thinking at multiple levels about my topic, it doesn't work. To make matters worse, I'm using WYSIWYG (Waht You See Is ALL you Get) and after the experience of an efficient, moded text editor, that's a constant source of digital (as in finger) frustration.
2,446 2015-11-23 18:02:04
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I've got about 2100 words on paper for the next (half?) chapter with Nikkano and Erevain. It's finally close to what I want. I need to get about 9 hours of sleep, then I'll type it up and see how it looks. I type around 17 wpm, so it's a 2+ hour job. If it doesn't look too bad I'll put it up.
2,447 2015-11-23 09:22:07
Re: Northern Skies - Janet! (520 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
ComputerWorld magazine, now online as computerworld.com, has a daily column called The Shark Tank (link at the bottom of their homepage). I suggest you take it in small doses.
Oh, at one time the rinkworks Computer Stupidities page included this:
"You will read stories in this file that will convince you that among the human race are human-shaped artichokes futilely attempting to break the highly regarded social convention that vegetables should not operate electronic equipment. And yet, amidst the vast, surging quantities of stupidity are perfectly excusable technological mishaps - but that are amusing nonetheless. After all, even the best of us engages in a little brainless folly every once in a while."
2,448 2015-11-23 05:18:03
Re: Suggestion for inline review points (69 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
... I would still go more for the odd couple of Kermit and Miss Piggy and (s)he is still jealous of my singing, lol, as noted earlier. ...
Never argue with anything bigger than you can lift? ![]()
2,449 2015-11-22 15:28:20
Re: Suggestion for inline review points (69 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Star Trek, (ToS) episode Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.
2,450 2015-11-22 13:42:33
Re: Genre History and Reading (6 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
In the movie it was given to Galadriel, in the opening. But in the books it's in the near-final scenes, as Treebeard says the he does not think they will meet again--to Galadriel, I think. But I'm not at all sure about that.