Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread (Page 27 of 77)

OK, Dirk. I managed to publish chapters 1-8 of Mandates. However, I didn't have the right settings and I can't go back and publish them for points. If you read these, I'll pay you back in spades. At least I have them up where you can view them.

Sorry for the beginner mistakes. This has been rewritten once, but that was almost two years ago. It would flow a lot better if I had time to rip it apart before reposting this.

Hey, everyone…I'm going to the Chicago Writers Conference again this year. Good thing no one took me up on going there last year. I was as sick as a dog and spent most of the lectures leaning against a wall, trying to stay awake.  At least I didn't throw up. That would've made an impression.  However, I'm going to give it one more try. I figure it'd be fun to have a weekend where I do nothing but think about writing.

I don't get too many chances to work without distraction. Anybody interested in driving/ flying out there?  It is the last weekend in September.  Just thought I would throw the idea out and let you guys think about it. If you don't go, then find a conference close to home. It makes you think about things/ publishing/ format/ ideas for pitching…that you wouldn't have come up with on your own.

I'm wearing a disguise if you keep finding ways to kill me in print :-)

Followup to the previous:

If you want a hook to the other books, this one should open in a way that lets you mention the mysterious way in which Kha was healed -- except that he wasn't.

I just realized the thematic links.  If Kha was supposed to die in his dragon-killing, and if the agency is Behira, then Sil's acceptance mirrors Behira's acceptance.  But id Kha was supposed to die, then he posed a grave threat to Behira, and that suggests that the Earthwound and the Black Staff are a part of that threat.

Was that blackness a fragment of the Defiler?  What about Airen's magic ring?  That's got to be there for aomething.

Acts is already pretty long.  Even 1200 words would stretch things.

You show great promise as a writer, K. Do the worms get their own book, BTW?

Have you heard the song by Sally Oldfield? That almost sounds like it would be her lyrics. (Songs of the Quendi)

NJC, cursing K doesn't work. He's in Canada. Curses don't cross the border. It's illegal.

I'm a curse and I crossed the border just fine. They even gave me a little card that says I can stay for ten years. Of course now they want me to pay $450 to renew it. Screw  'em. I can collect disability just as well from Nunavut. Get the spare room ready for me, K. I'm coming home!

Point taken, NJC.

Too funny, Dirk. Poor K. Guess you're going to have to teach Dirk how to game and role-play.  Apparently, curses travel like bacteria. This one seems to be airborne...

K is going to have to teach me how to spell all those ou words. Also, I'll need help with the pronounciation of z and about.

Safe for work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRI-A3vakVg

You had to go and mention meetings now, didn't you njc? I never have meetings. Maybe one or two a week. Maybe. Not this week, it was meetings all day long, every day, even over lunch .... Which sounds worse than what it really was, because they gave me food on 3 out of the 4 days, so I guess it's okay. I'm so easy/cheap. On so many levels. *sigh* I'm just glad it's weekend, and this week is over, I don't like meetings. Although I suspect you're with me on this one all the way!

Speaking of weekend, Amy, are you done with your shifts yet?

I'm in the middle of the seventh shift right now.  Tick tock. Watch the clock.  Tomorrow I can choose to get things done or sleep and do nothing. I think sleep will lose.

K, Thanks for the ideas on the novellas. Bims used to advise me on doing a non-typical format to get all this material across. I need these ideas since I wouldn't think of them myself.

Love the ideas for making Ganolin's character more of a participation in this story, too. Just have to get time on a computer when my brain isn't fried.