The Sorcerer's Progress (Page 10 of 62)

only half of nothing will do ... K doesn't know what is coming.  I'm assuming I know, since I've seen you ask a question if there still is a 5000 word limit per chapter, so if my calculation is correct, three times nothing equals 7500+ words ...  :-)

The 5000 word limit question is for a subsequent chapter.  I'd like to make one chapter of two that are split artificially.  Although we could also say they are unified artifcially.  Well, it's good to know.

Huh?  What??  Oh, it's an open question.  But I prefer not to kill without story need.  Go read Gaudy Night.

I just realized that, apart from a few typos, I have a seious problem with missing italicizations.  TNBW does not cut/paste them properly, even from itself.

Glitchen fixed.  Chapter numbers changed to reflect reality, and to leave some room for me to work.

Ah  Will fix.  Thanks.

I think everyone is taking a hiatus while Janet moves to the U.S. I just consider it to be like a lull in the conversation. We'll pick this up again soon. 

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I was notified that I hadn't completed the integration of the sections of Ch. 4 back into Ch. 3.  Well, I've done it, though none too adroitly.  Feel free to have a look.

The Version #2.  Take the latest version extant.

Just to keep you in the loop: I'm working on backstory involving Erevain and his prentice-master, Niccano.  What caused Niccano to pull up shop from a world near the center of sorcerous commerce and move to the sticks of the sticks, with his apprentice in tow?  He had long habit and skill snooping into the secrets around him so that he could avoid stepping into them openly and accidentally?  When he stumbled into a danger he could never have imagined, in a secret that could look back at him, what did he tell Erevain to justify the move yet conceal his knowledge?

Did he die, or just fake his death and disappear into a non-sorcerous world, beyond the eye, if not the reach, of the worst danger the Worlds ever faced?  (This question I don't answer now, but I have to know what Erevain sees and believes.)

Whom does Niccano trust as a courier and business front to bring commissions to Erevain, and completed work back?

Once I have some answers here, I can flesh out his role in the next few chapters.

By the way, I'm surprised that nobody has caught the allusion in my main title.

List the title here for clarification.  Otherwise, I think you're just talking about, "The Sorcerer's Progress'

Hmmm.  Sorcerer's Apprentice (Disney) and The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan.