The Sorcerer's Progress (Page 19 of 62)

Rub it in Amy! Rub it in. We poor weeping schleps over here all alone without you will somehow make it. Somehow. *weeps some more*
But really, I hope you have an awesome time! And no flu bugs this time!

Making progress  now with the Erevain chapters.  It's slow going because I need to immerse myself in it before starting, and that takes time.

Lawyers are never DRT.  It has to be taken before a judge.  And I am that careful sort of guy who won't do any such damage.

I'd pushed the test question down on the stack, too.  Grumble.  I've got paperwork still coming in over Mom's death.

It's takes a lot of time and effort to get through all the things and paperwork that needs to be done to finalize a person's estate. And sometimes (most of the time) it's stuff you need to do yourself, as much as others want to help. I can only hope you get through it sooner than later. J

The 'catastrophic' in 'catastrophic failure' isn't about the cost of damage from the failure, but about the nature of the failure.  The popping of a soap bubble is a catastrophe, in this lexicon.  Venice slowly subsiding into the sea is not a catastrophe, only a very expensive disaster, since the process does not have a single 'tipping point' from which it cannot (in theory) be recovered.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophe_theory .

And it's Flu Shot time again.

I expect to get another few hundred words of Erevain done tonight.  Maybe five or six hundred, maybe less.  I't will need a very solid second pass before I can consider dropping it on you.  I'm just expanding my notes as Erevain brings Merran and Jamen to his home.

I've spent the last several days trying to get a good handle on what Nikkano says as he's nosing around in his scrying basin, before destroying the basin and departing for the Antipodes.  I think I've got my claws in a starting-place.  Another day or two maybe, I can trot out part of it for you.

Okay, first version of the critical additions added to the flashback.  I'll do one or two rounds of revision, then I may post it for your delectation###########pinata practice.

With this statement, I somehow picture you swinging a flimsy green plastic rake at a colorful horse pinata and crying out with glee like some cartoon Disney witch. o.0 ...I am also frightened by this image.

Hey njc, if I want to review your work, where should I start? I am a wee bit OCD and hesitant to dive in, so a suggested starting point would be appreciated. This question also applies to Amy and K, but I'll just leave it here...

-Elisheva

Realize that his work is written in a vignette style. The pieces of the puzzle are there, but they aren't assembled yet. So you could read chapters in a loose format, skipping about (if you want.)  That is why he's telling you chapters to start that number 66/67/82/and 87. I'm assuming that these are all a single storyline, but confirm with New Jersey. That way, you are reviewing his current work so it is pertinent.

I'm currently working on Dictates and playing at revising Mandates from the first chapter. K is working on Victorious, but the characters are from all of his past books. As a new reviewer, you might be able to help him make sense of the large amount of characters coming together at once. This has to be a challenge since he normally doesn't name more than three characters per book. (Not being snarky here. Just truth.)

Back to being snarky...I cackle really well. I used to work in a haunted house. I like the idea of a pinata that glows in the dark...

A

No, those are vignettes.  Actually isolated scenes that can be more or less judged on their own.  Two of them I consider at the level of Literary Fiction because there are subtleties that my reviewers don't get /2.  The long sequence is a thread with a couple of interruptions. One of those interruptions is two chapters that need to be split into scenes and woven into other chapters.

Look, I've got Chapters 4-6 apart on the bench.  There's a lot to redo in the subsequent chapters, but feel free to take them on.  You could read Rescue Hunt if you wanted, and the stuff in Book 2 is out there to be read and reviewed.  Problem is, there are spoilers and sketches as well as real chapters.

The most value to me: Look for the least-reviewed chapters (or newest chapters) in Book 1.

A new word for a writer is like a new tool in a guy's garage.