The Sorcerer's Progress (Page 24 of 62)

you said, "I'm curious why you prefer this change. It's a clause instead of a participle phrase"

It had to do with the use of 'girl'.  You said she clung like a drowning girl to a raft. Assumed. Addition of the word didn't add anything to the sentence.

It looks like the Erevain sequence will end up around 15,000 words.  That's a quarter of a mainstream novel, or a sixth to an eight of an ordinary fantasy novel.  I'll need to trim, and if I can't get it under about 11,000 altogether I may have to rethink it.  Meanwhile, I'm moving forward and looking back at once.  I may trim some of the earlier Erevain chapters, though I don't think I'll get the 2,500 words I'm hoping for there.  So expect edits i recent chapters (but not repubs, unless you ask.)

I read the whitewash comment. What the heck are you doing up at this hour?

Experiencing a schedule shift, aggravated by a throat-and-nose infection.  They won't want to give me an antibiotic until about Tuesday, and I hope it doesn't get into one of my ears.  Last year's did.

Truth is I rarely sleep through.  Typically my bladder wakes me.  Depending on the hour and where I am in the sleep cycle (and how much residual caffeine I'm carrying) I might not be able to sleep for 30 or 40 minutes.

I'm not going to get much done until this bug is over.  I've made a couple of notes on how to work a reversal into the rescue of Merran's father, and I've got a couple of open questions to answer as well as a nice complication to add at some point.

Time to curl back up under the blanket.

Per K, why is 'ZIP' code properly capitalized like that?  How did the name get chosen?

I'll take a look

I've been under the weather since Thursday last.  The clouds are thinning, but they're not gone yet.  I have to catch up on a bunch of things, some of them here, and I'm not going to get to all of them in the right order.  Sorry, but I want to get some ideas out before they give up on me and leave.

It's been a while since you posted a new chapter ... I also have heaps of sorting to do. I really don't know when I'm going to get to it.

You know how it works these days. You buy the printer for $20 (incl. 2 cartridges) and then pay $50 to replace the cartridges from then on ...

I now have a 5x8 index card with a storyline worth probably four chapters.  The notes just barely spill to the next page.

Tomorrow will be dedicated to other things.

Oh, with everything else I've obtained a copy of John Boyd's briefings.

Boyd was the Air Force combat instructor who rewote the textbooks on aerial combat, then went on to teach himself aeronautical engineering and revolutionize the design of fighter aircraft, and then digested and assimilated both Sun Tzu and von Clausewitz--and eclipsed them both.  He died almost twenty years ago, and he's still the most important military mind of =this= century.

His briefings, which include only the slides and not his talking, are the distillation of his life's work.   Not a small matter to absorb, but if I ever get up to and beyond Caneth's release from Shogran's trap, I'll want as much of that as I can get.

Surprised you didn't take up the new chapterlette in B2.

Good point. I'll get there next.