The Sorcerer's Progress (Page 37 of 62)

I've been listening to Carlin's channel on satellite radio. Holy Moley. He uses F**k like a comma.

I'm still working on sequencing all the little events of Maurand Day 2.

Amy, I might give you a gross little scene of his treatment, just for you. 

Well, I think I =may= have a timeline for Day 2 Maurand that has everything in the right order.  I have to move a couple things to Day 3 and one back to Day 1, and decide just how the timeline maps onto the linear time of day.

Meanwhile, I have an appointment tomorrow, and at least one delivery to expect, and something I want to get built before the appointment, if I can.

Hey, I was going to do this in book nine or ten, but I'll do it now instead.  Nothing says I can't do it again ... and you asked for this one.

I don't know njc, reading this, I think one can learn how to swear without swearing! This has #$%&^$%#$#$%&#$@&&&%$# written all over it without using one f-word. Nicely done, and well played.

That said, hope this is the last manure that the universe are going to throw at you. Hang in there!

Janet, you potty mouth. I typed manure into Google Translate and got shitus. Okay, I'm kidding, but it would funny if it did. I use excrementum instead. I've also begun making up some, including bastardus. Notice how disguising it in Latin makes the original English curse completely unknown.

A very wholesome book.

Norm,

Fecal is a root word in Latin . Maybe fec with another clarifier. Fecund? Fecundum?

For swear words , you need them to be short. Basti as opposed to Bastardus?

Been finding quite a few curses are the same in Latin, give or take a suffix (e.g. stupidus).

Mine need serious work. I don't do anything creative yet. Just blast cannons ("novas" and "supernovas") and missiles. The only thing that I think may be unique in my battles is that I use heavily armored raiders to board enemy ships when hangar bay shields are knocked out.

I have something called brilliance cannons (prototypes) in chapter one, but they're all just variations of Star Wars/Star Trek tech. I need something different. I was thinking of something that involves either dark energy and/or dark matter. And maybe something that uses the starlanes to pop out of spacetime, travel to the other ship, and then re-enter spacetime and blow up. Another could be a weapon that sends powerful gravity waves at the enemy.

All need plenty of research.

How about something that disturbs the physics that your ships depend on for propulsion or communication?  Maybe disturb their internal artificial gravity?  Trigger infrasonics or infrasonic-modulated internal light displays inside a ship before boarding so the defenders are all busy tossing their cookies?

Meanwhile, what have I been doing?  I'm supposed to be working on Day 2 of Merran's time with Maurand's family.  Instead I've been (starting on) getting my hundreds of small thematic and plot device/structure notes in order.  I'm also thinking about what has to happen shortly after Merran and Jamen leave with Pausonallie.

This matters because there's a lot to write downstream, and I may have hundreds of thousands of words that will depend in some measure on details I set up now.  I can't get everything laid out or I won't be able to get anything written, but I need to be sure I don't close things that should be open, or open too wide things that should be closed.  I also need some sense of what's going to happen in the next three to four books.

So, among other things, I'm trying to lay out what one or two non-Kirsey back entrances to the Academy look and feel like.

Still trying just to get the opening of the next day right.  I blame you, Amy.  You'll bug me for description for which there's no place in the story.  Read The Continental Op.