Interesting to hear about your teenage jotting-of-storylines. It sounds like how I tried to plan essays - non-fiction work, as I'm missing the crucial "originality gene".
I have finished The Fox, and am trying to find my copy of Inda so I can reread it yet again. How long til the third? And do you have a title for it yet?? The Fox was a brilliant book. It seemed to me to flow really smoothly from one part to another, with lots of short POVs in each large chapter. I liked how the story jumped from POV to POV. One semi-specific comment about the books - I don't want to give anything away here - but I love how you show the POV of "evil" characters, and thus, show how they're not really evil, but have their own motivations and experiences that cause them to act in ways contrary to others'. Well done.
(I guess that wasn't a 'specific' comment, since I was able to write it without using names. No spoilers here today folks!)
As for the third (The King's Shield seems to be the title now) I'm just heading into one of the bigger conflicts. In fact, it's meet the Venn time, but a few scenes first.
I wonder if accounting requires a linear mind, something I've always admired because I haven't the vestige of one, and struggled horribly in classes that required this type of thinking.
My host is back up *yayyyy!) and I can finally put it up! :D But I want to double check with my super computer whiz friend on my coding to make sure everything goes smoothly, so tomorrow it is.
(We struck a deal over the summer. He was to teach me chemistry, as I am atrocious at it, and I would make him read books. The first two I gave him were Inda and The Fox, and now he's making his way through Senrid *g* Frankly, I think he got the better end of the deal!)
I'm decidedly not a fiction writer, but I find it fascinating how you have notebooks upon notebooks of timelines and stories and notes on events... the history of your world is so well thought out and exacting. That's amazing!
As I used to say when someone caught me at it, asked what the stuff was, and then exclaimed in disgust, "Geez, why would you waste the time on that [expletive of choice]?"
I just finished The Fox. To keep it short, I loved it. However, now I wanted to read the King's Shield soooo badly. The wait is going to be excruciating.
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I have finished The Fox, and am trying to find my copy of Inda so I can reread it yet again. How long til the third? And do you have a title for it yet?? The Fox was a brilliant book. It seemed to me to flow really smoothly from one part to another, with lots of short POVs in each large chapter. I liked how the story jumped from POV to POV. One semi-specific comment about the books - I don't want to give anything away here - but I love how you show the POV of "evil" characters, and thus, show how they're not really evil, but have their own motivations and experiences that cause them to act in ways contrary to others'. Well done.
(I guess that wasn't a 'specific' comment, since I was able to write it without using names. No spoilers here today folks!)
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As for the third (The King's Shield seems to be the title now) I'm just heading into one of the bigger conflicts. In fact, it's meet the Venn time, but a few scenes first.
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(We struck a deal over the summer. He was to teach me chemistry, as I am atrocious at it, and I would make him read books. The first two I gave him were Inda and The Fox, and now he's making his way through Senrid *g* Frankly, I think he got the better end of the deal!)
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He, it's a cheap hobby!
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Am right now on the very verge of the big Venn battle...well, the first one.
Three short scenes to go....
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