Blogflog - Sholto

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Link: Sholto
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's blog. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.

Comments

[dagonista]

This book is so thickly plotted

Such lies, Laurell!

...the Queen to say, 'Where is my Darkness, bring me my Darkness,' and someone would bleed or die at his hand."

This exact line is used at least once in every Merry bit. I mean, exactly that phrasing, every single book. No piece of writing is so good you can get away with using it in every single book you write.

"I love you, Sholto, King of the Sluagh, Lord of That Which Passes Between, Lord of Shadows, I love all of you, and would not have you any other way than you are."

Especially now those "wonderful extras" can be relegated to sexy tattoos if Merry gets squicky about them, am I right?

[morbane]

I am amused that you inadvertently edited the book by transcribing it. The page reads, "I cannot offer you to make love yet..."

[dwg]

OOPS.

There's only so much of my brain I can shut off while typing. I keep wanting to take out all the commas.

[morbane]

No, no, I entirely sympathise.

[clover_elf_kin]

[Content warning for a tip by Captain Obvious...]

Ack, are you transcribing all this yourself? If you have OneNote, for example, you can copy the text from an image.

...of course, some paragraphs were, um, iffy. My favorite part came from near the top:

“1 d
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dL)%. but it 1 frightening and romantk br the Queen to say, ‘Where
1)fkness, bring me my Darkness,’

So yeeeeeeeeeeah, some correction is still needed, but at least the worst paragraphs are giggle-worthy!

[suzycat]

Tentacle boners?

Everybody being soinlove seems kind of boring.

[duamuteffe]

Lovecraft called, he says your sentences are too long.

[wanderingworlds]

Giggling so hard.

[duamuteffe]

^_^

[cryptaknight]

Sholto used to be my fave in this series. Of course, that was when he was scary and snarky, not this goo-puddle of Merry love.

[suzycat]

Nobody understands how words can HURT him, cryptaknight. The Lord of the Sluagh is a sensitive, tentacled flower, in truth.

[ext_1626743]

Every man LKH writes ends up being a woobie. I think I'd be insulted if I were a guy.