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in the forest
Feb. 18th, 2024 11:58 pmAh, forests.
It's wise to go through one before you put one in the story. They can be interesting, especially when you don't have paths. . . hmm. . . maybe I should put in a false path so my heroine can cleverly note that it is not beaten down by feet, the trees just grow in a deceptive pattern.
Concluded I needed a stand of firs for some dramatic darkness.
It's wise to go through one before you put one in the story. They can be interesting, especially when you don't have paths. . . hmm. . . maybe I should put in a false path so my heroine can cleverly note that it is not beaten down by feet, the trees just grow in a deceptive pattern.
Concluded I needed a stand of firs for some dramatic darkness.
noon and the necromancers
Feb. 12th, 2023 10:37 pmHmm -- perhaps this other set of necromancers does not live in another land of shadow.
Perhaps they live in a wide-open sunny land. Hmmm -- farther north, I think, so it's colder, and sometimes it's dark enough for anyone in winter, when it's truly cold.
But that's the advantage of not requiring night for the necromancy: great peril for the heroes. Especially since the land can not support so many, so they have to cover more land with few people
Perhaps they live in a wide-open sunny land. Hmmm -- farther north, I think, so it's colder, and sometimes it's dark enough for anyone in winter, when it's truly cold.
But that's the advantage of not requiring night for the necromancy: great peril for the heroes. Especially since the land can not support so many, so they have to cover more land with few people
manifold magic
Jan. 27th, 2023 11:56 pmAll sorts of magical knights about. Fire, water, earth, air, cold, strength, life of plants, of animals, of people. . . .
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supplying the school
Dec. 4th, 2020 11:15 pmIt's not a proper school. They are using a building that does not normally serve as one, and the student body is less than a dozen students.
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high-level outline
Sep. 28th, 2018 11:59 pmI may have to fall back and outline this story from a higher level. . .
Some locations that are problems that they know about -- a central locations that is the real problem, and which they learn about --
How many of the first do they have to visit? When do they make their discoveries? Who opposes their not checking them all if they conclude they have enough information to cut to the second? Given that they have been sent by authorities -- and they have used that authorization freely -- other characters can seriously crimp their planning.
Would a high level outline help -- higher than scene by scene? I would have to continue the scene by scene to make sure there's a story, but the structure on this one may need some help. sigh
Some locations that are problems that they know about -- a central locations that is the real problem, and which they learn about --
How many of the first do they have to visit? When do they make their discoveries? Who opposes their not checking them all if they conclude they have enough information to cut to the second? Given that they have been sent by authorities -- and they have used that authorization freely -- other characters can seriously crimp their planning.
Would a high level outline help -- higher than scene by scene? I would have to continue the scene by scene to make sure there's a story, but the structure on this one may need some help. sigh
on an improvement in homes. . . .
Jul. 21st, 2016 11:10 pmA character leaves her home, which is horrible, and is brought to a new place. Much better in every respect. Even when she first arrives, she notices many things that are obviously much nicer about it. (Well, nicer for her.)
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winter spring summer and fall
Sep. 25th, 2015 11:02 pmSo the year rolls on through the seasons. . .
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So the heroine goes and toddles down the road and happens on the library.
It was intended to give her some contrast with the boisterous, rowdy, overbearing Wolf Hall.
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It was intended to give her some contrast with the boisterous, rowdy, overbearing Wolf Hall.
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city and town and country and wilds
Aug. 31st, 2013 09:55 pmSettings can contrast each other as character foils do, One thing that can contrast is how settled they are. And the fun part is that each one can look settled and civilized in contrast to the next.
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bitterconinscape and the lay of the land
Dec. 1st, 2012 12:15 pmCome to think of it, if the heroine is an agricultural wizard, and her story revolves heavily about her work in agriculture -- even if the actual conflict spring from the things she stumbles across -- it would help to have a better idea of agriculture's effect on landscape and vice versa. If only for the descriptive prose.
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philosophy of fix-ups
Nov. 3rd, 2012 10:53 pmVirtually all of my stories build up their settings about them. Which means, in practice, that they aren't in series, because the earlier works' settings have to dictate the later ones. Perhaps just an aggravated form of a problem that many writers have, if you have ever read the later works of a series where the author's lost the spark, or the setting's been wrung dry (often characterized by an inability to write in that setting, with other works being fine). Still, it's not a form of inspiration that lends itself to fix-ups.
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Ah, the unities. Unity of time, unity of place, unity of theme -- all blamed on Aristotle, who didn't even mention unity of place and on time only said that the best plays seemed to take place in a single day. Theme, yes, unity of theme reoccurred again and again in Poetics, being central to his notion of story.
He didn't get into unity of setting, and unity of tone, but then, the genres were not clear enough perhaps to make it a distinct point.
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He didn't get into unity of setting, and unity of tone, but then, the genres were not clear enough perhaps to make it a distinct point.
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names and other games
Sep. 7th, 2012 09:51 pmIt can be interesting to be generating names for two different stories at about the same time. . . .
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kings and queens and cliches
Jul. 24th, 2012 08:05 pmInspired by an online discussion about why so many fantasies take place in kingdoms -- but not, on reflection, limited to government structure.
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