[Bauchelain the Evil]

The last chapter you sent me was chapter 4, so it wouldbe chapter 5

[Grimjust Bearegular]

Finally read the second chapter and I must say I like where this is going. Assassinations and conspiracies are always good:)

I really like your style of writing, and you have a real talent for making things come alive. It's almost like I can see and smell the city of Trent when I read your descriptions.

All your characters seem like fully-fleshed people and not stick-figures, if you know what I mean? Your dialogue is excellent as well.

Now, some nitpicking:

Woman had once thrown themselves at his feet— women.

Bant grunted. “A few of us; it was discovered after one we came into possession of the house you entered from. A rather recent acquisition.”

This sentence threw me off. I just couldn't figure it out. It's probably the "one" that's slipped in there.


That's all for now:)

[Sixty]

Thanks for all the compliments. =)

Aye, those two are typo's--I must've missed them (damn!). Thanks!

And I'll probably find the time to read yours after school starts (probably during class )...can you send me an updated version if you've changed it since you sent it to me?

[Grimjust Bearegular]

Sixty, on Aug 29 2009, 10:10 PM, said:

Thanks for all the compliments. =)

Aye, those two are typo's--I must've missed them (damn!). Thanks!

And I'll probably find the time to read yours after school starts (probably during class )...can you send me an updated version if you've changed it since you sent it to me?

NP



Actually, I have and I will:)

[Fist Gamet]

Thought I would post here rather than hijack the 3rd Comp thread.

Do you really intend to abandon the world you have created? That's fairly extreme but I do see echoes of the problem I had a few years ago after I finished Faith. After a lot of soul searching I realised the world of Aravon etc as I had created it was simply not enough to fulfill my ambitions and I knew there was something missing. I stepped back and didn't go near my writing for the best part of a year - I just didn't want to do it.
Anyway, I had these maps of the known world and then I just decided to start over again and started creating new, vast and varied maps, creating new nations and empires and areas of potential. Basically I tried to make it as varied as possible, chucking in every type of environment I could think of. To cut a long story short, the world went from a small place to a huge one and my love was reborn. I just took the entire focus of my story away from the first book and decided it would serve as a kind of prequel to the world in general, just for my own purposes.

I guess you could do the same kind of thing and not have to abandon all you have created thus far. We both know there is a hell of a lot of good work and material in there that you can, I don't know, evolve, I suppose.

[Sixty]

Thanks for the interest, but my intent is more on abandoning the plot/characters I have laid just because I'm not satisfied with the, I guess, continuity. Like, I find that I keep rereading what I have written and just feel like it's disjointed. To the point where I want to keep rewriting it to add stuff until I may as well just start from scratch completely, new characters, plot, everything. Instead of trying to create a new plot based on the skeleton of what I had, I'd rather just start from scratch.


All of which requires, of course, time. Which I'm severely lacking.

[Dolmen 2.0]

I think a re-write means you've out grown your story
and don't feel challenged anymore by carrying it through.
It could still be a kick ass story you know?

I think when a writter loses interest of the goal (a vision of the
end?) an overall telling of the tale becomes honourous, lacking the
creativity a new story inspires in a writter.

I personally enjoy the fact I have not let many people read my
stories. I Think I just posted a little here and there on the forums over
the last few years but nothing was set in concrete.

I find this liberates my growth as a writter because I continually
innovate and re-invent my ideas...Perhaps for the sake of personal development
Starting all over again is more a necessity than we generally believe it to be.

This post has been edited by Dolmen: 19 February 2010 - 07:02 AM