[MTS]

anothevilbadguy, on 21 February 2010 - 04:22 PM, said:

onos poo, on 21 February 2010 - 04:12 PM, said:

Hi people,The end of the post was a bit ominous........ do you think he is alright?..... I hope he hasn't popped his clogs!

I am just about siding on the 'he didn't die' side, but if he does die it would make the blog a bit more amazing.

'I waited. The lights above me blinked and sparked out of the air. There were Mules in the warrens. I didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. My warnings to my publishers were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway.
I was a author for twenty years. When I was young I watched the books and I said to dad "I want to write the books daddy."
Dad said "No! You will BE KILL BY MULES"
There was a time when I believed him. Then as I got oldered I stopped. But now in the Shadow of the Keep I knew there were Mules.
"This is the publishers" the radio crackered. "You must fight the Mules!"
So I gotted my warrens and blew up the wall.
"HE GOING TO KILL US" said the Mules
"I will eat him" said the Donkeygoth and went to eat me. I stared at him and tried to blew him up. But then the ceiling fell and they were trapped and not able to kill.
"No! I must kill the Mules" I shouted
The radio said "No, Steven. You are the Mules"
And then I was a Jaghut.'

This post has been edited by MTS: 21 February 2010 - 04:43 PM

[Sinisdar Toste]

DUN DUN DUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!

[chrisholtphotos]

Hetan, on 01 February 2010 - 01:55 PM, said:

A must-read ... Can't wait for the next installment

Life As A Human

Steve's third installment is up at on March 16th
www.lifeasahuman.com

[Abalieno]

I am feeling retrospective anxiety.

Btw, I guess what I have there in my sign was written BEFORE the fun vacation...

This post has been edited by Abalieno: 17 March 2010 - 11:04 AM

[chrisholtphotos]

Steve has written a bit about the process of writing and an excerpt from the current work.
lifeasahuman.com

This post has been edited by chrisholtphotos: 25 March 2010 - 04:30 AM

[HoosierDaddy]

I've reported this to be merged with the continuing SE Blog.

However, beside that. SE is awesome. Just. F-ing. Awesome. This section is a DIRECT DoD payback section.

My confidence in TCG is growing.

This post has been edited by H.D.: 25 March 2010 - 04:52 AM

[Sinisdar Toste]

holy crap what a sweet passage. what the hell is gonna happen to these kids? do they run into the bonehuters or draconus and pung? draconus could probably feed them for a while, i guess.

does anybody think that badalle is channeling icarium at all? might be they run into him

[HoosierDaddy]

Badalle is certainly referencing some Mappo viewpoints with Saddic's "sack" and how it's going to be the end of him. I'd not be surprised at all if this was in the Prologue because of that sort of metaphor.

[Hetan]

We've already had a Prologue HD, but I did love the excerpt for the insight into the process.

[Aptorian]

So, fellow Malazites, who has "claws"? Literally or Metaphorically?

The KCCM have claws... I think. So do the Giant Ravens.

But more likely he is speaking figuratively. Claws could be weapons. Could be the Bonehunters or Brys army.

[anothevilbadguy]

Aptorian, on 25 March 2010 - 07:52 AM, said:

So, fellow Malazites, who has "claws"? Literally or Metaphorically?

The KCCM have claws... I think. So do the Giant Ravens.

But more likely he is speaking figuratively. Claws could be weapons. Could be the Bonehunters or Brys army.

I was thinking Gruntle. He likes kids. Plus, Mappo has that sack, so he will get on well with Saddic, comparing sacks and the like.

[amphibian]

Hetan, on 25 March 2010 - 07:47 AM, said:

We've already had a Prologue HD, but I did love the excerpt for the insight into the process.

I did too. This drives home that Erikson really is trying to write true literary fiction with this series. As incoherently phrased as the Irish dude's comparison to Joyce's Dublin was, it did get to a key point - these are not just books, this is literature.

I'll repost it on a creative forum I frequent for its insights, (linking back to the source of course) as well as Erikson's chiding letter from a while back that made explicit his intentions.

[Epiph]

Personally, I'm curious what caused them to leave the city.

[MTS]

MORE TCG GOODNESS?!

Umm...er...I mean, yay.

This post has been edited by MTS: 25 March 2010 - 04:55 PM

[MTS]

Oh, and is that like the 4th time this thread has had a merger? lol.

[Sinisdar Toste]

Epiph, on 25 March 2010 - 04:50 PM, said:

Personally, I'm curious what caused them to leave the city.

a few thousand starving children would quickly devour everything they found, once all the orchards are bare, whats the use in staying? of course this was from past halfway already, maybe we'll find out something before then.

edit: check out this little beaut:

Rutt righted himself, clutching Held tight. Badalle heard a soft whimper rising from them both.

Held is alive! Whaddaya know, eh? Badalle is pretty powerful to keep a baby alive all this time. i think that she might be using the new warren, Fury. the opposite side of the coin to starlight or w.e that star one was

This post has been edited by Sinisdar Toste: 25 March 2010 - 05:44 PM

[masan's saddle]

Crazy crazy time !

Held is the physical manifestation of the CG in the mortal realm.

[HoosierDaddy]

Hetan, on 25 March 2010 - 07:47 AM, said:

We've already had a Prologue HD, but I did love the excerpt for the insight into the process.

So TCG is just going to dive into the story sans Prologue? He wasn't kidding when he said "one book", was he?

[amphibian]

H.D., on 27 March 2010 - 12:38 AM, said:

Hetan, on 25 March 2010 - 07:47 AM, said:

We've already had a Prologue HD, but I did love the excerpt for the insight into the process.

So TCG is just going to dive into the story sans Prologue? He wasn't kidding when he said "one book", was he?

Is that Hetan or is it Malaclypse signed in as Hetan?

Anyways, I think the prologue being referred to is either the Dust of Dreams one as you've pointed out or perhaps the Cotillon passage from Erikson's letter.

[HoosierDaddy]

amphibian, on 27 March 2010 - 04:08 AM, said:

H.D., on 27 March 2010 - 12:38 AM, said:

Hetan, on 25 March 2010 - 07:47 AM, said:

We've already had a Prologue HD, but I did love the excerpt for the insight into the process.

So TCG is just going to dive into the story sans Prologue? He wasn't kidding when he said "one book", was he?

Is that Hetan or is it Malaclypse signed in as Hetan?

Anyways, I think the prologue being referred to is either the Dust of Dreams one as you've pointed out or perhaps the Cotillon passage from Erikson's letter.

Well, I hadn't considered that second option due to the size of that excerpt, but that is viable as well.