csyphrett Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 Usually 3 minutes ago, Hermit said: I got lucky to get into a groove, and I fully confess I had something of a rough outline ready to go. It worked out nicely. As I mentioned in the other thread, my story this year is fantasy genre . It's basic theme is "A Rich Wizard's War, and a Poor Wizard's Fight" where aristocrats have for generations kept magic solely among their own, but when a foe threatens the border that can only be hurt by magical energies, they graciously open the school to teach a few commoners the very basics of 'blasting' so the peasants offspring can die instead of aristocrats' kids. Our prospective students are: A farmboy (how originally) who came from a dirt poor family, and whose family is, to use the modern take on the word 'toxic' as hell. He's done. Just done with them. At least if he somehow survives, his life will be better. If he dies in war, well, he was likely to be drafted as a standard yeoman anyway wasn't he? A Rich Merchant's daughter, who has always been treated as a princess by her loving and well to do traveling parents. She soon learn that being treated like a princess doesn't give you the protections of true aristocrats, and her family can't save her from being seized. I fear I've done a bit of the trope 'break the cutie' on this one. She hates this, and would run back to her family if she could. She may come out a bit ruthless out of necessity by the end of it, if she survives. It's war, any of them might die. Another girl, more tomboyish, who is with her mother. She doesn't know who her father is, but has lived in poverty too. Her mother has a strong distrust of the well to dos, but clearly has a past with them. She sees this as a chance for her daughter to improve her lot and get knowledge that even the aristocrats can't take back once she gets it. The Daughter has been raised to stay calm, and never let her passions override her sense. Then there is the patriot. Good family, good life, by peasant standards. But his country calls, so he answers. He's the one who trusts the system, perhaps naively so, but he has a pure heart yadda yadda. His sense of justice will be tested. Lastly, there's the thief, who got caught...who rather than end up in a deep hole for decades, or losing a hand, gives the testing a try as an out. Only to find out while it saved him from being punished, he's now on the fast track to get killed for rich people! Like our merchant daughter, he's working on a way out. Easier said than done. I have a couple of adults, including the only survivor of a group of battle wizards who lost an arm, was helping to recruit the next generation, only to get DRAFTED himself... as a teacher. He may grow more and more to think he was wrong to push for this policy. It sounds good, Hermit CES Usually I work on ongoing stuff for the nano, but this year I started on Codename Beekeeper. This is the link if you guys want to go over to see how horrible it is. CES Hermit and Old Man 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 10 minutes ago, Hermit said: bit of the trope 'break the cutie' I haven't heard of this one but reading up on it this sounds familiar. So, you are torturing a 'cutie'? Didn't know you had it in you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted November 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 3 minutes ago, Logan D. Hurricanes said: I haven't heard of this one but reading up on it this sounds familiar. So, you are torturing a 'cutie'? Didn't know you had it in you. Well, by my standards. I'm not doing a Sansa Stark level thing She or one of her school mates could die though. Probably.. maybe. Okay I'm not always good at the grim consequences Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cancer Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 I've got a fantasy tetrology that's been smoldering in my imagination for over 30 years. The first book is written, was typed in long ago, but after hard drive & media failures it exists only in paper now (and I'll probably resort to OCR to get it back into electronic format). Second book has about half of it in handscrawled form. Only broad outlines and a few scenes exist in the last two books. That includes the finale, which my wife considers anticlimactic and doesn't like. My (fiction) creative style is problematic. I get grand plot arc concept fairly early on. After that I tend to think in scenes, and the scenes may be difficult to mesh together into an integrated story. And my writing ... well ... as I have said before, at some point someone will send me an email asking if I know how to write a short email, and my response will be 3000 words and boil down to "no". Hermit and BarretWallace 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted November 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 22 minutes ago, Cancer said: I've got a fantasy tetrology that's been smoldering in my imagination for over 30 years. The first book is written, was typed in long ago, but after hard drive & media failures it exists only in paper now (and I'll probably resort to OCR to get it back into electronic format). Second book has about half of it in handscrawled form. Only broad outlines and a few scenes exist in the last two books. That includes the finale, which my wife considers anticlimactic and doesn't like. My (fiction) creative style is problematic. I get grand plot arc concept fairly early on. After that I tend to think in scenes, and the scenes may be difficult to mesh together into an integrated story. And my writing ... well ... as I have said before, at some point someone will send me an email asking if I know how to write a short email, and my response will be 3000 words and boil down to "no". I feel you on the 'now how to connect all this' stuff. It's the 'middle' that often messes me up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 I always have problems with the end CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 Sounds to me like you guys ought to collaborate on a book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 We can start a thread to write a book one word at a time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 Call it Word Association! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 For some reason I find this inspiring. BarretWallace 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 What's that from, Logan? I think I want to read that book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 Unfortunately they didn't say. I'm interested, too. Pattern Ghost 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted November 18, 2022 Report Share Posted November 18, 2022 Hermit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted November 19, 2022 Report Share Posted November 19, 2022 That's me. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 19, 2022 Report Share Posted November 19, 2022 That's more coherent than me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted November 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2022 Hit my 50000, but hitting a snag on the teaching staff and who should teach what. Logan D. Hurricanes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 21, 2022 Report Share Posted November 21, 2022 Well, Cancer is in charge of astronomy, physics, and corporal punishment ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted November 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2022 2 minutes ago, L. Marcus said: Well, Cancer is in charge of astronomy, physics, and corporal punishment ... Too far fetched, no one would believe in such a character! L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 21, 2022 Report Share Posted November 21, 2022 My students certainly don't ... until too late ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarretWallace Posted November 21, 2022 Report Share Posted November 21, 2022 On 11/17/2022 at 9:07 PM, Cancer said: I've got a fantasy tetrology that's been smoldering in my imagination for over 30 years. This reminds me vaguely of my Star Wars fanfiction that grew out of playing the old West End Star Wars roleplaying game. I was fascinated enough by the characters that I wanted to explore their lives more, so I started writing. The first stories took shape in high school. In the decades since then, the characters and story arc have evolved considerably. Thanks to being an electronic pack rat I still have many of the original bits, and to call them cringe-worthy is being polite. I'm not sure I have the neural capacity to create something truly original, but I have no problem with playing in someone else's sandbox. If I ever actually finish a writing project, it will probably be this one, though copyright issues means that it will never see publication. Over the years, many other stories have flared to life and then gone back into hibernation. I haven't had a new idea for several years, and as I age, that is less and less likely to change. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted November 22, 2022 Report Share Posted November 22, 2022 Put it up on Archive of Our Own or Fanfiction.net CES BarretWallace 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarretWallace Posted November 23, 2022 Report Share Posted November 23, 2022 On 11/22/2022 at 5:42 AM, csyphrett said: Put it up on Archive of Our Own or Fanfiction.net CES I just might do that, once (i.e. if) it's complete anyway. Thank you for the idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted November 23, 2022 Report Share Posted November 23, 2022 2 hours ago, BarretWallace said: I just might do that, once (i.e. if) it's complete anyway. Thank you for the idea! It's nothing Barret. I post there sometimes. I have a Ben Ten thing I have to finish sometime CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted November 25, 2022 Report Share Posted November 25, 2022 At 45k. Everyone in my cadre that is writing has won except me. I am going to finish this chapter and I think that will get me 46k which will give me 4k left for the nano, 9k left for the writeathon, and i don't know how much for the quartermilly which I didn't think I would even hit given the slow start to the year I took CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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