Well, it's gone 3am and the questions seem to have calmed down so I'm going to head off to bed for a few hours.
See you all in a bit -- hope you're having fun with it!
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Jaysen
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Well...
it is unlikely that I'm really good, so the work must be absolute sh!t. But Piggy has my chapter submission. I swear he's giving me the easy ones. By far my shortest submission to date at 1257 words (I think my last one was nearly 5k).
it is unlikely that I'm really good, so the work must be absolute sh!t. But Piggy has my chapter submission. I swear he's giving me the easy ones. By far my shortest submission to date at 1257 words (I think my last one was nearly 5k).
Jaysen
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I have a wife and 2 kids that I can only attribute to a wiggle, a giggle, and the realization that she was out of my league so I might as well be happy with her as a friend. 26 years marriage later, I can't imagine life without her. -Me 10/7/09
Jaysen wrote:Piggy has my chapter submission..
No!!!!!!
I didn't want to have to do this, Jaysen, but you give me no choice. It's time for the quiz.
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JacquelineM
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Jaysen wrote:Well...
Piggy has my chapter submission. I swear he's giving me the easy ones. By far my shortest submission to date at 1257 words (I think my last one was nearly 5k).
What? You’ve finished?! Already!
I haven’t even started yet! I’m still doing research.
Why couldn’t we have had a nice fantasy about wizards, something like the Hobbit or Lord of The Rings?
nom wrote:This year’s for Vic.
I think that’s a lovely thought maybe we can have a quote of his inside front cover a way as a community of sharing this book with him
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
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pigfender
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Jaysen wrote:Well...
it is unlikely that I'm really good, so the work must be absolute sh!t. But Piggy has my chapter submission. I swear he's giving me the easy ones. By far my shortest submission to date at 1257 words (I think my last one was nearly 5k).
There are no easy chapters!
In fact I woke up to find that three chapters had been submitted! (Jaysen's was indeed the first)
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pigfender
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Everyone in all the stories done over the past 10 years has been a hobbit wizard. They just don't like to talk about it.JacquelineM wrote:Why couldn’t we have had a nice fantasy about wizards, something like the Hobbit or Lord of The Rings?
The honest answer is that I'm intimidated by the sheer amount of world building required to do fantasy well and not have it be, well, just another story where the characters just happen to be hobbits and it's mentioned once and never discussed again,... and, I wouldn't want to just borrow someone else's world and trust that everyone has read that book. People will be complaining that they couldn't get started until 6pm because they had to binge watch the entire Peter Jackson LotR movie series before they could get writing!!!!
That's not to say that I won't get over that, and figure something out for a future year though.
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JacquelineM
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@pigfender
I guess you’re right.
Could JRR Tolkien have written Lord of the Rings in just one day?
Now, THAT would be a challenge!
I guess you’re right.
Could JRR Tolkien have written Lord of the Rings in just one day?
Now, THAT would be a challenge!
pigfender wrote:People will be complaining that they couldn't get started until 6pm because they had to binge watch the entire Peter Jackson LotR movie series before they could get writing!!!!
The movies are not canon, so such an activity would be anathema.
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pete340 wrote:pigfender wrote:People will be complaining that they couldn't get started until 6pm because they had to binge watch the entire Peter Jackson LotR movie series before they could get writing!!!!
The movies are not canon, so such an activity would be anathema.
My favourite approach I've seen to that is in Michael Connelly's Mickey Haller series. In the books, the movie "The Lincoln Lawyer" actually exists -- the characters acknowledge that Matthew McConaughey was in a movie about them and they got some stuff wrong and hollywoodised other things.
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Done a bit of homework for you, lads: No internet (not till August 1991). No Text messages (December 1992). Mobile phones, yes, but they were just, you know, phones. For phoning people. Hmph. My opening line goes back to the drawing board.