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Will
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Sep 24, 2014 03:36AM
For the sake of balance, I could have pictured Jim doing the same thing!
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Now I think I shall have a lie-down! ;)
Whereas I think I need to go and look at something lurid to burn those images off my retinas! I'm sorry Jim but we can easily reach Tsarina in my snurd.Cheers
MTM
I have a handy amulet too (well Alloria has), which gives access to the entire universe.
Face it Jim, wherever you go WE WILL FIND YOU.Mwahahahahahahrgh!
Hence my policy of lurking here. Everybody is so busy dashing about doing wild and exciting things I sit quietly here and write
All I seem to do these days is format stuff. It's never ending.
I'm waiting for GL to produce a pic of Jim in a grass skirt...
Will wrote: "All I seem to do these days is format stuff. It's never ending."I need to do more of that, Will. Only done one book so far. Some how I always seem to find something I'd rather be doing.
Will wrote: "I'm waiting for GL to produce a pic of Jim in a grass skirt..."It would more likely be made of binder twine.
I'm lucky, I'm back into writing again :-)Or will be when the chuffing telephone stops ringing
pah, I'd be surprised if you managed to get through!
What, is this all your fans calling you to demand another book?
Must ring DARREN as well.
Intriguingly as a SF author most of my fans may buy paperbacks!Also people buy my paperbacks to give as presents (perhaps to people they hate), which doesn't seem to happen with ebooks
I seem to have received a £33 payment from my paperback distributor which is pretty amazing seeing as I only make 30p on some of them. I'm assuming it's for the quarter but I'm still pleased.Cheers
MTM
I was surprised how many paperbacks I'd sold in person :-)
Isn't it annoying that those sales don't help the rankings on Ammy?
Oh, and Have Frog has just had a great review by a Top Reviewer there. Suppose I should advertise the fact.
Oh and I was writing something and it was awfully hard work and I was getting nowhere.And then I literally found Benor Dorfinngil sleeping on the deck of a barge and suddenly everything fell into place and it became fun again
Great when that kind of thing happens, Jim. The characters really do start to write the story for you, don't they?
Not only that but he made it fun as well :-)
I love anything with Benor in it. I suspect he contains a lot of pure Jim!
I'd be curious to see the extracting and bottling process then!
It's the distilling that's got to hurt!
I just hope my lady wife never comes to that conclusion...
Just so you're not alone... Actually that's what happened with The Pan of Hamgee. He was in a cell with one of the heros to make it more interesting and he took over. I was half way through the book as well. Jim, I hope the distillitation process doesn't hurt, I love Benor too. I think he's brilliant.
Will, congrats.
Cheers
MTM
I spent last night writing the sort of character I loathe.I had to go and shower afterwards, because I felt so horrid!
That never bothers me, they can always die appropriately in my time :-)
It's all right for you, I can't kill mine off!
Oh I can :-)Just had one stuck in the solar plexus with the leg of an artist's easel and pushed backwards out of a fourth floor window :-)
An artist's response to a critical review, I assume?
You can still write a scene killing him off most horribly, even if it never goes in the book. It's therapeutic for you and acts like the sword of Damocles for the character...
Will wrote: "An artist's response to a critical review, I assume?"Who knows what deep meanings a future generation of English Literature teachers will find hidden in the scene :-)
Tim wrote: "You can still write a scene killing him off most horribly, even if it never goes in the book. It's therapeutic for you and acts like the sword of Damocles for the character..."Or for Will, he could fall back on the ancient Greek theatrical tradition of having horrid deaths reported on stage
Not only that but if anyone picks you up on it you can point out that you're honouring a long classical tradition, Sophocles to Shakespeare
It's amazing what happens when things come together. 16,000 words of the next Benor adventure done in the past seven days, plus three articles (total 2600 words)It's good when you just admit Benor back into your life :-)
16K plus the other bit, 1600 of which I've already issued the invoices for.:-)
Kath wrote: ":) - told you!"Yep
Interesting, I was wondering about your comment about too many names as I was writing in and I'm reviewing them
Whoops! I didn't mean anyone here. :)I do need to feel that I can pick the book up next evening and still remember who was whom though!
One day someone will christen their baby boy Benor and I will whimper
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