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Feb. 13th, 2011 03:04 pmIn my 4th ed Eberron D&D game, we have been shunted into an alternate reality where my PC's ancestor, instead of disobeying the king and queen of the fey and keeping this particular crown gave it to them. The ancestor is now a lich and their emissary to the mortal world, from what we can piece together. And the man behind the throne in Aundir, which has been advised by the fey for the past thousand years. This means that my PC's family never fell from grace in this world and my alternate is probably rather influential. As opposed to in my world, where they've been made almost slaves to the fey king and
I got a short story accepted for publication!!!!
*sniffs*
More later.
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Aug. 10th, 2010 09:34 pmI got a good rejection letter. If one could say a rejection letter is a good thing.
They said it was "well received" but they decided ultimately to reject it.
So! I'm polishing up another story to send to them, since they do like my stuff.
They said it was "well received" but they decided ultimately to reject it.
So! I'm polishing up another story to send to them, since they do like my stuff.
Eragon critque book
May. 9th, 2007 11:38 amSo, I've been thinking about my Eragon analysis book and I think I'm going to have to change formats. Instead of doing a chapter by chapter analysis, I'm going to do something more cohesive. Making each chapter focus on a specific aspect of the book. Or books in this case. It'll let me go over both Eragon and Eldest in the same book. This will also help eliminate the snarkiness of the chapter by chapter critiques. Which while amusing is not at all professional.
Chapters that I have so far are:
I think that's what I have for now. I may add chapters later when I think of them.
Also, chocolate cake with chocolate icing, multicolored sprinkles and chocolate milk is delicious. =D
Chapters that I have so far are:
- Eragon: Archetypal Hero?
This chapter is going to look at Eragon in comparison to the archetypal hero motif, and examine how he does fool the stereotype, but at the same time also fails at being the archetypal hero. For while he does go through the appropriate steps, his actions and personality proves that he's not a hero.
- Galbatorix: the Unseen Dark Lord
Here I'm going to look at how Galbatorix is painted as the villain of the series but doesn't ever do anything evil. At least no more evil than any king who has a group of terrorists attacking his kingdom. Also at the fact that he isn't felt as a threat by anyone and is instead a non-presence.
- The reluctant and the anti hero: Roran and Murtagh
Again, similar to chapter one, but looking at Murtagh and Roran and seeing how well the fulfill their stereotypical roles.
- A Patchwork Land
Fantasy worlds have to be believable and well made to immerse the reader into them. A look at how well Paolini did this and where he might have drawn his inspirations for things.
- Zombie Horses
A look at continuity errors, improbable happenings, strange coincidences and things that just happen to move the story along but make no sense otherwise.
- Ponderous Prose
This is going to go over Paolini's writing style, from his over use of the thesaurus to his overly flowery prose, to his fear of using the word "said".
I think that's what I have for now. I may add chapters later when I think of them.
Also, chocolate cake with chocolate icing, multicolored sprinkles and chocolate milk is delicious. =D
Cleaning up business
Apr. 30th, 2007 01:04 pmSo the conference went rather nicely. It was out in the country and I saw lots of cows and horses and grape vines. We were in wine country. I managed to get some writing done, not as much as I would have liked, but still some done. I even managed to do a jigsaw puzzle in less than a day, for which I'm rather proud of. My mother was the speaker on a panel of autistic adults, where they talked about their life and jobs. It was for teachers and professionals to get an idea of the problems that adults face in the workplace. I was not invited to sit on the panel, I was just there to keep my mother company.
I won a plant though and named it Gerald. Gerald made it all the way back to Los Angeles intact up until we were getting in the car to go home and I placed it on the trunk of the car and the wind blew it over, were it was promptly smashed. Hopefully it'll be able to recover from the incident.
Eldest has to be returned to the library tomorrow, so I'll have to request it again, which I'm doing today. We only have about fourteen more chapters to go, so it's at a rather awkward place to have to return it. Especially since were so very near the climatic battle. Which, once again, has come out of nowhere. After all we spent the entire book without any threat of attack and then in the last fourth they're all "Oh Hay army!" Bah. In the mean time I may start on Q-Squared, or look at the something or another of Alagesia which has that essay by Paolini on how to write a novel. Not sure yet.
I'm also working up a proposal for the Eragon Sporkings book. I talked to the academic publisher who is looking at my Mary Sue book and they said that they may be interested in it, they'll have to see the proposal to be sure. I need a better title than "Eragon Sporkings" because that's rather "Internet Insider" and this is supposed to be an academic book. I think this is the hardest part of writing up the proposal. Trying to get across what I was trying to do, academically as opposed to just tearing the book apart chapter by chapter. It's trying to find the right words to say, "Hey this is a really interesting idea and it would make a good book". I think I'm going to try and focus on the analytical angle while talking about how the book has gotten such interesting reviews from both sides of the spectrum -really bad and really good. I may even go into the idea that this book is like a piece of fan fiction cleverly disguised, and how to avoid the mistakes that Paolini did in his writing. I'm not sure. I really hate writing proposals. It's hard to try and distill the idea into a page of text.
I'm going to have to go through the entries and rewrite some of them to get rid of the Internetness of them, make them more professional. Like Alec's comments or the references to icons and things like that. I'm not sure about the zombie horses though and the fact that Galby is Brom. It'll be an interesting process, I think, especially since I've never done anything like this before.
I won a plant though and named it Gerald. Gerald made it all the way back to Los Angeles intact up until we were getting in the car to go home and I placed it on the trunk of the car and the wind blew it over, were it was promptly smashed. Hopefully it'll be able to recover from the incident.
Eldest has to be returned to the library tomorrow, so I'll have to request it again, which I'm doing today. We only have about fourteen more chapters to go, so it's at a rather awkward place to have to return it. Especially since were so very near the climatic battle. Which, once again, has come out of nowhere. After all we spent the entire book without any threat of attack and then in the last fourth they're all "Oh Hay army!" Bah. In the mean time I may start on Q-Squared, or look at the something or another of Alagesia which has that essay by Paolini on how to write a novel. Not sure yet.
I'm also working up a proposal for the Eragon Sporkings book. I talked to the academic publisher who is looking at my Mary Sue book and they said that they may be interested in it, they'll have to see the proposal to be sure. I need a better title than "Eragon Sporkings" because that's rather "Internet Insider" and this is supposed to be an academic book. I think this is the hardest part of writing up the proposal. Trying to get across what I was trying to do, academically as opposed to just tearing the book apart chapter by chapter. It's trying to find the right words to say, "Hey this is a really interesting idea and it would make a good book". I think I'm going to try and focus on the analytical angle while talking about how the book has gotten such interesting reviews from both sides of the spectrum -really bad and really good. I may even go into the idea that this book is like a piece of fan fiction cleverly disguised, and how to avoid the mistakes that Paolini did in his writing. I'm not sure. I really hate writing proposals. It's hard to try and distill the idea into a page of text.
I'm going to have to go through the entries and rewrite some of them to get rid of the Internetness of them, make them more professional. Like Alec's comments or the references to icons and things like that. I'm not sure about the zombie horses though and the fact that Galby is Brom. It'll be an interesting process, I think, especially since I've never done anything like this before.
