(Aside–it’s really hard to talk about some of this without spoilers for those who hate spoilers…so if you avsolutely hate spoilers, you might want to skip what’s below…)<\/p>\n
I finally realized that I was holding back too much, for fear of spoilerisms, within the book itself, but it meant the early part of Two just did not have enough pull, or tension, at the start, esp. for those who had not read the first.\u00a0 So besides shortening, tightening, etc., I introduced some of the later stuff much earlier, in casual conversation.<\/p>\n
This group of books will definitely deal with the magelords in Kolobia, but something I hadn’t thought of until now is…are any of them Verrakaien?\u00a0\u00a0 We know many bad things about the Verrakai from Oath of Gold<\/em>, and more comes out in Oath of Fealty<\/em>, but until a day or so ago the possibility of one of the magelords in Kolobia being Verrakai had not occurred me.\u00a0 What if they are?\u00a0 The Verrakai are in very bad odor in both Tsaia and Lyonya.\u00a0\u00a0 There are occasional “good” Verrakai…if there is one in Kolobia, which is he…or she?<\/p>\n There are some productive changes in the early Dorrin chapters–better handling of the Council meeting, better handling of interactions with Girdish leaders (see how carefully I’m stepping to avoid the spoilers, even after the warning?)<\/p>\n Some alpha readers in this group have commented on the Lady of the Ladysforest seeming to be less than perfect.\u00a0 Well…yes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Since most of us can’t live twenty years without making a mistake, it stands to reason that immortal beings thousands of years old have made quite a few and some may come back to haunt everyone.\u00a0 However, imperfections have to be believable, so quite a bit of work is being done from the inside out on those.<\/p>\n I won’t get any work done on the book tomorrow, and probably not Monday, as I’m leaving Monday evening to spend the night in town to catch the train Tuesday morning.\u00a0\u00a0 And there’s still Stuff to be done (like figuring out how to pack what I need for a convention, time on the train, a visit with friends that may involve hiking, and professional time in NYC, plus an opera, all into one small bag along with the computer, the papers, etc, etc.)\u00a0\u00a0 But I’ll be thinking and jotting down notes, and once on the train, I’ll plug in the laptop and go to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Aside–it’s really hard to talk about some of this without spoilers for those who hate spoilers…so if you avsolutely hate spoilers, you might want to skip what’s below…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,45,5],"tags":[20,51,107,50],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-revisions","category-the-writing-life","tag-progress-report","tag-revision","tag-the-writing-life","tag-writer-as-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}