Prince of Spires
Istar
That is beautiful Malik
That's a very evocative piece of writing Malik . Sadly it was so evocative I wasn't able to finish reading even that short extact for reasons you (as a veteran) will understand.
I hadn't read that, yet. It's a really wonderful piece of writing. I've been in a strange place for a while, but I'm almost back. May even get back on the ball and everything.
You sent it to Jenny, and then she got sick. I've got it on my computer right now. I think I know what I'd doing tonight.Yup. Took me a long time to write it; I kept flinching with every line. I'd walk away for a couple of days, then come back and take another run at it. That's when you know you're in the good stuff, though, I think. The stuff that hurts.
I do believe the book that comes from--Stonelands--is going to make some noise. Three publishers holding onto it right now. They won't pass, but they won't buy. They gush about it but they think there's no readership for it. And there isn't, yet, because this hasn't been done before.
No worries; it's not out yet. Did I send you a beta? I'm happy to.
I'm with Oscar Wilde - I can resist anything except temptation.Haha! I resisted the temptation.
Dylan Thomas was another lifer (as in longest sentence going). One of his was an entire page, I think it was in Under Milk Wood.Even Hemingway wrote some whoppers. He has one awesome sentence describing a skiing descent down a mountain that is really long and without periods, it flows and swishes rather than hitting jerky periods. I really think the short sentence thing came from slush pile readers and lazy editors dealing with people who can't realize a well-written longer sentence, heh heh.
While this is a masterful piece of writing, the flavour is about as far from fantasy as you could possibly get.If we're talking writing, writing, I've posted it on here before, but there's a passage in my WIP on subs that's definitely my favorite passage I've written, yet. Two paragraphs--one of them, a single line--and you have the MC's entire history and motivation. This lone paragraph allows me to fast-track the story from the prologue to the MC staring through a portal to a fantasy realm in 35 pages, accelerating the plot like it's been launched off the USS Eisenhower.
Thanks. I leaned hard into 80s and 90s thriller writers for the voice: Clavell, Trevanian, Lustbader, Stephen Hunter. I wanted it to read like an old-school military thriller. There's no vatic voice at all, and the narrative tone is transparent.While this is a masterful piece of writing, the flavour is about as far from fantasy as you could possibly get.
Which I love - as a sci-fi writer myself I always start out in the here and now and only gradually morph into something odd. Makes the odd stuff seem more real when it comes.