Now comes the hard part.
I don’t always outline, but the way things have been going, I wanted a really tight, scene by scene of what has to happen, who’s who, and why they’re there, so that no matter what, I’ll know where I am.
Finished the outline on the new book—
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ooo. intrigued.
Does this mean you’re having to go in for jury duty, and are anticipating interruptions?
It’s that thought, yes.
Good thing that they waited until that dreadfully tight deadline of last year was met before calling you up… maybe the universe likes you two, or lady Luck thought you deserved some compensation 😉
That is very true.
Twelve Angry Atevi anyone?
(Off-Topic) Yikes! @Hanneke, I missed your email, but yes, I got the email and will have to look at whether that’s already set up or activate it if it is not yet set up. I’ll reply via email in just a bit. Thank you!
I’ve been remiss in checking Jane’s blog lately, but Joe was kind enough to PM me that you’d asked. Thanks, Joe.
So very glad the whole eye saga is coming to a conclusion!
Do you think anything about your writing will change with a tight outline? I assume that you will use it for easy reference and as a place holder. Atevi jury duty? Hmmmm…..Wouldn’t that be through the Assassins Guild?
Jury duty is odd! The last time I received notice, I was never called. Guess they didn’t need me.
Our project this year is the bathroom, which should have been last summer, but wasn’t, due to swimming pool repairs and Lyme.
I break down my projects into small, medium or large, depending on how long I think they will take and the amount of prep time and stuff I need to do them. Sometimes they get kicked up a stage if I run into unforeseen trouble… 😛
I frequently do outline in a 10-step fashion; then I can get more down to step by step, scene by scene at need. There’s no great difference in the outcome, except on one, Paladin, where it was so outlined I had very little to do but fill in the dialogue. I learned early on with conventions and other such that I could have real trouble picking up again if I didn’t have a road map.
I liked Paladin.
Looks like you’re getting some rain in the next few hours, probably not a good day for yard work, but then I looked at your current conditions, 33 F, wind chill of 26 F, and that pretty much confirms it. No yardwork…..
I’ve been staying inside, since we’re now under a wind chill advisory until 1:00 PM EST tomorrow. Between going out to chase the squirrels off the bird feeder (or is it a squirrel feeder now?), and refilling the feeder, I’m choosing to stay inside. Two guitars that need to be played, different styles, different instructors, and different music, but same arthritic fingers that need to be moving in order to keep playing will fill up my afternoon.
I was looking for a book earlier, but due to the stacks and stacks of boxes of books in the “spare” room, I didn’t find it, yet. Maybe I should clean out those boxes and put the books in the bookcase? I also want to get another bookcase like the one I got in October, but it’ll have to wait a little while.
A title! We have a title!!!! Now, we can refer to it by its proper name, rather than “the new book”….. 😀
Title? But Paladin is a book from a few years ago. Where did I miss the new title’s announcement?
BTW, I have Visitor on pre-order. IIRC, the next book after that is to be Convergence. It’s not yet available for pre-order, at least it wasn’t as of about Wednesday, when I checked.
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Font design is proceeding here. I reached another milestone, but now need to focus on kerning and spacing, and any tweaking to be done. I also need to start the Italic and boldest Roman and Italic on the faces furthest along. I’m targeting the end of this month to submit for review, to get things started there. I’ve been asking advice from various sources on how best to do a few things, planning ahead.
“Resurgence”, it’s in the right hand column above “Convergence” and is 2% complete according to the “scribometer”……
I shall state I was Unobservant.
Huh, my brain just saw that, redivided it as unob/servant, and wonders who or what an unob servant would be. It’s been one of those days. 😀
So, Visitor, Convergence, Resurgence. Interesting! Should we infer a new pattern, -ence/-ance/-ense/-anse(?), or only that the -or/-er/-ar/-rix no longer holds sway? — Not that I’m that keen on staying to a pattern for titles anyway.
Now that I think of it, -ence versus -ense, -ance versus -anse seem like they ought to be different, though their spellings got mingled in the Middle Ages and into the Modern period. I’d presume they were related, even originally, in meaning / function, variants based on which consonant (c or s) fit from which stem or ending. But that’s getting overly analytical, when I don’t know enough about how Latin’s stems and affixes both could morph, depending on function or what seemed most pleasing to the ear and tongue, i.e., didn’t “hit the ear, frappe l’oreille.” I know some of the ways they changed, from English, French, and Spanish descendants, but not how it worked in Latin itself, or why.
Gee, it’s late. My mind wanders all over sometimes. I’ve been working on fonts and related nonsense most of the day. So I could be wandering into ivory tower mode of linguistics and etymology, here. 😀 Just curious, though, in case there’s a known answer on morphology or the meanings involved. If it brightens any other language fans’ days, good.
Well, in an informal conversation with a highly reliable source, the title changes reflect a change in direction on the story arc. I don’t know any more than that, but things are going to get “intrustin'”, as I’ve been told…. 😉
Can we predict the third title?
Onelook dot com is an interesting online dictionary reference. While I usually use m-w for American and Oxford for English, Onelook summarizes those and many, many others, so if you’re looking for some odd l33tspeak or texting Abbr, it’s a good place to go.
It also has a lot more arcane features than most dictionaries. For example, when I ask it for *rgence–asterisk being a common symbol in computer science linguistics for “put anything there”–it gives me the common words:
1. convergence [taken]
2. detergence [dubious]
3. divergence [candidate]
4. emergence [candidate]
5. insurgence [seems a bit extreme, but could be exciting]
6. resurgence [taken]
7. submergence [dubious, at least literally]
(I would add transcendence as common; at least it would be commonly understood.)
Unfortunately, my Onelook explorations uncovered a potential snag. Onelook pointed out the “Resurgence (novel)” entry in Wikipedia. It’s one of a series of SF novels by the late Charles A. Sheffield, Summertide (1990), Divergence (1991), Transcendence (1992), Convergence (1997), Resurgence (2002). Mr Sheffield died in 2002, so perhaps this isn’t an issue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sheffield
Please don’t shoot the messenger!
I’ve heard of a “rhyming dictionary,” used by poets and song lyricists, which works by reversing each keyword, sorting the keyword list, then reversing each keyword again, thus sorting by related endings. All the -ence words would be together, for instance. I’ve never seen or bought such a dictionary, but I’d expect your local bookstore or online bookstore or library has them, or can certainly order them. Hmm. I wonder if they’re “moderately inexpensive”?
There’s also (besides -ence / -ance / -ense / -anse(?) ) the possible -ant(s), -ent(s) ending for “verb present participle or gerund to adjectival modifier to noun plural” form. Such as: Descendants, Antecedants, Defendants, Independents, Supplicants, Applicants, Miscreants…Procreants? Proclamants, Insouciants. (And something for one who would attempt to take over things. Presumptivant? Heir Apparent? Usurpant wouldn’t work, already have Usurper; and Usurpant sounds like, “you serpent!” which could’ve worked for Serpent’s Reach….) Hmm, no, don’t know where my mind’s going with that, but it sounds like with such nefarious characters, some such plot issues and character developments must be about to drop; impending, even.
Mordant? (Dye fixative, anyone? The Cloth-Dyer’s Tale?)
Disinfectant? (Hahaha, the maid service goes on a massive ship-cleaning mission….)
Back to -er / -or / -ar / -rix — Archer. Lancer. Jouster. // When did this become a Renaissance Fair tourney?
Knights Errants. Hawks Volants. Thieves Unrepentant. (Sounds like I’m in the mood to see Ladyhawke again. Odd soundtrack, otherwise engaging movie.)
OK, so it’s what I’ve got.
Quite a few online dictionaries have rhyming as well as synonyms, antonyms…. I have a dead tree rhyming dictionary, but I can’t imagine using it unless I wanted to flip through to find a rhyming set of words by chance. I have a bookcase full of reference books behind me, but it isn’t often that the resources available on the Internet aren’t faster, easier, more complete, and more modern.
“Le Mort du Mordant”, a dyer died by drowning in dye?
Pure speculation, but …
“’Beauty and the Beast’ is practically ‘a tale as old as time.’ So are a few other folktales, new research shows. Statistical ties between a set of folktales and languages from parts of Europe and Asia have helped researchers date the origins of some stories to thousands of years ago. The roots of the oldest one — a folktale called ‘The Smith and the Devil’ — stretch back to the Bronze Age.”
So suppose BatB goes back to a “modern”, Cro-Magnon, human woman and a Neanderthal man?
On a slightly different topic, Planet X (IX, shouldn’t it be?). 😉
There’s one aditional issue I haven’t seen. There is evidence and a lot of scientific thought that the current “layout” of the solar system wouldn’t have happened by any of the accepted hypotheses of how proto solar systems develop. So the current speculation is it was all different in the past, was/became unstable, and our planets were jumbled into new orbits. Neptune’s is wierd. One planet has been discovered that is unassociated with any solar system.
So could this hypothetical Planet X be that planet that got ejected? It’s rather far out there to have condensed from the primordial stellar disk.
I’m confused. Is Resurgence that start of a new trilogy then? Because it’s Tracker, Visitor and Convergence, right, for this trilogy?
Convergence also begins a new story arc, from what I’ve been told. It closes up certain things in the first arc, and opens things up for the next arc. “Convergence”, as in bringing things together. So, having gone into my library, and counted the books, it would seen that “Convergence” is number 18, which would end the 6th trilogy, and “Resurgence” would begin a new trilogy and be the first book devoted entirely to the new arc. Just a guess on my part, mind you. There was a whole lot left out of the discussion because I didn’t want to know and the other party wouldn’t divulge, anyway. (thank you!)
sorry, that first sentence should read “leads to a new story arc.”
Emergence is the next title, yes. 😉
And yes, there are some important events in Visitor, which lead to Convergence. So these two arcs interlace.
I am so excited to read these books. 😀