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Friday, July 09, 2004

Word on the streets...

is that Chapter 10 is finally up. Check it out and marvel at what I think may be the longest paragraph I have ever written.

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Good stuff! Poor old Bey: not exactly an idiot, but his judgement needs a bit of a stretch and a couple of star jumps. Poor fella.

By Andrew Shellshear, at 5:17 PM

I boldly predict he'll have a bit more of a clue in the rewrite, or he'll get cut altogether. He more or less occupies the central protagonist role, so he should definitely do *something*. He's the main casualty of the "making it all up as I go along" approach, unfortunately.

I just realised this morning that really, I'm writing two separate stories with largely independent themes/points here, and what I maybe should do when I go back to the start is split them out. And give a bit more life to the setting, which is suffering from my usual extremely sketchy worldbuilding.

Certainly, if I'm going to use a fantasy city, it should have a sufficiently distinctive character to justify its existence. I'm looking at Mieville's New Crobuzon and Neal Stephenson's depiction of the real 17th century London, and Fellport looks decidedly insubstantial by comparison.

By Dave, at 11:49 AM


	Friday, July 09, 2004 Word on the streets... is that Chapter 10 is finally up. Check it out and marvel at what I think may be the longest paragraph I have ever written. 2 smartarse remarks Post a Comment 2 Comments: Good stuff! Poor old Bey: not exactly an idiot, but his judgement needs a bit of a stretch and a couple of star jumps. Poor fella. By Andrew Shellshear, at 5:17 PM I boldly predict he'll have a bit more of a clue in the rewrite, or he'll get cut altogether. He more or less occupies the central protagonist role, so he should definitely do something. He's the main casualty of the "making it all up as I go along" approach, unfortunately. I just realised this morning that really, I'm writing two separate stories with largely independent themes/points here, and what I maybe should do when I go back to the start is split them out. And give a bit more life to the setting, which is suffering from my usual extremely sketchy worldbuilding. Certainly, if I'm going to use a fantasy city, it should have a sufficiently distinctive character to justify its existence. I'm looking at Mieville's New Crobuzon and Neal Stephenson's depiction of the real 17th century London, and Fellport looks decidedly insubstantial by comparison. By Dave, at 11:49 AM