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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pants" data-source="post: 2556802" data-attributes="member: 8849">I'm also writing a novel right now.  It's not very far, but I've gotten a lot farther than I have in previous attempts.  I've had this idea for a while now, but whenever I started working on it, I'd get so fed up with my own writing and deficiencies that I'd toss what I'd written, quit for a while, and start anew.  It's actually quite invigorating to reread what I've written and not be totally disgusted. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Still, I've got a long way to go.  I especially need to work on my descriptions.This is how I am trying to explain the setting, with a little hint of the vague, Erikson-esque references to 'important things that aren't fully explained, but will be at a later time.' Most of the characters I have envisioned are an aging Spymaster, two members of an ancient, dead species, and a group of opportunistic mercenaries. So, in most cases, these aren't naive farmboys that need things explained to them, so it's especially hard to justify infodumps for the sake of the reader.  Not in all cases though and I certainly won't follow Erikson's path of keeping the world mostly in the dark about a lot of things. Yeah, when I write the prologue, I'm gonna follow this route. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I want to try and hook the reader as early as possible and what better way to do that than with a death? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And good luck with the book JD. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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