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<blockquote data-quote="Sagiro" data-source="post: 354576" data-attributes="member: 726">Sepulchrave, I have just now come to the end of your story posts to date, and am filled with unhappiness on several counts:- You have made me ashamed for my own Story Hour.&nbsp;&nbsp; Before the past few days, I was fairly well satisfied with it.&nbsp; Now I see it as pedestrian at best and adolescent at worst.&nbsp; - I now have to wait days or weeks (rather than minutes or hours) for the next installment.- Reading other works of fantasy literature will seem like an annoying let-down, with substandard characters and shoddy word-smithing.I don’t know that I can add anything meaningful to the chorus of praise already being sung, but I have to make this plea in good conscience: make sure everything you’ve written is properly copyrighted, and contact the fantasy literature division of WotC/Hasbro.&nbsp; (Because you could keep the D&amp;D references and flavor that is so thoroughly integrated into the story.) Write up a cover letter and proposal, along with some selected bits of this Story Hour cleaned up for presentation.&nbsp;&nbsp; Send it to them.&nbsp; Let them see that you have characters and dialogue superior to 90% of what sits on the shelves in Barnes &amp; Noble.By your own admission you have some 100,000 words already committed to print – there is a novel here, waiting, however you may dissemble about your own organizational skills or the pacing of the narrative.&nbsp; I know I have no right to dictate to anyone how they spend their time or creative energies.&nbsp; And I won’t say that it would be a crime for you to deny your skills to a wider audience than our community here.But that’s what I’m thinking.&nbsp; Sepulchrave, thanks for a wonderful piece of literature.&nbsp; Please don't stop.-Sagiro</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sagiro, post: 354576, member: 726"] Sepulchrave, I have just now come to the end of your story posts to date, and am filled with unhappiness on several counts: - You have made me ashamed for my own Story Hour. Before the past few days, I was fairly well satisfied with it. Now I see it as pedestrian at best and adolescent at worst. - I now have to wait days or weeks (rather than minutes or hours) for the next installment. - Reading other works of fantasy literature will seem like an annoying let-down, with substandard characters and shoddy word-smithing. I don’t know that I can add anything meaningful to the chorus of praise already being sung, but I have to make this plea in good conscience: make sure everything you’ve written is properly copyrighted, and contact the fantasy literature division of WotC/Hasbro. (Because you could keep the D&D references and flavor that is so thoroughly integrated into the story.) Write up a cover letter and proposal, along with some selected bits of this Story Hour cleaned up for presentation. Send it to them. Let them see that you have characters and dialogue superior to 90% of what sits on the shelves in Barnes & Noble. By your own admission you have some 100,000 words already committed to print – there is a novel here, waiting, however you may dissemble about your own organizational skills or the pacing of the narrative. I know I have no right to dictate to anyone how they spend their time or creative energies. And I won’t say that it would be a crime for you to deny your skills to a wider audience than our community here. But that’s what I’m thinking. Sepulchrave, thanks for a wonderful piece of literature. Please don't stop. -Sagiro [/QUOTE]

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