Comments on: New Thaw Review! http://rwday.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/new-thaw-review/ Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:40:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: rwday http://rwday.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/new-thaw-review/#comment-27 rwday Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:06:40 +0000 http://rwday.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/new-thaw-review/#comment-27 Re - prologue. I don't want to underestimate my readers, but I also don't want them foundering and getting frustrated - it's a fine line, I know. And yes, have pretty much resolved the POV issues by deciding to just write the damn thing and work out the fine print later. I know this is a longterm project - it's already definitely 2 books, may end up as a trilogy, and a lot of the polish is going to wait till after May when we go to England. I think my settings will be a lot better imagined after I've seen the actual places I'm writing about, plus I'm finding that unless you're writing about London, specific details about early medieval English cities, at least the kind I need, are hard to come by over here. Re - prologue. I don’t want to underestimate my readers, but I also don’t want them foundering and getting frustrated - it’s a fine line, I know.

And yes, have pretty much resolved the POV issues by deciding to just write the damn thing and work out the fine print later. I know this is a longterm project - it’s already definitely 2 books, may end up as a trilogy, and a lot of the polish is going to wait till after May when we go to England. I think my settings will be a lot better imagined after I’ve seen the actual places I’m writing about, plus I’m finding that unless you’re writing about London, specific details about early medieval English cities, at least the kind I need, are hard to come by over here.

]]> By: Renee http://rwday.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/new-thaw-review/#comment-26 Renee Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:17:56 +0000 http://rwday.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/new-thaw-review/#comment-26 Woohoo! Congratulations! :D I hope this brings you the next generation of readers. <i>So there will be a prologue, just a short one, set at a pivotal time in the formation of the world, about 200 years before the story starts to serve as a sort of anchor.</i> That sounds like a great idea (the beauty of prologues!). I don't think it's lowbrow hoping for something actually <i>solid</i> to hang on to within the first four chapters. I'm all for subtlety, but a line has to be drawn somewhere. So it looks like your POV issues have been ironed out? You're well underway with this novel. *waves pompoms* Woohoo! Congratulations! :D I hope this brings you the next generation of readers.

So there will be a prologue, just a short one, set at a pivotal time in the formation of the world, about 200 years before the story starts to serve as a sort of anchor.

That sounds like a great idea (the beauty of prologues!). I don’t think it’s lowbrow hoping for something actually solid to hang on to within the first four chapters. I’m all for subtlety, but a line has to be drawn somewhere.

So it looks like your POV issues have been ironed out? You’re well underway with this novel. *waves pompoms*

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