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05-01-2008, 02:54 AM | #1 |
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The Miller's Widow Story-Arc Discussion
This story line currently consists of two short folk-tale style stories centering around Sive, a widowed inventor. Thus far this character has acted mostly as a vehicle for story-internal cultural development, but I'm growing fond of her as a character and would like suggestions for possible continuations or criticisms of the existing pieces.
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05-01-2008, 03:03 AM | #2 |
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No suggestions, I'm afraid, just wanted to say that I've read and very much enjoyed the piece, it flows wonderfully well, and the ending (which I won't say anything about in case anyone is reading this before the story) worked excellently.
Elu and Sive are engaging characters each with their own distinctive voice, and I'd love to read anything else you may come up with for them!
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05-01-2008, 03:09 AM | #3 |
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I have an earlier piece with just Sive. I was originally going to recycle my character Haldis for Elu's role in the story, but the name didn't fit and Haldis and Sive are too similar.
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05-02-2008, 05:37 AM | #4 |
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Oh, nice story. It reminds me very much of a story by Diana Wynne Jones. Well, the basics do, not the story itself.
I would love to see that waterfall, it intrigues me.
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05-02-2008, 10:59 AM | #5 |
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Pleasant reads, Willow. I like the second one with the nosy student. find your own answers, you good fer-nothin' student!
As for suggestion, maybe a story about how Sive made the up-hill stream? Although that wouldn't quite fit in the widow-title since her husband was alive then.
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05-02-2008, 12:30 PM | #6 |
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I wish I knew how she made it! Unfotunately, she won't tell me, stubborn lady that she is. But I could write about her just after her husband's death... *thinking now*
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05-02-2008, 02:38 PM | #7 |
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I love that admission! I have that so often when thinking of stories or backgrounds (not that I ever work them out).
Looking forward to a new story. ^_^
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05-02-2008, 03:23 PM | #8 |
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I wish I could 'talk' to my characters like that. Just like Tolkien wrote in his letters how Faramir suddenly stepped out of the grass one day and how it surprised both the hobbits and the writer.
My characters only ever say: "What do you want me to do?". Sadly, to this day none of them has ever went: "You want me to do WHAT?! No way on earth, woman!" (Life could be so much more interesting if they did once in a while...)
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05-02-2008, 06:15 PM | #9 |
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It can be frustrating sometimes... more so when I'm drawing them. It's weird, some of my characters are photogenic, they pose and are just incredibly easy to draw, and then others (Sive is one) hide their face behind their hands and absolutely refuse to come out on the page.
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