tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940224740718934743.post4233919692187094655..comments2024-03-10T04:29:20.044-04:00Comments on Mad Genius Club: the plantser...Sarah A. Hoythttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17478124095732219352noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940224740718934743.post-33631944969568412592008-10-28T11:27:00.000-04:002008-10-28T11:27:00.000-04:00We'll be there!!!Rock on Escher-Hilton.Cool.Marian...We'll be there!!!<BR/><BR/>Rock on Escher-Hilton.<BR/><BR/>Cool.<BR/>MarianneMariannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10349984152592814003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940224740718934743.post-86256222804234785162008-10-28T00:28:00.000-04:002008-10-28T00:28:00.000-04:00Marianne, Better still, come see him at Luncacon n...Marianne, <BR/><BR/>Better still, come see him at Luncacon next year in NY. He's going to be GoH!<BR/><BR/>lunacon.orgThe OnyxHawke Agencyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586210167765747790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940224740718934743.post-44124224226395794702008-10-27T12:36:00.000-04:002008-10-27T12:36:00.000-04:00:-) There are quite a lot of my books in the Baen ...:-) There are quite a lot of my books in the Baen Free Library. There is always an element of humor, but RATS BATS & VATS (which involves cyber-uplifted rats (well, elephant shrews) and bats. The critters draw language principally from downloaded Shakespeare(rats)and G&S and forthe bats Irish folk and old Wobbly songs - as I believe language shapes the way you think - that have basic nature of the animals concerned overlaid with the linguistic pattern. Rats live fast, die soon, and think about food and sex (and these ones discovered strong drink) Bats are long lived, pairbond, gregraious and socialist, and in certain cases have sex ones a year... Natually they love each other but in this story they have to co-operate, and worse co-operate with humans!<BR/>PYRAMID SCHEME is the other book known for it's terrible puns and a rather riotous and politically incorrect jouney into Ancient mythology.<BR/>My characters -as I say i have shift and add things... it's a bit like doing a rubiks cube ;-)<BR/>cheers<BR/>DaveAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12315551718688781746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940224740718934743.post-33117261691784819792008-10-27T11:08:00.000-04:002008-10-27T11:08:00.000-04:00Dave,Hang on till I stop laughing. You write great...Dave,<BR/><BR/>Hang on till I stop laughing. <BR/><BR/>You write great blog! Maybe I should go track down your books and see if your 'voice' is just as funny in them. We should have some samples on a shelf somewhere, since Bob's painted the covers to a couple...<BR/><BR/>You know, I begin writing the same way as you do. I've got a general idea going in a certain direction, character studies in mind and some just write themselves. It's been said by a lot of writers that if you know your character/s well, they tell the story while you rush to get it down in print or on computer screen. It works a lot of the time. :-D Some of my characters come with fully fleshed personalities of their own and I so enjoy writing their stories. Got tripped up once by an unfinished Victorian Koala Bear Fantasy, and one character in particular that just took over. One of these days, I'm gonna go back and finish telling that story, and the sequels...<BR/><BR/>There is no one way to write a novel, everyone does it differently. Mind you, I dont't think I'm quite as, er, analytical as you were with breaking down what works in a book. Well, what works for me, anyway. :-D I've read a lot over the years and absorbed by osmosis what I like best that works for me. :-D<BR/><BR/>Great Monday post, Dave... :-D<BR/>Cheers,<BR/>MarianneMariannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10349984152592814003noreply@blogger.com