I love my wife more and more, ya know that. She sees with different eyes, and not the filled eyes I have from looking at the depths of this story for as long as I have. She is truly my peridot...she comes to me and I am empowered by her.
Thanks to her, I am beginning to see that my current manuscript is, in fact, the first two books of my series, schmucked together. Therefore, I'm beginning to look at filling out the first part of the story, up to Topaz's graduation...treating that event as the climax. The adept stories that happen in the second half will certainly be kept, but interspurced with Academy elements.
Back to the drawing board....
...this means that all the sensory descriptions that I glossed over can now be expanded to a much greater extent.
...the interactions can be broadened.
...the emotional reactions to things can be revealed more thoroughly
...the Topaz Realm can be explored even more.
This burst of revisionist thinking is actually coming from two sources. The first is my wife's suggestions, of course. The second comes from having almost inhaled a new book by Orson Scott Card, called "The Lost Gate." Greatjumpingsquashnibbletsonaflamingkabobstick! THAT MAN IS A MASTERFUL WORD-SMITH!!!! It's not my concept, thank goodness, but it does explore a magic system that is fresh and that breathes life into aspects of human history like nothing I've read in ages!
Read his stuff. Now. Right now. Find this book, or "Ender's Game" and subsequent books, or anything by the man, and read. He's that good. 'Nuff said.
J.A.Gartshore
p.s. New life is breathed into my stories here, with the need to further expand. It's exciting, and infuriating, all at the same time.
Thanks to her, I am beginning to see that my current manuscript is, in fact, the first two books of my series, schmucked together. Therefore, I'm beginning to look at filling out the first part of the story, up to Topaz's graduation...treating that event as the climax. The adept stories that happen in the second half will certainly be kept, but interspurced with Academy elements.
Back to the drawing board....
...this means that all the sensory descriptions that I glossed over can now be expanded to a much greater extent.
...the interactions can be broadened.
...the emotional reactions to things can be revealed more thoroughly
...the Topaz Realm can be explored even more.
This burst of revisionist thinking is actually coming from two sources. The first is my wife's suggestions, of course. The second comes from having almost inhaled a new book by Orson Scott Card, called "The Lost Gate." Greatjumpingsquashnibbletsonaflamingkabobstick! THAT MAN IS A MASTERFUL WORD-SMITH!!!! It's not my concept, thank goodness, but it does explore a magic system that is fresh and that breathes life into aspects of human history like nothing I've read in ages!
Read his stuff. Now. Right now. Find this book, or "Ender's Game" and subsequent books, or anything by the man, and read. He's that good. 'Nuff said.
J.A.Gartshore
p.s. New life is breathed into my stories here, with the need to further expand. It's exciting, and infuriating, all at the same time.
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