A tiny change of tone in the wider story. It appears Glorianna's infatuation has not gone unnoticed. Falkimir likes to keep things simple a trait he inherited from his father who abdicated in favor of his son to go fishing. Naturally the truth is more complicated than that.
In the first six drafts, Haldramir did not appear. He was written in due to some plot changes.
In the background we see the cavalry practicing formations and a couple of wagons are barely visible. It's Playmobil. There was a Playmobil store in a local mall that had everything so I browsed for some background items. I had wanted a 1/6th wagon from the old Marx Best of the West series but always managed to miss out. I did score some carriages from the Barbie princesses and their imitators. When doing something this epic in scale have to find stuff where I can.
But something I am managing to do is to scale back the number of new characters. It's one thing to have an epic scale story but you have to focus the casting lens. You can't just introduce new people all the time. I'm finding that in the rewrite I'm zeroing in on a handful of characters (besides Searsha) and getting a firmer grip on the subplots.
— Meanwhile elsewhere, I have been collecting stuff for some World War II short stories. We'll see how that goes. I'm thinking of dramatizing episodes from various memoirs as well as my own silly exploitation movie style stuff. (Dark Gods of the SS anyone?) We'll see what can get produced.
When Sword of Kings was cancelled I was at a loss for what to do with all my medieval stuff so I also wrote a bunch of exploitation barbarian /sword and sandal stuff in the vein of the classic Barbarian Queen series.
Ha, well this is quite the interesting conversation!! They're so matter-of-fact about it all! But at least he seems bent on being properly married before dallying!
KimLuster at 6:24AM, Feb. 16, 2018
Ha, well this is quite the interesting conversation!! They're so matter-of-fact about it all! But at least he seems bent on being properly married before dallying!
bravo1102 at 8:24AM, Feb. 16, 2018
And again according to medieval chronicles such things really did happen.
bravo1102 at 7:24AM, Feb. 16, 2018
But the irony that unbeknownst to them Glorianna is actually Illya's older sister and that she may already be falling in love with him. ;)
Jason Moon at 1:57PM, Feb. 15, 2018
Lol She is standing right there
bravo1102 at 1:47AM, Feb. 16, 2018
Nah, she's out of earshot. But then she is a sorceress--- hmmm. No, she wouldn't do that. :)
El Cid at 7:13AM, Feb. 15, 2018
They're recommending a "practice girl!" Lol!
bravo1102 at 7:19AM, Feb. 15, 2018
Really happened according to some medieval chronicles. ;)
plymayer at 4:11AM, Feb. 15, 2018
//sigh// The problems of royalty.
bravo1102 at 5:14AM, Feb. 15, 2018
Yeah, everyone's always telling you what to do.
jerrie at 1:51AM, Feb. 15, 2018
why can't a sorceress marry?
bravo1102 at 3:04AM, Feb. 15, 2018
Full dedication to her craft and her duties and to allow for the sexual encounters needed to maintain her energy level.