tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843833519373801339.post485273908561746609..comments2020-08-22T09:23:05.149-07:00Comments on Ruminations of a Remembrancer: The Man Who Found Birds among the Stars, Ch. 9Lorinda J Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16985567506994751475noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843833519373801339.post-5289153867014548502013-05-04T13:57:35.677-07:002013-05-04T13:57:35.677-07:00I appreciate your saying my voice is credible and ...I appreciate your saying my voice is credible and you believe in the characters. I do think those are the most important things. I had planned to stop publishing installments at some point - I just wanted to get some opinions as to whether the story was worth continuing to edit and revise. But except for one comment on Ch. 2, I've never gotten any feedback except yours - either positive or negative. I'm going to post a few more chapters (the next one is important to the understanding of how Robbie's life turns out) and then we'll see.<br />Gee, your remark about God - I'm going to get a swelled head!Lorinda J Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16985567506994751475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843833519373801339.post-48342094292493556092013-05-04T12:30:41.046-07:002013-05-04T12:30:41.046-07:00I wouldn't worry - break some rules and change...I wouldn't worry - break some rules and change styles/format to suit you and the story. Flashbacks or not, your 'voice' is credible, and I believe in the characters. That counts for a lot.<br /><br />God could learn a lot from you.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06370081580941640764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843833519373801339.post-80885744696346940002013-05-04T07:05:07.398-07:002013-05-04T07:05:07.398-07:00Of course, I love it that somebody likes my writin...Of course, I love it that somebody likes my writing so much- it's very flattering! But an author pretty much knows when a book is right, I think, and this book is definitely not publishable in its present form. I had originally intended to use the alternating flash-back/flash-forward form for the whole novel, but I sort of caught up with myself and there was a lot more to talk about in Robbie's early life before I could complete the later. I'm considering scrapping the flash-back format altogether, but I don't know if I can work it out. I could do something with it as a series, I suppose, but even so it needs to be drastically pruned. So don't expect anything published anytime soon. I prefer to work on the excerpt from a later part that I'm calling "Of Fathers and Demons." I think you'll like it too. It's definitely more literary fiction than SF and it has some serious philosophical discussion and possibly controversial ideas, along with some terrific charactizations, if I do say so myself. Btw, Robbin Nikalishin is a principal character (aged 39).<br />Re God ... Yes, I think he got a little repetitive in places. I was trying to read the entire Torah awhile back, and I gave up in the middle of Deuteronomy because it repeated everything that had been said earlier and I was getting very bored. (The word means literally "second law.") I wonder if all the repetitiveness had something to do with being originally an oral transmission - you say things over and over if you want people to remember them.Lorinda J Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16985567506994751475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843833519373801339.post-46017176112293318182013-05-04T02:49:03.500-07:002013-05-04T02:49:03.500-07:00I was on my mobile and couldn't tell whether t...I was on my mobile and couldn't tell whether the first comment had worked! - still a newbie on this I'm afraid!<br /><br />Why would I want to buy it when it's all here for me?! - you need to stop now, take it all off-line, draw a line (call it Volume 1 or something), tidy up and finish, and publish - then I'm gonna have to buy it! Ha! (Why am I telling her this? ... Who am I talking to?!).<br /><br />And guess what Tolkein said before he decided to publish The Lord of the Rings?, yes ... "it's humongous, out of control. Even just the first half of ...". It's a common dilemna, God had the same problem with his Bible, but then many think he should have just left it online of course - oops!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06370081580941640764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843833519373801339.post-80066251208973553792013-05-03T13:07:38.573-07:002013-05-03T13:07:38.573-07:00Neil, now you've got the commenting down so we...Neil, now you've got the commenting down so well that you got the same one in here twice! LOL<br />So I take it if I ever publish this, you'd buy it? The trouble is, it's not ready to publish - it's humongous, out of control. Even just the first half of Robbie's life would take up two long volumes.Lorinda J Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16985567506994751475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843833519373801339.post-84995404298420994092013-05-03T12:16:18.645-07:002013-05-03T12:16:18.645-07:00Keep it rolling Lorinda - great story!
NeilKeep it rolling Lorinda - great story!<br /><br />NeilAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06370081580941640764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843833519373801339.post-35095138220465807212013-05-03T12:14:24.611-07:002013-05-03T12:14:24.611-07:00Keep it rolling Lorinda - great story!
NeilKeep it rolling Lorinda - great story!<br /><br />NeilAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com