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This sounds fun. I'm picking the collected Volume 1 of my Beaumont and Beasley series. 509 pages. Knock yourselves out.
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— Jan 27, 2018 06:56PM
"Let's play a game, writers! You can share this status to your feed to keep it going. You choose one of your own novels/stories, give how many pages it has, and then the first 5 folks to comment with a page number, you have to choose your favorite quote/line from that page!"
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emrys wrote: "19""It's Soloveyan."
"Pardon?"
"More commonly known as the language of the birds."
-from The Beast of Talesend
Not sure how many people picked up on the obscure fairy-tale reference here. "The Language of the Birds" is a Russian fairy tale about a merchant's son who learns to speak--wait for iiiiiiiit--the language of the birds, from a friendly nightingale. "Solovey" is the Russian word for "nightingale."
The Stroke of Eleven, however, hints that there was actually more going on in this scene than meets the eye. Whitlock knew perfectly well what Soloveyan was, he was just playing on Nick's arrogance. In truth, Nick's unwavering, magic-resistant skepticism is what translated the map, not any skill on his part.
Squire wrote: "102!""Just point me in the right direction and tell me who you want me to punch. Or eat, if necessary."
-from The Beast of Talesend
I have fond memories of writing this scene. The book was actually ENDING. It's not that I wasn't enjoying it and wanted to get it over with. On the contrary, I was loving it. Nothing I'd written in the past had ever built towards a fairly-strong finish like this. So I had a great time ramping up the Nick/Cordelia banter and the growing suspense as I approached the final chapters, because I felt like my journey had a clear destination.
Tracey wrote: "345!""Think you could do something about the weather? I mean, I'm sure it has some deep prophetic or psychological significance, but maybe you could write down whatever the message is, for once."
-from The Stroke of Eleven
I'm aware that there are a lot of dream scenes in the Beaumont and Beasley series. There's actually an important plot-based reason for that which will be explained in Book 5. Still, in this one I thought it was time to poke fun at the usual tropes of mysterious dream visions. I had a lot of fun doing that.
Angela wrote: "490! Thanks for doing this. :)"You're very welcome! :)
"Killing people is a very unsatisfying form of revenge. Take it from one who knows."
-from The Stroke of Eleven
I'll avoid saying too much about the specific line because of spoilers, but here I was basically trying to subvert the concept seen frequently in fiction that choosing not to kill somebody out of revenge is always more merciful. I've frequently read or watched things in which the punishment meted out on the still-living villain was arguably worse than death, which raises the question of whether the hero was really so merciful after all. In this passage, a character is being forced to consider whether or not he really has the moral high ground.
Gail wrote: "61. :D""There are all sorts of things magic can never do. Raising the dead, for example."
"I'm not ASKING you to raise the dead! Just break this spell!"
-from The Beast of Talesend
This was one of my all-time favorite scenes to write. It's the part where Nick and Cordelia really start to develop their trademark banter. Actually, I think I wrote this chapter in January 2017, a long while after I'd already completed the original draft of "Beast." It was one of the only significant changes I made to the first version. The magic in the early draft was a little more convoluted, so much so that I wasn't sure I could fix it, but then the image of Cordelia explaining things via a chalk diagram occurred to me, and a more comprehensible magic system suddenly fell into place.
Welp, I've done five, but I'm open to doing more if anyone's interested!
ALL THE PAGES.Um.
Yeah.
Never mind, then. XD
Page 217?
Katelyn wrote: "500 I mean. Augh. *facepalm*"LOL, no problem. XD
"Don't worry," said a voice from the shadows. "You won't."
-from The Stroke of Eleven
Gaaah, I can't say too much about this because spoilers...but I really enjoyed writing this scene. Partly because it involved killing off a character I never particularly liked. Killing characters is fun. I should do it more often. (I'm joking. Mostly.) XD
Deborah wrote: "ALL THE PAGES.Um.
Yeah.
Never mind, then. XD
Page 217?"
XD Sure! Ooh, this one is going to be hard to pick...
"He's just being protective. He senses that you're angry with me."
"It's BROTHERLY anger! Not homicidal anger! Teach him the difference!"
Crispin and Edmund. So much fun. Which reminds me, I really should bring all those pets back for Book 4. Given the current status quo of Beaumont and Beasley, there's no reason why Crispin can't keep them himself. For the time being...
Kyle wrote: ""He's just being protective. He senses that you're angry with me.""It's BROTHERLY anger! Not homicidal anger! Teach him the difference!"
Crispin and Edmund. So much fun. Which reminds me, I really should bring all those pets back for Book 4. Given the current status quo of Beaumont and Beasley, there's no reason why Crispin can't keep them himself. For the time being... "
LOVE that one! :D
The petttts!
Deborah wrote: "Kyle wrote: ""He's just being protective. He senses that you're angry with me.""It's BROTHERLY anger! Not homicidal anger! Teach him the difference!"
Crispin and Edmund. So much fun. Which remind..."
:D :D
