Author notes

Book Two, page 48

bravo1102

on March 9, 2018

I can keep churning out pages as long as I have images to work with. Creating the new images is the problem. There are boxes upon boxes of figures and scenery, props, costumes and the HUGE box of horses. If it was drawn it'd just be a few pads of paper and a pile of notes.

And all I find myself doing is whine. As if I haven't been here before? I get this way in every production I've ever done and usually the only thing that keeps me going is reader comments and knowing there is light at the end of the tunnel. No light here. In fact it's going to get a lot darker before the end.

I'm just a pain in the ass. I don't even know how I put up with me. I just hate long form story telling. Too impatient and I want to get on to something else. Just too many ideas to tie myself down to this one big production. As I've said before I like to do projects where I see the end before I've begun so I can wrap it up and do something else. I learned that the first time around with this as Go Viking. That's why I had all the shooting done on Attack of the Robofemoids before I ever started posting it. I had a schedule and I kept to it. Go a Viking! had been a swamp that I go mired in and I couldn't see a way out. And here I am again. And I don't even have a finished script.

I'll go as far as I can with what I have shot and then start up the Belle's Best stories. They're mostly short snippets. I wrote them like that after floundering around with long form stories, like the next installment in the Robofemoids saga. I was re-reading Battle of– and I found myself laughing at the sharp funny dialogue. I like doing stuff like that. I might not be cut out for deep drawn-out melodrama. I Lose patience, get frustrated and lose faith in the whole project and whine endlessly about it in my author's notes.

Thanks to all who have stuck through this so far. Your comments really do mean a lot. And never be afraid to criticize. There's usually a valid reason you feel the way you do and it often points out something I didn't do properly.

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Here's another scene change. We're back in Falkimir's camp (which is on the move, but this is a stop to make more marching rations and allow the baggage to catch up) And we're back with Randall and Glorreaka. This refers back to her last attempt to watch the camp back in Book One, page 47

Now however, she's trying long range telepathy which is what she is limited to when contacting a non-mage. A sorceress can only do a sending to another magic-user who is willing to receive. The non-mage is limited to "yes" and "no" but the mage can send as much information as she wanted. Clerics can also do this between each other but usually need the help of magically talented facilitators. (Example was Elsa's vote on the High King which was done with sendings. Elsa is priestess of Annah the goddess of magic so she was able to facilitate it)

Randall is inside a real castle, but Glorreaka's lair is a 3D render that I redressed. And if you can read the script, don't. It's quotes from ancient beyond old texts concerning THINGS MAN WAS NOT MEANT TO KNOW. If you read it you'll go crazy. Save versus your sanity. I haven't made a save in years which is why I am like I am.