rkvincent

I'm working on a short story set in the Shifters world right now, and can I just say what an incredible relief it is to be working in that world, for what will likely be the last time? As much as I love Kaylee and the Soul Screamers world, and as much fun as I have there, writing about my werecats feels like going home. I feel like I know where I am in that world, whereas in Kaylee's world, I'm still feeling my way around. (Which is awesome too, in its own way--lots of surprises.)

But anyway, working on this short story has made me think about one of the most valuable things I've learned since I started writing. It's pretty simple, and I sometimes feel like an idiot for not figuring it out earlier than I did. But here goes:

The reader doesn't need to know what happened every moment of my character’s day. Not even in summary. It’s really completely okay to end one scene where it should logically end, then start the next one when the next action begins, so long as I give a reference to location and how much time has passed. Readers don’t need to know what happened in between. If the in-between were relevant, it wouldn’t be the in-between. It’d be another scene.


 

Hey, that almost rhymes!

So, that's my little bit of wisdom for today. ;-)

andpuff

So yesterday when briefly talking about Avatar, I said:  "And I thought about Polish cavalry charging German tanks and how people repeating history  isn't so much heartbreaking as it is a stupid result of bad strategy.  I expect that wasn't exactly what they wanted me to think about."

And jeza_red said: "I'm always curious about that "Polish Cavalry" thing... funny stereotype, almost as funny as "history" classes some people have attended."

And I thought: "Wait?  What?  That didn't happen?"  So I looked it up.  And found that the Polish Cavalry actually charged infantry at Krojanty, took machine gun fire, many casualties, and had to retreat; although they'd delayed the German advance and the mission was considered a success. The tanks came from a reporter's misinterpretation of the bodies on the battlefield after the Battle of Tuchola Forest and the charge that never happened became myth.   A myth of tragic bravery against overwhelming odds but still, myth.

So I apologised to jeza_red because I imagine that, being Polish, she's a little tired of her country's history being misrepresented world wide.  Also, she definitely has a point about the history classes I took. 

Although it's been so long things are definitely blurry, I suspect not much, if any at all, of the scant  WWII history I had touched on anything but the Canadian involvement.   A little Dieppe, a little Vimy Ridge, a mention of Hong Kong and otherwise, nada.  And lest you think all the Canadian bases were covered, I lived in a town where there was a POW camp during WWI and II and would never have known it had my grandfather not been stationed there during WWII.  It was never mentioned in the nine years I went to school less than ten kilometers away from it.

Anyway, this whole thing made me wonder how much "popular knowledge" of history is less than factual.  A proportion we'll never realize if the people who know the facts don't sigh deeply and jump in.  Thanks to jeza_red , I found out something I didn't know.

Now you know it too.
 

dwg
lkh_lashouts

Hello Friends,
I wanted to send out a quick reminder that the Laurell K. Hamilton Forum will soon be upgrading the version of vBulletin that we use to vBulletin 4.0. This will mean a few things for you and I wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of them. The first is that the Forum will probably be inaccessible for a few days, but we will be back soon and you will have lots of new things to play with and explore. This brings me to the next thing that may impact you; when we come back it will be to a completely new forum and we anticipate that we will not be bringing any of the posts from the old forum with us. So it's HIGHLY advisable that if you have any posts that are valuable to you and you don't want to lose, that you come back NOW and save them.  I know that most of you put a lot of time and effort into your posts and we want you to be able to post that information again on the few forum. The other thing that is very possible, is that we may NOT be bringing user names to the new forum with us. This means that when we are back up and running, you will have to re-register your user name. These things are not set in stone, but they are very possible so I wanted to make everyone aware of what could be happening so that you know what actions you might need to take upon your return.

rkvincent

Today, I'm guest blogging at the Harlequin Paranormal Romance blog, with some Soul Screamer secrets. Including a question at the end of the post. If someone guesses the answer, I'll tell the story. Have you read My Soul to Save? If so, go give it a shot!

If not, you might not want to read the comments. Not sure, but there may be spoilers. ;-)

kadhfanfiction
geekfiction

Author: kadhfanction

Pairing: Grissom/Sara

Rating: Teen

Status: WIP

Summary: Sara’s first trip back to visit Grissom in Paris proves eventful and extraordinary more for its ordinariness than anything else. And she wouldn’t have had it any other way.

Author's Note: Takes place between episodes 10x02 “Ghost Town” and 10x04 “Coup de Grace,” circa October 2009. 

One: Homecoming

Two: Letting Sleeping Wives Lie

tehuti

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