Been watching Copa and the Euros. Fucking Team USA!!! Why can you never be normal!!! Working my way through Shogun, which is incredible. Though it's so good I find myself wanting to savior it and not binge. Such a clash of foreign cultures to each other that it almost works as a time travel story, right? Can put yourself in Blackthorns shoes. Hopefully not in place of the guy that got boiled alive though. Am taking a diversion to quickly binge season 3 of the Bear. Which has 100% won the Emmy in its category. Everyone should just give up. Race is done. OVER. (Edit: Take this back after finishing the season. They left the door open for someone to take the crown. Individual powerful scenes and episodes that didn't really develop and ran in circles, very obvious half a story. Carm just...kind of went nowhere. Syd didn't make her choice yet. Too much Fak. Etc.)
Gamewise I'm currently addicted to Cobalt Core. Which is a deckbuilding Roguelike with a cutsie Sci-Fi story with great gameplay mechanics revolving around board placement. Totally recommend it if you're into that type of game. Surprisingly funny. Made me laugh out loud a few times.
As I planned, I've started rereading FM1 with the idea of going through whole series in the next month to refresh myself on the facts and maybe a bit of inspiration before I get into Edit Hell. Already found a typo that's somehow existed for over a decade without anyone ever mentioning it. Outside of that it's so very cringe reading your older work, especially stuff from the very beginning of your career. I was...like 25, maybe 26 when I wrote this stuff. Which in writer years is like...you are wearing those inflatable armbands when you get in the pool, child!
Do find myself smiling over the early Ceinwyn/KH scenes, but I'm so beyond better than what I managed in 2010. Miles and miles and miles. Like...the Annie B intro scene is extremely rough. Actually wrote that chapter before the T-Bone one if I recall correctly. Though the school story was written before anything in the mainline.
And King Henry Price of all people thinking this:
I didn’t say anything witty. I was never witty before a fight, rarely during too. All business. Showboaters pissed me off.
It's not how the character has played out AT ALL in the school timeline once I started understanding his psyche. It's a phrase that might work for 14yo version, not the recent Asylum graduate. Yes, KH is often a hypocrite, but...mega delusional. And a mega whiplash moment after writing Seismic Semester, since the levels of trash talk Welf and KH throw at each other in that novel is MASSIVE. And that's only a bit over a year before the mainline starts. Oh well, we'll put it down to Old Man King Henry not remembering exactly what he was like then and handwave it away!
So...what's your favorite FM1 moment?
The scene where he is trying to dump as much anime from himself as fast as he can. Right before the Prophecy conjuration.
ReplyDeleteGoing to cheat and admit I can't find just ONE favorite. Meta- the amount of world-building you manage without the story getting slowed down. Specific- KH asking loudly, "Is that a swing set?" / Reminding Annie to "chill out" before the battle of the vamps. /Punching Welf- because when is punching Welf NOT a favorite?
ReplyDeleteIf the typo was Annie's "...are they for sell?" (Instead of "sale")... I don't point at what I consider errors once a book is published (not without being asked). Seems to me that is a beta reader/proofreader function and doing it after the fact is kinda obnoxious.
No, that one has been corrected for years. This was lighting ---> lightning. Brain has been skipping the 'n' for decades.
DeleteSadly Amazon doesn't let people download the newest version, you're stuck with what you first purchased unless I ask them to force an update on everyone, of which typos aren't usually enough. I did manage it with the Betrothal because of the epic "accidentally uploaded the first draft and gave it it away to 10k people only realizing years later" mistake but nothing so drastic for KHT.
Have heard the customer can beg Amazon support for the new version to be sent, but haven't tried it myself. Still rocking the OG FM1 with the Betrothal Sample and Cat Killing Coyotes as "forthcoming" on my Kindle account, heh.
One warning, if you do this, it will remove your notes, so back them up first if you're the type that uses them.
Also...maybe wait until I upload this newest versions when Seismic Semester releases. (or be prepared to whine to customer support twice!)