Thanks! I looked back at this and had a hard time not squealing and scrambling to fix all the typos and a couple of really bad sentences. :P
I also really want Ariosta to do one other demonstration of her magical skills in the last scene, almost in passing, before she goes on.
The Lorenzo family show up in several works, even one of my published ones (Which happens when Nikol and Ari are in their 60s).
I disagree strongly with those writers who say they never read at all anymore, ever -- because how can you keep up with what's happening in the genre? But I do understand not doing it WHILE writing, and reading mostly while you're doing revisions to a finished story, or taking a break between projects. I've found it rarely affects me one way or the other, these days (I'm good at juggling plotlines and all). But I know people who are really good at imitating other peoples' style, and for some of them, it's hard *not* to do that if you read too much by that person. I also know people who will read only wildly different genres while writing a project, (Only fluffy romances or hard boiled mysteries while writing epic fantasy, for example) because those won't infect them the same way.
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Re: Lorenzo...
Date: 2011-03-06 03:00 am (UTC)I also really want Ariosta to do one other demonstration of her magical skills in the last scene, almost in passing, before she goes on.
The Lorenzo family show up in several works, even one of my published ones (Which happens when Nikol and Ari are in their 60s).
I disagree strongly with those writers who say they never read at all anymore, ever -- because how can you keep up with what's happening in the genre? But I do understand not doing it WHILE writing, and reading mostly while you're doing revisions to a finished story, or taking a break between projects. I've found it rarely affects me one way or the other, these days (I'm good at juggling plotlines and all). But I know people who are really good at imitating other peoples' style, and for some of them, it's hard *not* to do that if you read too much by that person. I also know people who will read only wildly different genres while writing a project, (Only fluffy romances or hard boiled mysteries while writing epic fantasy, for example) because those won't infect them the same way.