Interesting opening scene - definately enough to pique my curiosity. (It's funny, I'm having flashbacks to the recent BBC production of "the Virgin Queen" when I read it
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I know what you mean about the legend and the fact that it should be told as such. It's set in an alternate elizabethan world and will echo the life of Elizabeth in ways. It was written in one fell swoop. I just wrote and it will need a lot of work. I just wanted to start. You're right as well about slowing down. It needs to be more measured and I will rewrite the beginning.
Thanks for the comments though. It's what I needed to hear. Hope you're writing too :-)
I'm interested enough to want to know what's happening next, which is a good sign - you'll have to nudge f4f3 or rparvaaz give you a more methodical critque than me, as they are more practised in this!
Thank you sweetie. Nudge them I will. My only worry is that the world these characters inhabit has to be reasonably reconisable which means I have soooo much research to do. Lucky my bookshelf is groaning under the weight of Elizabethan history.
It's gotten me interested enough that I'm bopping straight off to the next fragment here and now.
Nout wrong with the above, since you're just setting out just now. I wonder if you've plotted ahead? Somebody once said that writing a book without plotting ahead was like driving at night and only being able to see as much of the road ahead as your headlights revealed. Somebody else replied that you can drive clear across America like that.
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Thanks for the comments though. It's what I needed to hear. Hope you're writing too :-)
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I'm interested enough to want to know what's happening next, which is a good sign - you'll have to nudge f4f3 or rparvaaz give you a more methodical critque than me, as they are more practised in this!
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It's gotten me interested enough that I'm bopping straight off to the next fragment here and now.
Nout wrong with the above, since you're just setting out just now. I wonder if you've plotted ahead? Somebody once said that writing a book without plotting ahead was like driving at night and only being able to see as much of the road ahead as your headlights revealed. Somebody else replied that you can drive clear across America like that.
Happy trails.
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