Liberty

@linus-smallprint

I dunno. I like that movie a lot, but it never came to mind while I wrote this scene.

These one sentence time skips aren’t bad, I just have a habit of missing them and then getting confused. Bad habit, that.  The whole escape happened so fast and I kept missing things that I had no idea why they were suddenly in the mo…

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The seventeenth year of Emperor Haidronias’s reign
February 16th
The Empire

Loosing Aelic has been the most heartbreaking thing I have experienced since Adrian’s death. Aelic was such a dear brother, and we all love…

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@loopylin Speaking of wise women,

Mother: That guy… He looks like, like…

Us: Gandalf!

Mother: Yes!

Us: In a button down flannel shirt!

Mother: What is he doing at Brookshire’s?

(Really happened. We saw Gandalf walk out of a local grocery store dressed like a country bumkin. It was unnerving.)

Me*holding up cast*: You know, this is such…[Read more]

@whalekeeper

Idk. I’ve already had all my questions about GE answered.

Maybe what his first story idea was? Or what were some of the most impacted books for him growing up?

@trailblazer

Those are great. Coworker conversations are the best and worst things to overhear. XD

Why do you ask? (To  you, Whaley, not Master Smith)

@whalekeeper

Oh my. Ok. Um…

We know what his favorite cookie is. 🤔

Ack, that’s a good question but my brain is blanking. Something with writing or his time in Africa…

Maybe which one if his characters is his favorite?

*Wonders if I wasted my hypothetical question* XD

The Wise Fool is one of my favorites.

Also, that character in the background with more knives than words, that is the first to react to a threat, but the least likely to comment on it. Mikhail Gregovsky from A Light in Zion fit this to a pin. Natan Israeli in Brother Enemy is similar, if more snarky. Smalls from Green Ember is kinda like this to…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle

I knooowwwwwwww!!! 😭

We’re both still at home though, so there’s that.

@keilah-h

Yes! Agreed.

At least Martin made the right choice. I would argue his death scene was the most frightening one I’ve written.

@whalekeeper

haha!!!

Oh yes, absolutely.

@whalekeeper

Oh really? I love them. It’s so fun to start tying them together in subtle ways.

In the first one, all three end up frequenting the same cafe at different times, and only a few readers pick that up because I never state the name, but I describe the surroundings the same. Things like that.

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@whalekeeper

Ooo! Cool!

I did one with the first book in the series and I’ve decided to keep going with it thought the whole trilogy.

@whalekeeper

Nope, he’s an MC. But it’s a three-way POV, so there are two other MCs.

He’s also an interesting character because of his job…. so he has that going for him.

@koshka

Nooooo! The twins have separated!!!  😱

@ellette-giselle

My older sister is a graduate student there, so yes, but no, my twin is going somewhere else.

*Mournful sigh*

@ellette-giselle

I’m not surprised.

Yeah, I hope so. Oh my goodness, yes, Martin was so brave.

@koshka

Ooo! Yay!

Is your sister going with you?

@hybridlore

I know poor Aelic. This is my fourth time though that scene as a draft, (read it several times just for fun) and it still gets me. Ugh.

(I’m wondering what’s happening to Aiden now that Martin believed and died too. It would have been tough to see his brother and his cousin killed like that.)

I know!!! The poor kid! 😱

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@ellette-giselle

It’s close enough to commute, about 40 minutes one way (so not amazing, but not bad).