Hell yeah we do. Can't wait to see the finished book!

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Feels good to hear that you are doing good and you made some big steps forward

Also a big /clap to mr. Calmari who did a great job - the picture really has "something" if you know what i mean. You can defenitely link some feelings to the person that have been drawn.

The decision of the perspective depends in my opinion in what you want to tell/show the reader.

If you wrote your book with switching perspectives (one chapter jarahle, one lenne, or at least gave some information on the thoughts of some of the group members from time to time) it wouldnt be absolutely necessary to write them as first person perspective, because the reader already knows much of the feelings and motivations of the character.

If you wrote just out of the perspective of one or two chracters, it would be VERY interesting to see the thoughts and feelings of the others for once - like in a letter to a good friend or something like that.

Just my thoughts on that. Just ask yourself the question:

Would it be more interesting for the reader to hear the very own secret thoughts of that character about something(even himself) or would he more like to hear some OTHER persons thoughts about a character?
The second point can also be very interesting, but it depends much on how you wrote your book, which part/factor wasnt as present as the others.


Well, at least im getting an english course (work related) in about 2 years or something like that, so... if you are patient enough to wait, i can give better advance which is not nearly nullified by my poor english xD

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Well, you are right about those perspectives... I only intend to switch the perspectives between Dhanne, Galed, and maybe Kerianna in the third novel, but the others are, in that point of view, just side characters. Lenne, Jarahle, and Zann are present in almost every novel of the series hence they are at least major side chacters if not main protagonists. In any case, I wanted create or have their portraits as well.

I decided to exclude their first person perspectives from the novel parts (not from their letters) because of it confuses and make everyting more difficult to put together. Secondly, I can keep Lenne's feelings and schemes secret that makes the character more mysterious and much more special. Readers can't never really say is the demon really an enemy or an ally of the party, because of her chaotic behavior, and I like to keep it that way. Lenne and Jarahle also know too much about the world and its events thus it would reveal too much to the reader.

Heh, I'm not going away (at least from the net) thus I'm waiting patiently for your Shakespeare-fluent spelling and richness of the words.

"Complete version of Lenne is just few clicks away from my DA page."

*tips with his fingers on the table*
Im still waiting for this

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Heh. There was two disturbances in the way of thr completion. The first was a crusing boat trip to Estonia and the second was Juhannus, Midsummer Day, that is more or less a day or a weekend for drinking in Finland.

I was also focused more on writing than drawing.

A few clicks away means for me: its doen, you just have to upload it/save it under another format/whatever, 5minuts of work

How are you doing anyway? Is the essay already done? If you were focused on writing, you should be done soon

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Actually I'm on a vacation now and I'm tryng to take some rest for the project (some weeks or even a month). Also my partners on the drawing project are on their vacations so it will be pretty quiet for some time. I suppose it's a good thing to have some rest though.

What about you... is your project going forward as planned?

PS. I feel kind of irritating because i-button on my keyboard has broken or at least it doesn't work properly. It almost meaningless to say thay I have to invest some €uros for a new one. It will be a regular keyboard where is no fancy buttons or discolght leds [link] After my necessary nvestment wrting on a keyboard should be pleasant again. Now it's pretty damn vexing. *htting i-button with a diabolic expression on my face*

It goes as planned, not as fast as it should be, but im coming forward. Somehow the story gets longer and longer, it doesnt seem to matter that im fixated on one point where I want to get as fast as possible, i just cant skip the parts to get there *g*

Actually im introducing Velnarion the necromancer, Anns next ally she works with, his disciple Marlonnius ("disciple" isnt quite correct, because he is already a full qualified necromancer too ) and the elven thief/assassin Aeltai working for them.
They got big plans that involve Anns exceptional talent in creating a big mess wherever she gets, but as usual the story wont go the way the reader excepts it to go... that would be boring ;D
Until now my test-readers quite enjoyed the drastical switches and turns the story takes, its more interesting when you have to include the possibility that everything could happen - even if it totally ruins the actual plan of the protagonist.

But in the end she will take an advantage out of the unlucky turns and then...


Well, anyway i know what i want to write quite exactly (and thats the most important part for coming forward) so its just a matter of time to get it done to the point where i could say im finished with the first book.

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I meant to answer this earlier but it was delayed for no adequetely good reason. I'm sorry about that.

It's nice to hear that your project continues as planned even there is some tiresome obstacles or parts that just needs to be get over with. I'm still stuck with those character letters, and I'm starting to feel that they aren't as good idea as I thought earlier, mostly because of this stumbling situation that I have now. Maybe I'll just add the portraits with names and forget the texts, and get it over like that way. I don't know...

Anyway, I see you finally found a name for you necromancer. Velnarion, that's a pretty good name for a necromancer. When I first read your text too fast I read that Ann was also a necromancer of major skill. I just misread it, my folly. As far as I understand Velnarion will be a bit father-like character who backs Marlonnius at his journey by helping someway or just being a major force behind the curtains, I'm I right? So if that's the case you have Ann as a main protagonist, those other succubi as her buddies, Marlonnius the disciple necromancer, and finally Aeltar the assassin -- quite a party I might say. I see you changed the storyline from a single protagonist to a party of many who have very different goals and perspectives. Did you find the change to be amusing or difficult? I found a party to be more amusing though it will be more difficult to concentrate on different characters and their desires. Sometimes a party of chacracters make writing more easier and at least you get more intresting conversations between characters mostly when they have a different views on a topic. Also I like to read more fantasy novels and series where are various kinds of characters with different skills, traits, and perspectives even they may have a common goal.

"even if it totally ruins the actual plan of the protagonist."
Heh. There will be plenty of similarities within our novels, not too many but still there are some. My main protagonist, Dhanne the thief, has similar problems like your Ann has, because his plans will be ruined occasionally by the plans of gods and even more by mischievous Lenne. The creative and malign succubus will be a stick in his ass -- so to speak -- in the second and third novel where the rest of the party, and mostly Jarahle, finds the demon way too irritating and they'll push all the responsibility guarding party and keeping an eye for Lenne to Dhanne's shoulders. I'm not sure if you have romance, but in my series those "chains of responsibility" will be a starting point to a far-reaching and gradually evolving relationship between Lenne and Dhanne that will become visible in the last chapter of the second novel. In the third book their evolving relationship will be totally apparent to the readers. Even their relationship is not a main theme in my series a bit of romance will still be there. (thus the series will differ from writing style of Tolkien's because he didn't want any sort of romance or love (excluding friendship) in his novels, but the crew who created LotR movies added some romance between characters where there was nothing visible going on.) I suppose you either won't focus much on drama and romance in your novels that tells a story about demons. Or are my views totally misguided for that point?

Anyway, good luck with your project.