tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-05-11:512731 Gray Woodland, Writing on the Hoof caper_est 2010-10-05T07:55:19Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-05-11:512731:15200 2010-10-05T07:54:57Z 2010-10-05T07:55:19Z If You Don't Know Me By Now - Simply Red blank public 0 About another kiloword since last posting.&nbsp; But now the prose is starting to stretch and separate&nbsp;like flimsy cloth, as I run into a new area of insufficient detail, and make stuff up as I&nbsp;go along.&nbsp; More work needed on developments in the Northdales during Kate's long exile:&nbsp;times, names, places of the rising oppression and discontent.&nbsp; Also specifics&nbsp;on the doings of the young Duke and his two former guardians, who remain his Evil Genius on the one hand and his Relatively Okay Genius on the other.&nbsp; I can't keep the irrelevant ones out of the book until I first know what they are... <br /><br />Naturally, the Relatively Okay Genius is a&nbsp;smarter and more&nbsp;serious danger to our heroes than Lord Evil weevilling his worst.&nbsp; I think I&nbsp;may have underplayed the conflict with him in the original plotline.&nbsp; I wonder why?&nbsp; Kate has even more reason to hate and fear him, than she does the evil weevil. <br /><br />From a distance, it looked like I knew most of what I needed to about the Dales-Lords&nbsp;already.&nbsp; Ah well!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=caper_est&ditemid=15200" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments