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Chiseling into Sheol

28 Friday May 2021

Posted by Quizzer in The Churchians

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  1. teresa from hershey said:

    May 28, 2021 at 10:14 am

    Very nice shadow on the wall. Is this foreshadowing?

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    • Quizzer said:

      May 28, 2021 at 11:37 am

      I’ve no idea what the technical art term for it is, but sure, we can call it foreshadowing. Good word. 🙂

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  2. McChuck said:

    May 28, 2021 at 12:53 pm

    OK, so the old ‘tater is the forcibly retired police chief, good-ole whatsisname. Gustav is presumably one of the rapscallions (or whatever they are). No idea about the names of the other two, other than the mushroom is usually grumpy.

    Given the size and scope of this production, a “cast of characters” page might be really handy. You know, since we viewers pay so much for the free ice cream machine to keep cranking away. 😉

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    • teresa from hershey said:

      May 28, 2021 at 2:59 pm

      Yes, absolutely! How else can I tell the rapscallions from the scallions?

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      • Orvan Taurus said:

        May 29, 2021 at 6:18 am

        Scallions with rap sheets and scallions that do not have rap sheets…. yet?

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    • Quizzer said:

      May 28, 2021 at 3:35 pm

      Seems like a good idea, yes.

      Alphabetical? Order of Appearance? Relative Importance? Random? Light vs Dark? Oh, the choices seem endless! I’ll just copy the one from Lord of the Rings and be done with it.

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      • McChuck said:

        May 29, 2021 at 3:35 am

        Excellently stated. However, one may note that it rarely takes three years to read The Lord of the Rings.

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      • teresa from hershey said:

        May 29, 2021 at 11:06 am

        Actually, it is a good idea and not just for the website.
        When you print your books, you’ll meet new readers who’ve no idea who the characters are.

        Think of what you want totally new readers to know when they open up any book at random. Who’s most important? You can even tease the importance of a future character by giving them a mug and a caption despite them being — currently — a background character.

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        • overgrownhobbit said:

          May 29, 2021 at 9:58 pm

          I *really* enjoyed the character intros in your books. Though I have to admit, I saved them as a treat for after.

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          • teresa from hershey said:

            May 30, 2021 at 2:01 pm

            You read my books??????
            EEEEEEEEEEEE!

            Thank you. I got the idea from Agatha Christie. Many of her novels come with a character listing. It’s really useful to me because I rarely have a chance anymore to read a book through and sometimes, I forget who’s who as I’m reading along.

            The trick is to make them short, intriguing, yet not give anything major away. It’s like headline writing and you usually have to rewrite at least four times.

            I really appreciate short character sketches in big novels.
            Similarly, I really appreciate glossaries when a fantasy novel uses loads of strange new words that I can’t define from context easily.

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