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Raserys
Acolyte
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 Posted - 27 Oct 2024 : 15:54:05
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Steven Schend
Forgotten Realms Designer & Author
USA
1732 Posts |
Posted - 30 Sep 2025 : 18:28:34
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Launching a query here to see if there'd be any interest or if the echo in my own head is what's bugging me....
If I were to restart my website/blog and start doing brief annotations of my first novel BLACKSTAFF to help readers ID where info and references came from, why I put something into play, etc, would anyone be interested in reading that at all?
Granted, the bulk of the references and necessary annotations would be in the latter third of the book, but I'd force myself to reread the novel and add in commentary and notes as I went to explain either my process or why someone or something got dropped in there. Perhaps might even elaborate on characters who'd only appeared in the novel and never since, like some tavern owners with their own relationship with the Blackstaff for one reason or other...
Steven
who's curious and needing more paying projects so he's drumming up ways to remind people he's a wordsmith |
For current projects and general natter, see www.steveneschend.com
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Scots Dragon
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
122 Posts |
Posted - 30 Sep 2025 : 19:54:44
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Originally posted by Steven Schend
Launching a query here to see if there'd be any interest or if the echo in my own head is what's bugging me....
If I were to restart my website/blog and start doing brief annotations of my first novel BLACKSTAFF to help readers ID where info and references came from, why I put something into play, etc, would anyone be interested in reading that at all?
Granted, the bulk of the references and necessary annotations would be in the latter third of the book, but I'd force myself to reread the novel and add in commentary and notes as I went to explain either my process or why someone or something got dropped in there. Perhaps might even elaborate on characters who'd only appeared in the novel and never since, like some tavern owners with their own relationship with the Blackstaff for one reason or other...
Steven
who's curious and needing more paying projects so he's drumming up ways to remind people he's a wordsmith
I absolutely adore seeing writers annotate and explain their works so I'd definitely be interested. |
Edited by - Scots Dragon on 30 Sep 2025 19:55:25 |
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36984 Posts |
Posted - 01 Oct 2025 : 01:26:20
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quote:
Originally posted by Steven Schend
Launching a query here to see if there'd be any interest or if the echo in my own head is what's bugging me....
If I were to restart my website/blog and start doing brief annotations of my first novel BLACKSTAFF to help readers ID where info and references came from, why I put something into play, etc, would anyone be interested in reading that at all?
Granted, the bulk of the references and necessary annotations would be in the latter third of the book, but I'd force myself to reread the novel and add in commentary and notes as I went to explain either my process or why someone or something got dropped in there. Perhaps might even elaborate on characters who'd only appeared in the novel and never since, like some tavern owners with their own relationship with the Blackstaff for one reason or other...
Steven
who's curious and needing more paying projects so he's drumming up ways to remind people he's a wordsmith
I'd be interested. |
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Demzer
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 01 Oct 2025 : 09:18:35
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quote:
Originally posted by Steven Schend
Launching a query here to see if there'd be any interest or if the echo in my own head is what's bugging me....
If I were to restart my website/blog and start doing brief annotations of my first novel BLACKSTAFF to help readers ID where info and references came from, why I put something into play, etc, would anyone be interested in reading that at all?
Granted, the bulk of the references and necessary annotations would be in the latter third of the book, but I'd force myself to reread the novel and add in commentary and notes as I went to explain either my process or why someone or something got dropped in there. Perhaps might even elaborate on characters who'd only appeared in the novel and never since, like some tavern owners with their own relationship with the Blackstaff for one reason or other...
Steven
who's curious and needing more paying projects so he's drumming up ways to remind people he's a wordsmith
Count me interested! |
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kysus
Learned Scribe
USA
120 Posts |
Posted - 10 Dec 2025 : 19:19:06
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| Hi steven schend i hope your having a good holidays this year. i had something come to mind recently i wanted to ask you about your city hope (Rhymanthiin), I was reading through the two new forgotten realms books that just came out and some information in them got me into wondering the 3 grand high mages of Rhymanthiin that was mentioned i think it was the blackstaff novel, correct me if im wrong though, but did you have any notes about who they are or what would your thoughts be on them? and also in one of your posts you said there were quite a few high mages in the city of hope, how many would you say there are in the city say when it was first brought back to the present time of 1490s? |
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