OK yeah that would freak me right the heck out. I might start running in some random direction.
Riley: Maybe I should just let you rest. Buffy: You sure? I bet if you just lay down with me- Riley: Nothing you are about to say will lead to rest.
'Lessons'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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Laga - Apr 21, 2009 12:08:35 pm PDT #1460 of 6690
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Gudanov - Apr 21, 2009 12:35:48 pm PDT #1461 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Cool, it sounds like I'm not totally off base in have a couple freak outs.
While driving to work, I just started thinking what it would mean to have something make an area invisible, realized that it would likely make this weird place where no light comes in, then thought maybe the first time it is used all the character reactions could be used to establish some stuff about the characters.
Gudanov - Apr 21, 2009 12:36:22 pm PDT #1462 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Thanks for letting me bounce stuff.
Connie Neil - Apr 21, 2009 2:22:39 pm PDT #1463 of 6690
brillig
We're your bouncy castle of writing fun, Gud.
dcp - Apr 21, 2009 2:39:45 pm PDT #1464 of 6690
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Gudanov, it wasn't invisible from the outside, but what you described reminds me of the scenes inside the stasis field in Haldeman's Forever War.
Burrell - Apr 21, 2009 6:23:22 pm PDT #1465 of 6690
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
One magical device creates a dome that renders everything inside invisible from the outside. Conversely, if you are inside it, all light from the outside is blocked
That sounds a lot like what an actual invisibility field would be like. If, you know, they were able to create one on something larger than the nanoscale.
Gudanov - Apr 22, 2009 7:01:59 am PDT #1466 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I try to sneak physics into the magic wherever I can. I need to establish limits to prevent lots of internal consistency problems.
Burrell - Apr 22, 2009 9:18:46 am PDT #1467 of 6690
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oh very cool Gud.
Laga - Apr 22, 2009 9:24:49 am PDT #1468 of 6690
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I need to establish limits to prevent lots of internal consistency problems.
Some writers need this emblazoned above their word processors.
Gudanov - Apr 22, 2009 11:21:37 am PDT #1469 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I'm trying hard to make anything important that magic is used for to have come up before so I don't pull out anything new when some major even happens. I know I'll still have problems.
I just mentioned something you can do with magic in chapter 4. One of the things needed to do it gets acquired, though it isn't explicit, in chapter 14. It gets used in chapter 20 at which time it should click that the object needed was acquired in 14. This will all explain how something improbable in chapter 19 wasn't really that improbable.
I'm finding that there are lots of things I'm trying remember to seed clues for. Tiny hints there's something wrong with the character that will betray everyone. Odd behavior latter explained by a drug addiction. The little items that go missing every once and a while. A couple of odd events from a character that is a spy (not the betrayer). Then hopefully the spy revelation in chapter 15 will explain how something in chapter 3 happened.