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.
Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins. Twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July — and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. 'Who's our little patriot?' they'd say, when I was younger and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.
Anya ,'Potential'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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dcp - Apr 21, 2009 2:39:45 pm PDT #1464 of 6690
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
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.
Gudanov - Apr 23, 2009 7:20:36 am PDT #1470 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Chapter 5 is going slow, I suspect not having much time to write this week may be the culprit. On a good night, I have about 80 minutes of time to write an I haven't had very good nights this week. I still need to go through 600! photos of soccer games and throw out about 90% of them. Time, why is there so little of you?
Gudanov - Apr 23, 2009 8:19:47 am PDT #1471 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I have been able to think though and I decided that I'm not going to off a character that was doomed before. That still leaves a fair amount of attrition among the early characters.
Amy - Apr 23, 2009 8:23:56 am PDT #1472 of 6690
Because books.
I decided that I'm not going to off a character that was doomed before
Has Minear taught you nothing!?
Gudanov - Apr 23, 2009 8:26:47 am PDT #1473 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Hey now, of the ten early major characters only 4 make it past chapter 17 with that change. Though it really seems more like 3.