Musing Aloud

If you're looking for a good read, please, visit Fantasy Magazine and read "Hi Bugan ya Hi Kinggawan" by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz.  What a beautiful story!  I usually don't care for 2nd person, but it worked in this story, and felt real, not like an affectation, which is how it usually comes across to me. Then stop by rcloenen_ruiz's blog and congratulate her! rcloenen_ruiz 


Then go check out jongibbs  blog HERE for "13 things I learned at the James N. Frey workshop."  Good pointers, there.  I especially liked #1, 7, 8, 10 and 11.  Number 12 surprised me.  Number 13 I should listen to, but OUCH! it hurts!  ;-D


I've started  kenscholes Lamentation.  I'm really enjoying it so far, about a third of the way in.  One thing I've enjoyed is the structure.  Each chapter is broken up into different sections of POV, and each section is only 2-3 pages long.  I'm really liking the short little bursts of character and action.  It's not feeling jagged or jumpy, and I'm enjoying all the POV's.  So far, there are: Neb, a 14 yr old (or so) boy who lost his father when the city of Windwir was destroyed.  Petronus, an ex-priest/monk (?) of the Androfrancine Order, who is, of course, more than the lowly fisherman he claims to be.  Neb knows his secret.  Rodulfo, the Gypsy King of the Ninefold Forest Houses, who sees conspiracy and aims to lay it low.  Lady Jin Li Tam, an obedient 42nd daughter, who is happy to leave spying on and serving as consort of the fat overseer, Sethbert, and become engaged to Rodulfo, who is more to her liking.  She finds herself as protector and companion to a mechoservitor of Windwir who called down the destruction of the great city of Windwir.  I guess it's my age, liking so much the short sections.  But I'm *really* liking it.  You can read the first chapter at Tor.com, HERE.


*any questions I had marked thus (?) are the result of my faulty memory, and laziness in going to get the book to look up the true facts.*