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October 16, 2009 at 2:35 pm #7417
OriginalAragorn
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I hope you have a great time painting Gavin! You’re right – it can be very therapeutic..

If you don’t mind sharing, what sort of novel are you writing? Have you already written other novels or stories before this?

George
October 16, 2009 at 7:28 pm #7418
Gildor
MMP Elder
wish I could find time to paint too… it’s been more than three months since I last painted don’t have time at all at the moment..
October 16, 2009 at 7:49 pm #7419
Barliman
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I’ve been a little pushed myself, but I have so much painting to do that if I don’t keep at it I shall be on a grey ship sailing west before I ever finish!
October 16, 2009 at 9:15 pm #7420
Thingol
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my wife and daughter have gone to sleep and on my work bench are now M25, MS439, MS497 and MS498… they I will be finish paint them till Monday…I hope that… :rolleyes:
October 16, 2009 at 9:21 pm #7421
Turambar
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Don´t haste too much (as our “lost” tree would say) my friend Thingol. Remember:
Only the good die young- ups this is a song by Billy Joel-
want to say: good things take their time . . . :rolleyes:
October 17, 2009 at 5:37 pm #7424
Thingol
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I do not hast my friend … I just do my paining with colors which is rapidly drying….
October 17, 2009 at 6:14 pm #7426
Theobald
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Huuooommmhuommm … I wasn’t lost, Master Rita.de … huomm not at all … rhuoomm .. just spent some time relaxing outside the Pony … rhuoommm … there are so many Mithril things to be done at the moment … rhuoommm … so I’m busy with all that … but all of that is improving … rhuommm … hommm … improving well, I should rather say … huoomm … but there are things or matters you really cannot haste … hoommrhuoomm … not at all … hoom
October 17, 2009 at 9:54 pm #7429
Turambar
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Nice to have you back, Master Theobald.
October 18, 2009 at 1:04 am #7431
Gavin
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OriginalAragorn wrote:

I hope you have a great time painting Gavin! You’re right – it can be very therapeutic..

If you don’t mind sharing, what sort of novel are you writing? Have you already written other novels or stories before this?

George

Well, I wrote this fellow:

http://shop.ironcrown.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=17_18&products_id=187&zenid=a36f7fbb0ee5f3f0ba38ea69f2224d9d

And hell, there’s also this fellow:
http://www.harphq.com/SneakPeek/4300_CyradonPreviewFiction.htm

Which amusingly, has absolutely sweet sod all to do with Cyradon, but who cares.

And a bunch of material for White Wolf involving vampires and things.

I figured writing fiction would be easier than writing game materials, which it may well be, save for one major difference: With game materials, you write 20,000 words, send it off, get it edited, get paid and then you forget about it. Nothing so direct this way. And life went in an entirely different direction after 2005, so the trick now is to get back to its “proper” direction.

And, amusingly…

I haven’t painted anything yet. I might right now, but we shall see

Gavin
October 18, 2009 at 6:11 am #7432
OriginalAragorn
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I read your sneek peek. Good stuff! I admire anyone who can actually write a good story. I’ve tried writing a couple short stories and they sucked abysmally so I never got past Page 2!! I think it’s a very difficult art to actually craft compelling fiction.

Thanks for sharing that!

George
October 18, 2009 at 7:08 am #7434
Barliman
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Writing fiction is great fun, even if you never bother to try to get it published. It energises the soul!

Writing factual stuff, on the other hand, is way less entertaining, and severely restricted by the need to conform with established facts. Oh, and it also brings all the critics-who-know-better-but-have-never-got-anything-published-themselves crawling out from under their stones (whence the old adage “those who can’t do, review”).

But like Master Gavin, I’ve become sidetracked from writing anything for quite a while – funnily enough, by painting LOTR figures, which now seems to take up 90% of my free time! So to keep the brainbox exercised, I edit books instead of writing them – which is a bit like washing someone else’s scrappy old Ford Escort instead of driving round in your own BMW.

What a depressing thought…now I think I need a drink. The sun must be over the yardarm somewhere in Middle-earth.
October 18, 2009 at 11:37 am #7436
hsf62
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Writing writing writing…..
I’m happy to be able to talk!:lol:
October 18, 2009 at 2:10 pm #7437
Gavin
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Painting actually helps me write. It sort of scrubs the brain of any excess stress and so on. It’s just that painting miniatures and writing need time and its getting harder to come by. There has just been too much going on.
October 18, 2009 at 2:45 pm #7438
protozeus
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Wow, I actually own Cyradon as a hardcover and like it – well met, Master Gavin.
October 19, 2009 at 3:33 am #7446
Gavin
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And there’s two “t”s in Bennett and all the damn Gryphons speak Persian damnit.

Everyone clear?!?!

*looks around, realises he’s ranting and quietly sits back down and mumbles about more ale.”
October 19, 2009 at 7:02 am #7448
Barliman
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Actually, it seems to me like you’ve reached your limit for the night. Why don’t you get along home now and sleep it off? – You’ll feel better in the morning. Otherwise I shall have to ask Nob to take you by the kneecaps and ask you to leave (if I can find a tall enough box he may be able to reach your elbows, but that’s the best we can hope for).
October 19, 2009 at 2:48 pm #7459
Theobald
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Huoommmm … a day’s work has been done, spreading more leaves on the ground outside … hanging up pictures in the gallery … rhuomm … time for a nice bowl of that watery liquid … hom … writing and reading, alas I do prefer reading …. huoommm …. though I always wonder what these booky-things are made of …
October 19, 2009 at 3:44 pm #7460
Barliman
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Er, no one you know (I hope), Master Tree. And can you stop dropping leaves all over the yard, Mrs B is getting a bit niggly about constantly having to sweep them up – we have about half-a-dozen of your kin in the garden, and they’re quite enough to cope with at this time of year as it is.
October 19, 2009 at 5:19 pm #7461
Theobald
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Huooommmrhuoommm … I just thought it would be better to leave the leaves outside your premises, Master Barliman … sorry … huoommm …
October 19, 2009 at 8:10 pm #7463
Barliman
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Ah, good thinking – Mrs B wouldn’t want them inside as well.
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