Some Twenty Words of Intellect

The writing projects of Daniel E Todd

Sunday, November 28, 2010

... on hold, on pause, on ice

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I hope all of you that had been following/reading this blog have been keeping your eye on my other blog, Just Five Words of Wisdom. Otherwi...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

... the first Chronicle

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Some of you may remember this post from around this time last year. (Shocking that it's been that long...) In it I talked about the f...
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

... a lighter look

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It took a few days to grow on me, but I think I like the current design alot better than the last. The last was just too... dark and busy? ...
Sunday, September 5, 2010

... 22 weeks later, complete

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Twenty four chapters, twenty two weeks. That's a rap (wrap?) on the online edition of COT-R. It's great to have it all online fina...
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Monday, June 14, 2010

... first major edits in a while

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A big goof was pointed out in Chapter 11. It seems a rather important plot element was just... forgotten. Rather important, not very impor...
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Saturday, May 29, 2010

... formaty formatter

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I don't think either of those are real words. So! I've content-locked Book 1. No more edits. People can still send 'em but a...
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

... ghosting Sheam

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I recently did some work on Chapter 2 which might fall into the "minor surgery" category. It all started when I was sent some fee...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

... revised disembodiment

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The ends now, and this should be no surprise, return to chapter 1, for a small cleanup and tweak to Nightfall's opening section, thanks ...
Monday, April 26, 2010

... Lytha's complete story

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In the Q.A. "About" page for the rewrite, I say this... I am also taking an approach to the rewrite that does not demand a sequel....
Saturday, April 24, 2010

... just some lose ends?

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Work continues on COT Draft 5 as the first three chapters sit in public and feedback slowly trickles in. Last night I was sent a list of gr...
Monday, April 19, 2010

... week two, feels like ages

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It's only been a little over a week since COT-R began to go live, but last week seemed to go on forever. I lost count of the number of ...
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Sunday, April 18, 2010

... a new site to be seen

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http://cosas.ttlg.com/cot.asp Lookit ^ Here's the old one ... http://cosas.ttlg.com/cot-old.asp See what I did, there? Also, in the new...
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Friday, April 16, 2010

.. an ongoing 5th draft

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After another load of feedback the tweaks to chapter 1 continue. Though I got far more criticism than I can do anything about (some of whic...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

... work continues

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I've already posted one update of the two released chapters with a number of grammatical and content fixes. Some of these fixes include...
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Sunday, April 11, 2010

... I've Done It

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Go here: http://cosas.ttlg.com/cot.asp I don't think I need to explain much more. I hope everyone enjoys the first two chapters. :)
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Friday, April 9, 2010

... fifth draft ahead

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The doc's in hand. Full speed ahead. Edit 1: The minor edits (mostly minor consistency edits which involved either changing one word or ...
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

... anticipation

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I think it won't be long now. The next draft should get here any day. After that, with just a little more work, the novel will be read...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

... engineers and linguists?

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To make a long story short, there's a chapter in the novel where a group of Hammerites engineers do something a bit inventive in order t...
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... he paid so you won't

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I have some splendid news. A kind person has decided to donate a premium createspace account to me, which means that the printed COT books ...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

... proof positive

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What if I had the fourth draft in my hands by the end of the month? Wouldn't that be something! It's possible, from what I learned...
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-------------------- -------------------- Holds a Master's Degree in Architecture from Univ of South Florida -- Level Designer at Arkane Studios, a ZeniMax Media game developer -- Author of several books, including Correspondence of Thieves, The Great Big Enormous Neverending Wall, and Seven Weeks in Japan -- Co-founder and designer of TTLG.com and all affiliated sites and forums
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