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What book is everyone writing right now?

Ian Osborne said:
Your not wrong their.
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Good example above.

I have the challenge of writing the books with British 1830's grammar and spelling but I do prefaces/proems, notes and appendixes in modern American English and sometimes I forget which version of English I'm using ......

Horne and I are invited to the 6th Regiment of Foot for dinner by this man, Lieutenant L_____ and we accepted for that evening. They were a grand group. Being that I spoke ‘Infantry’ and was wearing my light infantry uniform I was immediately accepted. My father had said that when first meeting any officer all you needed to do to bring him to the side of friendship was to but ask him about that which meant most to him. Therefore he will be charitable in his opinion about you. For an infantryman ask about his weapon of choice and his men; for an artilleryman you must ask about his men and his guns; for a cavalry officer you must ask about his horse and the size of his manhood; for an engineer you must query him about his explosives and what he might have exploded, dug or built recently; for a navy man his ship and his mistress, and a marine about his sword and his mandrake
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arthwollipot said:
I've been struggling with almost a year's worth of writer's block.
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I have been struggling with Writer's laziness.

I have the protagonist's plot-line done and have written close to 20 pages, but I also realise that because I am writing in Third Person Limited that to show the world as vibrant and living, and having the people the protagonist meets actually be fully dimensional, real people, who live and interact in and with that wold, then they have to be able to convey that to the Protagonist, who in turn will have to portray it to the reader.

This means I have to develop all the characters that my protagonist will meet, and assign them all plot lines of their own that weave through the world, not just intersecting with the main Protagonist's own plot-line, but also casting ripples through the world that then impact both main Protagonist and other character's plot-lines as well.

I am having to create a character web where everyone is living their own lives and doing their own things, but in doing so they have to have an effect on the world and everyone around them, and then show those effects through the protagonist's eyes.

So yeah... I'd rather just be writing or sandpapering an acre of plaster so that it was flat to within 1 micron, so I am getting there very very slowly, but I am fully aware that it's not writer's block at play, but writer's laziness in not wanting to do something that is really hard, but in the end hopefully fully worth it.
 
RoseMontague said:
Not at present. I was wide for some time but found my earnings from Kindle Unlimited outpaced what little I got from a wider distribution.
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If someone gets your book through Kindle Unlimited, are you compensated based on the price of the book? How long they keep it? Or what?
 
Mycroft said:
If someone gets your book through Kindle Unlimited, are you compensated based on the price of the book? How long they keep it? Or what?
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Amazon spies on you and registers whether you actually read the book. If you do then the author is compensated from some pool of money. Rose can explain that part better.
 
RoseMontague said:
Not at present. I was wide for some time but found my earnings from Kindle Unlimited outpaced what little I got from a wider distribution.
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Awwww. Oh well; guess I'll purchase a physical copy instead. Although it's going to have to wait; my extra money right now is focused on paying down my credit card debt. I haven't spent much money frivolously at all lately.
 
Finished the prologue, chapter one, and am most of the way through chapter two. Not sure at this point how many chapters this will be; right now I'm ending chapters at what seem to me to be logical junctures, but I may change my mind later depending on how many chapters this takes.
 
Need some help with something...

What sort of official title would you give someone who is literally born to keep the balance between good and evil in a mystical sense if such becomes necessary? I've been trying to come up with a name for something like this and nothing immediately comes to mind beyond various synonyms for the word "balance" itself, and none of them sound... mystical enough, I guess is the best word.
 
Sabrina said:
What sort of official title would you give someone who is literally born to keep the balance between good and evil in a mystical sense if such becomes necessary? I've been trying to come up with a name for something like this and nothing immediately comes to mind beyond various synonyms for the word "balance" itself, and none of them sound... mystical enough, I guess is the best word.
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How about, 'The Dichotomy'? For that's what is being maintained. Failing that, how about 'Fred'?
 
Sabrina said:
Need some help with something...

What sort of official title would you give someone who is literally born to keep the balance between good and evil in a mystical sense if such becomes necessary? I've been trying to come up with a name for something like this and nothing immediately comes to mind beyond various synonyms for the word "balance" itself, and none of them sound... mystical enough, I guess is the best word.
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May I suggest 'Amortisseur'

In French it means damper, the being someone who makes sure neither rises above the other and if it does he has the ability to 'dampen it'.
 
Hans said:
May I suggest 'Amortisseur'

In French it means damper, the being someone who makes sure neither rises above the other and if it does he has the ability to 'dampen it'.
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OMG that's excellent... the only thing that concerns me is that this type of being was supposed to have been around well before the French language was really the French language. Still, I could argue around that by saying the title wasn't really bestowed until after Latin was a dead language... either that or try to translate that from French to Latin, see what it becomes...
 
Sabrina said:
OMG that's excellent... the only thing that concerns me is that this type of being was supposed to have been around well before the French language was really the French language. Still, I could argue around that by saying the title wasn't really bestowed until after Latin was a dead language... either that or try to translate that from French to Latin, see what it becomes...
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I did that damper in English is - rather boringly damper in Latin so a borrowed word

Greek is aposvestíras in ancient Greek aposvestíras also, no Sumerian word for damper thou.

'He was a being who had no title or name nor even a self name but French philosophers and Dutch theologians had thought about what such a being would be like and given him that name in their correspondence of the 17th century'. It is by that I shall label it.
 
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Yeah, I tried that too, so I might still use that by itself. I wish I could find a sort of Slavic word for it too, just in case. Not Russian, specifically, but something from Slavic origin would work well in the context of the story.
 
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