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Sigh. I expect whatever other story you come up with will get my fond attention! Your annex, by the way, does appear in Jasper Fforde's "Well of Lost Plots".
Reminds me of our family joke about the "Disappearing Characters Universe" -- to which minor characters vanish when the author seems to have forgotten they were there.
The ten-year-old was actually in an earlier story, Mirror Dance. Lilly Durona-Bharaputra was mentally 10 but physically 20 when Miles sent her on a courier mission to save her life.
@ Will: No, the 10-year-old in Miles's anecdote was a different one than Lily Durona. No, alas, I can't tell you anything more.
Ta, L..
So, how do the throwaway characters manage with the elephant in the room? (you know, the real one ).
Your throwaway lines are part of what makes your writing such a rich experience for me. I can think about them endlessly, and come up with a different explanation each time.
Oh, the conversations of such vastly different characters from all the different kinds of fictions out there. Detectives, pirates, fairy tale princesses, cyborgs, talking animals, nosy neighbours, friendly shopkeepers, rude passer-bys etc. etc.
Ah, The Well of Lost Plots...
My "what happened?!" throw away line is when Miles mentions breaking his hands to free himself.
Jenn, with Miles' particular biology, almost feels that would be standard procedure. :-/
I love it, a Discworld reference!
At least, I think it's a DIscworld reference. Isn't it a DIscworld reference? Discworld (and some of its characters) are a lot like the Vorkosigan world: a long series with many difference POVs and multi-book story archs. No?
Oh, I thought the assassination might have been Taura. Simon didn't send Miles to assassinate her, but her scientist creator did.
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Sigh. I expect whatever other story you come up with will get my fond attention! Your annex, by the way, does appear in Jasper Fforde's "Well of Lost Plots".
Reminds me of our family joke about the "Disappearing Characters Universe" -- to which minor characters vanish when the author seems to have forgotten they were there.
The ten-year-old was actually in an earlier story, Mirror Dance. Lilly Durona-Bharaputra was mentally 10 but physically 20 when Miles sent her on a courier mission to save her life.
@ Will: No, the 10-year-old in Miles's anecdote was a different one than Lily Durona. No, alas, I can't tell you anything more.Ta, L..
So, how do the throwaway characters manage with the elephant in the room? (you know, the real one ).
Your throwaway lines are part of what makes your writing such a rich experience for me. I can think about them endlessly, and come up with a different explanation each time.
Oh, the conversations of such vastly different characters from all the different kinds of fictions out there. Detectives, pirates, fairy tale princesses, cyborgs, talking animals, nosy neighbours, friendly shopkeepers, rude passer-bys etc. etc.
Ah, The Well of Lost Plots...
My "what happened?!" throw away line is when Miles mentions breaking his hands to free himself.
Jenn, with Miles' particular biology, almost feels that would be standard procedure. :-/
I love it, a Discworld reference! At least, I think it's a DIscworld reference. Isn't it a DIscworld reference? Discworld (and some of its characters) are a lot like the Vorkosigan world: a long series with many difference POVs and multi-book story archs. No?
Oh, I thought the assassination might have been Taura. Simon didn't send Miles to assassinate her, but her scientist creator did.
And maybe some day, some how, one of them will be called to step in to the spot light.