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What happened to Glimwarden?
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Author: u/Ninmesara *
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URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/6b6h4k/what_happened_to_glimwarden/
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Score: 39
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Created: 2017-05-14T21:46:33
Post:
There haven't been any new chapters in Glimwarden. Has the author abandoned it?
Comments:
u/alexanderwales [+44] Time flies like an arrow (an hour later)
It's on indefinite hiatus. I have the next two and a half chapters written, but I want to make sure that everything is in order before I start publishing again (since some of the problems I have with it now come out of just putting a chapter out because there was a deadline, rather than editing and refactoring until I was happy with it). Right now I'm thinking that I might just write up until the planned end of Book 1, then release that at a chapter a week. And then take another long hiatus so I can work on other things that caught my attention.
u/SvalbardCaretaker [+41] Mouse Army (an hour later)
In case that outrageous flattery helps your motivation, I really like Glimwarden and shall look forward to its continuation and any further works you do.
u/Mbnewman19 [+13] (6 hours later)
In case it does help, I will chime in and say I completely agree.
u/lonsheep [+16] (4 hours later)
I wanted to share some Glimwarden fanart on the next thread update for the story, but since it's on hiatus, I'll post it here.
Dinner at the Black Mare featuring that tasty horse noodle soup which I drew to look like horse pho.
Thanks for creating such an engaging world!!!
u/DaystarEld [+6] Pokémon Professor (a day later)
That's really good :) Do you work professionally?
u/lonsheep [+3] (2 days later)
I take commissions, but no, it's not my day job.
u/MoralRelativity [+5] (23 hours later)
Lovely.
u/alexanderwales [+2] Time flies like an arrow (2 days later)
This is great! It's always a little odd seeing someone else interpret my characters, since I have this clear mental image in my head, which has to meet up with that interpretation. And it gets reconciled in my brain a little bit, so the way of think of Sander is now closer to how you've portrayed him.
Good work, and sorry about the hiatus.
u/lonsheep [+3] (2 days later)
Thanks!
I use written descriptions as a springboard to designing a character's look. On a conscious level, I know that Sander has eyebrow-ish length blond hair, but when I pick up a pen to actually draw it, it turns out there's a lot of ways it can possibly look, while still being compliant with the story's description.
Here's a character concept sketch I drew as a warm up a while ago. Sander wears shirts and pants, Melanie wears a dress, Chloe wears Langust's armour, and because the story doesn't need to dwell on the details, the readers' imaginations can fill in the blanks between the concepts. I enjoyed creating a visual that tries to match the atmosphere and feel of the Glimwarden universe.
u/jimbarino [+21] (55 minutes later)
I think the author was getting a little burnt out, and also wanted to focus on some other projects for a while. He recently finished the Dark Wizard of Donkerk, which in my opinion is easily a publication-quality novel. http://www.alexanderwales.com/darkWizardNaNo2016.html
Hopefully he'll get back to Glimwarden some time, as it was starting to get interesting. We'll see, I guess.
u/elevul [+4] Cyoria Observer (2 hours later)
Uh, he never put that on Patreon, did he?
u/alexanderwales [+8] Time flies like an arrow (2 hours later)
It's technically just at first draft stage and will be put out for wide(r) release once I finish editing it.
u/elevul [+5] Cyoria Observer (2 hours later)
Nice, thanks. I prefer reading it on .epub, that's why I was checking your Patreon for it.
u/alexanderwales [+4] Time flies like an arrow (4 hours later)
As a stopgap until I finish with editing (which might take some time), you can get the first draft in epub format here: http://www.alexanderwales.com/darkwizarddraft1.epub
u/elevul [+2] Cyoria Observer (11 hours later)
Thanks!
u/blazinghand [+1] Chaos Undivided (a day later)
I took a look and read the first few chapters, it seems pretty great so far.
“The symbols themselves don’t matter,” said Omarr. He kept his voice conversational. It took Adrianna a moment to realize that she was talking to him.
Should this be, "realize he was talking to her"?
u/blazinghand [+1] Chaos Undivided (a day later)
“We were both orphans,” said Palin. “Long ago.” Ventor could very faintly hear the shuffling of papers. “The primary argument that Palin gave was that the Strangheid comes with oaths that not everyone is capable of carrying out.
Should be the "The primary argument that Delland gave"
u/blazinghand [+1] Chaos Undivided (a day later)
The bulk of Ibrahim’s mindscape was held in tunnels down beneath the sands, but Ibrahim knew little more than that. He had never been allowed inside.
Should be "but Rowan knew little more than that."
u/blazinghand [+1] Chaos Undivided (a day later)
The tavern had been the first once, with others following.
Should be "The tavern had been the first one,"
u/blazinghand [+1] Chaos Undivided (a day later)
“Please,” said Miriam. “It would be better for Henry if this could be resolved amicably. A full pardon —”dis
Seems like a typo
u/blazinghand [+1] Chaos Undivided (a day later)
He dispatched with three of Rowan’s seeds, held in the minds of a scullery maid, a messenger, and a cook, then decided to take a break in the real world.
He's dealing with Ibrahim's seeds so should be "three of Ibrahim's seeds"
Less sure sure of this one, but "dispatched with" might be more correct as "dispatched" (without the 'with').
u/blazinghand [+1] Chaos Undivided (a day later)
Rowan was constrained to his from;
Should be "Rowan was constrained to his form;"
u/blazinghand [+1] Chaos Undivided (a day later)
There were two many of them though, more than a dozen here,
Should be "too many of them"
u/blazinghand [+1] Chaos Undivided (a day later)
Rowan’s claws hi the armor and were shredded by it,
should be "Rowan's claws hit the armor"
u/blazinghand [+1] Chaos Undivided (a day later)
Hirrush sat down on the bed beside Hirrush, laid back, closed his eyes, and dipped into the mental realm.
Should be "Henry sat down on the bed beside Hirrush"
u/blazinghand [+1] Chaos Undivided (a day later)
I've finished reading the work and had a great time reading it /u/alexanderwales
I've included list of minor spelling etc errors I noticed
I hope things go well with your plans for this
u/jimbarino [+3] (5 hours later)
For what it's worth, I was really enjoying Glimwarden while you were writing it and would eagerly start reading again if you decided to continue it. Also, if you make the final edited version of the Dark Wizard of Donkerk available for sale, I will buy it.
u/Mbnewman19 [+2] (6 hours later)
Ditto and ditto.
u/makoConstruct [+3] Praises of Nayru, FLI Worldbuilding (5 hours later)
I had a thought when I read DWoD, I was late to the discussion so I don't think you saw it (If you did see it and it was just super wrong, feel free to tell me so, hehe), I'll ask once more:
Are spirits an analogy for intuitions? Is the process of turning them into magical items an analogy for sublimation? Essentially... A well adjusted person (Sophia) has control over the mind (world) because she respects the remnants of the old world (spirits) that it was built from. This would mirror the process of maturation a person undergoes as they understand the context and purpose of their instincts and learn to move with them instead of against them.
I think it'd be worth writing about these things. I questioned the efficacy of doing it analogically. I'd question the efficacy of communicating anything analogically. But it'd still be cool if true.
u/alexanderwales [+3] Time flies like an arrow (a day later)
That's not the analogy that I had in mind, but spirits were always designed to follow a more social model whose pathways were intuitive rather than explicit. /u/daystareld and I have an upcoming episode of Rationally Writing where we talk about Dark Wizard of Donkerk in-depth as the focus of the episode; it should be out within the week (edit: or month? I don't actually know the schedule).
I do think there's more to be said about intuitions than was said within the text - it's one of the things that I'll keep my eye on for future edits (or the inevitable sequel).
u/gommm [+2] (2 days later)
(or the inevitable sequel).
Looking forward to that :)
u/makoConstruct [+2] Praises of Nayru, FLI Worldbuilding (5 hours later)
We really need to find/build a publishing platform that lets readers just highlight errors and report them. Medium's highlighting and private comments by default are already very close to being perfect. Once we have that, errors would get pretty thoroughly scrubbed out with very little work on anyone's part.
u/alexanderwales [+4] Time flies like an arrow (a day later)
The Wordpress part of my website actually does have something like that feature courtesy of an addon I installed. You can go to a random chapter of Glimwarden, highlight, then hit Ctrl + Enter, and it will send me an e-mail with the highlighted part, which is usually enough that I can figure out what's wrong (and usually fix within a few hours of it being reported).
However, the kind of editing that I want to do on DWoD is more like ripping out characters who aren't doing anything, adding in chunks of exposition if needed, excising plot threads that go nowhere, etc. And since all that stuff needs to be done, and would doubtlessly introduce more grammatical/spelling/consistency errors, I kind of want to hold off on sending the whole thing through a copy-editing pass.
u/MoralRelativity [+12] (an hour later)
On 23 Oct 2016, Alexander Wales posted the following to Patreon:
I am putting a halt to Patreon, effective immediately. I lately haven't had enough energy/motivation/inspiration/discipline for writing, which is resulting in me not actually writing anything, or just writing at an impractically slow pace. This isn't really fair to anyone who's supported me on Patreon, and I'm sorry for that. This isn't the end for Glimwarden, but it's the end of me pretending that I'm going to be able to hit regular updates, because clearly that's not happening.
I want to return to the green fields of writing, where I can wander off and take a few days to write Air Bud fanfic, or map out a world where vampires and wizards are battling in the streets of New York City. In that sense, serial fiction really isn't suiting my creative needs, and a schedule is proving counterproductive. I feel bad about this, but feeling bad about it isn't actually helping me write more, so that's sort of useless for everyone.
The options for Patreon are either to delete it completely or to switch over to per-unit and then not putting out any units of anything. I'm electing to do the latter; anything produced until this indefinite "break" is over will not be paid posts, and I'll give plenty of notice if I decide that I'm changing anything in that regard.(I am still planning on participating in National Novel Writing Month in order to complete The Dark Wizard of Donkerk, but don't have particularly high hopes for completion given my current output rate.)
u/AmeteurOpinions [+3] Finally, everyone was working together. (22 minutes later)
Paging /u/alexanderwales
I don't know. It comes up pretty often in the Rationally Writing podcast, but it seems to have ended in a weird place at chapter 12.
u/None [+4] (40 minutes later)
I seem to recall the author saying on his Patreon page that he was talking a (possibly permanent) break from writing.
u/Bully_me-please [+1] (7 years later)
now im a little late to the party but has he confirmed it will never be continued by now or is there still hope he has been working on it