{"id":608,"date":"2019-02-02T08:48:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T13:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allen-wold.com\/?page_id=608"},"modified":"2024-02-10T07:52:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T12:52:24","slug":"how-a-thing-forgotten-was-written","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/allen-wold.com\/?page_id=608","title":{"rendered":"How A Thing Forgotten was Written"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t remember when I got the first idea for this story, only that I wanted a strong female character. Jeanette Delgado, the hero of The Black Ring<\/em>, was a strong hero, but I wanted something different.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There were several sources of inspiration. I was listening to Valentine Wolf at a science fiction convention, and something about their music said something about the story I wanted to write. I got a newspaper clipping, of a young woman who, with one shot, at a hundred yards, had killed her first deer \u2014 at age twelve \u2014 and the expression on her face said something about my character. I got a poster, called Apocalyptic Warrior, at an Animazement anime convention, but though I could find it on line, nowhere could I find an attribution of who had done it. My daughter was trying to decide between the orchestral and the sound track version of \u201cHanging Tree,\u201d from Hunger Games<\/i>, and it was the sound track which brought it all together. Now I could begin<\/p>\n

I had world maps I had made long ago, just for fun. I had made city maps, too, just because the layout of cities has always fascinated me. I had been developing a non-steam-punk culture, steam and telegraphy but no punk at all. I had created different races of the fae, which I spelled fey, some time back in my teen-age years. I have always had fun with vast fictitious histories. And bizarre technologies. And strange peoples. And abandoned mansions. It was all there, and ready for me to use.<\/p>\n

I had some difficulty getting started. I wrote a few pages of garbage, and some more, and then decided to do the plotting workshop that I conduct at science fiction conventions. I did, and it gave me the structure I needed for the story over-all. Then I worked up a kind of non-outline, several versions, including background chapters, character chapters, and other less direct action. I wrote a rough draft, then a first draft, then a second, and third, and other drafts, until the story was finished. Then, of course, four versions of \u201cfinal draft:\u201d read silently for text; read aloud for text; read aloud for story; read aloud for performance. Each reading found more and more that needed to be improved, corrected, tightened, or otherwise fixed. At last I was happy with it.<\/p>\n

I tried to do my own cover, because my regular artist was engaged in a real-world job. I did a very bad cover, several different times, and then looked at an older cover Darcy had done, and tried again, and had something I thought would work. Then Darcy took it over, and fit me in when she could. Her company would rather she work for them than for me. It took a while.<\/p>\n

It was finished and published, but it needed extensive corrections and revisions. Some very small, some paragraphs or pages. This is the revised and corrected edition. It is available on Amazon:<\/p>\n

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