Recent content by Maximillian_dErembourg

Home, Homage, On The Range... First of all, there are seven plots, so there is no such thing as complete originality. Aristotle used Plato who used Socrates, and peeps have been arguing about all the sources "The Bard" W. Shakespeare used...or if you prefer to be cuter...paid homage to. A...

I just had my novel re-edited by the renown Jefferson Swycaffer...and it's looking great! Nightfall: Book One of the Nightsong Space Opera, is a novel about a seeded colony that models its government on the British system; the book itself can be classified as space opera/royalpunk/superhero...

Well...this is supposed to be a zone that's OK for spoilers...am I right??? It's just...seems many of you have not read to the end of Book Five yet...that's all I'll say, for now anyway. =} Max

Game of Not Making Spoilers I suppose I am at sixes and sevens as to how to make comments on a GoT thread without making possible spoilers... Maybe that's why no-one else has commented? Also, how do you change your icon w/o changing it universally? Max

We are few. We are new. We are focused on the aforementioned SF & F. We are already putting out the first novel to have gone through our "group". We are obviously in San Diego, CA, USA, and looking for folks who can meet therein. ...And I'd like to have more than just three of us =} However...

I thought this list might revive the original theme of this thread. I recently submitted a story to Clarkseworld sci-fi magazine. This was a list of things they DID NOT want, c/p from their Submission Guidelines. I think this is more than just another list of someone's opinions about what they...

My just finished space opera, Nightfall, is the first in a planned series. In the first book we have a former space pirate (he was born to it as the son of the pirate 'king' and his presumed heir). Along his travels he bought a slave girl, who turns out to be telepathic (a Scorpian Minddancer)...

Oh, I fought dual-weapon, as well. Florentine style was two swords, one long one short. I also used a long sword primary and a one-handed falchion secondary (a one-handed axe with a much longer blade than most axes). Also, of course, sword-and-board. And spear. And greatsword. Even arched at...

I fought SCA (medieval armored combat) for 15 years...back when I could =} I was qualified with using almost every weapon and fighting form they allow. Flail was specifically NOT allowed in "regular sanctioned SCA events"...BUT it was used, in private house-run tourneys or private challenges...

Whole fantasy series have gone by wherein most (non-Dwarf) characters use only swords (LOTR). The elves, humans, and Hobbits all use swords. However, the world of swords is so incredibly varied, The ancient version of the Scottish Claymore (huge two-handed great sword, more an unsharp steel...

My favorite way to flesh-out less than three dimensional characters is to have two of them come together and have a conversation. Since I start with strong personality traits, these traits will either come into sync or come into conflict, and the scene starts writing itself...and inevitably I...

Greetings, my name is Maximillian d'Erembourg. Though I've been writing sci-fi and fantasy as an avocation for 30 years, I just this week finished my first novel, a Space Opera, Nightfall, book one of the Nightsong Space Opera. My beta readers are going over it one final time now, and I will...

I have a answer that's as two-sided as my leaf-blade. It varies, undeniably. Hemingway & Hunter S. Thompson: wrote from life experiences, and had life experiences so they could write. On The Other Hand Stephen Crane made up the battle scenes in his book...