I am very pleased to announce that the kind and gentle Lady Donna of Dover has completed the 'who's who' reference page for this blog that she and Master Mick began some months ago. I'm amazed at the amount of scholarly work she's delivered, reading through and cross referencing every single novel and story on this site, and it goes without saying that I am very, very grateful indeed.
Not only is this a valuable resource for new readers (and possibly, easily confused regular readers...) but also for me, for I now have so many characters even I get confused and forgetful from time to time...
The Emma of Gor anthology now includes 438 entries as of the 27th December 2019! You can find it under the 'reference' label in the right hand side bar. I might also add that she was particularly eagle eyed and often e-mailed me to point out mistakes or contradictions whenever she found them. Free women it seems have eyes like hawks!
As all kajirae know only too well... ;)
One such contradiction for example related to Emma's mother, Ellen, whom I had previously referred to in earlier stories as 'Leanne'. You will notice she is now listed as 'Ellen Leanne Anderson'. That's me 'thinking outside the box'. ;)
Hopefully you will find this reference page very useful as my stories continue to unfold.
Tal Emma,
ReplyDeleteFAB news and nice to see the soon to be named Bella getting used to time consuming chores....
However Idris ...Rashid's brother.
I thought Idris was the little red dragon in 'Ivor the Engine'...toot toot
Dafydd o Abertawe
Tal Davina of Abertawe,
DeleteHopefully you have read books 0 and 1 and noticed that both the heroines were transformed from men to women.
I have news for you, my Free Companion Victor of Larkill and I are investing in a well established paga tavern in Cardonicus, and we have decided to import what might be called exotics. One exotic will be the former Dafydd of Abertawe, having undergone transformation to be the slave girl Marite, translation pansy boy. When not serving in the paga tavern Marite will be sent out as a chain girl.
The kind and Gentle Lady Donna of Dover
Tal 'Bella',
DeleteClearly I have touched a nerve...or should that be your slave belly!
XXX
Dafydd
Tal Emma and Donna,
ReplyDeleteWell done, Donna! Thank you both for the time and effort you have invested in this project. This really goes above and beyond.
Tal all,
ReplyDeleteI do not know about anyone else but I found the black text on a dark red background hard for my hawk like eyes to read. There is a lack f contrast. I will leave it to the rest of you to decide if this is ok, I can always refer to the original Word file.
The kind and Gentle Lady Donna
It wasn’t a deliberate choice on my part, Mistress, rather just the way blogger reacts to the copy and paste. Blogger can be very frustrating to use, particularly if I make changes to an existing post when it really doesn’t behave itself at all. I’ll see if I can change the text colour to the usual white (which is the default for my blog, but Blogger seems to have ignored that when I edited the post)
DeleteTal the Lady currently called 'Donna',
DeleteFor once we agree on something!
I have the same eyesight issues as Original Duck!
Dafydd o Abertawe
PLEASE , PLEASE, PLEASE, MAKE THE FONT EASIER TO READ !!!
ReplyDeleteWith my older eyesight I can hardly read this great compilation !
Original Duck
Will see what I can do tonight. The black text was a surprise to me too. I have so many problems with Blogger... :(
DeleteTal Emma,
DeleteI'm grateful for all the work you and Chloek put in to keep Gor alive and relevant for your web followers and readers.
This has to be the most detailed set of Gor stories and articles anywhere on the web and all in the last 2.5 years.
Quite remarkable really....how do you find the time?
XXX
Dafydd
Thank you, Master.
DeleteThe fact I'm so prolific (and bear in mind I only write in my spare time. Can you imagine how prolific I would be if this was a full time job?) is simply down to years of experience in running games (which trains your mind to think in story driven narrative terms) and, basically, writing all my life. There is no substitute for writing and writing and writing in your early days to get yourself to the point where it becomes 'easy' (and believe me, to begin with it wasn't. I'd agonise to produce just a few pages of turgid prose). The same principle probably applies if you want to be an artist, where there's really no substitute for drawing as much as you can. As time goes by it becomes easier.
I'm essentially a 'pulp writer' in the style of writers like Robert E Howard, by which I mean I can generate a lot of pages of snappy dialogue and brisk action in a reasonably short time. If I was writing full time, with pre-planned ideas, I could probably write 15,000 words at a push per day. Writing in my spare time I often manage 4,000 words in a day without breaking a sweat. And that's with a reasonably busy social life.
The great Michael Moorcock once wrote an article on how he used to write his swords and sorcery novels in three days when bills mounted up and he needed something in print. It's a template for writing that I adopted many years ago and, provided you're able to write quickly, it pretty much works.
You can view the article here:
http://www.ghostwoods.com/2010/05/how-to-write-a-book-in-three-days-1210/
I know it applies to me. I started using this art medium back in 2007 and I know I've improved a lot since then. I think the biggest test of productivity I've had is that insane time working on kiera of gor. I was not just producing the pictures but also designing and making most of the costumes, along with some experimental techniques that luckily worked. Crazy time but a lot of fun :)
DeleteIf anyone wonders (size wise) how Moorcock's 'write a 60,000 word novel in three days' corresponds to the size of my work. Chapter one of Ubara, for example, weighs in at 10,754 words, so six chapters of that size corresponds to a 60,000 word Moorcock swords and sorcery novel.
DeleteThree days for 60,000 words rather puts Nanowrimo into perspective, doesn't it?
DeleteI think I wrote The Slave World novel in almost a month. It was only more because I decided to post a chapter a day and there were more chapters than days in the month. I could have completed it within a month time scale.
DeleteWork shy slackers like George R R Martin take note... ;)
DeleteBlogger is a nightmare! I hate it! Grrr...
ReplyDeleteIf you've never used it before, I should explain it's really only designed for uploading a picture and writing a few sentences directly into the word pad function. Anything more complex than that and it tends to have a hissy fit. I have done probably 19 different uploads tonight, including making new posts, all with varying freakish results and have somehow stumbled on one upload that has reverted all the text to white which is what I wanted. I hardly dare touch it again for fear it'll go wrong once more... It is something to do with the table format of the entries, and when I converted the table format on the document Donna sent me to 'default formatting' it seemed to let me paste it in to Blogger and my default white text style remained in place. At least I think that's what did it... I'm afraid if I poke it with a stick anything might happen.
I'm afraid internet techie stuff really ISN'T my skill set...
Try the page again now and see what it looks like. :)
Tal Emma,
DeleteGo to the kichen and get that big box of baklava you've beeb eyeing....and a pan of ka la na.
Dont fret cutie, not worth it!
xxx
Dafydd
Tal Emma,
DeleteThe white text is much, much better. Thank you for all your efforts toward changing it. Hopefully, it stays this way.
Tal Emma and Chloe,
ReplyDeleteFor what it's worth, I just wanted to acknowledge Kiera of Gor and The Slave World as the works that really totally hooked me as a loyal follower.
Kiera was a very engaging tale and to my mind, the artwork really rose to a new level in this one. The costumes, layers of detail in the sets, and use of lighting and shadows were all very impressive. Marissa's rence seed sack tunic was a classic to be remembered and a true delight:)
Slave World was a perfect vehicle to extrapolate the Game of Worlds to a completely Terran setting. The expansion of the Kur to Earth, the expedient adaption of the alien technology and the implementation of a uniquely Terran variant of Gorean slavery and Kajirae, were all brilliantly achieved without violating the core principles
of Gor, or reinventing or reimagining the Counter Earth of the JN novels. Receiving a new chapter on a daily basis became truly intoxicating :)
Emma and Chloe, I salute you both, a hearty two thumbs up!
Thank you, Master. Praise like that makes all the hard work worthwhile. I've said it before, but there are two things that inspire me when it comes to writing this saga - one is the knowledge that I'm getting all these lovely pictures from Chloe, and the other is the feedback I get in the comments sections. It means a lot to me. :)
DeleteTal all,
ReplyDeleteA Happy New Year or perhaps in this context En'Kara to you all.
I am amazed not just at the sheer volume of Emma's output, but also at the twists she inputs into the stories, we have all I think commented on what we think will happen in the next instalment only to find that Emma goes off in a totally different direction. She also manages to write not just from Emma's viewpoint. First Among Girls is an good example.
Emma has also done a great deal of research to find appropriate names for Yishana's askaris. To me they appear to be West African in origin, and add to the authenticity of the story. I am not surprised that Yishana had not heard about Brinn.
Having said that let me posit some ideas that might happen in the future.
1) Lady Beatrice, betrayed by Simon, I think that there is little doubt that she is now a slave, but I suspect that Emma will prevail on Brinn to go to Schendi and find her sister. I suspect that she will end up being a slave girl on Brinn's Sardar Estate.
2) We were all disappointed that Simon acted so dishonourably with Lady Marissa, if I had been Samos, I would have had Simon followed, did the fact that she had been taken to a slaver's house get reported and did Samos act in time before she was enslaved?
3) What will happen when Brinn meets Yishana and realises that Simon is part of her crew. I doubt that Brinn will turn down the chance of rescuing his sister, but it might cast a shadow on his potential alliance with Yishana.
4) What of Sadric of Corcyrus? Emma's Gorean half-brother, no doubt he will return at some stage.
5) Will Chloe retain her status as First Girl when Emma is returned? This might be a bone of contention, especially seeing Chloe has plans to import Taharian sluts. Emma will have to have her belly pierced.
Anyway, a big thanks to both Emma and Chloe for all their hard work, it is much appreciated.
The Kind and Gentle Lady Donna of Dover
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DeleteTal Donna,
DeleteI am in total agreement with you on the first item. Regarding the resourceful Lady Marissa, I continue to hope for and fully expect her to make a dramatic comeback. Perhaps Sadric of Corcyrus will be involved? I rather expect him to turn up again in Silver Masks of Gor. Finally, I think we know the answer to the last question at this time.
The resourceful Lady Marissa is of course far too resourceful (ahem...) not to bounce back in some way from when we last saw her (chronologically) at the end of Shadows. When Silver Masks is written it will cover the period up to my participation in the Port Kar adventure and resolve the Lady Marissa's outcome. All I'll say is, devoted admirers of the ever-so confident Lady Marissa (who, she will be quick to remind you, is the Priest King's most valued asset) will hopefully not be disappointed. And you are both correct that the young, somewhat impetuous Sadric of Corcyrus will play a part. :)
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