Editing is taking much longer than I envisaged. Much, much longer. The story is alot better for it; it reads better, and is pacier. Some of the info dump pages have been slashed as not relevant to the tale. I also discovered that I am addicted to the word that for some strange reason. The swarm of "thats" has been eradicated.
I guess I am still a few weeks from this being completed, before twisting some more arms for comments on the beta copy.
I guess I am still a few weeks from this being completed, before twisting some more arms for comments on the beta copy.
While we all wait for me to get my rear end in gear, another doodle. This was one of my originals when first thinking about the book and who would be the wicce's minions / bad guys. My goblin foes were inspired from, among others, the following passage:-
"According to Sprits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia of the Little People by Carol Rose, the Red Cap, also called the bloody cap, is an evil goblin or sprite from the folklore of the borderlands between England and Scotland.
In appearance, it looks like an extremely diminutive old man, with hair that is long and unkempt, red eyes, hideous talons on skinny fingers, and protruding teeth. His boots are made of iron, and he wears a cap that is red and blood-soaked.
According to Wikipedia, the red cap, also called a powrie or dunter, has to continually kill in order to dye his cap in blood, as the color will fade. His iron shoes make him very fast, making them quite impossible to outrun."
I made them the elite bodyguard of the wicce, relocated them from the Borders, and slowed them down a bit. The hero isn't the fastest thing on the planet, and I wanted him to have some chance of escaping.
