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caddymanMuch to my surprise, my three NWO books, Thebes and Romes 1 and 2 arrived today. I only got the email confirming despatch yesterday and wasn't expecting them for some time. The intelligence that they would be printed in and despatched from somewhere in England had eluded me.
I have had some fun revisiting old friends from within these pages, though I notice that a couple of my writings have been acredited elsewhere. Still, in the second edition (ha!) maybe...
Actually, it's hardly a biggie. What is impressive at this remove of years, is how complicated it all got as the sequence progressed. I remember thinking when we wrote Thebes, that it was a lot for us to keep track of. Of course that's before Transylvania: that was complex. But then we wrote Rome. A million words for that one game alone; so much that we had to put it into two volumes. That was complicated. It was also the best of the run.
And finally the Grand - not yet printed up, but also in excess of a million words. I am informed by them what knows that in time, when it is printed, it may take three volumes, albeit individually slimmer tomes. That was a hard one to write and we were tired by then.
But it was worth it.
Addendum: Yesterday at work I found hidden away on my computer the post Rome de-brief for Cardinal Remigius. I came very close to a giggle loopp re-reading that. Particularly the descriptions of the antics of one Luciano: Assassin of Narbonne and the creeping thought in Remigius's mind that everyone in Il Duomo other than himself might just be mentally defective. They weren't. They just weren't playing precisely to the plan Remigius thought they were.
Mind you, Luciano was potty. He wasn't meant to be, but he was. I am being charitable five years on.
I have had some fun revisiting old friends from within these pages, though I notice that a couple of my writings have been acredited elsewhere. Still, in the second edition (ha!) maybe...
Actually, it's hardly a biggie. What is impressive at this remove of years, is how complicated it all got as the sequence progressed. I remember thinking when we wrote Thebes, that it was a lot for us to keep track of. Of course that's before Transylvania: that was complex. But then we wrote Rome. A million words for that one game alone; so much that we had to put it into two volumes. That was complicated. It was also the best of the run.
And finally the Grand - not yet printed up, but also in excess of a million words. I am informed by them what knows that in time, when it is printed, it may take three volumes, albeit individually slimmer tomes. That was a hard one to write and we were tired by then.
But it was worth it.
Addendum: Yesterday at work I found hidden away on my computer the post Rome de-brief for Cardinal Remigius. I came very close to a giggle loopp re-reading that. Particularly the descriptions of the antics of one Luciano: Assassin of Narbonne and the creeping thought in Remigius's mind that everyone in Il Duomo other than himself might just be mentally defective. They weren't. They just weren't playing precisely to the plan Remigius thought they were.
Mind you, Luciano was potty. He wasn't meant to be, but he was. I am being charitable five years on.
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Date: 2009-09-30 09:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-30 09:29 pm (UTC)I have the Grand files. I have a spare weekend that has little planned in it except sleep.
We shall see what transpires.
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Date: 2009-09-30 09:34 pm (UTC)I mention it to people at random but the Grand was the most challenging bit of game-writing I have ever done, and when I look at the stuff I wrote chronologically I think you can actually see me improving from brief to brief.
Wish I could do it again. Sadly,