Derek’s Comments (group member since Jun 06, 2012)

Derek’s comments from the Q&A with D.P. Prior group.

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I've written 12,000 words of Bane of the Liche Lord. It looks set to be about 40,000 words in length. I'm getting through this first draft fairly quickly now but will need a lot of time on the rewrites and edits.

Once this is finished I'll be re-editing the entire series and bringing it out as a single volume, The Nameless dwarf (The Complete Chronicles).

Nameless goes after the black axe, knowing such an action is against the statutes of Arx Gravis. The axe possesses him and he a lost commits genocide. When freed from the influence of the axe he is horrified by what he has done. Is he to blame?

Answers on a postcard to @NamelessDwarf or here.

What are your thoughts about Nameless' past as the Ravine Butcher? Are the atrocities he commits too bad for him to ever be redeemed? Is he culpable, given that the black axe possessed him?

Hello, Deb.

I have to be quite rigid about that. When I'm working on an editing commission I don't write (except for half an hour a week during my son's cello lesson). By the time I've finished the edit, I'm full of zest for writing and tend to write very quickly.

Once the first draft is finished, my own book becomes my new editing project, and when I've finished with it, it goes off to an external editor, and then back to me again.

When I'm editing other people's books, though, I still make notes regarding mine. I quite often end up with hundreds of scraps of paper and gradually refine them into something useable.

How's a bald git with a pint write so much? Find out here. Ask any questions re writing and editing.

For all things Shader, you've come to the right place.

This is basically a tavern in which to discuss all things dwarven, such as "Where's my shogging axe?", and "Pour me another."

This is the place to ask any questions about the origins of the universe in the Nameless Dwarf and Shader books. Anything you would like to know about the characters (such as "What's this Ravine Butcher business about?"), you've come to the right place.