SciFi & Fantasy Fiction and Stories by Joshua Price

Thanks for the technically stuff. I have to say, some of my typos are pretty embarrassing. Thrown instead of throne?!? *Sighs* It must have been midnight or something.

Anyway, I myself do not really know what Baine would have done had he not been startled by the eye in the shield. But, in the new version I have, there are still dark elves around the camp and he is sneaking in to see if Anariel is still there. So, he does still leave him, but there are others around a couple yards away.

I try really hard when I’m shifting viewpoints to make it make sense. I read over it after I’m done to see if I can follow it. I can understand how people can make that somewhat chaotic, but for my style of writing, I like to say what everyone is thinking. Yep, loose ends were tied up in this one. I knew I had to go back to Cali and co. really soon.

My new version actually has Vanima’s position a lot different. The dragons have just taken on a life of their own, and I have completely gotten rid of the spell controlling them. Maybe I’ll reupload sometime and you can see what I mean.

Joshua Price replies: "According to what I’ve been told, it’d be easier for you to get your work published if you don’t upload the new changes. Publishers are leery about things already posted on the internet, but less so about stuff that’s either incomplete or have been significantly changed. Of course, I’d like to see the changes, but don’t make things harder for you if you don’t need to."

I didn’t know about the internet thing with publishers, but I am not done with it yet. I could always upload it and at least show it to you, then delete it before I send it off anywhere.

But thanks for the tip. I had already planned to take it down anyway.

Oh, and I haven’t forgotten about the Tigerheart thing. Its just that midterms are coming around and so I’ve had to do a lot of study time. At least I’ve gotten out of tests in exchange for projects. Personally I prefer those. Physics was going to be a nightmare.

Anyway, I can probably get to it in about two weeks. Doomsweek ends Friday.

Hey, thanks for reading another chapter. I don’t mind about the long lapses in between. I need to read more of your stuff, too.

I think I’ll change the lung bit of that, since it is more likely that Dazzan wouldn’t actually know about the poison lung thing. Midieval medicine involved bleeding for everything, right? Virtually useless.

I’ve actually only read the first Shanarra book, the one with Shea, so I have no reference to go on except my own imagination. The Web Weavers were inspired from a picture I saw, though I made them more animal-like and evil than the picture of this woman creature thing. Maybe in another project I’ll explore them more. Their homes are really where the webs come in, like a spider, though it is more like hollowed out cocoons really high up in trees. Unlike the spiders, though, its is formed from their spit. Air makes its stringy and sticky...aka...gross.

I had fun writing about them though. They were really cool and creepy. Crazy dreams after I went to bed, heh.

Hey. I’m a fellow writer and would love to have your feedback. I’m defiantly gonna have to check you stuff out.

Joshua Price replies: "I recommend Tigerheart since that’s probably the most important thing in my gallery at the moment. For humor though, in no particular order, there’s "Super Nuisance and the C.E.P", "The Ridiculous Battle of Justice", "Attack of the Inane Monster", and "The Null and Void Tavern".

As for your works, if you can tolerate my slow pace at getting to them thanks to reality, sure I’ll give them a read. Of course, as a member of Comment Exchange, I owe you a return comment for leaving at least one somewhere on my page, since you’re a writer. So, why not make it a useful comment and give feedback?"

I’m currently reading V-I Day, and am enjoying it immensly . I especially like the way that the text is sub-divided into times and how different characters come through into the storyline... I read on in anticpation.

Joshua Price replies: "Glad you’re enjoying it. There’s a few parts in the story that I’m dissatisfied with that I would cut or replace entirely if I ever did any revising on it. But, based on feedback, I did pull off the experiment of jumping from perspective to perspective at least fairly well. When you’re done, feel free to let me know what you think of it."

Hey, wow it has been such a long time since wrote here. But, I’m out for the summer (as of yesterday) so I will have WAY more free time. Crazy psycho teacher having me do a project over an ENTIRE decade! What went on, social, entertainment, over sea dealings, blah, blah, blah, research, research, research for two months. *sighs* It is finally over, thank you, thank you. Getting an A when it decides your grade for the entire second semester is a beautiful thing.

Anyway, just saying hi...trying to reconnect. I was reading a few of your comments from a little while ago, and I noticed you didn’t know how to read Elghinyrrok. Well, its El-gin-EAR-ock. I know, it is spelled extremely weird, but you can sort of sound it out...I think.

As an update for the Order of the Dragon, I have...wait for it...six chapters left in the entire thing and I am done. *claps* I’m really excited to finish it, since before retyping that trilogy I never really finished any of my other projects.

This is an extremely long post--hence the double post--but I wanted to ask if you knew how to upload things with the new design. I haven’t figured it out yet, and I need to upload a few more parts of my story...and reupload chapters I already have up. It changed again, to the point where the elves aren’t even dark elves anymore. New type, because I was worried about Wizards of the Coast copyright issues. Also, I changed the whole giant spider thing with Tathar to a new, creepy monster. I freaked myself out since I wrote it at midnight...pitch black in my room...with a giant black dog that decided to terrify me by jumping on my bed. But, that is good, though, because if you can scare yourself, it has to be scary. I need to test it on my little brother.

Anyway, sorry about the information overload. Thanks for reading.

Joshua Price replies: "Congrats on almost being done as of 11 days ago. As for uploading, I haven’t tried it with the new design, but hopefully you’ve figured it out by now. Sorry for not responding sooner, I’ve been busy and then on vacation. But, now I’m back.

As for Order of the Dragon, do you want me to still read the last chapter or what with all the changes? Commentary on the old version might not be very useful at this point, but... never know. Just let me know now that I’m free again."

That’s okay. And yes, as of today, I did figure out how to upload things. I actually feel sort of dumb that I didn’t see it before. I must have been tired or something.

Anyway, I submitted my drastically changed chapters to Elfwood, so until the mods check them over you can wait. Thanks for reading them and giving advice. Its been really helpful. I have a new character which is pretty much the reason the book has changed so much. I forgot to mention it when I was listing changes. I’m curious about how people will react to her since I personally don’t like her. Oh well, you can’t like all of your characters, but, I guess that’s more realistic. She has some good points...maybe...sort of...okay, not really, ha ha.

Take as much time as you want rereading or you can just read the new last chapter and comment on it. In my defense, though, I haven’t updated for a while. Remember when I would update every week?

Thanks again.

Joshua Price replies: "My attention and focus has been so scattered lately. I remember reading this comment and intending to reply to it. I guess I got distracted by something and forgot, only to remember now that I got an email your material got published. I’ll probably reread the entire thing so I don’t miss anything important that may affect the chapter I didn’t read. Glad to hear you’re getting close to being finished. I wish I could get myself to write more, I’m still working on Chapter 6 of Tigerheart. I’m so slow at this..."

Just get to it whenever you can. I’m in no hurry. Just wanted to let you know, though, that chapter G got messed up, so it is still the old version. Apparently the word "hobbit" is copyright to Tolkein (I had no idea) so I had to change it to halfling. Everything else is updated and new, though, and chapter G is a long way off, so it should be okay.

Its too bad. Chapter G is becoming my favorite chapter. Other than when Vanima is introduced, that is.

Thanks for reading.