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Oct. 12th, 2003 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupI stayed up late playing Slash'em (my favorite Nethack varient), so I only got out of bed at 2:00 pm today.
My morning e-mail contained a letter from HB, with whom I collaborating on a book. The plan we had come up with was that when we wrote a first draft of any chapter, we would not attempt to get it right, but just to get it down. As a result, I sent him a truely awful draft of the intro for said book, and I got his editing of it this morning. Bleck. I essentially handed him a turd, and he polished it. The results are as esthetically pleasing as they sound. I'm going to have to have a talk with him sometime today and explain that my first-draft prose needs more of a rewrite than a polishing if the results are going to be acceptible. I sure hope its just a case that he was unwilling to make major changes in fear of bruising my ego, and not that he doesn't see what's wrong with the prose...
My morning e-mail contained a letter from HB, with whom I collaborating on a book. The plan we had come up with was that when we wrote a first draft of any chapter, we would not attempt to get it right, but just to get it down. As a result, I sent him a truely awful draft of the intro for said book, and I got his editing of it this morning. Bleck. I essentially handed him a turd, and he polished it. The results are as esthetically pleasing as they sound. I'm going to have to have a talk with him sometime today and explain that my first-draft prose needs more of a rewrite than a polishing if the results are going to be acceptible. I sure hope its just a case that he was unwilling to make major changes in fear of bruising my ego, and not that he doesn't see what's wrong with the prose...
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Date: 2003-10-13 07:45 am (UTC)Now he stays on one level and its easy to get to him, but he doesn't have the REAL amulet anymore, just a fake plastic copy. You have to find a magic square on the lowermost level and use a bell, book and candelaubra (each of which has a guardian) to open a gate to a realm where the real amulet is. If you get the amulet then when you go up the stairs from level 1, you find yourself on the elemental planes. You have to fight your way through Air, Earth, Fire and Water to the Ethereal plane where you can sacrifice the amulet to your god in his main temple. THATS how you win now.