The writer 'alone' has the vision
Writers
Good advice to writers is hard to find. Advice for publishing is harder yet. I can not help on publishing. I have in electronic print a number of short stories and four novels, but don't understand how I did it. It seems to have been equal parts of luck and persistence. I am still a little surprised by it all.
But I can help with your story....
From the Keep you know a little of my experience. From the prose you know a little of my writing. Both together form a pattern. A broker of information and a translator of many words are services that I can do. The dynamics of a complex pattern is the flow that I like to tap. The uncertainty between chaos and order is the place where I exist.
The web has changed from when I first started writing. Many of the old sites have closed down. The typical reason seems to be the huge amounts of time required for individuals to maintain a truly active informational forum.
Most of the writing forums have morphed into either issue sites or publisher sites.
The Silver Quill forum is currently closed to posting but you can read many good discussions on writing.
Pulp Writing is open for limited questions.
Predators & Editors is one of the best issue sites.
And Taconite Runes is an example of the small publisher.
I have written guides to critiques and editing, storytelling, and writing a professional synopsis. I hope this helps you get started.
Writing Guides
For technical and translating help my email is gordonsirvio@hotmail.com
The road goes ever on and on
Out from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
Let others follow it who can!
Let them a journey new began,
But I at last with weary feet
Will turn towards the lighted inn,
My evening-rest and sleep to meet.
JRR Tolkien
At the council of the Keep, tales of journeys across time and space are told.
From the man of quiet waters, stories of souls twisted and bent by the fires of nature and the cauldrons of Hiisi Mountain are uttered.
Advice can be had with the payment of time.
Tales taken home with the disbursement of coin.
Stirrings of fate, the murmurs of the learned, and the babblings of the fool are all heard in the council hall.
The Keep has many rooms. To find the hall you seek, you must follow the wisdom of the old and the cunning of the cat. Both, the feline and the aged, can be found in the sought for room. Advice they are not there to find. The comfort of the room, not the stories told, are what draw them both. What better reason to find the center of the Keep?
Many rooms are listed but only one is the storyteller's hall.
Back to the Keep's front door