Recent content by skip.knox

Well, faulty memory. I pulled the map and it's 1360. Not a whole lot going on, except a pause in the 100 Years War. Europe was just starting to claw its way back from the Black Death of 1347-1352, but there's another round coming in 1362. The map is a Denoyer-Geppert. That company made tons of...

I've read Stonelands. The research was definitely worth the time and money! ... I'm trying to make a joke that would involve wings but I'm too dang tired.

All problems are absurd right up until you solve them. Some people do start with the map. I wish them well; they go by paths I cannot follow.

First, keep in mind that what is familiar to one reader may not be to another. There is no way for you to know what are the expectations of your readers, nor what is their current understanding of ... well, of just about anything. Which leads to Second. Second, sell it to yourself. You can't...

You did say website. I don't think there's anything for e-books, but for html I entered this as a search string: a widget or embed that supports zoom and click and drag and got at least a number of hits. It would be up to you to see if any are usable by you.

>Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. Too facile for my taste. Seems to me all stories require imagination, both to create them and to read them. Moreover, and worse, is the second clause, because it's dismissive of others without being very explicit about who those others...

One reason (of many) I don't develop as much as I might as a writer is exactly because each new story is a new working experience. I do learn lessons from the past, it's just that many of them aren't applicable to the next book. My very first story, a short story, began with an image and not...

First, thanks for the replies, I do appreciate folks taking the time to share. I have loads of maps--historical maps. Thirty years of teaching medieval history. I still have a wall map, the kind we used to hang at the front of class, of Europe in 1384. Just kept around for sentiment not for...

>Just as I would when writing historical fiction I do write historical fantasy fiction. I do have maps, but they are very high level. When it came, for example, to my WIP, I placed the action in Sirmione, but I knew I had to make some topographic changes. Plus, there sadly has never been a...

I don't have anything that addresses stress directly, but the term itself feels awfully broad, or at least that there are several faces to it. One is worry--the sort of deep-seated worry that comes with feeling powerless to affect the course of negative events. Another is frustration--that...

The current thread about mapping has made me wonder about this: I am a chaotic writer. I'd like to claim I'm chaotic good but I suspect I'm somewhere around chaotic okay. Be that as it may, kinder people call it "discovery writing" and this is aimed at that end of the rainbow. If you're a...

Here's an idea. Grab the image pmmg posted above. I'll assume you know how to do that, but if you don't, just ask. Once you have it saved locally, then try to upload it. Since we know the file size, dimensions, and extension are all correct, and that the file itself is not corrupted, if it...

I was able to upload to the Fantasy Art portion. I chose Upload Media, not Embed. I did try to upload one file that I thought should go but the process failed with an error. But I neglected to note the parameters of that file, which was dumb of me. But I can at least verify the process works...

Experimental upload

Where are you trying to upload? To a forum thread (which one)? To the portfolio? Elsewhere? Also, how big is the file? I am pretty sure there are some limitations there.