Highlander- Einarr's Saga

Finished Chapter 10; should have it edited and up in a day or two.

Hope you guys like your battles gory.

Chapter 10

I type this with a Johnny Walker Black in hand, pleased and proud to report that I finished Einarr's Saga about five minutes ago. The final edit should be done and up in a day or so, hopefully no later than Friday afternoon at the very latest.

Romantic bastard that I am, I was even leaking a tear or two as I banged out the last couple sentences.

Tonight, I'm going to band practice (I'm not in the band- it's my brother in law's band) and getting FUCKED UP. But I do it with a clean conscience, knowing I finished my manuscript. Yeehaw!! :burb:


EDIT: I'll eventually put up a sole PDF with the whole thing in one great bloody chunk, as well.

Ok, if Chapter 10 is meant to be the last, then I must say it cuts off VERY ABRUPTLY at the end. Which is quite disappointing, considering the rest of the story.

There's a good bit more. I just haven't posted it yet- I'm still working on the final edit.

Here's the finale: Chapter 11 plus the epilogue.

Good stuff, Maynard!

I'm doing the final edit of the 'big file' right now, and one of the things I'm fixing is all those date discrepancies from my fuzzy math. When it's done I'll put the whole thing up as one PDF, but it won't be substantially different than the individual chapters you've already seen. Just a bit of wordsmithing and catching more fixed typos, etc.

Awesome stuff as always. What's up next flyboy? I'd like to see sequels to both as well as new stuff.

Not sure what's next. I've got a couple ideas for sequels to both of these, but I'm not sure I want to dive back into another writing project right away. I think I started Buck back around Feb and I've been going like gangbusters on these two ever since. With all the home distractions right now, I need a bit of a break.

Never fear, though. I can't go too awful long before the bug starts biting at me again...

Ok, they say you don't REALLY like something until you start finding fault with it. With that in mind...

Ya did a fine job, Marso, with managing to avoid the reader having need of any previous knowledge of the Highlander universe...until the epilogue. And at that point, I was rather lost, because you not only invoked said requisite prior knowledge, but you leaned heavily on it.

I've seen the original flick, and a couple dozen-odd eps of the TV series, but I was pretty friggin' lost once you started listing off names and motivations from the TV series in the Epilogue. I mean, ultimately, it still made sense, but at that point I think you'd pretty much broken the fourth wall and smacked the reader (me!) across that face with my ignorance of the significance of your references.

Especially puzzling to me was the fact that you'd gone thru the entire store without needing to resort to that. Sure, you threw in some tongue-in-cheek references to Ramirez, as well as the occurrence "in New York in 1985" (another thing you really didn't explain away too well), but in general you build the story upon itself, working the rules of the Highlander universe into your tale without undo need for external references.

I was going for a bitchin' plot twist, but it assumes at least a passing familiarity with the TV series.

Bad on me, but I sort of figured anyone who would read a HL fanfic would be familiar. Oops.

Here's the final PDF.

I finally had the time to sit down and read this. Plot wise, well, you can only do so much withthe subject and characters, so I'm not looking for much here. FOr what you're working with, the story was completely satisfying and only took 3 sittings to tear through. Nice twist having his watcher be under his employ, but the climactic fight was kind of hasty and predictable. A little let down that a Viking's story had a happy ending. Maria could have either died or been awakened, with the proximity of Salazar's death effecting the latter.

Perhaps my great disappointment was that I was looking forward to nitpick through your flashbacks and found nothing to criticize. The best I could come up with would be an arguable ritual detail or two that'd be subjective to locale.

Glad you liked it.

Why can't vikings have happy endings?

Lay of Sigurd, Beowulf, Baldur's Draumr...Oh, and of course, Ragnarok.

Bridges of Toko Ri?

Actually, I really agonized over whether Maria was gonna live or die. But I'm a bit of a romantic at heart, and HL is dark enough as it is. Besides, it's not as though they're gonna live happily ever after. It doesn't work that way for mortals and immortals. And I thought if I ever write a sequel, she might be...useful.

Okay, couldn't resist. Found out that Elsa Pataky is Spanish and she's married to Thor, Chris Hemsworth.

So here's my caption:

Einar and Maria caught on camera!!




Although I sort of had Paz Vega in mind for Maria...

You need to make a higlander mod for jedi knight games.

Wasn't Einarr more of a tall blond?

Ha. I remember watching that movie- about the only good thing in it was the part in the beginning where Kirk Douglas actually ran the oars. A movie about medieval vikings and their doings didn't translate well to the PG movie mores of the era when this was filmed.

THIS is a movie that could use a remake!!

Hmmm- things I enjoyed in that flick (besides the story and Janet Leigh's tits pointing them back to England):
Great job on the village. The horn was about the only cartoony part.
Costuming was appropriate.
Character names were typical, but accurate. Nice touched in bringing some Aesir qualities the depictions (Einarr's Odinish eye, Freyja being a seer and defiant of the chieftain, Erik being a lost prince...not bad for 1958)
Apparently they made the ships too perfectly-it seems over 1000 years, people got taller.

more later.. gonna watch it tonight.