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3 of my favorite lines from my WIP
Herewith, three of my favorite lines from my work in progress, in no particular order, and including only enough context for the lines themselves to make sense. 1. “It’ll be all right.” The knife-wielding shadows in his eyes said he knew it was a lie, but neither of us admitted it. 2. I waved expansively…
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Changes, they are a-coming, plus an excerpt
Updates I’m 27,000 words into my WIP, so that means I’m keeping up with the lesser end of my word count goal (7,000 words a week minimum, with 10,000 being better). I also signed up for some critique partners through Miss Snark’s First Victim a couple of weeks ago, and I think I found some…
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Hey, remember what this site used to be about?
Probably not, unless you happen to have memorized my home page. Which will at some point become an about page, as I’m thinking I might as well make the blog the home page. But ahem. This site used to be about how I’m an aspiring author of speculative fiction. I was going to build my…
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Disenchantment–exerpt
This bit’s from Chapter 3. I suppose I should mention that I’m not going to post the whole novel as I do have hopes of shopping it around for agenting/publication at some point. Plus (as is to be expected, given the nature of NaNoWriMo, there’s a lot of suckage that I don’t want others to…
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Disenchantment–excerpt
The first scene of this year’s NaNo. The one I’m writing after my change on Day 3, I mean. Not horrible, but I’m sure I can edit it into something better. But editing is sacrilege for NaNoWriMo, so that’ll have to wait. Anyway. ____________________________________________________________ 1. The charm lay heavy in Gavin’s pocket, a ball of…