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The first sentence I wrote yesterday…
The flash came first.Words yesterday: 2,680Total to date: 104,998Percentage complete (100,000/120,000): 105.0/87.5The end is so near I can taste it, but I'm not there yet, and with other things that must be done today, I think it will be tomorrow before I finish.Oh, and I've gone over the 500 mark in manuscript pages.The first sentence I wrote today…
The results? Death, destruction, misery on a grand scale.Words today: 2,964Total words: 102,318Percentage complete (100,000/120,000): 102.3/85.3.I think I've solved my problem of yesterday and, indeed, reached the climax--or at least the start of the climax (and an explosive one it is, too--literally) today. I have also, as you'll note, achieved my contractually specified word count of 100,000. I sense everything should wrap up within another 7,000 or 8,000 words, so 110,000 is looking likely for the word count when I finally type THE END.Almost there...The first sentence I wrote today…
Andy King looked around at the rest of his team: Justin, looking pale and in pain, but composed; Derryl, implacable as always; Annie, mouth drawn into a tight, determined line.Words today: 2,543Total words: 99,353Percentage complete (100,000/120,000): 99.4/82.8Didn't get my 5,000 today, mainly because I seem to, um, be having some problem reaching my climax (so to speak) and I needed to rethink things a bit.I think...I hope...I've got it figured out. I still think I can push through to the end this weekend. Stay tuned!The first sentence I wrote today
(Well, technically, yesterday, since it's after midnight, but it feels like today):Karl Rasmussen had had just about enough of the fog.Words today: 2,759Total words: 96,812Percentage complete (100,000/120,000): 96.8/80.7.Not a bad count, but not enough. I had to write an entertainment story for the Leader Post and tomorrow's CBC Web column today, then run several errands. Tomorrow I hope to manage something more like 5,000 words.We'll see.The first sentence I wrote today…
...is back!I'm plugging away hard at Terra Insegura now. I can see the end, off in the middle distance, and hope to reach it this week, do a complete rewrite next (!), and submit it by the beginning of March.Well, that's my hope. Right now it looks like it'll probably come out at around 110,000 words. Maybe.So, today's first sentence:"I think that's enough for now," Hansen said.Words since last update: 8,973Total words: 94,042Percentage complete (100,000/120,000): 94.0/78.4The first sentence I wrote since the last time I did an update on the first sentence I wrote…
The pool was blessed relief even after just a couple of hours without water in her gills.Words since last update: 2,564Total words: 85,069Percentage complete (120,000/100,000): 70.9/85.1A bit slow these last couple of days for a variety of reasons. I still have some hope of reaching an end of the first draft by the end of next week, with the rest of the month for rewriting (I've promised to turn the whole thing in by the end of February, having been given a slight extension from my original target of February 15). We'll see!The first sentence I wrote since the last time I did an update on the first sentence I wrote…
Andy King had heard Richard's order to forget the assault shuttle in Africa.Words since last update: 2,711Total words: 82,505Percentage complete (120,000/100,000): 68.8/82.5The first sentence I wrote yesterday…
...will not appear today, because I didn't write a new sentence yesterday.However, I have a good reason, and I did work on the book.Here's what's happened. For the past, oh, 20,000 words or so I've known that I was approaching a point at which the events I have so far described in the book would no longer fit into the synopsis I've been working from (the synopsis I used to sell the book). I reached that point last night, when I sat down to write and realized I had no idea what should come next.Obviously, I needed to replot.The story is told in a series of scenes with five viewpoint characters (one ...The first sentence I wrote yesterday…
"And then you'll kill all the Selkies?" Emily said.Words yesterday: 1,958Total thus far: 79,794Percentage complete (120,000/100,000): 66.5/79.8The first sentence I wrote yesterday…
OK, technically this is two sentences. Tough! My blog, my rules:Emily didn't know what to say. How did one respond to the clone of the scientist who created one's entire race when he expressed his determination to wipe it out?Words yesterday: 1,158Total words: 77,804Percentage complete (120,000/100,000): 64.8/77.8See, this is why I like writing science fiction and fantasy. In what other genre would you get to write a sentence like that second one?
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Magebane
“Spectacular” – Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Evil wizards, multi-level conspiracies, hidden kingdoms…Lee Arthur Chane…has done a marvelous job…Magebane is a very entertaining book and well worth the time.” – A.M. Donovan, Night Owl Reviews
I happily recommend Magebane and I’ll certainly give Chane’s next novel a try based on this one.” —Bill Capossere, Fantasy Literature
“…an original and delightful tale of epic fantasy and magic, steampunk science, adventure, tragedy, and love…” – Errant Dreams Reviews
Eight centuries ago, the world changed. A devastating war swept the lands, and the MageLords, who had long ruled by virtue of their spell powers, were driven to a distant place, separated from those they had ruled by a magical Barrier. With magic banished from the rest of the world, the MageLords became mere legend and people turned to science to improve their lives. But if one man has his way, all that is about to change….
Written as Lee Arthur Chane (the middle names of my older brothers, Jimmy Lee and Dwight Arthur, and myself, Edward Chane Willett).
Marseguro
Winner of the 2009 Prix Aurora Award for Best Long-Form Work in English
Water world Marseguro is home to the Selkies, a water-dwelling race created from human DNA. When an unmodified human seeks revenge on a Selkie by activating a distress beacon taken from the remains of the original colony ship, a strikeforce is sent from Earth to eradicate the genetic abomination. Yet Marseguro will not prove as easy to conquer as the Earth force anticipates…
Terra Insegura
Finalist for the 2010 Prix Aurora Award for Best Novel in English
Marseguro, a water world far from Earth, is home to a colony of humans and the Selkies, a water-dwelling race created from modified human DNA. For seventy years the colony has lived in peace. Then Earth discovers Marseguro, and a strike force is sent to eradicate this “abomination.” But Marseguro has created a genetically tailored plague to use against Earth’s Holy Warriors. With the enemy defeated, the people of Marseguro feel they are safe. But Chris Keating, the traitor who signaled Marseguro’s location to the Holy Warriors, has fled to Earth, unknowingly carrying the deadly plague within him. The people of Marseguro feel they must send a ship to Earth with a life-saving vaccine. Only time will tell what awaits them when they reach their destination.
Lost in Translation
Kathryn was a human empath whose world and life had been destroyed when the alien S’sinn slaughtered her parents before her very eyes. Jarrikk was a young S’sinn, an unproven warrior who’d seen his flight mates slaughtered by the humans who’d sought to colonize his world.
As humans and S’sinn found themselves on the brink of war, these two Translators had to work together to find a common ground and avert catastrophe. But whether their Translators’ oath and training could overcome the enemies leagued against them was very much in doubt…
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Song of the Sword
My new YA fantasy novel from Lobster Press
Before the Lady called her, Ariane’s life was a mess. Two years ago, her mother disappeared. She bounced around different foster homes until her aunt finally took her in. The meanest clique at her new high school has decided to make Ariane their prime target. And to top it all off, she is having frightening premonitions, and they are becoming more intense. The moment water touches her skin, she sees visions of a lake, a lady, and a sword. When a staircase opens up in the middle of Wascana Lake and the water begins singing to her, she has no choice but to answer the call….
Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw
Ten walks to points of historic and architectural interest in the cities of Regina and Moose Jaw (eight walks for Regina, two for Moose Jaw).
Johnny Cash: The Man in Black
When country music legend Johnny Cash took the stage at Folsom State Prison in 1968, he solidified the public’s perception of him as a rebel who followed his own path. Born in Arkansas during the Great Depression, Cash endured poverty, the death of his older brother, and a difficult relationship with his father. He turned to gospel and country music to express the pain, and after many years of struggling, his songs of hardship and hope would finally reach the ears of those waiting for an artist who represented them, ordinary people fighting to survive.
Andy Warhol: Everyone Will Be Famous for 15 Minutes
“Paintings are too hard. Machines have less problems…” In the 1960s, Andy Warhol became the most famous creator of a new style of art called pop art, which transformed mass-produced items of popular culture into fine works of art. From Campbell’s Soup cans to photographs of Marilyn Monroe, Warhol’s willingness to use anything and everything from the mass media in his work expanded the range of subject matter available to artists. His avant-garde films, artistic usage of American icons, and unconventional social life made him a controversial figure, both greatly admired and deeply reviled. A trendsetter rather than a trend-follower, a dispassionate observer of both the seamy and celebrity sides of life, Warhol was a true American rebel.
Disease-Hunting Scientist
The true stories of six real disease hunters. Epidemiologists travel the world trying to keep us safe from deadly diseases—from high-tech labs in Canada to remote villages in Africa. Learn how these “disease detectives” are coming up with new ways to fight disease, and find out if you have what it takes to become an epidemiologist, too!
The Bounty Mutiny
The Bounty was a British ship visiting Tahiti in 1789 when some of the crew overthrew the captain, William Bligh, and set him adrift in a tiny boat with sailors loyal to him. The mutiny resulted in a number of trials–both of the men who mutinied and of Bligh for losing command of his ship. These fascinating events have been the source for numerous Hollywood movies, most recently The Bounty. The Bounty Mutiny: From the Court Case to the Movie explores the famous case and the movies it inspired.
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