[podcast]http://edwardwillett.com/wp-content/upLoads//2009/07/Theory-of-Mind.mp3[/podcast] This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention, but in addition to writing nonfiction, I also write fiction—specifically, science fiction and fantasy. Now, the writing of fiction is a very odd thing, in that it involves the making up of characters: people who don’t really exist, but for whom the …
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The first sentence I wrote today…
…is from Blue Fire: The wagons rolled on through the day. Words today: 2,121 Total thus far: 19,676 You can add to that another 480 words (actually more like 980 to start with, but then I had to cut it by half) previewing the Regina Fringe Festival for Thursday’s LeaderPost, and another 1,400 words (which …
The first sentence I wrote today…
…was for Blue Fire: Amlinn did as she was told, but she still half-expected to be arrested by the Priests the moment she set foot in the street. Words today: 1,991 Total thus far: 17,553 No first sentence for Magebane today, or probably for a few days to come. It’s not that I didn’t work …
The first sentences I wrote yesterday…
For Blue Fire: Bound, gagged, stripped and then dressed again with no more thought to his personal wishes or privacy than if he had been a dressmaker’s dummy, Petra could do nothing but fume and pray that Vekk would strike them all dead with Blue Fire for daring to touch one of his Priest-Apprentices. Words …
The first sentences I wrote today…
For Blue Fire: Petra did not sleep well that night, torn between worry that he might oversleep and….overstimulating…images of the Freefolk girl dancing. Words today: 2,272 Total thus far: 14,715 For Magebane: Karl, alone with Lady Vin, who was still studying the final report the Council had received, stood and stretched. Words today: 1,362 Total …
The first sentences I wrote today…
For Blue Fire: The Priest-Apprentice stayed through the end of her second dance, the show-ending Flame of Desire, but had vanished by the time Amlinn, wiping sweat from her bare midriff with a with linen towel–having carefully removed her navel jewel first; she had lost one one and her Grandfather had not been pleased–emerged from …
The first sentences I wrote today…
For Blue Fire: He saw the girl descend from the stage. Words today: 1,180 Total thus far: 11,581 For Magebane: Prince Karl tasted the bitterness of his own thoughts and felt ashamed. Words today: 2,995 Total thus far: 26,552
Two, two, two writers in one!
So now I’m writing two books at once: my DAW fantasy, Magebane, as Lee Arthur Chane, and a YA fantasy, tentatively titled Blue Fire, as, presumably, Edward Willett. The former, of course, is contracted; the latter is not, but there is an editor who has expressed a strong interest in it, but can’t commit based on …
The first sentence I wrote today…
Mother Northwind’s smile faded. Words today: 1,072 Total thus far: 21,062 I only had about thirty-five minutes of actual writing time today, although I did a lot more typing than that: at 2 p.m. I went to the Book & Brier Patch, our local independent bookstore, for Robert J. Sawyer‘s reading from his new novel …
The first sentence I wrote today…
Mother Northwind sat in a rocking chair by the cheerily blazing fire, a sky-blue shawl drawn around her shoulders and a bright red scarf covering most of her gray curls. Words today: 1,204 Total thus far: 19,990 Had less than an hour to write today, while awaiting my wife at Second Cup in the Cornwall …
The first sentence I wrote yesterday…
Brenna looked at the sleeping youth, pitying him. Total thus far: 18,786 Words yesterday: 2,514 Not sure I’ll add much to the total today–other things that need doing–but yesterday, as you can see, I had a good session. I just spoke to my agent this morning. There’s an editor interested in one of my–er, that …
The first sentence I wrote today…
After several minutes of cleansing her mouth and hair with snow, she regained her composure enough go back under the blue canopy and look up at the surviving passenger of the…flying device. Words today: 3,594 Total words: 14,854 A mixture of brand-new and once-rewritten material today. I spent several hours at it, aided by the …
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