I finished rewriting the bit of Blue Fire that needed it and will be pressing on to greener writing pastures. In fact, I made a start, so today from Blue Fire I have both a first sentence I rewrote and I first sentence I wrote. Will the excitement never end? First, the first sentence I …
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The first sentences I rewrote today…now with bonus photo!
…will appear momentarily, but first, a picture. This is where I worked on Magebane this afternoon–if you look close, you can see some of it on the computer screen. It’s the Spike Lounge at the Wascana Country Club. Not as odd a choice as you might think: it’s usually quieter than a coffee shop, the …
The first sentence I wrote today…
…or, if you want to get technical about it, the first sentence I re-wrote, from Blue Fire, was: There were still a half-dozen tents scattered around the grounds. After today’s re-writing, the total word count stands at 22,016. Meanwhile, as Lee Arthur Chane, the first sentence I rewrote for Magebane was: If such thoughts are …
The first sentence I wrote today…
…as I went back to fix the Scene Where It All Went Wrong in Blue Fire, was: For a moment Petra couldn’t figure out what the blackened object was; then his chair clattered backward onto the wooden floor as he leaped to his feet without conscious volition. Not sure I like it much. That’s the …
The first sentence I wrote today…
…was for Blue Fire: Amlinn’s Grandfather’s wagon–he realized he still didn’t know the old man’s name–glowed like a rare jewel in the final rays of the day’s sunlight, which set its red and gold paint ablaze. Words today: 1,277 Total thus far: 20, 953 Now, this is an interesting sentence. (Also an awkward and rather …
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 …
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