Tag: young adult

The first sentence I wrote today…

…for Blue Fire was: Imlinn stood on the Freefolk trail leading north toward City Duodecim and studied the tracks he had found there by the light of the stars. Words today: 2,068 Total thus far: 40,381 Good writing this morning, as a scene I hadn’t even realized I needed came to life and both told …

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The first sentence I wrote today…

…was, once again, for Blue Fire : In the stunned silence that followed, Amlinn stood stock-still for a long moment, then suddenly ran after her grandfather. Words today: 1,514 Total thus far: 38,313 That was first thing this morning; in the afternoon, I did good work on Magebane, but it was, once again, of the …

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Two new reviews of Terra Insegura…

…recently popped up. The first is from arch thinking. Choice bits: “…Terra Insegura stands on its own very well…a real action-packed science fiction novel….Anyone who likes their science fiction fast and well-written will enjoy Terra Insegura.” The second I particularly like, because it’s from a 17-year-old reader at Flamingnet.com, which offers young people the opportunity to …

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The first sentence I wrote today…

…was for Blue Fire: Amlinn gestured at her grandfather and the departing messenger. “They’re not coming.” Words today: 1,697 Total thus far: 36,799 Made some good progress today, and what was particularly exciting about it had little to do with what I wrote, which was mostly of the people talking variety (though there’s a big …

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The first sentence I wrote yesterday…

…was for Blue Fire, as usual: “Follow the Freefolk,” Morran had told Illinen, and since the Freefolk moved every day, that meant he had to leave the Warren the very next night. Words yesterday: 1,886 Total thus far: 35,102 People kept asking me what I did for my birthday. Well, I wrote, of course, what …

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The first sentences I wrote yesterday…

From Blue Fire: “You think he might still be alive?” Words yesterday: 2,052 Total thus far: 33,214 From Magebane (yes! I’m moving forward again!): The mysterious figures still waited there in the dark. Words yesterday: 873 Total thus far: 33,638

The first sentence I wrote yesterday…

…was, again, for Blue Fire: Amlinn slept through the night without waking and only found out about the Nightdweller patrol when she went to breakfast in the morning. Words yesterday: 1,252 Total thus far:  31,162 Not sure they were very successful words: my writing session, at the Atlantis coffee shop (see yesterday’s view-while-I-wrote photo, above) was …

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The first sentence I wrote today…

…was for Blue Fire: It wore a scrap of green cloth as a shift and had yellow yarn for its hair. Words today: 2,234 Total thus far: 25,390 I didn’t do any writing over the weekend of the sitting-at-the-keyboard variety, but after I woke up on Saturday morning but before I actually got out of …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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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 …

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