Monday, November 03, 2003 Well, my first nanowrimo report... Saturday, I wrote a little over 1,300 words...this is because I'm evil and lazy. :D Today I wrote 2,500 words...which is what I realized I'd have to write every day for 20 days to make my goal. :-) I'm rather hoping I won't have to write weekends...weekends (at least Saturday) can serve as overflow days. Writing feels good, though. Because of this, I'm forced to write fiction first. I don't sit down at the computer and say things, like, "This review needs to be done," or "This interview needs to be edited." Of course, the paying jobs still come first, but then that's natural. I began to write based on a pair of images I had in my head. The first is a woman, kneeling on the stone pavement, a trail of blood running toward her while she waits for her fate. She has been accused of betraying her husband to be with another man...who has just been executed. The King makes an announcement, that basically, she's to be banished to sea...unless someone is willing to marry her, despite her evil ways. Someone does...a man who is responsible for a light house on the edge of the world. He's a hard man...not unkind, but very cold. He tells her, as they reach her new home, that nothing matters...not her nefarious past, nothing but the light house, which is in the form of two towers that sit on either side of a river that pours itself into the sea. As Sorenna, as she is called, adjusts, she and her new husband, Drachen, start to get along well...but of course, Drachen is not what he seems, and when war breaks out, and he is forced to leave her, she decides to go and find him. Don't worry...I'm not stealing any riffs from Terry Pratchett, whose recent novel (the fabulous Monsterous Regiment) has a girl who dresses up as a solider to go to war to find her brother...what I plan for Sorenna to end up doing is quite different. As I wrote, the story unfurled like a flower, and small details expanded, and I was able to see, clearly, the path these two characters will need to take. It's going to be a pretty hard-core fantasy with a bit of romance, the first non-contemporary story I've ever written. I'd tell you what fantastical creatures are going to star in it, but I'm not sure if I'm going to keep it a secret for the first part of the book...i.e. we know Drachen's kind of weird and crabby, but we don't find out why until Sorenna does...or if I should reveal it. I may end up revealing it, because it may be the main interesting thing of the book! I'll certainly use it in my query letters next year... In other news, I got my issue of Affaire de Coeur today! My interview with Susan Krinard and 12 reviews are in it. 12's the most I've done for them, I think. I was going to write a review of The Third Magic, but...when I really don't care for a book, I tend to skip reviewing it. And when I don't like a book, I really, really, really don't like a book. Instead I'm reviewing Cube Route by Peirs Anthony, which is really engaging, and Skytrain to Murder by Dean Barrett, who is as good as any writer out there and needs to be signed by a major press. Permalink Cindy scribed this at 8:14 PM 0 comments

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