No Mountain Too Mountainous Chapter Two Part One

This assortment of scenes is what gets produced when I'm tired and I have no idea where I'm going. It is, in truth, pretty much utterly devoid of content. On the other hand it is also about four thousand words. No Mountain Too Mountainous Chapter Two, Part One "Toku! There you are!" Deo stormed over, waving his arms wildly in the air, as the boy came jogging towards him, apparently utterly oblivious to his mood. "Honestly, do you have any idea how worried you've made... read more

And here's the start of chapter one. No Mountain Too Mountainous Chapter One, Part One It was maybe half an hour before noon, and Notea stood atop the windmill at the highest point of Homeset Village, telescope to his eye, and stared out across the lands that he had conquered. It wasn't all that great an achievement, he supposed. Not when you compared it to the accomplishments of the great explorers and adventurers of recent memory - Deverre, Kathe, Markov, say. Homeset...

I was starting to consider abandoning this novel already earlier today - I seem to have hit the stage at which, whenever I consider writing it, I immediately find myself thinking, "Hmm, I'd rather just be writing The Girl From Farther Afield instead." I couldn't even work out where to go with the next scene, so I went for that old fallback of just introducing another viewpoint character. It didn't go very well. I could see the things I was doing wrong practically as I was doing them, but there's...

I'm not quite sure what I was thinking when I wrote these scenes. Clearly nothing can possibly go wrong with telling the same infodump conversation twice in two different places at the same time. Well, time to move on. I think I might claim that this is the end of chapter one! No Mountain Too Mountainous Chapter One, Part Three "All right, all right. Slow down." Notea held up a hand defensively. "Let me get this straight. You say your name is... Enril?" "That's right...

Here's a short bit of meaningless fluff that got produced while I waited for my brain to tell me where it was going next. It turns out that where it was going next was, 'okay, we want another interlude in here about now, and this chapter needs one more scene to round it out.' So there we have it. I really hope I work out where the story's going at some point. No Mountain Too Mountainous Chapter Two, Part Two The day of Notea's departure from Homeset, Deo woke to find...

Ho hum ho hum. No Mountain Too Mountainous Chapter Three, Part One "Well," said Notea, impressed. "I think this qualifies as another Discovery of sorts, don't you?" They had been on the road for the best part of a fortnight - 'road' being a slightly misleading term, as Notea was not the sort of man who put much faith in sticking to the beaten path when there were so many other, more interesting, routes to be found by travelling cross-country, climbing hills, scaling...