The Girl From Farther Afield Chapter One Part Thre...

This scene took its sweet time. It has some highlights, some low lights, but it does at least finally introduce Rhiadna. (Also a couple of cameos that the astute reader might spot.) I feel it might just have overstayed its welcome. The Girl From Farther Afield Chapter One, Part Three The sun was directly overhead when Eton arrived at the shores of the Copperleaf Lake. It had taken perhaps ten minutes by his estimation for the landscape around him to fade into being... read more

Since I find myself with nothing better to do tonight, I've spent half an hour or so setting up my progress spreadsheet and checking out the NaNoWriMo homepage and suchlike. Thus, this entry can double as my official progress post. Here is a word count widget (or at least, here will be a word count widget once the NNWM site isn't being hammered quite so hard): And here's a couple of Google document links to my novels in progress: The Girl From Farther Afield No Mountain Too Mountainous...

So, day 1 in, and we're off. Sort of. I have some progress on The Girl From Farther Afield , but I seem to have burned out for the day before getting much done on No Mountain Too Mountainous . Still, just about hit 4,000 for the day, which is not bad given that I've spent much of the day with a headache and that a good seven hours was taken up with a rather dramatic Exalted session. I don't feel that anything I've produced is actually good as such, but at least in the case of the TGFFA prologue...

I'm enjoying this story so far, even if nothing's happened yet. It's kind of fun just dropping reference after reference to the world outside the scenes and praying that other people can follow them. No proofreading. No editing. No regret! The Girl From Farther Afield Chapter One, Part One Eton arrived back in London the morning of the following day. A thick fog had settled over the city, which was about par for the course at this time of year. Visibility was little...

This thing is twelve thousand words long already and it's not really gone anywhere. I could be in for the long haul throughout December as well at this rate... This particular scene is pretty much pure waffle. I think it's my natural state; if I have words to write and I haven't thought of anything to do, one of my characters just goes off and does a series of meaningless actions in an unduly wordy manner. The Girl From Farther Afield Chapter One, Part Two "So what's...

Nothing much to say here. The Girl From Farther Afield Chapter Two, Part One It was late afternoon, and the sun was already well on its way down behind the skyline by the time Eton Fives arrived at the Foreign Office Embassy in New Orleans. He had done his best to clean himself up and had given his clothes a good soak in a river earlier that day, but despite the impeccable quality of his suit it had proven rather difficult to remove all of the dirt and blood from his...