She groped her way out to the library door, blinking and rubbing at her eyes, then turned the knob and opened the door. To her shock and considerable unsettlement, it was not only the books and shelves that greeted her vision, but Kristoff. He was standing in front of a shelf with his back to her, inspecting the spines of the books upon ( Read more... )

Back in her own village, Tesni had cleaned houses. The wives of the village were neither very rich nor very busy, and could easily have cleaned their own small homes. But its being a tradesmen’s’ and merchants’ village instead of a farmers’ village tended to give the women in particular certain airs of being, if not high society, ( Read more... )

When Tesni’s eyes had become used to the dim light of the house’s interior, she found herself in a small, close kitchen, the ceiling hung with smoked and salted meats, herbs, and rows of gently and sinisterly gleaming pots and pans. As her eyes adjusted further, she saw that many of the pots and pans were glazed in thick layers of gray dust. Indeed ( Read more... )

It occurred to me the other day as I was transcribing the first three and a half pages of C.S. Lewis's The Magician's Nephew onto my forearm that my novel title sounds a bit familiar. I am still deciding whether this bothers me. I am also a little bit appalled at my first chapter this year. I realize that quality is not important in NaNo but I ( Read more... )

"With one hand on a hexagram
And one hand on a girl
I balance on a wishing well
That all men call the world
We are so small between the stars
So large against the sky
And lost among the subway crowds
I try to catch your eye"
                                   - Leonard Cohen, "Stories of the Street"

This came up on my playlist today and nearly knocked me ( Read more... )

EPICS.

THEY REQUIRE PLANNING.

These are really just for me, so I have all my notes in one place. (Although if you really have nothing else to do and feel like deciphering my handwriting, I won't feel invaded or something. XP) Also, this is one of the reasons I love my livescribe pen. No more lost brainstorm pages!


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Lol, "posted 45 weeks ago."

Got a plot, yes I do. And a title, "The Magician's Woman"! I am hoping such a title will break me of my habit of referring to all female characters as either "girls" or "old women." o_o

I just had to post to say, I went to the NaNo site for the first time this year, and while I was dismayed to find  that I could not yet ( Read more... )