I was reminded, on AO3, of the last of the short stories I wrote following 'Cushions or the Princess and the Pea', back in 2016. It takes the form of Elfwine writing a letter to his grandfather and I was further reminded, by a footnote, that I had written a little more in comments here in my journal, and had thought of expanding into a second ( Read more... )

In a long reply to a comment of epiphyta on the first chapter of "Going Home (to a place we've never been before)" I said

I have just done the 'check spelling and preview' on this comment and the list of options it gives for all the names is hilarious.I said I would post some of the highlights - it's just taken me a few days longer than planned ( Read more... )

I have begun writing a thing... I'm not sure anyone actually reads my stories here anymore - apart from epiphyta (I hope you are well Epi, it seems like ages since I saw you here). But I have always posted them here first, and so here is the first chapter of the story whose working title was 'Arrival of the Twins', which gives some idea of the theme!

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This morning, for a while, it was not raining. And the wind has been quite calm all day, so the boat has sailed as usual.

Here are the pictures for this week -

Out the front;


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I'm on a roll - hopefully I will keep it up now even though we have finished July at picowrimo, but having written, I've now sat for about 15 minutes trying to think of a name for this chapter, because the rest are named! This name will have to do!

Transmitting, Chapter 12, Wanted: a King and some Lords
Word count 2,050

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This is mainly here to keep my records straight, and for epiphyta :) It is also at TtH.

Chapter Eleven; First Contact.

Rating; Teen
Words in this chapter; 2,046.

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I'm sorry - it seems to take me forever to write, these days!

So - when we left them at the end of Chapter Six, The exploratory party were in the hidden valley Tindómë and Haldir had found on their earlier trip - but Gimli had just fallen and damaged his leg.

Transmitting
Chapter Seven
1850 words
The story is rated 15.

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And here is the third chapter for this month!

Transmitting Chapter Six
PG15
Word count 2675

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If you have ever wondered what a hobbit house built by elves might look like, there is one for sale in Wales -


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Here is the next chapter - I'm on a bit of a roll!

Transmitting
Chapter Five
2420 words
Rating 13

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