an unexpected party

[julian_griffith]

Or, How I Wound Up At Readercon.

I hadn't planned to go. Too much studying, not enough money. But it turned out that the blood drive was short of volunteers for its signup/admin table, and I help with the blood drive at Arisia, so I was on the list that got asked for help, and they said they'd comp people, and I said "sure, why not..."

So, for the

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[scribal_goddess]

Both of them are pretty much direct conversations, which means I might be a little rusty at picking (usually people ask me to chose between funny or action scenes,) but I think the first one has slightly more narrative flow without showing the resolution immediately. If I'm right, the first one comes close to the beginning when it is still a mystery as to who Rockingham will marry, and it sets up more narrative tension between William Thorne and Anthony Rockingham's future wife.

Somebody told me once that an excerpt should be self-contained, and one to three pages long.

[stevie_carroll]

I prefer the second. It sets out the general themes more precisely and leaves me wondering how the scene with Thorne will go.