Huzzas for you! As you are possibly aware, I have just this minute posted the first part of An End to Innocence (the story formerly known as 'The First'>. The coeurl just will not quit. And we seem neck in neck in our obedience to it.
I must get into your AGL if you are going to return to it. I, like you, have lately been consumed by these demanding feral cats. (I mean consumed in a figurative sense, of course.)
It is perhaps too early for huzzahs, since I could still end up having to chuck the whole thing... ;) As far as I know, this is the only story the beast is demanding of me. But I suppose it may still be lying in wait, somewhere in my brain, ready to pounce. You know, this whole "ideas as cat-like creatures" metaphor works very well. No wonder the coeurl is such an effective muse! I see why you couldn't keep it out of "End to Innocence" -- it seems to be an integral part of the teen Nooj. I don't know why you say you can't write women; Kaith is a delightful character, even if we haven't learned much about her
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Ah, perhaps the accident the other day which dislocated your shoulder again is Auron becoming more insistent about claiming your attention. We cosset them; they haunt us.
I understand your affection for a very long work. My first effort at fiction, Penumbra is an enormously long piece. Printed out, it is more than three hundred pages and has in excess of 200,000 words. Tolstoy would be proud. I feel sure your AGL does not surpass that in verbosity. LOL
Please do not chuck the coeurl story. I am so hungry for a scenario in which Nooj and Paine are at least moderately happy again. Damn that Shuyin!
Well that's a scary thought. :) Haunted by the characters I write as they trip me on the stairs... that might make a story in and of itself, actually.
No, AGL is not quite that long, currently somewhere around 90K words. I think it's about three-quarters done, which would put it in about the 125K range when complete.
In all seriousness, I doubt I will give up on "The Cat". It's not *bad*, I'm just not convinced it earns its happy ending. But after everything I've put Paine through, I owe her some happiness. And perhaps I feel a need to make it up to Nooj for all the times I've killed him off...
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I must get into your AGL if you are going to return to it. I, like you, have lately been consumed by these demanding feral cats. (I mean consumed in a figurative sense, of course.)
How is your shoulder today?
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I understand your affection for a very long work. My first effort at fiction, Penumbra is an enormously long piece. Printed out, it is more than three hundred pages and has in excess of 200,000 words. Tolstoy would be proud. I feel sure your AGL does not surpass that in verbosity. LOL
Please do not chuck the coeurl story. I am so hungry for a scenario in which Nooj and Paine are at least moderately happy again. Damn that Shuyin!
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No, AGL is not quite that long, currently somewhere around 90K words. I think it's about three-quarters done, which would put it in about the 125K range when complete.
In all seriousness, I doubt I will give up on "The Cat". It's not *bad*, I'm just not convinced it earns its happy ending. But after everything I've put Paine through, I owe her some happiness. And perhaps I feel a need to make it up to Nooj for all the times I've killed him off...
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