anachred

I can smell autumn coming.

Every year I sense it approaching and get shivery, waiting.
This year I enjoyed the summer, oddly enough, and still I am waiting for it.

The colors, the smells, the symbols. Layering clothes, rotting leaves, the burdens of harvest, I like it all.


NaNo is coming, too. I feel like doing it, though I don't know *why*. Or what. Maybe if I get the first Pirate book written, and it seems like it's going to be the right size, I can do the next in November. Hmm...



oh, and there was this...
A bit of book review, in the form of a video showing off my newest yarn project based on a literary character...

Thornmallow, of Jane Yolen's Wizard's Hall

I've changed my journal title and tag-line, added some of my favorite quotes about writing to my profile...

mostly for a change, partly because I have. More professional, is the general drift.

We note marked failures in this area, but NOW the iron has set in our soul.
VP Elevensies, The Class that knew No Shame!
(Those clams were GUD, speaking of gud.)


I'm working on some more pre-writing for the Pirate's Penance thing.
I found the hero's name: Malachi.

with that settled I can decide things like, what he likes to eat (spicy fish), how he likes to dress (for shinnying up palm trees), whether he has a good singing voice (not really, but he *does not care*).
It's so weird, that feeling of mining this stuff out rather than making it up.

First thing this morning I was reading about the Maldives for him. I think I'm getting the feel of this place, where the story will happen, with it's salt-blue water, rice-with-chiles food, and shabby but still thronged discotheque. Here's to hope...

I may be getting set to write the Pirates Penance book/s, which feature revenant pirates, cursed pawn-shop inheritors, and the patron saint of poetic justice.

Anyway, I have some pre-writing here: a short "story":

 

( A Bet with the Patron Saint of Bookies )

This is a meme; it was more interesting this time around. It's partly that I'm doing better with opening lines, especially for short stories, and partly that I've been doing a lot of short stories.


List the first lines of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns. (And flist, I'd love your opinions on patterns you notice.)

1) Harry hated to run away from anything, but he would have made an exception for this garden party. {The Enchanting Miss Tetley}

 

( 2-20, if you're interested. )

Also: My Raven King yarn is done! Come look at it...