around the web in 80 days

[truepenny]

No, not really. But the line wandered into my head and stuck there.

On LJ this morning.

arcaedia has an interesting discussion going about what part of writing writers find hardest.

nihilistic_kid has scathing things to say about the self-serving stupidity of Publish America. (I refuse to link to PA itself, but more context can be found here.)

jess79 propounds a theory that explains the vagaries of Elizabethan men's fashions.

Me? I seem, much to my own consternation, to have started another novel. I honestly thought it was a short story, which just shows what I know.

Part 1: 7,200 words
Part 2: 2,100 words and counting

Comments

[oracne.livejournal.com]

That seems to be well on its way to novel-hood.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Short novel, I think, but yeah.

Part 2 clocked in at 4,900 words, and I have the first 800 words of Part 3 (of 5), so our total is approximately 13,000 words and counting.

It's a little like being hit by a truck.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

It's a little like being hit by a truck.

A good truck.