you call it poison but I call it rock and roll

[truepenny]

Today, aside from getting halfway through the assassination attempt in The Marriage of True Minds (i.e., the assassin has failed, but there's all the clean up and explication to deal with), I read the forty-six thousand words I have of The Emperor of the Elflands and discovered three things:

1. I still like this story and world and poor beleaguered protagonist.
2. Damn, this is well-written. Who did you say the author was again?
3. Right there on p. 191 is where I stopped listening to the story and hared off into the Great Grimpen Mire. It's perfectly obvious to me now; it wasn't at the time--partly because I had a very wrong-headed idea about what kind of story it was and partly because I didn't know a vital piece of the plot.

So for tomorrow (under the new regime of setting tasks instead of quotas), I need to:

1. [true minds] finish the assassination attempt and Plicken the Thot.
2. [emperor] figure out the bridge to the Bridge. (elisem, this is the bit that Engineering for Elves gave me. Thank you!)

Comments

[girlpunksamurai.livejournal.com]

Ah, yet another book to make my 'itch list'

The list for 'books I want to read so bad I itch under my skin!' >.< Lol, ah well. I already have 14 of those so 15 won't hurt. I tend to have a new itch list every month, but this might be 2 months worth. Seems to be creative gold in the written world these days skycaptain O.o

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Originally misread that as "poor beleaguered poltergeist". Made for an interesting moment.

[gwendolynflight.livejournal.com]

Do you have a good beta reader? A second set of eyes might help you spy a way out of that quagmire.

On a less helpful note, aw, I love beleaguered protagonists! ::prematurely cuddles::

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yes, my primary beta reader is the person who pointed out I was up to my knees in quicksand in the first place.

[gwendolynflight.livejournal.com]

Quick, grab a vine!

[romp.livejournal.com]

I'm enjoying your authorial insights. For whatever reason, MFA in Creative Writing aside, I haven't heard them before and they're often things I've wondered about.

I'm looking forward to True Minds. I hope you discover it's a novel.