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Jul. 6th, 2010 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyComplete draft!
This is the one about the eco-wizard, the knight errant, and the giant mutant telepathic bear, with the first line, "The windship Pellucid heeled over, her sails filling as they caught the wind called the Mariah, one of the winds that blew so steadily across the Abandon that they had been mapped more than a century before: the Mariah, the Medusa, and the Mother of Angels, which had another name among windship crews." It does not yet have a title, and it badly needs a second draft, now that I know better what I'm trying to do. But it is a complete draft, and I can see why this one was causing a bit of a log jam. It's 9,600 words, and will almost certainly be more when the second draft is done.
The other suspected culprit in this log jam--by which I mean this state I'm in where I want to write short stories and I have lots of ideas for short stories, but I don't seem to be able to write any of them--is "Thirdhop Scarp," which is currently 11,000 words and not even near done. I think my next priority is to buckle down and get a draft of that, and then make a status assessment.
But for now, I will take my glow of accomplishment and go to bed.
This is the one about the eco-wizard, the knight errant, and the giant mutant telepathic bear, with the first line, "The windship Pellucid heeled over, her sails filling as they caught the wind called the Mariah, one of the winds that blew so steadily across the Abandon that they had been mapped more than a century before: the Mariah, the Medusa, and the Mother of Angels, which had another name among windship crews." It does not yet have a title, and it badly needs a second draft, now that I know better what I'm trying to do. But it is a complete draft, and I can see why this one was causing a bit of a log jam. It's 9,600 words, and will almost certainly be more when the second draft is done.
The other suspected culprit in this log jam--by which I mean this state I'm in where I want to write short stories and I have lots of ideas for short stories, but I don't seem to be able to write any of them--is "Thirdhop Scarp," which is currently 11,000 words and not even near done. I think my next priority is to buckle down and get a draft of that, and then make a status assessment.
But for now, I will take my glow of accomplishment and go to bed.
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