truepenny: artist's rendering of Sidneyia inexpectans (writing: hippopotamus)
Sarah/Katherine ([personal profile] truepenny) wrote2010-07-06 11:57 pm
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I know kung fu.

Complete 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.

[identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com 2010-07-07 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
I am very impressed. Usually calling the wind Mariah makes me giggle hysterically and name the other weather systems. You have named the other weather systems and not made me giggle hysterically.

[identity profile] mirrorthaw.livejournal.com 2010-07-07 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
Ooo! You made me a fiction!

[identity profile] mmarques.livejournal.com 2010-07-07 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you intend to reference the song "they call the wind Mariah" from the musical Paint Your Wagon? Because now that song is going through my head, and it seems a bit discordant with the rest of the opening.

[identity profile] michaeldthomas.livejournal.com 2010-07-07 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
WOOT! :-D
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[personal profile] heresluck 2010-07-07 01:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay draft!

[identity profile] orrin.livejournal.com 2010-07-07 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
You had me at "giant mutant telepathic bear."

[identity profile] oracne.livejournal.com 2010-07-07 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
YES complete draft!

[identity profile] comrade-cat.livejournal.com 2010-07-07 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! *Really wants to read the one about the eco-wizard and the bear and the winds . . . *
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[identity profile] gwendolynflight.livejournal.com 2010-07-07 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, that first sentence. ::shivers:: I do love your world-building.