A pierce, out of the blue

[desperance]

matociquala and others have, in their daily running-total reports, a category called 'Mean Things' - which I think is completely cool and long to emulate. When and if I ever get sufficiently organised to do the daily-report thing at all.

[pauses, to waft cat away from mortadella: he has had his tea, and I have written my two thousand words and not stopped yet, and I am entitled to a nibble with my glass of wine]

Obviously, I am not there yet - tho' I am now sufficiently confident to murmur that I should be within, oh, about fifty pages of the end, unless the damn' thing grows on me. But perhaps it will, because lo, here is a Mean Thing: there we were within about fifty pages of the end, and suddenly my hero (I name no names, for fear of spoilage: anonymity is a safe disguise, because there is no guarantee that any lead character is qualified to be a hero, in my book) has a blade in his belly.

This is, I swear to you, entirely unexpected. I could show you the synopsis to prove it, but that has spoilers of its own; none the less, take my word for it, nowhere does it say the-disciple-whom-Chazzy-loves gets gut-stabbed, right at the end.

I have no idea why this has happened, or what will result. This is why I don't work to synopses, even when I've had to write 'em for the publishers; every book is a journey, and the writer undertakes it day by day no less than the reader (rather more, indeed, because it takes more days to write than read), and there are surprises all the way, or ought to be. We'll see. But it is definitely a Mean Thing, and deserves to be recorded.

Mmm, mortadella. It has pistachios, you know.

The cat has just killed and eaten a fly in lieu, but I don't think that's any substitute. Nor does he.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I have no idea why this has happened, or what will result.

Me too - My usual, novella, 11,500 words, for the Albert Tales, have turned into 13,000 the last two days.
I just put it down to pollen count, beer and wine (but mostly wine.)

Slim