Furthermore...

[desperance]

I just posted over in writefantastic, about how I have struggled to have forty-eight hours off, and am now capitulating in order to start the new book.

Yup. How sad this is, he can't survive two days without a megaproject to angst about. But! New book! New series! Whole new world!

First line, this or thisabouts:

They called the fog Her breath, the Dragon-in-Chains'.

How could I conceivably not want to go on and write the second line, from that? I mean, the book's not ready to write yet, the stock's barely begun to bubble and the beans are hard as bullets and the meat is tough as shoe-leather; but if I wait till I feel prepared I'll wait for ever. I can read and write, consecutaneously; and even think a little, if I need to. And this scene is ready. The yellow fog that rubs its muzzle on the windowpane, that is very ready.

And yes, it has dragons innit. And no, they are not metaphorical.

And yes, this is one of my Taiwan books. I shall be juggling them with both hands shortly.

And now I am going to feed the cat, because it is his tea-time; and then I shall begin. Wish me luck.

Comments

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

The first line certainly makes me want to read it!

[synedrian.livejournal.com]

*hopefully* Dragons in chains sound vaguely kinky...

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hee. You wait till you meet my blacksmith monk...

[triciasullivan.livejournal.com]

Good luck good luck good luck!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Aww. Thank you thank you thank you...

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

"Dragon-in-Chains". Isn't that a Golden Age Wonder Woman villain?

Still and all, hoorah! More Chazzy goodness. When do I get to read this one?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

"Dragon-in-Chains". Isn't that a Golden Age Wonder Woman villain?

Well, I wouldn't know, would I? That's all a closed comic book to me... (But thank you for the link. I had no idea. Good grief. Etc...)

Still and all, hoorah! More Chazzy goodness. When do I get to read this one?

That would be 'when it's written'. I just had one of Those Moments, where you gaze at the first completed page and think "y'know, if this goes to plan, this is the first of, oh, two thousand? Four, five years' work, maybe?" Ulp.

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, GA Wonder Woman, utterly bondage-tastic and sapphic in the extreme. (The writer, William Moulton-Marston - also instrumental in the invention of the lie detector, fact fans! - was apparently quite seriously into the whole BD thing. ANd that's bondage and domination, not Bande Dessinee (which has accents but I can neither remember where, what sort and what the key combination is to get them)).

And four or five years!!!! Is this going to be multiple volumes or one extremely large book? You will have to keep me happy with excerpts.

By the way, I've booked myelf in for both Phantoms evenings. I will booksell on at least one of them for you.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

And four or five years!!!! Is this going to be multiple volumes or one extremely large book? You will have to keep me happy with excerpts.

I'm hoping for three or four independent-but-connected books, plus loose stories. Not counting on it, though. Hell, at the moment I have no story at all.

By the way, I've booked myelf in for both Phantoms evenings. I will booksell on at least one of them for you.

So glad your elf will be there - but only selling one night? Sob?

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

And no, Dragon-In-Chains isn't really a Wonder Woman villain.Should be though...


However, Egg Fu most certainly is.

[davidbarnett.livejournal.com]

You're just a glutton for punishment, aren't you?

Please don't make me race you again. You are the Alf Tupper of speculative fiction and I'm afraid I just don't have the energy to start all over again right now.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Wimp. Get your toe to that line and your eyes on the finishing-tape...

Nah. This isn't raceworthy yet; I'm just doing samples, opening chapters and a proposal, try to tease out some interest. Gotta be done. For sordid financial reasons, if nothing else - but also, seriously, there is nothing better than to get the next book moving the day after you finish the previous one. If you stop altogether, lose all that momentum, it can be helluva hard to get going again. On, on...

[davidbarnett.livejournal.com]

Actually, there is that novella and short story collection I'd promised to Immanion Press by the end of the year...

[frumpo.livejournal.com]

Alf Tupper vs the Dragon-In-Chains.
That would be a good cartoon...

[desperance.livejournal.com]

No contest. Trust me. She'd pick her teeth with him.

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

"Consecutaneously"?

Really? O______________O?




But the first line sounds great, definitely. ^_____^

[desperance.livejournal.com]

"Consecutaneously"?

Really? O______________O?

Oh, phooey. I neologised. Don't give me a hard time, it's exact: minute by minute I do the one thing or the other, hence they are consecutive; day by day and week by week I am doing both of them at once, hence they are simultaneous. Consecutaneous. I am brilliant; behold me shine.

Also, I'm glad you like the line. There is a short-but-proud list of books that open in a fog; I intend to add to it.

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

> Oh, phooey. I neologised.

I did infer as much. But it's still hard to pronounce trippingly on the tongue! ^_______^