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[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

[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.