Holly Lisle, bless her heart and nourish her muse, is offering herself as a "pace rabbit" while working on her latest novel, inviting her peeps to Write A Book With Me. 250 words a day is a sedate enough pace that I should be able to keep up, even with work, frantic costume sewing, reluctant house cleaning (in the category of Herculean Efforts), and getting ready for my big trip. So I'm in! I announce my candidacy!
The ghost and pirates story has been forefront in my mind of late. Right in the middle of The Master of Ballantrae, I got one of those unfortunate character insights--I say unfortunate because I was only watching the movie to keep myself sewing and more distractions were definitely not called for. Ah, if only distractions were something I could sell and market... But anyway, there it was, the proverbial bolt of lightning and smack to the head (I swear I could see Thorn with his stupid Cavalier-looking hat frowning at me and threatening me with another hat-whacking if I didn't pay attention!) So I smacked the pause button, put my cuff ruffle down, spat out a mouthful of pins, and dutifully scribbled a note. And no, children, I will not share the brilliance of the insight, you will just have to wait and see it on the page. I can say, for those of you who've read snippets of Jessebah already, it's an insight on par with her birth so I'm feeling pretty flush with anticipation. And that is why it's gonna be the ghosts and pirates story for me, oh boy.
Now where did the novel book for that world go to, I wonder. Oh lord, I think it's part of the desk mess disaster... Hmmph. I'll just start writing without it for now and see how far seat-of-the-pants gets me. It's a draft and all it has to be is finished (not brilliant, not polished, not perfect). All that other stuff comes during The Second Coming (ie, the second draft), right?
So now, where to begin...
And I promise to keep y'all updated both here and on Facebook.
Viva La Progress!
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