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first lines meme
Mar. 12th, 2011 12:28 amBecause all the cool kids are doing it. (And yeah, hoping this helps put a few more things in motion.)
First lines of works currently in progress:
Ancou (flesh-eating bacteria novel, on second draft):
Cairnes called the weekly meeting a day early, mandatory for all hands, no excuses, not even if you were, quote, "bleeding out both ears with an axe stuck in the top of your head", unquote.
Fifth Sun (the Aztec novella, 1/3 way through first draft, stalled in research):
The airship La Malinche slid gracefully over the ocean, stable at twenty feet above wavepeak and racing towards the dawn.
Untitled Mars story (short story, 1/2 way through draft with no discernible plot):
The man came across the red sands alone and on foot, the storm whipping at his back.
Mandrake's Folly (short story, 1/2 way through first draft):
The game had begun four years earlier when Onni's cousin Orph got him a job as a hauler on the Mandrake's Folly, one of the old skips doing the six-week Tanduou-Beenjai run.
Tucker's Fall ("the mountain thing". Novella? started years ago and set aside, not ready to abandon yet):
The rain was a thing of high August fury, hurling water down with such vehemence that even at double speed the windshield wipers fought a losing battle.
Some of these things have been on the list for a while. But hey, I think I finished up several things that were on the list last time I did this meme, so there's hope. Right now I'm working pretty much exclusively on Ancou, though my brain is trying to sneak a few cycles thinking about the two after it on the list above. I'd really like to finish all of these, maybe even this year, but that's crazy talk (-:
First lines of works currently in progress:
Ancou (flesh-eating bacteria novel, on second draft):
Cairnes called the weekly meeting a day early, mandatory for all hands, no excuses, not even if you were, quote, "bleeding out both ears with an axe stuck in the top of your head", unquote.
Fifth Sun (the Aztec novella, 1/3 way through first draft, stalled in research):
The airship La Malinche slid gracefully over the ocean, stable at twenty feet above wavepeak and racing towards the dawn.
Untitled Mars story (short story, 1/2 way through draft with no discernible plot):
The man came across the red sands alone and on foot, the storm whipping at his back.
Mandrake's Folly (short story, 1/2 way through first draft):
The game had begun four years earlier when Onni's cousin Orph got him a job as a hauler on the Mandrake's Folly, one of the old skips doing the six-week Tanduou-Beenjai run.
Tucker's Fall ("the mountain thing". Novella? started years ago and set aside, not ready to abandon yet):
The rain was a thing of high August fury, hurling water down with such vehemence that even at double speed the windshield wipers fought a losing battle.
Some of these things have been on the list for a while. But hey, I think I finished up several things that were on the list last time I did this meme, so there's hope. Right now I'm working pretty much exclusively on Ancou, though my brain is trying to sneak a few cycles thinking about the two after it on the list above. I'd really like to finish all of these, maybe even this year, but that's crazy talk (-:
