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Tag Archives: Necromancer and Barbarian
Six Sentence Sunday, 12 February 2012 (The Necromancer and the Barbarian: a Love Story)
From the west came word of shape-shifters and forest witches, who changed shape and sex and even species, turning into rock or wind at will. In North America, the resurgent timberwolf population had to contend with competition from werewolves, and … Continue reading →
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NaNoFeed: NaNo 2011 is finished, and now a backward look
Last night around 9:30pm I finished writing the endgame of my 2011 National Novel Writing Month project, The Necromancer and the Barbarian: A Love Story. I promptly sent the revised full manuscript and the replacement final chapters to my beta readers. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Fantasy, Goals, NaNoFeed, NaNoWriMo, Necromancer and Barbarian, Writing
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Six Sentence Sunday, 5 February 2012 (The Necromancer and the Barbarian: a Love Story)
In the second decade of the twenty-first century, as the earth began to warm and the seas to rise, something woke from sleep. At first it was odd incidents here and there, but by the time that Elsa was a … Continue reading →
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Six Sentence Sunday, 29 January 2012 (The Necromancer and the Barbarian: a Love Story)
“And I froze him,” Raina said, and her outlines sharpened, until there was a human-shaped void with a corona of moonlight about it, and a face, dimly seen, that might be bone or flesh; it seemed to slide from one … Continue reading →
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Six Sentence Sunday, 22 January 2012 (The Necromancer and the Barbarian: a Love Story)
Elsa remembered the eerily real anatomical models in the museum of La Specola in Florence: the sleeping Venus with her braided hair and her hinged belly, that showed the layers of the insides; the fingerbones wearing the veins and arteries … Continue reading →
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NaNoFeed: Enter the villain (at long last!)
I know a story exists when it begins to tell itself, or when a character turns to look at me. And I’m learning, very slowly, how I need to rest between bouts. What I mean by “when a character turns … Continue reading →
(Post) NaNoFeed: notes from the editorial charnel house
“Kill your darlings.” It’s attributed to Virginia Woolf, but someone else said it. She just lived by it. In a draft or two, I’m hoping to follow her example. I’m currently lighting votive candles at the altar of St. Virginia … Continue reading →
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Tagged Fantasy, NaNoFeed, Necromancer and Barbarian, Writing
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NaNo 2011 novel revision plan, revised version
From long experience, I know that I get things done, however ambitious my lists of things to do. However, hardly ever do I get them done on the original timeline. As I’m looking at the missing pieces of this year’s … Continue reading →
The curious dance of order and chaos
After yesterday’s break, I realized that it was indeed “rest” rather than “being lazy” that made me take a break from looking at the NaNo novel. Today I woke up with very clear ideas about the missing parts: how the fantastic … Continue reading →
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Tagged Fantasy, Goals, NaNoWriMo, Necromancer and Barbarian, Writing
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Finishing the darn thing…
… isn’t easy, but neither is landing a plane. In stories as in chess, the opening and the endgame open up abysses under our feet. Desperate to stuff all of the important parts into Necromancer and Barbarian before National Novel … Continue reading →
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Tagged eaten by bogs, Fantasy, NaNoWriMo, Necromancer and Barbarian
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