Blood & Fire, Part One, Draft 2 – complete
Monday 29 January 2007
The subject line says it all. Draft two of chapter six is complete! Yes… 😉
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The subject line says it all. Draft two of chapter six is complete! Yes… 😉
Continue readingEdit: To those answering ‘Crossover’ please clarify if it should be best targetted as Adult crossing down or Childrens’ crossing up…
Continue readingMy parents have come visiting me this weekend – it’s my mum’s birthday tomorrow, and my concert too. They actually arrived earlier than expecting, and seeing as my meringues for Sunday were still in the oven at a ‘barely on’…
Continue readingI am making changes, sometimes big, fundamental, changes to the work in progress, and I am sacrificing words. But I am also adding, improving, and building on the story and the characters. My wordcount and page count are increasing and…
Continue readingI have recently registered with Critique Circle and uploaded my first story there. It’s up for critiquing on the 22 November as I still try and find my way around the site. It feels right to try out this critiquing…
Continue readingI’ve just discovered that I have inadvertently given Hanna Katla’s mother the same name as one of the alfar characters – Eyrún. And of course I can’t even get round it with a global Find&Replace to get me out of…
Continue readingI have now revised the first two chapters of Blood & Fire. Or to put it another way, the first 25 pages. I could say 6% – but which ever way I put it, it does sound like a pathetically…
Continue readingConceived in August 2001. 105,745 words; 385 pages; 250 days in the writing; 5 years in the making. Blood & Fire is finished. I’m pleased, and I’m bereft all at the same time. I want to go back and read…
Continue readingHanna steps closer to both of them, holding the alfar sword in both hands. She must kill one of them and be free, but which one? She breathes fast looking from wolf to god; from god to wolf; she lifts…
Continue readingWhich, in fitting Thomas style, is to be told in flashback as the final cataclismic events unfold. And then… I’ll be done.
Continue readingAnd so it came to pass: 103,142 words later I reach the final chapter, but is there still another death.
Continue readingSlowly Erik draws his weapon and passes it across to Helen. She takes it, and pulls the blade back across her palm, slicing her skin, and watches as blood ebbs out. “Helen no!” Ben leaps forward and pulls the dagger…
Continue reading“And it’s down to me,” Helen looks up, her eyes bright and blue. She is firm and decided, “I have to finish what I started.” 100,146 / 100,000(100.1%) Okay, well I did always say that the hundred thousand thing was…
Continue reading“I know that you say you are Gunnlaugr,” answers Hanna, equally determined, “And I know that Gunnlaugr is simply a corruption of Gangleri. Gangleri the walk-weary?” Gunnlaugr laughs off Hanna’s words. He gathers his companions together and takes a step…
Continue readingI’ve just killed an innocent bus load of people in that were in the path of the jökulhlaup, and Ódin is crossing the Bifrost. Need I say any more…? 98,130 / 100,000(98.1%)
Continue readingI still have the dramatic endpiece and cullmination to write, of course, however I now have a detailed map of how my novel ends. Very much a circle to have all the way around I think it is a nice…
Continue reading94,786 / 100,000(94.8%)
Continue reading94,066 / 100,000(94.1%)
Continue readingAnd as they converge, so the final ending becomes so much closer; so much more real a thing… 93,508 / 100,000(93.5%)
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