Yes, this afternoon I reached 150,000 words-and-a-bit, which is the “about right” length for a Paksworld book.\u00a0\u00a0 Was so gleeful I made a batch of fudge brownies (forgetting that with a temporary crown on one tooth, fudge is not the best idea…)\u00a0 Celebration time.\u00a0 We had fried chicken for supper,\u00a0 brownie with ice cream to follow.\u00a0 It’s not all done…one major component needs to be written, and a dull boring blob of a beginning needs to be ripped off and replaced with a crisp, sparkling, start, but…it’ll be a much easier balancing act with 150,000 *mostly* right words keeping it on track and zipping along.<\/p>\n
Today’s snippet is also posted in the elizabethmoon.com blog, so you needn’t look there for extras today.<\/p>\n
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By dark, he had achieved, he thought, the ugliest point ever put on the end of a pole, but it would hurt if it hit you right, and it didn’t fall off or break when he jabbed at a tree section with it.<\/p>\n
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This is Aris, the not yet qualified blacksmith, king’s friend, duke’s third son, horse trainer, and former squire to Duke Arcolin until a series of unfortunate events sent him….well, you’ll have to find out in the book itself.<\/p>\n
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