I haven’t talked about actually writing book three lately, what with so much else going on–sometimes answering comments used up my available time.\u00a0 But work is progressing, just slowly.\u00a0 I hope to speed up.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
I’m writing on three prongs, from three different POVs at the moment.\u00a0 Arvid, everyone’s favorite “I’m-not-a-thief…” character is in a very dangerous situation because he failed to anticipate treachery from a certain quarter.\u00a0\u00a0 But this is Arvid, and though he’s not a Girdish yeoman,\u00a0 he once saved a Girdish paladin’s life.\u00a0 Gnomes aren’t the only ones who pay their debts.\u00a0 Or impose them.<\/p>\n
Linnar Vardan, a Halveric sergeant, goes from freezing in a cold ditch full of water to…well…it’s still up in the air whether she survives the book or not.\u00a0\u00a0 She’s an interesting case, as she used to be a male sergeant named Egram.\u00a0 I didn’t like Egram’s name and was searching for another, when a friend in choir, a master-sergeant in the National Guard with many years of service (including in Iraq)\u00a0 told me about her upcoming retirement.\u00a0\u00a0 She and her husband (retired Army) are both the right character and bone structure to be in a fantasy, so I asked if she’d like to be a character as a “Thank you for your service” retirement present.\u00a0\u00a0 She said yes; I reworked the name to something distantly related to hers,\u00a0 and sent her the chapters.\u00a0\u00a0 Didn’t change anything but the name and pronouns; when she read it she said “That’s me–how did you do that?”<\/p>\n
She’s a master-sergeant with over thirty years of service.\u00a0 They tend to share certain common characteristics, and I knew some really good ones.<\/p>\n
Then there’s Arcolin, who’s having his own difficulties with some displaced persons and a dragon.<\/p>\n
Enough chips of colored stone and you have a mosaic picture.\u00a0 So bit by bit, though not my favorite way to first-draft, does work.\u00a0 (In the years when our son was small and I was home-schooling him, I had to learn to write bit by bit…a book a year that way.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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