So I left Atlanta this morning and wrote 2700+ words on the train, mostly about poor (ummph, you don’t know him yet.\u00a0 Let’s just say that he’s young and was brash, but reality has laid some clue-bats on him lately.\u00a0\u00a0 I didn’t expect he’d ever become a POV character, as he wasn’t my favorite of the available young-and-brash stock, but sometimes they simply o’er leap all obstacles to find themselves on center stage with very important lines to say–and say them with panache.\u00a0 Or some word of that type.<\/p>\n
(Yes, I’m tired; I’m in a hotel in New Orleans after a very long day on the train.)<\/p>\n
So, the snippet, from Book III, now officially not the last book of this group but somewhere in the middle, probably of 5.\u00a0 Keep in mind this is very rough draft of III, and may or may not make it into the final in recognizable form.<\/p>\n
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Heart hammering, [ummph] went down the narrow stairs and found himself facing a ring of swords.\u00a0 Including his father’s.\u00a0\u00a0 His mouth went dry.\u00a0 Had he been condemned?\u00a0 Was he to die here, in this remote place?\u00a0 Had this morning’s porridge been his last meal?\u00a0 He had never, he realized, believed that he would be killed, not if he did what he was told.\u00a0 The drawn swords told a different tale.<\/p>\n
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Three hundred more words and I’ll have a 3000 word day.\u00a0 I need to make up the days I didn’t get anything done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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