Today was a 2000+ word day.\u00a0\u00a0 Clitter-clatter-clitter-clatter on the keys, sometimes very fast, and sometimes a half hour spent staring futilely at the computer screen hoping words would show up there before I froze in that position.<\/p>\n
In amongst the clitter-clatter of keys, a fairly…um…exciting scene was taking shape.\u00a0\u00a0 Arguments, hasty rides across country, dead men in the snow kind of exciting (nothing subtle, in other words, on the surface level.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And suddenly, into the next bit of fierceness (swordfight) came the blade that’s been occupying my imagination since I first heart that Darkwood Armory was making it.\u00a0\u00a0 And then I saw a picture.<\/p>\n
And so, into the middle of a fight that should not even have had a rapier, let alone a swept-hilt rapier with a flamberge blade, such a blade appeared and put itself into the hands of a character.\u00a0 And I had to stop, back up a paragraph or so (it’s a fast-fighting blade, indeed it is), and remind myself (and Plot Daemon, who had fallen for the flamberge and was considering getting himself a hat with a plume)\u00a0 [I was NOT!<\/em> Slander not your Plot Daemon or I’ll send the Erinyes after you!<\/em>] that such rapiers do not exist in this world.<\/p>\n So if you look at the Links page, and you go to the Darkwood Armory link, and you look at blades (blades can be purchased separately) and you look at the flamberge….that is NOT what you’ll find in the book.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nor will the word “flamberge” grace its pages.\u00a0 But you’ll probably admit that’s one nifty looking piece of steel.\u00a0 Though, since it can’t appear in the books, I can’t claim that having one would be research.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (That was the excuse for two very different blades that I wore around the house for a week each, to learn the feel of.)<\/p>\n The swordfight in which the flamberge no longer appears is still a pretty good swordfight, though it’s complex enough I’m going to have to ask some fencing friends to work through it as written and make sure it’s doable.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And now it’s after midnight and I’m going to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today was a 2000+ word day.\u00a0\u00a0 Clitter-clatter-clitter-clatter on the keys, sometimes very fast, and sometimes a half hour spent staring futilely at the computer screen hoping words would show up there before I froze in that position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,12,107],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-writing-life","tag-progress-report","tag-research","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}