Pace picking up
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julian_griffithProject: Unnamed Christmas story
I overslept today -- probably the booze, really. But after I ate breakfast, I sat down and just cranked on it, and it really rolled along. THE PLOT SHOWED UP, in the gentlemen's after-dinner conversation, and brought out Rockingham's best cool and dangerous snark. Steel under the silky manners! Plus he doesn't have any patience for mincing words about the risks he runs as a soldier. God, it was fun to write those bits of dialogue.
Also, little girl trying hard to be a grownup, always fun, Grandmama deciding she likes Thorne enough to snark TO him about others, cultural observations about the lot of a governess including a bit about a mourning brooch, a Yule candle (thank you Regency Redingote), Rockingham being AWESOME about Caroline and if the property laws allowed he'd be more awesome yet, Alexander backing him up, and the legend of the animals getting the power to speak at midnight on Christmas Eve.
Yeah. it's really cranking along!
And tomorrow, I start with the midnight mass, which is the last thing left before it hooks up with the first sex scene, and then we have Christmas Day itself, and Boxing Day, and a snowball fight, and oh it is so much fun knowing what HAPPENS.
I am fairly liberally sprinkled with brackets for things like [FOOD GOES HERE] and [LOOK UP NAME OF CHURCH] and proper names for walk-ons and the occasional verb, but that's all minor editing and I've really kept the flow instead of bogging down in research.
But I do have to read the Luke nativity and a few other things before I get cracking tomorrow. Because Thorne will have relevant reflections. He's the one for whom the words actually mean something.
Market: Storm Moon Press, "22 Days of Yule" open anthology call
Deadline: October 15, 2012
Required length:15-20K
Previous wordcount: 10048
New words written today: 2230
Present total wordcount: 12157, because I delete outline as I go
Mean things: Dottie has no gaydar; Lady Sybil loves to fluster Marcus
Fun things: Grandmama has perfectly functional gaydar; mistletoe gives Caroline an excuse to kiss Thorne in public!
Stimulants: A fabulous cheering section on tumblr
I overslept today -- probably the booze, really. But after I ate breakfast, I sat down and just cranked on it, and it really rolled along. THE PLOT SHOWED UP, in the gentlemen's after-dinner conversation, and brought out Rockingham's best cool and dangerous snark. Steel under the silky manners! Plus he doesn't have any patience for mincing words about the risks he runs as a soldier. God, it was fun to write those bits of dialogue.
Also, little girl trying hard to be a grownup, always fun, Grandmama deciding she likes Thorne enough to snark TO him about others, cultural observations about the lot of a governess including a bit about a mourning brooch, a Yule candle (thank you Regency Redingote), Rockingham being AWESOME about Caroline and if the property laws allowed he'd be more awesome yet, Alexander backing him up, and the legend of the animals getting the power to speak at midnight on Christmas Eve.
Yeah. it's really cranking along!
And tomorrow, I start with the midnight mass, which is the last thing left before it hooks up with the first sex scene, and then we have Christmas Day itself, and Boxing Day, and a snowball fight, and oh it is so much fun knowing what HAPPENS.
I am fairly liberally sprinkled with brackets for things like [FOOD GOES HERE] and [LOOK UP NAME OF CHURCH] and proper names for walk-ons and the occasional verb, but that's all minor editing and I've really kept the flow instead of bogging down in research.
But I do have to read the Luke nativity and a few other things before I get cracking tomorrow. Because Thorne will have relevant reflections. He's the one for whom the words actually mean something.
