I think Lan goes into bouts of inner thoughts more often than Eirika. I suppose that can't be helped, as they are two different viewpoints altogether. All the same, there isn't much action in the first chapter with him, though I suppose with all of the action being packed into Eirika's first chapter, this couldn't [...]
I totally survived--and won!--NaNoWriMo! That said, I haven't exactly finished my novel, and right now it's probably only the halfway point, so further celebrations would have to go on hold until after I've actually followed through on this story. This week, I've decided to branch out of Eirika's POV and into Lan Dulahunty's POV. Lan [...]
I might have to break this chapter up, considering there's just a lot happening with Eirika. Finding out a colleague is dead, having another colleague's airship bombarded with fire, and now a little bit of a fisticuffs in the middle of a docking bay of all things! That said, she is an action-kind of gal, so why not [...]
Phew, trouble seems to follow Eirika around, or maybe just Fred. Or maybe both. But I suppose they're all going to have problems one way or another, smuggling villains they are, hee. I may have set something on fire, but I'm secretly a Fire Bender, so we're going to have to accept that this is [...]
NaNoWriMo has pretty much taken over my writing life. Images of floating cities and stone-powered airships have taken over my daydreams. Even my reading material has been taken over by steampunk stories--both good and horrible. So is it any surprise that my excerpt below is coming from my steampunk NaNoWriMo work? The excerpt is a [...]
Story and Somnomancy 