May or may not be an update tomorrow, Friday. This was a little hard to get down. Unfortunately for Alicia, it’s about to get harder. I see another Interlude after that, but I don’t think, per my first, they’ll be all the funny anymore.
Burial customs are a cornerstone of all civilizations.
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Continue reading ““The Fallen” 4/13″If I’m writing, it must be time for more food. This is another moment of peace. Things this week are going kinetic, starting tomorrow.
Since I know less about fishing that Alicia does (will), I had to pause to look up the different kinds of fishing line. Odd where stories take you, sometimes.
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Continue reading ““The Fallen” 4/10″It’s Friday, so here’s a longer segment. I always seem to have people talking during a meal; quirk of mine, I suppose. As you’ll see on Monday, from the last paragraph here I have her jump to the conclusion, with “so that’s what happened.” Otherwise, I’m retelling swaths from Ice Inundation Intelligence, which all of you have already read.
Since I asked myself about vitamin D deficiency, I had to do some research. Guess what’s on the menu next week?
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Continue reading ““The Fallen” 4/9″Some talking but no real resolution as to what the heck is going on. If they are confused then I have no clue at all where this is going.
I did finish my preliminary spreadsheet about ages. I, obviously, still need to draw the cavern. That’s a bother right now as, several segments ahead, they go exploring.
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Continue reading ““The Fallen” 4/8″New secondary character, batting clean up for what happened in the last pages of A Texas Naval Affair. It is with timeslips such as this that I have no choice but to pause and make notes. Lots of notes.
Looks as if I’ve enough segments to make it to Friday. I’m taking today and part of tomorrow to complete my spreadsheet of character ages (as three generations, so far, have been covered in this MS). I also need to get the sketch of the cavern down so I stop using things such as [north?] as placeholders as I have no idea which way they are facing.
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Continue reading ““The Fallen” 4/7″No, this will not be a recap of “Alice in Wonderland.” In fact, it is proving to be rather difficult: most of my stories are driven by character interaction. Once I focus in on Alicia Alvarez, alone, then there is much more exposition than I am used to.
That’s fine, I suppose. I often try to do something “different” when writing. That’s usually changing genres but in this case, I guess it will be my task to learn to write with only a single character.
Unless she meets something.
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Continue reading ““The Fallen” 4/1″Here we close out Part 3. Each of these is longer than the previous, so I do wonder what kind of adventure Alicia will have.
For all of Anton Senior’s devotion to his wife, he’s still a guy and we guys will always look. Saras knows that full well, but chides him, anyway. It’s all in fun. I think her declaration at the end was a good way to wrap this up.
Next Monday: down the rabbit hole. Deus vult.
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Continue reading ““The Fallen” 3/11 (end pt3)”Finally realized yesterday that I will not – cannot – force this story beyond where it wants to stop. If I did, then it becomes my story and not theirs. So, 35k words, 40, 50? Not worried anymore. It will be what it is.
Being in territory nominally claimed by the imperium, things are much more relaxed and open. We know Fussy and Aurelia would routinely strip and bathe in front of their troops, so it seems Saras is like that, as well. Morals were very strict after the Breakup/Change, but that was three, nearly four generations ago, now. And, demis are used to doing their own thing.
I’m not about to get drawn into another meeting and another dinner, so Part 3 may wrap up on the next installment.
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Continue reading ““The Fallen” 3/10″“What’s behind curtain number one?” Now we know. This is, obviously, me ripping off Tolkien; I’ve long said that all writers “borrow” from one another, but “ripping off” sounds better.
This wraps up the Alvarez’s visit to Ekaterinburg. I’ll gloss their trip to the dams and move things along to their stop in what is de facto imperium territory. It will be a much more relaxed visit as everyone is on the same side. Once that is completed, I’ll close Part Three. Part Four still only exists as notes as I still don’t know what I’m doing with Alicia.
Below, Count Lavrov really steps in it, doesn’t he?
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Continue reading ““The Fallen” 3/9″Well, hello Another Dangerous Person. There is no way, none, that the PM of the Russian Empire is unaware of the unfolding diplomatic situation on Mars. Not about to let things get muddled, Reina obviously wants some skin, literally, in the game. So welcome Ivan, ladies and gentlemen.
Another slightly longer segment, but after spending the last two hours typing, I realized I’m 4000 words ahead of what I’m posting, and the Alvarez’s still aren’t yet to imperium territory for those talks. I might know where that’s going, but more importantly, I need to decide if this will be a novella (~35k words) or another novel (min 50k). Until I answer that, I cannot start Part Four.
When Sergei meets Ivan in the epilogue of Ice Inundation Intelligence, his private thought was, “how can such a nice kid be her son?”
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