Alyx Dellamonica’s photostream on Flickr.
July 14 1,375 for a total of 43465
July 13 1,352
July 12 1,257
July 11 1,789
Also over the above period – fourteen student critiques, a Buffy rewatch, and a 4,000 character biographical article about a beloved fellow author.
Over at Tor, I’m up to rewatching “The Zeppo.” How fun is that?
Meanwhile, a recent peek at the Clarion West Write-a-Thon notes (Sponsor me here! Win intangible things!) reveals the following metrics:
July 9th 1,092 words, for a total of 36,155
July 8th 1,017 words
July 7th 1,415 words
July 6th 1,400 words
July 5th 1,147 words
Here’s a snapshot of an island nation you can’t name on Stormwrack, a little place by the name of Tallon:
Home. Royl could make out the drydocks, the riggers, the sailmaker’s quarter. Standing well back from the water was an ugly brick plug of a building where the spellscribes worked, enchanting unbreakable masts, wheels that could hold a course, for a time, without a navigator and figureheads that called out in the fog or the dark, whenever a vessel came within sight of their carved, painted eyes.
The Yards were the one great sight of his birth island, a long stretch of busy industry as far as the eye could see, men and women assembling the bones of cutters like the one he’d been sailing these past thirty years. The ships of the Tall were famous. Many a great ship of the Fleet–Constitution, the seat of the government, came from the Yards, and so did the fastest ship on the Nine Seas, Courser. The poor doomed frigate Gulietta was a Tall’s ship, as was the craft that sank her, the stolen pirateer Bleedlove.
This comes from one of The Gales, a wip currently called “Losing Heart among the Tall.”
Alyx Dellamonica’s photostream on Flickr.
As part of the research process for the books and stories I’m currently writing, I went to Victoria overnight so I could go sailing aboard a tall ship. The resulting pictures include a lot of close-up of the ship’s gear and rope.
But learning aside–and there was learning–it was a lovely opportunity to go out on a gorgeous old-style sailing vessel on what turned out to be a beautiful day. S.A.L.T.S. will take any member of its non-profit out once a year–their next scheduled sailings are in September. Have a look at their site and consider whether you might want to time travel!
Keynial – “They’re probably at the chiropractor’s. Let’s go back.”
Bargaining – “If we order a coffee and a cookie at Calabria instead of demanding to search the ladies’ room, they will be waiting for me here tomorrow, covered in Baristo-tude, when I show up for work.”
Anger – “What do you mean I haven’t got the spare keys back from the cat-sitter yet?”
Consumerism – “Here’s my VISA. Cut some new keys, oh deities of the hardware store. And while we’re at it, give me this bag that I TOTALLY don’t need.”
Anger redux – “They were in my bra all along? But I gave myself a full-chest patdown!! Twice!!”
Nap – “At least they weren’t riding around in there until bedtime.”
Aren’t you glad I spelled that out for you?
Let’s face it – I find most of the things I read on the web at Longreads, Tor.com or via my Twitterfeed. Here’s some of what I read this week, thanks to all of you:
The most important day in the USA: tinyurl.com/3w6cs9j
— Jack Womack (@jwomack) July 3, 2012
For the evening/West Coast crowd: Why writing in a vacuum can hurt your forward momentum as a writer: ow.ly/c09kN
— Colleen Lindsay (@ColleenLindsay) July 3, 2012
.@flakphoto I’d call this the most creative American landscape series going at the moment: staceyevansphotography.com/IRideTrains.ht…
— John Edwin Mason (@johnedwinmason) July 3, 2012
And here’s Chuck Wendig, with a humorous and profane list of 25 Things Writers should Stop Doing Now.
photo by Kristy Boyce
The Color of Paradox
The Cage
