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bedlamsbardNow, I know I'm endgame on Water: I'm back to quoting canon. That, and Water's creeping up on Dust wordcount-wise. Dust is at 62,619; Water is 60,057 and rising steadily. The last time Water out wordcount-ed Dust was during NaNo.
Yeah, you know what it's like having two novels trying to out-wordcount each other? Strangely inspiring. I used to think Water was going to beat out Dust, if only because of the three-part thing (this is part one, right now), but I am eyeing Dust warily right now, because uh, hey, remember when I thought it was only going to be, like, 30K? (Let's not even get into the part where I used to think it was just going to be snippets.) Yeah, CLEARLY NOT SO MUCH.
SO. Currently, in Water, the following things are in motion:
Aslan's How = Parris Island (I kid you not, oh my god. Witness:
I don't know whether to be ashamed, vaguely thrilled, or horrified. I BLAME STIRLING.)
Peta = extremely pregnant, though she actually doesn't realize it at the moment. I think Edmund and Susan may have their suspicions. Caspian's just hoping she doesn't give him the flu.
Doctor Cornelius = now in the How, and intent on setting Caspian on the throne despite Caspian's intentions otherwise.
Coming soon: THE DUEL. THE BATTLE. Sometime after that, a marriage proposal. Way after that, Water parts two and three, a.k.a. the Warsverse gets in on the action and Bedlam lives up to her name.
*pops knuckles* All right, back to the salt mines. Someone tell me why my characterization of Cornelius revolves around "manipulative bastard who wants to be the power behind the throne"? (Hell, it's not like we don't see it in canon. Really, I don't pull this stuff completely out of thin air.
Well, okay, the drugs in Dust. That was pretty thin air.)
Yeah, you know what it's like having two novels trying to out-wordcount each other? Strangely inspiring. I used to think Water was going to beat out Dust, if only because of the three-part thing (this is part one, right now), but I am eyeing Dust warily right now, because uh, hey, remember when I thought it was only going to be, like, 30K? (Let's not even get into the part where I used to think it was just going to be snippets.) Yeah, CLEARLY NOT SO MUCH.
SO. Currently, in Water, the following things are in motion:
Aslan's How = Parris Island (I kid you not, oh my god. Witness:
Summer has turned into early autumn and the air is cooler now than it had been before, the leaves on the trees fading from green to burnished shades of red and gold. Out in the field, Susan and a troop of centaurs are galloping back and forth, shooting at a set of human-shaped targets set in the ground. Caspian stops to watch them. They gallop in a single-file circle, continuously moving and continuously shooting.
“Good!” he hears Susan call when they’ve emptied their quivers, her voice bright and eager. “Very good.” She nudges her horse to the target and starts plucking arrows out.
Caspian finishes scrubbing the bucket clean in the stream that runs behind the How and goes back inside, pressing himself against a wall as a group of fauns and satyrs runs past, Hilzarie and a wolf named Longclaw at their heels.
“Come on!” Longclaw barks. “What’s wrong with you, do you think you’re back in your beloved caves chasing rats? Run faster! You’re a disgrace to the High Queen!” He and Hilzarie chase them out into the sunlight.
I don't know whether to be ashamed, vaguely thrilled, or horrified. I BLAME STIRLING.)
Peta = extremely pregnant, though she actually doesn't realize it at the moment. I think Edmund and Susan may have their suspicions. Caspian's just hoping she doesn't give him the flu.
Doctor Cornelius = now in the How, and intent on setting Caspian on the throne despite Caspian's intentions otherwise.
Coming soon: THE DUEL. THE BATTLE. Sometime after that, a marriage proposal. Way after that, Water parts two and three, a.k.a. the Warsverse gets in on the action and Bedlam lives up to her name.
*pops knuckles* All right, back to the salt mines. Someone tell me why my characterization of Cornelius revolves around "manipulative bastard who wants to be the power behind the throne"? (Hell, it's not like we don't see it in canon. Really, I don't pull this stuff completely out of thin air.
Well, okay, the drugs in Dust. That was pretty thin air.)