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round three
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May. 13th, 2008 @ 11:20 pm
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I am at work on the third draft, now, of "The Oracle." Very many apologies to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jmeadows, who got stuck with the first draft. You can trash that! It has changed....
How many things and people, real, almost real, and more than real, can I be in love with at once? So many, so very many. And that's "in love"--doesn't even take into account the things I just plain love. This intoxication!I feel...:  intoxicated I hear...: Mari Fujiwara: The Wind Forest |
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The Oracle
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May. 12th, 2008 @ 01:07 pm
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Thanks to sartorias, I have some wonderful ideas for how to improve this story. Now if I can just live through my hours of work, and try to *concentrate* on that work, and not on what I'm going to do to the story's most unpleasant character or how I'm going to improve the fortunes of the POV character, I'll be all set.
Thanks again, sartorias!I feel...:  jubilant I hear...: Emily Smith: May Colven |
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Apr. 28th, 2008 @ 10:10 am
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Yes, I have oracles on the mind. The story I'm writing with an eye toward Coyote Wild's YA issue is about what happens when a young oracle comes out with an unpopular pronouncement.
I think it's going to end up a little long (judging by how many words I have so far), but I will write it until it's done, and then see about cutting down, if need be.
Just today I figured out how the end will work. I took Molly-the-dog and the umbrella crow for a walk to the post office, and on the way, it all came clear (and the secret lay in the oracular pronouncement, after all--as one might expect).
Gosling is the pet name for the oracle; it's what his family always called him before he was discovered to be the oracle. Five is his older sister, who is now his attendant at the temple of the spirits. Guess what her birth place was in the family. Whose futures depend on how Gosling's pronouncement is interpreted? Well, pretty much everyone in the kingdom known as Gate of the Mountain. Who else has an interest in it? The petitioning party from the Kingdom of the Plains, which is a much bigger kingdom and has an agenda.
I had better earn my keep, now, for a bit, however.I feel...:  hopeful I hear...: Peter Tosh: Bush Doctor |
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