Category: The Silver Door

  • One Eighth

    The girls figured out their first puzzle in the Spire, and are about to confront their second. I crossed the ten-thousand word mark, but also drew a map and did a bit more language building, so I’m delighted with the day’s progress. And I’m one eighth of the way finished with the book.

  • Familiar Acts, Unfamiliar Places

    There is such strange comfort in going through the patterns of creating a language; in figuring out from sounds and grammar and syntax the character of a people lost from the world. The Sun Wizards are gone, though a few artifacts from their wondrous culture remain. I’ve been building backwards, from a city, a handful…

  • Friday Snippet: from MOONROADS

    I wrote this and liked it. It’s a bit after the last snippet, but not so much that you can’t ellipse the missing action and figure out things have not gone well. NOTICE: This material is copyrighted, unedited raw first draft, probably buggy, possibly not even going to be in the final book. Do not…

  • Language brakes

    Rolling along, close to wrapping up for the day, I hit a situation. No. A Situation. Dammit. Had this lovely scene going, and suddenly I realized that it could not, could not, take place in the language in which it was taking place. It would have been sloppy, it would have been cheating … and…

  • Doors…

    You generally don’t think much about doors. I know I don’t. But, well, doors are a big issue today. I’m at 7602, with 1540 of the day’s 2000 words finished, and the Spire keeps tossing me surprises.

  • At 6515 words

    The story progresses.

  • Up at 4:30 AM

    Writing… Writing…

  • 2074 words, and the Spire

    Again, the words were wonderful fun this morning. Didn’t get started until 7:30, but I finished with over two thousand words, and I landed in the Spire, a completely unexpected place. I’m discovering it as I write it, and I’m fascinated. I didn’t know it was here until its owner dropped the girls on the…

  • Up at 5, well before the crack of dawn

    Working on Moonroads. The words are flying this morning. I couldn’t face another day of website work without getting words, and my goal is 2000 new ones. It’s October, and I love October. My window is open, cool sweet air is blowing through my office, the dark is charming and there’s something big and toothy…

  • Friday Snippet: From MOONROADS

    This picks up about where the last snippet left off. The stuff that was in the last snippet has been totally rewritten. But still. Genna and her best friend Catri being chased by human-haters. NOTICE: This material is copyrighted, unedited raw first draft, probably buggy, possibly not even going to be in the final book.…