Category: Snippets and Stories
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Friday comes early: Friday Snippet from THE RUBY KEY
I still feel like absolute death on moldy toast. This is more flu than cold, I think, and it’s clobbering me hard. But I’m up for the moment, and decided to go ahead and do the Friday Snippet early, then take the rest of the week off (or until such time as I actually feel…
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Yipes! It’s Friday [Snippets]!
Time flies when someone is wrecking your book. I can’t believe it’s Friday again. Here’s Aaran (that unnecessary male) when he makes his first appearance in HAWKSPAR. Second scene–the entire second scene, not just a snippet, so it’s really long. (Hence the more note two paragraphs down so that I don’t kill the important shipping…
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FRIDAY SNIPPET: The Stowaway
I’m doing Hawkspar copyedits today, so this snippet is fresh in my mind. This is from Aaran’s POV (Aaran is by this time captain of his own beat-up ship and on his way to rescue Hawkspar). Some of the men have caught a young stowaway on board, and locked him in one of the ship’s…
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Friday Snippet–A piece of the rat scene from Hawkspar
This is a very short section of an enormous scene in HAWKSPAR, in which the heroine of the story, not yet Hawkspar, is being put on trial for the implied sins of her mentor. NOTICE: This material is copyrighted, first draft, probably buggy, and possibly not even going to be in the final draft. Do…
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Belated Friday Snippet: Hawkspar
It’s been a grim week. Got most of the writing done, but it’s been hard. Snippet this week is from HAWKSPAR. Apologies for being so late with it. NOTICE: This material is copyrighted, first draft, probably buggy, and possibly not even going to be in the final draft. Do not quote or repost anywhere or…
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Update to Friday Snippets rules
The Friday Snippets rules got an update because of both intentional and unintentional spam. If you’re playing Friday Snippets with me, please take a look.
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Friday Snippet: Green Magic I
Unbelievably, it’s already Friday again. So here’s my Snippet. Here’s the setup. Elli, having broken into a secure enemy installation, has rescued Tom from the cage. The two are working their way down a corridor in the dark when two maintenance guys enter the corridor behind them and get a lightbulb and a ladder from…
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Friday Snippet–Green Magic I–Chapter 1
This is the first 40% of Chapter One in the first book of the series project that I’m calling Green Magic, the part marked “Out of the cage” on its index card. In spite of the fact that if it sells it’s the first section of a pseudonymous category romance, I think my regular readers,…
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Friday Snippet: Theme and Concept
As promised, one complete chapter (and one complete tool) in the Plot Clinic. As voted on by you folks, that chapter is: Chapter 11: Theme and Concept. All the usual disclaimers apply: spellos, typos, copyright, no reprint, yadda, yadda. Things will be getting hectic later, so I want to post this now before I forget.…
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Tomorrow is Friday Snippets
I’ve decided that for Friday Snippets tomorrow, I’m going to post one complete tool from the ones I’ve finished. Furthermore, I’m going to let you folks pick which tool. The tool I post will still be in unedited first draft, and will therefore still be subject to the usual typos, spellos, bad writing, worse writing,…