I should finish some of these

[starlady]

via dira and many other people: When you see this, share 3 random lines from 3 WIPs.

1. Charles imagines this is what skydiving feels like, or BASE jumping, or any stupid endeavor where you fling yourself out into empty space and trust in something outside yourself to save you from the fatal embrace of gravity. For Charles, that’s Erik. Here and now, he’s making his choice.
2. “Erik, you pratt,” Charles breathed. “Why did you think I stripped naked and paraded myself around for you at the swimming hole the other day?”
   “Er,” said Erik.
3. Of course no monarch ruled alone; he or she was only as good as their armies, their commanders, their agents, their advisors, and Georgiana was under no illusions on that score, either. She had a half-blood mage, a flighty prince, an embittered marchioness and a handful of Naval officers, plus whomever she could scrape up in the various barrels of Europe, to confront the ruthless and experienced realms of that continent. The Caribbean was wealthy, and its commerce the envy of Christendom, but money was an unintelligent beast; it wanted direction. So too did Georgiana, and she would have to provide it herself.

Comments

[lnhammer]

I use P very loosely here, given I haven't written anything more than a couple haiku for several months, but from what I was working on before TBD happened:

1. with shades she'd never seen in ocean water

2. Classes transmute slow Time to something faster

3. yet it has taken my heart

(Guess which one is a translation.)

---L.

[qian]

3 is intriguing! What is it from?

[starlady]

Well, so, I guess nearly nine years ago now, I sat down and wrote an 80K magical pirate novel in about six weeks. This is from the sequel, which I got nearly 20K words into before careening to a screeching halt over questions about the underlying worldbuilding: how far alternate historical fantasy did I want this to go? Had I made the right decisions for the characters at the end of the first book? Too many Quakers? Enough people of color? Am I just rewriting Quicksilver with magic, ladies, and natural disasters? Is that a bad thing?

I don't know. I still know exactly how the book goes even all these years later. Maybe I should just write it and see what happens. The first one, I daresay, is definitely readable.

[qian]

You should write more of it! It sounds like a lot of fun.

[lnhammer]

THERE CANNOT BE TOO MANY QUAKERS IN A FANTASY