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August 7, 2011 by L.S. Johnson

“What shall we converse about, then, should he overhear us?”

“Perhaps you should evince nostalgia over something, the better to remind him of your age?”

“Clever Jules,” she said.  “We could perhaps discuss swords? These little things that they wear nowadays, can you really call them such?”

“Lighter can be an asset, Elisabeth, especially in a duel, when the quicker thrust is often the deciding factor.”

“But I feel less of a swordsman, wielding one? You know my beloved blade at home, it comes up to here on me—” she gestured delicately across her bosom— “yet it has the most marvelous balance, and with proper handling it can thrust faster than anything promenading tonight.”

Filed Under: WIP Tagged With: The Hounds

all night write

July 31, 2011 by L.S. Johnson

well, not all night, but i stayed up late writing for the first time in a long time.  it is a different thing, that writing.  much more mechanical but intensely pleasurable; it’s popcorn-y, it’s like staying up to watch late night tv.  you are tempted to indulge yourself, you are tempted by flourishes and asides and letting all the looks drag on for about three sentences too long.  or perhaps it was just the nature of the scene that i was completely rebuilding, all 20,000 words of it.  at once mechanical—they now must start from a different place and different things must happen, but all in the same setting—and yet pleasurable, as there are some flirtations that i get to revisit and wallow in anew.  second only to revisiting your own real life flirtations, with a couple drinks in your belly and only the quiet of the wee hours as your soundtrack.

Filed Under: Process

worldbuilding

July 26, 2011 by L.S. Johnson

i have not paid much attention to author blogs in my life, nor have i tuned in to a lot of writerly debates, and thus i missed the whole m. john harrison worldbuilding kerfuffle.  but it is interesting stuff, and worth revisiting, so i am putting a link to the old entry here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080410181840/http://uzwi.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/very-afraid/

the wordpress site is gone but this is a way to get back to it.

Filed Under: Process Tagged With: M. John Harrison, worldbuilding, writing advice

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