A Specific Talent

While Klaeo agreed to learn embroidery and even to practice it, her parents had to accept that her avant-garde designs weren't going away any time soon. In her early years (which I can't portray because drawing children ESCAPES me), she took up a fascination for falcons, a symbol of an independent women in Garam culture.

To quote Emperor's New Groove: "Lemme guess, you've got a GREAT personality..."

Having been a moody pre-teen girl, I see nothing unusual about sitting in a corner window embroidering falcons. :)

Klaeo (c) Monarchy, stories available here: http://missjoneswrites.wordpress.com

Site Changes

I'm gonna fix this site. And it'll be awesome. Maybe I'll rename it Griffin Taming. And it'll be correlated with Wordpress and I'm gonna post the stories there, and blog/art here, and there's a link to deviantart, I'M GONNA FIX EVERYTHING. (Ambition is the loudest wailer)

An old old old draft

*cough*
Tern is trying to rewrite this story to sound Wodehousian.
Fortunately, this story IS coming together (Shadows, the 'second' story alluded to in the previous posting).
It is astonishing how quickly these stories like to fall apart, contradict each other, or just plain not work when prodded with a sharp stick. Almost as if I weren't worried about continuity when I wrote each of them. (perish the thought, I'm SO good at plotting...)
Anyhow, dreadfully behind schedule. Compounding it by blogging.

A bit:

"It was no use appealing to the man’s humanitarian concern or sympathy for the royal condition: he was Oppalic. Oppalic concerns ranged from battling the mixture of swamp creatures and sea monsters that regularly invaded their island nation, to sending ships over with valuable skin-based accessories. Fighting and selling. Dull. It was little wonder that their initial meeting had consisted of Father saying nothing more than "here's Murk, he's mute, he's your bodyguard'. A little research revealed that he was someone Tern couldn’t possibly identify with, even though Murk had bothered to learn Iriritamagonian and crossed a lively sea to be his bodyguard. There had to be a reason for that."

they have harpys here?

Snippet. Cause I'm fixing "The Absent Princess." It needs so much rewriting...
but I like the harpy bit.

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"If Othello was told to marry Klayo, he would have to, just as he would have to be king if something happened to Father. If Tern were told to marry Klayo, the same rule would apply. He had already called her a harpy and questioned her homicidal embroidery. That would make married life difficult."

conflicting plot points again

I do not know if I have ever done enough research to merit actually writing ANYTHING. And yes, it is becoming a frustrating novel, the chapters of which stand alone. And I want to jump around constantly and figure out what on earth I'm doing.
And I have not heard from beta, and part of me doesn't want to, because it realized that Ire and Monarchy are trying to turn into the same story. THE SAME STORY. With-- er, slightly different outcomes. Is that all I've got? Just the one story, the one person, I keep repeating in different ways becauses it's the only one that resonates?

Hmph.

And the plane flight wasn't an entire bust.

tooting a horn before there is anything to celebrate

--in hopes that I'll guilt myself into doing something.

I am hoping to get some real work done on a flight tomorrow, assuming the time change doesn't wipe me out, capacity-wise. It will be quick work to get Deluge done (hopefully) and Shadows is coming together and have printed up Down, Absent, and Physical. *cough* and someone at small group wants to read the grouping (which she calls a novel. Which it is NOT. It's a collection of interlacing short stories that have underlying plot currents and an arc and... IT'S NOT A NOVEL.)
...
unless it is, in which case I will really have to give up on writing short stories because I've collected all the shorts and made them a novel. That's insanity somewhere, I'm sure of it.

That only took a little bit of forever

Plotting how to interlock two stories should really, really not take this long. I have been sitting here for most of the afternoon and even gave myself a crying break-down of "why can't I make this work?"

Not helped by my mom asking "Are you working on a job app?"

Er. No. But this should work, it really should. It's an in-character solution that will let me put 'Deluge' first, revise some things in 'Shadows' (and come up with a better title) and everything should run much smoother. It fits the pacing better too. I knew it had to be there. The process of digging for that solution is like playing archeologist in the dark though.

*happy sigh* Okay. Relief. And I improved a two-year old story! Got the cheesy knives and stabbing out of there and everything.