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Post your work in progress, page 77 or page 7, lines 7-14, no cheating.

I shall join in the current fad for the annoying of one's blog readership by posting lines 7-14 from page 77 or 7 of the WIP. :-)

Here's an extract from page 7 of Circle of Glass (currently in first revision pass):

development next year. Only when some of our suppliers heard that one of the engineers was going to be with easy reach, they asked if they could show _me_ new toys." He pulled the mugs out of the cupboard and set them down by the kettle. "I do enjoy both sides, but it's hard keeping straight of whether I'm sucking up or being sucked up to."

"You could get whiplash," I said, trying to take my mind off thoughts of sucking, and/or thoughts of liking it both ways.

"It's not bad, just tense," he said. "You know, people like SF because they like SF. There's a


And here's a snippet from page 77 of Taxman (in progress as soon as my hands are working well enough again):

Danny, I still think that you might be best off going back to your own people and getting them to sort this out."

The computer beeped and Danny started typing rapidly.

Don't think I can get through the walls like this. And they might know to look for me there. Could be risky to try, if it turns out I can't open a gate in a hurry.

"He's right," Luke said. "If they've made a connection


I will refrain from posting a similar snippet from L&M3 because it will only get Certain People excited about something they're not going to see even in first draft for at least a year. :->

I'm not convinced that this does an awful lot for anyone except those of us who have already seen the manuscripts in question...
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Gacked from [livejournal.com profile] sallymn and others. "Post the first lines from your last 20 stories. Do you see any patterns?

Um, yes. Is that last 20 by date published, by date started, or by date finished? For these do not necessarily correspond, at least not with my stories. I've got WnotIP dating back ten years... Anyway, on to the first lines, which I am taking to mean "first sentence". And I'm going to cheat and make some of them "first paragraph". :-)
the list )

I can't really see much in there, other than I have an unfortunate liking for one sentence opening paragraphs and spent too much of my childhood reading mythology books...

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