Comin' along

[wayfaringwordhack]

After little more than five weeks of writing, I've hit the 100pg mark on The Bitter River. I'm also very close to 40K. On Friday, I started writing on the trilogy and thus far have alternated my writing days between the two projects. The method seems to be working, but it is the trilogy that keeps me up late when I lie down to sleep. It's the trilogy that creeps in and whispers ideas to me when I'm awakened at 5:30am by the rain showers. It's the trilogy whose churning will not immediately allow me to fall back asleep. Despite that, when I sit down to write on my historical, the words come without problem; the characters are cooperative.

I don't know if it will continue, but I'm impressed with the way they are cohabiting my brain. 

Comments

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

That's a very cool set-up you have going on in that noggin' of yours. I wish my stories behaved the same way...

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

*lol* Well, who knows if it will last? For now, however, I'm enjoying it immensely. Go, Brain!

[mindseas.livejournal.com]

Amazing! What's the trilogy about?

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

bwahaha. I have enough trouble summing up a single volume story, and now you ask me to do it for a trilogy. :P Hmmm, let's see...:

A prosperous country, whose wealth comes from jewels "sung" from the ground (as opposed to mining), is struck by a plague that devastates plant, animal, and human life. For decades, they are forced to fall back as the blight advances, leaving their rich lands and hiding behind magical barriers, held in place by the suffering mages. The plague took the health and lives of non-magical folk, but it made channeling magic an agonizing affair that prematurely ages the mages. A trader returns from a distant land with their salvation in hand, a drug called euphoria, which allows the magicians to start taking back the ravaged country. But the euphoria comes with an unknown price and leads to the ultimate downfall of the mages and land alike.