Here are the first two chapters of the novel provisionally entitled 'Bride of Tash'.
Here are the first three chapters of my 2004 NaNoWriMo novel.
And here's the first 13 pages of another thing.
Let me know if you think any of them are worth finishing!
That's all.
Except...
*weeps for the end of the dream*
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I don't know if I can help with the motivation, but I might...
Thanks to birthday generosity I now have a Kindle, so the various neglected works of so many of my boon compadres (your good self included) are now accessible in a format which may not want to make me tear my own eyes out. Which is to say that I hate reading for long periods off a monitor, but quite like the ebook format.
I am going to transfer your most recent work (forgive my failure to summon the name right at the moment), and The Ghost Years, to said wonder-device, whence they may be read at far less inconvenience than was previously the case.
Reviews forthcoming (see forthcoming blog on the subject)
Thanks Cornelius! I hope you enjoy your wonder-gadget of the 21st century. Be sure to let us Luddite types know if there are any particular features of the new medium we should be taking advantage of. I recently acquired a cute new drawing pad thingy to attach to my computer so should be able to provide a colourful map to accompany The Ghost Years real soon now...
The third fragment linked in this post takes place in the worlds where I was vaguely thinking of setting that epic of competing utopias.
Reading that, I am trying to remember the book or book series I read many years ago (probably when I was in primary school) which was written in a similar voice, about a community of hardy, old-fashioned-values types in early 20th Century middle America with some odd (I thought then) religious practises. I much later came to realise that they must have been Mormons. Hell if I can recall what it was called, but I do remember the tone and pacing. This was very much like that, in an agreeable way.
Sorry, that had scant relevence and made barely any sense. i just needed to get it out.
I liked the piece. You should expand it into a nine-volume epic saga. I note with pleasure the potential for space battles of some variety.
Aw, shucks! Thanks again Cornelius.
I don't think they can be the same books, but I remember in primary school reading a series of books by a boy narrator nicknamed (I think) "The Great Brain" who cleverly solved local mysteries and stuff. It was set in a majority Mormon community c.1900 but (I think) the narrator's family were Catholic. I was thinking about them just the other day. Hey, I should use that Google thingy...
Aha, yes, that was them! In fairness to my younger self, I read them long before I knew what either a Mormon *or* a Catholic was :)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Brain)
If you do read them again, let me know if they hold up
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