Friday, April 14, 2006 - A New Story

The sharp-eyed reader will notice that my alternate history story is gone from the sidebar. It was going nowhere, so I was forced to kill it. Sad, but necessary. Anyhow, as so often happens, something new rose out of the ashes of that story.

The new story, which I'm calling "Learning Magic From Mint", is something of a departure from the norm for me. Generally, my lead characters/narrators are disaffected loners. This time around, it's a little kid. Obviously, this means that my narrative voice (which I think is one of my strong points as a writer) is a far cry from what it has been in my other stories.

Over the past two days I've written roughly a third of the story and chances are I'll have it completed within a week's time.

In the meantime: Is anyone else sick of David Blaine? I mean, the guy's card tricks are among the coolest things I've ever seen. But what's with all these stunts? He should stick to the cards, frankly.


Cavan blogged at 12:55 PM | 0 comments


Progress

Zilch!
0/0


Listening


A.J. Croce - "Maybe I'm Amazed"



My Music


Reading


Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney

My Library


Watching


Black Book: B


Sweet and Lowdown: C


Breakfast on Pluto: B


Wishlist


Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo


Rachael Yamagata - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart