It’s one scene. It’s not much. But it’s a start. So, yay.
It’s also got a first line which I kinda like: “The next morning, Chad stood in the kitchen, Cliff’s bricklike antique cellphone in his hand, dialing a number on a slip of paper he’d found in one of his mutilated Thursday-night pockets as outside the wail of electric guitars rose on the breeze.”
So there you are. Progress is being made. Fleets of assassin messenger pigeons be damned. Hee.
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They’re not assassins, Dan. I’m not a monster. They’ll peck out your eyes, that’s all. Jeez.
But congrats on the scene! Chad sounds like quite the dude. I imagine he looks like a young Clint Eastwood. With eyes, crucially. Eyes.
Ooh. Where in the novel is this? Or do I have to wait?
I actually sent it to you, back when, didn’t I? And you actually read it. That’s awesome.
Well. I’m just kind of starting where the draft thus far stops, so it’s a scene with Chad, the morning after he had the weird dream featuring the mysterious old woman next door. It’s not really moving the plot along so much as just getting something I’d never gotten around to dealing with out of the way—Chad makes a call to the contractor over at the dam who Cliff had said might be able to help out with the technical difficulties at the Valhalla Project. It gets one dangling plot thread dealt with, at least for the time being, and it gave me an excuse to get back into the Chad/Apocalypso wacky living situation vibe, and just get me back into the world a little bit. There will be more soon, though….not only has the inertia of six months and change been broken, but melb100 is also threatening me with eyeball-pecking pigeons (cf. above). Hee.
Anyway, darlin’. The game does indeed appear to be back on. Woo hoo.
Cheers,
Dan
...since it was back in the day, I haven’t actually read it since, well, back in the day. So. Reckon I should finally replace that printer cartridge and reread it, now, shouldn’t I?
Also, what’s all this yackflapping you kids are doing about eyeball-pecking pigeons? Hee. Makes me think of the second segment of that movie Cat’s Eye when Robert Hays is out on the ledge trying to escape from that mob guy and there’s a pigeon that keeps pecking at his ankle…
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