“Drink of Me, Drink of me,

Forever then a Wolf you’ll be,”

( The whisperings of Fate )

“One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.”

- Niccolo Machiavelli
<- 6: Small Projects ~0~ 8) Desires of the Moment ->

( In which he hatches a new plan )

“Small projects need much more help than great.” - Dante Allighieri

<- 5) Thinking Makes it So ~0~ 7) The Establishment of Others ->

( In which they arrive to the scene )

“Why then, ‘tis none to you; for there is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

- Hamlet, Shakespeare’s Hamlet

<- 4) A Lean and Hungry Look ~0~ 5) Small Projects ->

( In which the Journey finally starts )

All right, so for those of you who don't know, national book day is April 23rd, in the spirit of which my local librarian has gifted me with seven YA and JYA novels, and I am in the process of reading, reviewing, and distributing them.

So, in the spirit of making fewer of these reviews funny literary rants and of reviewing books which don't already ( Read more... )

“Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look, he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.”

- Julius Ceasar, Shakespeare’s Julius Ceasar

<- 3) Lady Disdain ~0~ 5) Thinking Makes It So ->

( In which the plan is changed )

Dusk was falling as she stood out on the porch, waiting. It was warm for April, with the spring peepers singing away in the ponds and streams beyond the cabin, and the beginnings of a cricket chorus tuning up somewhere in the grass. The snowmelt was long past, and the crocus in the front yard, bulbs that she wouldn’t ever abandon because her ( Read more... )

Charloft prompt, posted there without context, but I liked it enough to pull it over here.

Character: Lindsay
Characterization Issue: Childhood/early adolescence, family relationships, old doubts

Ten years ago
When I think about who I was ten years ago, it's easy to trivialize being a teenager who'd never lived in one town for longer than a year, with ( Read more... )

I'm going to get in the habit of doing this, as it's a chance for me to look back on stuff and reflect after it's all over and I've gotten past the "whatever, it's done" stage. Also, because I as a writer am interested in how other writers think, and there's an extremely slim possibility that the interest might be reciprocal with someone. You never ( Read more... )

<- 7) A Silver Sheild ~0~ Author's Notes ->

In the morning, I woke up far too early to the crashing of waves and the diffuse glow of what should have been sunrise. My watch said five thirty, and when I knocked on Leah’s door, she was still asleep, and the door was locked. I hadn’t spoken to her much last night, and I’d gone to bed early, which was ( Read more... )