the plot thickens

[ritaxis]

At just over 12K words, the protagonist is two years old, and I have written the sentence that heralds the death of his mother and little brother.

The symptoms that got me the anitbiotic are clearing up, but the cough isn't.

I am tired of this.

However, my neice got into the Brandeis CLassics Masters program! really very cool.

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[frogs_of_war]

I hope your cough goes away soon. My two older kids have to go on maintenance inhalers when ever they get a cold because last fall they went too long without antibiotics for sinus infections (because the doctors insisted it was swine flu) which settled in their lungs. Aren't you glad we live in a time with antibiotics and vaccines? Even if modern medicine doesn't work as fast as we wish it would.

How long do you think this story will be? Looks like an epic. Will you make us love that mother and little brother before you off them?

Congratulations to your niece.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

IOn the other hand, I grew up in the era of give-the-kid-an-antibiotic-for-everything and I have the same result. But my parents and brother smoked like chimneys.


I thought it would be a shortish novel -- 100K words. That's what I wanted. I'm not into writing really long things anymore. But it looks like it may be half again that much.

The mother I think is very dear: the little brother is a cute baby, but I haven't put a lot of effort into his personality . . . maybe I should? I don't know, there's more little brothers to come.

I just read about people making bread out of the inner park of pine trees and from lichen during famines. Now I have to write a famine, but it's hard with the protagonist living in the Duke's house. He's already getting forgotten a lot, so maybe there's some way I can get him forgotten at the house of a peasant.

I usually know more about a story before I commence it.

[frogs_of_war]

But it's kind of fun to not know every twist and turn the story is going to take. Not that I'd want to do it very often...