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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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...