Picture #2 (Now With More WIP)
29 Jul
Well it’s very, very early on a Wednesday, but it’s Wednesday nevertheless, and I don’t think I’ll do much writing tomorrow. And so without further ado, here’s the progress on The Resurrectionists for this week:
26639 / 80000 words. 33% done!
Wooo, 1/3 complete! I also finished a really cool research book (The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 by Lynn Hudson Parsons. I realize that will sound boring, but it’s political intrigue of the nastiest kind. Just better dressed), edited the relevant short story with Meghan’s indispensable help, and scripted a ton of stuff for Resurrectionists. So I’m okay with the abysmal-looking progress. Yay.
Today’s excerpt comes from the supper table, where our Tommy is subjected to odd American eating habits and the fairly raucous Appleby siblings (and their father) mocking one another mercilessly. He likes it. He begins with:
“I do have two sisters of my own, you know.”
Hannah fixed her attention on him—for the first time since he’d arrived in Philadelphia, without suspicion. “Are you close, Mr. Brandon?”
Tom tucked his napkin away and went deadpan. “Not at all, Miss Hannah. They can’t abide my endless talk of sport, and I can’t abide their endless talk of parties. But we all get on very tolerably at supper, as etiquette demands.”
Rebecca smirked. “We don’t get on at supper.”
“Yes, but I think you must like each other. Therein lies the difficulty: etiquette is only required at the table when you’d rather meet someone in a boxing match.”
Again they laughed, and Rebecca loudest of all. “Surely not your sisters!”
“You only say that because you’ve not met them. They’d like nothing better than the opportunity to have at me in the ring, I assure you.”
Clearly inspired by the quote from that guy about, you know. Etiquette being all that keeps us from going to war with each other. Anyhow, it’s true.
In the spirit of sibling togetherness (and only a few decades off, remarkably enough), I give you another hard drive find, Image #2:
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Now playing: Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony #3 In A Minor, Op. 56, “Scottish” – 3. Adagio
via FoxyTunes
I knew the classics would sneak in there. Your hard drive is definitely harbouring cooler pics than mine.
Well done on hitting a wordcount milestone, Katey. You’ll soon be at 50%, which is where I always start to struggle.
Hee.. I love that extract… it’s totally Heyeresque!
I like how your sibling picture ties in with your excerpt. My favourite line was “…we all get on very tolerably at supper, as etiquette demands.”
Hmm, I think that I will substitute one of my pictures for today with one of my sister…
I want to see these puffed-up folks go toe to toe in a boxing match.
C’mon…your fans demand it!
Cate, if by cooler you mean helplessly nerdy then yes, I suspect it is! (I do have an entire file of composer pictures, I admit, but that one’s my favorite.)
Mike, definitely. I think the only thing that keeps me from dreading that halfway mark is that I have so much more of it scripted already. I start to get bogged down at that exact point. Argh.
Reenie, yay! Just what I wanted to hear. Man, that reminds me that I must send you that Peacock story– the MC is deliberately Heyeresque in a way these people just can’t be… your opinion is needed!
Alan, sweeeeet. Sibling day! Hm, maybe I should’ve dug up one with me and Nick… nah.
Aaron, I can’t promise a boxing match, but would you settle for a duel? I just wrote one of those last night and Jesus it was fun.
Oh, siblings. I’m really starting to love these kids, even from what little I’ve seen so far.
I’m glad I didn’t let my imagination wander before you told me they were siblings ; )
Thanks, Cory! They’re probably a little too much fun to write, and that makes me nervous. Writing to entertain myself isn’t really the goal, you know?
Nat, ewww! Also, HAHA!