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Excerpt 3 (Contains Spoilers for Clockwork Heart)

drupagliassotti @ November 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet

(Caveat: Anything I write during National Novel Writing Month is subject to significant change or deletion during the longer editing phase to follow! So don’t get too invested in any scene I quote here … this is “rough draft” at its roughest! … Also, if you haven’t read Clockwork Heart, the text below contains SPOILERS.) 

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Excerpt 2 (Contains Spoilers for Clockwork Heart)

drupagliassotti @ November 15, 2008 # 3 Comments

(Caveat: Anything I write during National Novel Writing Month is subject to significant change or deletion during the longer editing phase to follow! So don’t get too invested in any scene I quote here … this is “rough draft” at its roughest! … Also, if you haven’t read Clockwork Heart, the text below contains SPOILERS.) 

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Excerpt (Contains Spoilers for Clockwork Heart)

drupagliassotti @ November 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet

(Caveat: Anything I write during National Novel Writing Month is subject to significant change or deletion during the longer editing phase to follow! So don’t get too invested in any scene I quote here … this is “rough draft” at its roughest! … Also, if you haven’t read Clockwork Heart, the text below contains SPOILERS.) 

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Saturday’s Progress

drupagliassotti @ November 2, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Yesterday I didn’t get much written, as I’d rather expected, since I headed off to visit family around 12:30. I got home again around 7 p.m., but after fiddling around with a quick little home project, I decided that I’d rather wrap up Season 2 of Torchwood than write. Disc 4 featured more James Marsters [...]

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Clockwork Heart Sequel: Brainstorming

drupagliassotti @ October 23, 2008 # One Comment

 Those hot dry winds that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks. Anything can happen. — Raymond [...]

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NaNo Update

drupagliassotti @ November 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet

November 15: Passed the 25K mark. Whew! I wasn’t sure I was going to make it. 25K to go, but Thanksgiving break is coming up, so I have hope. I’ve got a clearer idea of what this strange world looks like now — a bit like a Ptolomeaic model of the universe, except each ring [...]

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