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Quarter Moon and Medias Res
If I've done everything properly - and with the amount of time I've spent on it in the last few days, I sure hope so - the manuscript of Quarter Moon is online and can now be read by any interested parties.
As noted a few entries ago, I'm adopting a new philosophy, one which doesn't involve my locking up fiction as tightly. So justify my faith and please don't repost any of this material anywhere, y'hear?
[Link and login information redacted. Sorry.]
I have very little faith in the future of this novel, even though I myself love it dearly. It is a very iconoclastic book. It is a slow-starting book, too, and since I don't imagine I'm ever going to sell it, I'm going to mule out and not change it.
I hate this "jump right into the action" business. Even when I play to it, my medias-res is a very thin coating of varnish indeed. ("There I was, with all my clothes missing and a mysterious stranger holding a knife to my throat - but wait, let me begin at the beginning." And then I tell it the way I wanted to tell it to begin with.)
I believe in slow buildup of mood and tension. I want to get you familiar with the settings and the people before things begin to happen. Now, admittedly, in Quarter Moon a Strange Event happens before you're more than three pages into the novel. But for some people, three pages is too long. By the time they sit through chapter zero (which is just a prologue anyway) and some of Robin and Cynthia's banter, they have already lost interest.
Well, screw them. The patient reader will be rewarded, I think, and for once, I'm not going to play to the impatient ones.
Anyway. The book is up. All comments, pro or con, are welcome.
If you see words that have run together, or other such problems which were introduced in the HTML conversion, do let me know. I tried to catch them all, but by the sixth or seventh reading this week, my eyes were beginning to glaze over.
Oh, and Lucien, the pixie that serves up the text, was only just written today, so if you find any bugs in him, let me know about those too.
There'll be a real entry here later tonight, I think. Apologies to anyone who isn't interested in this sort of thing.
© Columbine
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