"Whatever you don't want me to clean, better hide it now!" " Save my room for last, OK?"
Today is Friday, and Friday's keep sneaking up on me. I thought it was Thursday again so I was going to do my review of Howl's Moving Castle, but since it is Friday I guess I will have to do as I said I would and post a summery...eh?
Before I do that though, I joined a link up from Grace's blog, found HERE. What I am supposed to do is post a bit from a book I'm working on that goes along with the prompt What If?
I can't seem to find the words What If in any of my current projects, but I suppose this is a kind of what if snippet. What if this had happened instead of that. So I hope it counts.
Resting his head against the rock, Peter again closed his eyes. For a moment the farm sounds filled his ears and he smiled. Maybe, he thought, he'd become a farmer. He would let Tony go on to London alone and he'd stay here, throwing slop to the pig every morning.“We could always start a farm.”For a second the voice sounded so real and close that Peter almost opened his eyes to see who was reading his mind. Then he realized it was nothing but a distant memory, buried deep in his mind and slowly coming back. The clucking and mowing faded and Peter saw before him a man and a woman. No, two men. One with dark hair the other with blondish white and the first signs of a beard.“You, a farmer?” the bearded man scoffed. “That I'd have to see to believe.”The memory was faded, as if shrouded in a fog. Peter knew if he opened his eyes he could chase it off, as he'd done so many times before. Yet, for some reason, this time he couldn't. He sat still, almost fearing it would fade.“I think we'd be good farmers,” the woman said with a giggle. “Noah gets along well with sheep.”The bearded man lost it and doubled over with laughter. He then looked at Peter, his blue eyes still shinning with merriment.“What do you think, Pete?” he asked.
The snippet is from Abolished Impracticability. So kind of me to share a spoiler, don't you think? though it isn't much of a spoiler so those who haven't read book one, I've given nothing away.
Abolished ImpracticalityThe enemy draws close. Cities will fall. And few can stand in Morcoft's way.
Peter Jones has been betrayed by the man he trusted as his own father. Now he is forced to question everything he has ever been told, and learn the truth of his past. Isidore Thaddeus Reichmann has finally found the person he has hunted all over England for. Yet, not all is as it seems and he begins to fear he might be on the wrong side. Singur faces down his worst fear and comes out a victor, but the price of his triumph may put the last member of his family in grave danger.Choices now stand before all three young men and the paths they take will not only change their lives, but the whole world.
Battles are coming. Enemies are made. Friendships are questioned. When the only world you've ever known is a lie, where do you go?
What do you all think? Got your interest? Or does it need more work? (Still working on The Broken Blade's summery. It is putting up a gallant fight, I shall have to outwit it somehow. Should have it up though, maybe by Sunday if all goes well and I win the battle.) Voting is still open, you can find the box on the side bar.
Quote is from the movie of Howl's Moving Castle when Sophie is on her cleaning rampage and threatens to clean Michael's room.
Allons-y!
Before I do that though, I joined a link up from Grace's blog, found HERE. What I am supposed to do is post a bit from a book I'm working on that goes along with the prompt What If?
I can't seem to find the words What If in any of my current projects, but I suppose this is a kind of what if snippet. What if this had happened instead of that. So I hope it counts.
Resting his head against the rock, Peter again closed his eyes. For a moment the farm sounds filled his ears and he smiled. Maybe, he thought, he'd become a farmer. He would let Tony go on to London alone and he'd stay here, throwing slop to the pig every morning.“We could always start a farm.”For a second the voice sounded so real and close that Peter almost opened his eyes to see who was reading his mind. Then he realized it was nothing but a distant memory, buried deep in his mind and slowly coming back. The clucking and mowing faded and Peter saw before him a man and a woman. No, two men. One with dark hair the other with blondish white and the first signs of a beard.“You, a farmer?” the bearded man scoffed. “That I'd have to see to believe.”The memory was faded, as if shrouded in a fog. Peter knew if he opened his eyes he could chase it off, as he'd done so many times before. Yet, for some reason, this time he couldn't. He sat still, almost fearing it would fade.“I think we'd be good farmers,” the woman said with a giggle. “Noah gets along well with sheep.”The bearded man lost it and doubled over with laughter. He then looked at Peter, his blue eyes still shinning with merriment.“What do you think, Pete?” he asked.
The snippet is from Abolished Impracticability. So kind of me to share a spoiler, don't you think? though it isn't much of a spoiler so those who haven't read book one, I've given nothing away.
Abolished ImpracticalityThe enemy draws close. Cities will fall. And few can stand in Morcoft's way.
Peter Jones has been betrayed by the man he trusted as his own father. Now he is forced to question everything he has ever been told, and learn the truth of his past. Isidore Thaddeus Reichmann has finally found the person he has hunted all over England for. Yet, not all is as it seems and he begins to fear he might be on the wrong side. Singur faces down his worst fear and comes out a victor, but the price of his triumph may put the last member of his family in grave danger.Choices now stand before all three young men and the paths they take will not only change their lives, but the whole world.
Battles are coming. Enemies are made. Friendships are questioned. When the only world you've ever known is a lie, where do you go?
What do you all think? Got your interest? Or does it need more work? (Still working on The Broken Blade's summery. It is putting up a gallant fight, I shall have to outwit it somehow. Should have it up though, maybe by Sunday if all goes well and I win the battle.) Voting is still open, you can find the box on the side bar.
Quote is from the movie of Howl's Moving Castle when Sophie is on her cleaning rampage and threatens to clean Michael's room.
Allons-y!

Published on January 17, 2013 20:55
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