not moving as fast as I want

[cornerofmadness]

Given how busy November is I'll take what I can get. its_art  had a good idea, just to share the premise a bit for people we haven't already bored to death with the details.

 

 
Splinters of Silver and Cold Iron is yet another of my damned hybrid stories, part horror, part mystery and sort of geared YA. It's set modern day in Madison WI. Tazia Dragonetti is not quite a loner at her school but certainly not in with the cool crowd with two exceptions, Ligeia and Lenore twins who do cross clique lines. Tazia's dad isn't just a homicide detective he's also the alpha werewolf of their pack. The rest of the world has no real clue werewolves even exist.

Taz's best friend is Ben Wannemaker, half Norweigan, half Hochungra Indian and all werewolf. He's sort of the class clown and has a total 80's fetish. Their otherwise typical high school life gets stood on its ear when Ligeia and Lenore find one of the star football players dead in the gym soon after he tries to bully the new kid in school, a skinny blue eyed young man who has just moved to the states from Ireland, Killian has definite loner qualities.

Tazia finds herself drawn to him, not so much in a romantic way like all her friends think (well, okay a little) but because there's something about him, a dangerous under current that she can't leave alone. What she doesn't know is he suffers from synesthesia and also is a seer who's being used and abused by his guardians and has been for years. What he isn't saying is he thinks his guardians are the killers.
As the death toll mounts, The Dragon, Taz's father, suspects Killian of being a teenaged serial killer and the elder werewolf is none too happy about his daughter's interest in this moody young man.

And for those of us doing this insanity, if you want, drop me your Nanowrimo names for the buddy thing...whatever the hell that is. I'm DocDana.

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Comments

[lejlkwiet.livejournal.com]

Chelle86, cause I am SO original. Added you to my buddy list!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

okay. I'll go do the same

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

There's a buddy list? *blinks* I so didn't roam around that site at all, just signed up as evil_little_dog (like Chelle, I'm sooo original).

And people complain that my fantasy characters have difficult names to pronounce.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Taz isn't too hard. Ben and Killian are okay but you go blame Edgar Allen P. for the names on the others (and hey EAP's childhood was the model for Killian;s)

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

You psych, you.

I just read the most boring Tombstone-gunfight O.K. corral book last night - a bullet-by-bullet playbook of what happened.

Okay, interesting...for the first few minutes of scanning. Then I got really bored.

I need to get a book on weapons of the time period, too.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

You know what is a decent series, the Time-Life gun fighter ones. And yeah I have a Jack the Ripper book (the one Silvrethorn borrowed) that's like that. A little too play by play.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I'll have to check to see if the library has them. I really want pictures I can look at for reference rather than having to slog through manuscripts at this point. Which is why I love that steam locomotive book I found - now I need a diagram of what the engine and the cars look like. That I haven't found yet. (Not that I suppose it's terribly necessary for the story but I like knowing this sort of thing if it should need to be added in, you know?)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

there are plenty of gun books. My Dad had them. if he still has them whenI go home for thanksgiving I'll tell you but they're OLD like 70's old.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

That's fine, I'm looking for 1880's type weaponry, anyway. That hasn't changed from the 70's. *laugh*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

true. I just meant you might not be able to FIND the books. They're surely OOP. However until then you can make up a gun name and change the details later

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Exactly my thoughts.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

That's a very cool premise. Me likey.

I'm hoping to e-mail you about part 2 of the story tonight. Brief version is I really liked it. Very creepy. But WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!!! Argh, what a cliffie.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. I'm glad you think it sounds cool

and yay to you liking part 2. I was worried it felt rushed. I need to print that out and give it a final going thru

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I'd read it! Sounds very good.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. I appreciate that

[jen-nsync-landl.livejournal.com]

I'm intrigued! This sounds very promising. Will you be posting a completed version of this somewhere, since I'm way outside the Nanowrimo loop?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I won't post it since that can interfere with publication later. However, I can email interested party chapters,

[myfeetshowit.livejournal.com]

I've got to check out the Buddy list. I didn't do much of anything but some writing today - I've had a headache. Probably from staring at this screen way too long.

Did you get any writing done today? *runs hands through the incredibly soggy noodles*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i just got about 1550 words but that was tough. Thursdays are my 11 hour days at work. I haven't done much with the buddy list Nano's site is a tough pull through my damn dial up

[myfeetshowit.livejournal.com]

I didn't get much more than that - 1725, I think.

I'm so glad I finally talked hubby into highspeed. Even so, I haven't spent much time at the Nano site. I'm probably missing a lot.

Did you see that in the October news from LJ they talk about the Nano writers and have a thread going? That would probably be another way to see who else on LJ has entered.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

No I didn't see that on LJ. I figure I'm just looking for my flist people over at Nano. Why? Apparently to waste time. My muse is bad like that

[myfeetshowit.livejournal.com]

My muse is the same way. I've been allowing myself to take little breaks but trying to limit myself to very small ones.

We'll see how that goes!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

breaks are necessary to keep you from going mad, or so I firmly believe