It's not a novel. It's a very naughty text.

For the purposes of discussion I've decided to refer to the Patience writing project as The Book. I fervently hope that it won't become a trilogy! It's too rambly to be a story, although bits of it are aligning with surprising neatness at this early stage of the game. It's definitely not a novel per se, because novels are for publishing in dead tree format, and I shudder to think what the cover artwork might look like. It's a fictional blog if anything. I just happen to have 20 or so entries going at once. Thank heavens for object-oriented authoring tools.

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Bodice ripping

A random quote:

"I am not," I said clearly into the waiting silence, "a bastard. I didn't have parents, and lacking the necessary existential qualifications they hardly had the opportunity to wed prior to my appearance."

I'm evil, but I'm not the most dreadful person in the office. Mr Jim from upper management* is developing nicely/horribly. This is somewhere between notes and a rough draft of dialogue, but hey, who's going to complain? My editor? Actually it just occurred to me today that Ellen Datlow is Natcon 50/36 GoH and if I get myself organised I might have something worth workshopping by then.

I'm starting to become quite fond of some of my Destiny Team members. Mr Jim is not one of those beings.

(*) I can see names are going to become a serious problem.

( A reading from The Book )

...and violence

With all the sex happening in The Book today I forgot about a bit of interesting violence IRL.

( In no way is this violent violence )