And she's off!

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Starting writing THE SEA CHANGE today, the sequel to THE FIRST BETRAYAL. Made a decent if not spectacular start. The important thing in starting a novel is to recognize that yes, the first paragraph sucks. It will always suck. But you need to keep moving, to start getting words on paper. As the story idea unfolds, you'll know what to do when it comes time to fix that first paragraph.

5 / 400 pages

In other news, the heatwave continues. It's hard for me to write when it is this hot-- this afternoon sweat was literally dripping off me as I sat at the computer. If I ever do get an airconditioner it's going in the writing room.

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A part of me is convinced that this world is real and I ought to be able to go to Google Maps and simply print out a map of the Great Basin and surrounding countries. Complete with the kind of helpful notes found in the best atlases such as "Location of border under dispute" and "This country recognized only by Empire of Vidrun".

Sadly, there is no Google function (yet) that can extract the map of world from my brain, and thus my scribbles are off to Bantam to see if they can improve upon them.