same as it ever was

[mrissa]

Cough still nasty, congestion still unpleasant, throat still a mess. But! I woke up this morning convinced that I must be better, because I had a short story idea in my NyQuil sleep.

And it kept making sense when I started writing it down, which is always a good sign, because NyQuil is good for those temporarily awesome story ideas that make you wake up a little further and say, "Er. Well. But what do the porpoises do with a golem, once they have one? And aren't the letters at grave risk of washing off his head?"

And then. Um. The thing is, short stories mostly do not come with chapters. And short stories do not come with subplots. And while short stories very well can come with E. Nesbit references, so can middle grade books. Of which this clearly is one.

Well, crud. At least the voice is fun to write. No, I'm sorry, let's amend that: oh crap, the voice is fun to write! Nothing for it but to rattle off the bits that come to me, save and close the file, and go trudging back to the couch to drink my juice and read a Marine Corps novel with nothing whatever to do with E. Nesbit. And try to figure out what I can actually eat, because the children in this book are eating popcorn and extremely hot curries, and that is not what I can eat at this juncture.

Comments

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Ooooh I'm *really* going to like that one!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Features 12-year-old girl inventor of magical device.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

::swoons::

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

By the way, until that one is out (thumbs held, firmly) have you read Any Which Wall? Not so much a Nesbit tribute as an Edward Eager tribute.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

No! I've never heard of it!

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

:-)


Though possibly it would be good for me if 2010's reading was not more than half YA. (But there's *so much* good stuff these days!)

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Eh, who cares? Stories are stories.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I'm with you, read what you like.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

*burble*

want book.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Dolphins need a golem to deal with situations above the water, of course. Thus the letters washing off aren't a big problem; though in any case we have probably dropped enough Sharpies into the ocean to meet their needs.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

"Eee eeeeee eee EEEEeeeEEE eeee eeee eee eeee eeeeeee ee eeee!"

[subtitle caption: "Oh, crap, Bob's letter got washed off again. Let's get the Sharpie rig on EEEEeeeEEE to fix it."]