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- From: Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca (Crawford Kilian)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Work in Progress
- Message-ID: <16272@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 13 Oct 92 03:33:56 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- I've just finished chapter 1 of Redmagic; 3400 words, about right for an
- introductory chapter. Though it's taken me the scandalously long time of 12
- days to get that much done, I'll need to take a couple of days away from it
- to let it cool. Then I'll see what little touches it still needs. But I've
- got my heroine, the unaware superwitch Deir, in a hell of a jam while her
- home village has unexpectedly fallen under the sway of the Exteca. In chapter
- 2 we'll get to know some of the Exteca and (if I do it right) we'll wish we
- hadn't. We'll also bring in Calindor, my supermage, and get a glimpse of his
- problems--which will soon include Deir and the Exteca.
-
- I still have only a very general outline: from Deir's village of Burnbaile
- back north to Cantarea, then south again to Tola, the metropolis of the
- Exteca, and a literally earth-rending climax when Deir goes up against some
- really nasty supernatural powers. The fun part will come in showing that the
- Exteca, for all their horridness, are also attractive, likable and maybe onto
- something about the human condition.
-