In which we lemming...

[jesshartley]

Blatantly stolen from the fabulous Mizkit

First Line MEME:

Post the first few sentences of various things you intend to finish someday.



Skinchangers: Eventually you just stop thinkin’ of yourself as a monster.

Fatal Error: With a self-satisfied smile, Maggie Ross jammed her pen into the knot of hair at the base of her neck and re-read the email that had just arrived.

Apollo's Choir: I walked out of Barb’s office with only one objective: to get to my cubicle before the anger or tears took over.

Red - In A Dark Wood: Once upon a time, there was a young girl who lived at the edge of a dark forest. (It's a comic, does it count?)


Yet Untitled Retelling of Wizard of Oz: How does it come to this, one must wonder: this moment that is inevitable and inescapable, and yet so horribly horribly wrong.


I, Romulos: That which they call The End was inevitable, or so I have been taught.

Parker the Very Naughty Dog (Children's book): Autumn’s family was lonely.

Fae Story Yet Unnamed: They say the best place to hide something is in plain sight.

Next of Kin: For ten years, I had avoided them, only to find myself miles from the closest backup with the biggest, meanest looking werewolf I’d ever seen tearing across the clearing at me faster than anything living ought to move.

La Serenissima: Night falls on the city like a long-denied lover

Yet Unnamed Sequel to LS: The rapier arced overhead, a flicker-flash of silver lightning barely visible for its speed.

Cordonova (3rd in Venezia series): Perhaps I deserved to be cursed.

Of Rain and Roses (short story): It was raining the day he left me.

Way too many irons in the flippin' fire.

Comments

[slavetosin69.livejournal.com]

I wanna check out "Next of Kin"

~~Me.

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

I only got the first book about half written, as it was originally set in White Wolf's first OWoD. Of course, it will never see print as such, unless WW decides the NWoD is, like New Coke, something to apologize for as they retreat back into the old one. I don't see that happening, however.

I may, at some point, take it out of their world and finish it, as it's truly an epic love story. Unfortunately, it would take so much to excise the WoD aspects (kinfolk as possessions of certain tribes, metis as "red-haired-step-children" of the werewolf world and thus unable to claim kin, etc.) that it will take some work to avoid the whole "Underworld" lawsuit/problem.

It's behind the Venezia series and the start of my Maggie Ross murder mystery series (Starting with Fatal Error), and likely behind I, Romulus, which I think you'll like as well. (Post-apocalyptic retelling of "the Jungle Book" where a human "cub" is found and raised by weres after the fall of human civilization.)

[slavetosin69.livejournal.com]

Rock Ass! I'm really really excited to check these out. About the Next of Kin book, I think you should write it for yourself (and a few others) make it a short story or something (as opposed to a full WOD novel) and show some of us Eager Fan-types.

I want to work on a project and I have like 12 decent ideas..I think I'll do the meme thing you did..maybe get some of my ideas in place..

~~Me.

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

Nah,NoK is too big a story to fit in something short of a novel (in fact, I had proposed it as a three part trilogy, originally). And, to be honest, I'm working on writing-as-career enough right now that I can't justify spending a bunch of time on writing something that I know can never be published (fanfic, etc). But I won't let go of the idea, and someday, it will see print, if I have anything to say about it. :)

[enders-solice.livejournal.com]

Forsaken IS like new Coke. I want Garou back. *stomps feet to make it so*

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

Ssshhhh, that's my meal ticket you're dissin'!

I like many aspects of Garou better as well, honestly, although I'm doing all I can to make Forsaken all it can be (from the trained monkey role that I have with the company).

But there's a reason I'm playing Garou LARP out here, rather than Forsaken.

[prince-cosmic.livejournal.com]

Wow you got all these projects going on? Amazing! Very impressive sentences I must say, I have desire to read them all now...oh wait, just for clarification, I would probably have read them all just coz they were yours but your sentences are enticing and make me want to read them more...

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

Well, some of them are "on hold" and have been for more than a year... Actively, I'm working on La Serenissima (the first in the Venezia series), Skinchangers, and Red, although I'd like to get Of Rain and Roses finished (it's almost done) so I can shop it around (It's a short story, and that's fairly unusual for me.)

[prince-cosmic.livejournal.com]

I was actually thinking that maybe I should do a short story first - just to practice. I'll make myself get started on it sometime soon, but I've got some other stuff to take care of first. I wonder how being on T will affect my writing? ;)

[shetala.livejournal.com]

I find Fatal Error very interesting. I already have a picture of Maggie from that sentence, and I like her. She doesn't happen to have green eyes, unruly wavy red hair and wire-rimmed glasses?

La Serenissima looks fantastically promising, but it's sequel made me think twice. That's likely because I'm not a fight fan (unless it's part of a very deep fantasy like Jacqueline Carey's).

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure about Maggie's coloring yet. I haven't worked with her for over a year, and she's faded a bit in the absence. I think I have a profile done up for her somewhere around here.

Not too many fights in either of my books, but as JC (and Anne Rice) were some of my thematic influences in wanting to write La Serenissima, I hope you'll end up enjoying them, if they ever see print. :)

WHEN THEY SEE PRINT....

[sheriffjoe.livejournal.com]

Jess, positive thought influences positive action...positive action creates positive results...positive results provide plenty of squeee.

Here endeth the lesson. :D

Re: WHEN THEY SEE PRINT....

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

When they see print... when they see print.

Thanks!