Meeeeeeeememememememe!

[dancinghorse]

It's all over the flist, but I snurched da Roolz from la_marquise_de_

The rules:

1. Go to page 77 (or 7th) of your current ms
2. Go to line 7
3. Copy down the next 7 lines – sentences or paragraphs – and post them as they’re written. No cheating.

Problem is, I'm writing a short story today, and it's nowhere near 77 pages. So, from page 7:

them for sere summer grass and bare dusty earth.

But needs must. He ducked his head and made himself invisible, which was another gift he had. As swift and silent as a shadow, he ghosted through the camp.
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Everyone else said the horse had gone into the city. Aymery had a habit of ignoring what people said. He followed the tracks in the dust.

They led him toward the city, but angling gradually around it. They...

And from novel-in-progress, on hiatus for story-seriously-overdue:

jungle full of wild Indians and Spanish colonists--and ruled by a relative of the Russian Tsar. There was a choice. "But," he said again, "if there's to be any action taken, we need proof. Convincing proof."

Perry straightened painfully. Lee reached to assist, but the Commodore waved him off. "Yes, there's the rub. Without proof, all we have is speculation."

"Highly educated speculation," Lee said. "Maximilian..."

O_o

That's an interesting juxtaposition.

Comments

[adriannem.livejournal.com]

Cool!!!

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Thenkyewkindly.

[anghara.livejournal.com]

...high as the eye could see. Her breath caught a little at the sight, and, as though summoned by that gasp, Cheveyo spoke at her side.

“It is as I said, Catori,” Cheveyo said quietly. “It is coming. It has come.”

“But what is the matter?” Thea said, turning back to look at him.

Cheveyo hesitated, and for some reason that small pause struck fear into Thea’s heart. Somehow she had always thought of this man, her mentor, her tower of strength and wisdom, her sanctuary – she paused to spare a wry thought about how once he had been almost the exact ...

Awkward - 77 was the precise page which was the section breaker and it had only ONE word on it and that word would have been... misleading... in the extreme... so I went to p 78 and the lines above are what came up. Any the wiser...?

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

I'm loving these snapshots. :) So what -was- the word?

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Oh, wow, Judy. Both of those are just beautiful.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks. Interesting to see what these snippets reveal--style, emphasis, author habits (bad and good).

[larryhammer]

Okay, I'll bite. Decanting the MS in progress into Word so I have pages. Page 77 gives me:

do I even need headlights?

19 February

    The harvester ants
busily repair their hill,
    clearing dead litter --
everything must be shipshape
for the next crop of new leaves.

---L.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Now that. Is fascinating.

[larryhammer]

When you say "lines" I get actual, yanno, lines. :-)

(That's from the desert poem-a-day cycle I'm trying to finish revisions on.)

---L.

[blitheringpooks.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're doing it, too? I just nabbed it myself.

Maximilian. Are we perhaps in Mexico?

[whitezinnia.livejournal.com]

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