Summer Shorts Progress Report

Title: Whimsy of the Whisper Queen
Words Today: 678
Words Total: 1,126
Summer Shorts Total: 1126/ 5000

Favourite sentence: "She came to him in a susurrus, shattering the silence. As she whirled through the grove, he could hear the trees howl to attention whilst the wind blew a hideous fanfare."

I'm really having fun writing this. I still have no idea where it's going or what's going to happen, but I'm enjoying the journey.

Also, Joanne Harris' "Sleep, Pale Sister" is one of the best books I've read in a long time. I much prefer her more dark books like this, "Holy Fools" and "5 Quarters of the Orange" to the likes of "Chocolat" and "The Lollipop Shoes".

I'm still struggling with Guy Gavriel Kay's "Lord Of Emperors". Despite being the second and final book in "The Sarantine Mosaic", it's still not hooked me. It has a wonderful cast, a fascinating setting and the prose is very good, despite being a little too melodramatic at times. I think it's the fact there isn't much of a plot as yet. Much better than Tigana though, and Alixana is on a par with Dianora I think.

Title: Whimsy of the Whisper Queen (I may change this depending on where the story goes)

Words today: 500
Words total: 500
Summer Shorts total: 500/5,000

Favourite: "It had come to him in the bottom of a teacup, just one leaf at first."

It's going surprisingly well, I'm having a lot of fun playing with imagery and describing the forests. I was rather expecting this to be quite a dark story but the tone so far is quite light. It's working though, and I'm enjoying it.