Full of sound, some fury

[pjthompson]

And so I’m off again on what appears to be yet another novel. I got close to 14k on the other one, Sympathetic Magic, before I realized it just wasn’t coming together. Inside me, mostly. I wasn’t seeing and feeling it like I should and it stopped going.

So I’m letting it rest now and I’ve got this other thing that’s been obsessing me. Since I have no deadlines, as a wise friend pointed out, I might as well take advantage of that luxury to work on something that’s really speaking to me. I hope this one takes.

This character, Carmilla, will be a challenge to bring off. She isn’t particularly sympathetic, although I hope she finds redemption by the end of things. She’s holding her cards close to the vest, though, and not showing me. She’d better give me a glimpse soon. I think she just wants to play with me for a while longer. She does have a cruel streak.

Here’s the opening—still very rough and new.

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Comments

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Niiiice, I like it!

PS. Turkish March is by Mozart, I'm not sure if you wrote Beethoven deliberately or if it's a glitch. :)

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

And actually, Beethoven has a Turkish March, too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwl96_pRnt8

It was one of the first pieces of classical music I liked, back in the days when I was an ignorant child who only thought rock n'roll mattered. :-D

Here's Mozart's just to be a completist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrk-zuuc77U&feature=related

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Whoops, I stand corrected. :p

I thought you might be working with an alternate reality.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

No alternate reality—except the usual fantasy disclaimers. ;-)

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm intrigued.
Consider me hooked.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Good. I know the facts of her life, but I need to find the facts of this novel, and most of all, I need to find Carmilla's redemption. If she has one.