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There’s been a meme going around where people give you three random things to talk about. Mine, from Larry Hammer, are:

1) Feathers

The “swan” thing goes back a long way, and stems from the fact that people who know German but not Swiss German often think my legal last name has something to do with swans. Possibly that’s why the family coat of arms has swans on it? Anyway, I didn’t want my website to be mariebrennan.com because at the time I expected to go into academia, studying science fiction and fantasy, and I wanted a site that could serve for both purposes. (In fact, the first incarnation of it had two distinct halves, one for each part of my work.) My thoughts drifted to swans, and then the phrase “Swan Tower” popped into my head, and it sounded good.

As for swans themselves, I like how they’re beautiful and elegant and can break your leg with their wings. I played a swan pooka several times in a Changeling game, but she was more the dream of a swan than the physical reality of one; if I were doing it now, I might try to stat her in a way that reflects the dichotomy.

Also, my husband is allergic to feathers.

2) Polyhedra

Thanks to RPGs, I interact with a much wider range of these than most people do. 😛 d4s are caltrops (don’t drop them on the floor); d6s are kind of boring; d8s rarely seem to get used; d10s are fun to arrange in different patterns while I’m listening to someone else’s scene; d20s really like to roll off whatever surface I’m using, so when I’m playing Pathfinder I roll in a shallow dish instead of on a book or table. Alas for the poor d12, used even less often than d8s; a friend of mine once swore they were going to design an RPG that used nothing but d12s. We also own some weird things, like d2s from the PolyHero Dice Kickstarter campaigns, or a single giant d30.

I find it fascinating that there are d20-shaped artifacts from (I think) ancient Rome, that we’re not sure what they were used for.

3) Angst

I try to avoid this? On the whole I tend to be fairly level-headed, so while I can get stressed or depressed about things, there have only been a few times in my life that I’d characterize as angsty — and adolescence mostly wasn’t one of them, for which I’m eternally grateful.

Having said that, I often go on kicks of listening to thoroughly angsty music, and can have a lot of fun with this in stories, whether I’m reading them, writing them, or playing them in an RPG. Twisting the knife is fun . . . as long as it’s in a fictional person’s flesh.

If anybody wants to give me three more, I can do more of these posts — though depending on how many I get, no guarantees that I’ll make it through them all.

You can tell a lot about a person from their music. Hit shuffle on your iPod, MP3 Player, etc. and put the first 10 songs! One rule, no skipping!

(I’m leaving out the part where I’m supposed to tag ten more people to do this.)

I guess I’ll go with the playlist I’ve been slowly assembling for Chains and Memory. This isn’t the soundtrack; it’s just the music I’ll be going through when I pick stuff for the soundtrack. As such, it skews toward techno, rock, and more modern-sounding scores (whereas the playlists for the Memoirs, to choose a contrasting example, avoid those exact things).

1. “The Magic Wedding,” Cirque du Soleil, CRISS ANGEL Believe
2. “The X-Jet,” Michael Kamen, X-Men
3. “Mater Gloria,” Lesiem, Mystic Spirit Voices
4. “. . . He’s been arrested for espionage,” Harry Gregson-Williams, Spy Game
5. “Written in the Stars,” Ramin Djawadi, Clash of the Titans
6. “CWN Annwn,” Glenn Danzig, Black Aria
7. “Amnesia,” Dead Can Dance, Anastasis
8. “No More Sorrow,” Linkin Park, Minutes to Midnight
9. “Creeping Death,” Apocalyptica, Plays Metallica by Four Cellos
10. “There’s Only Me (Instrumental)”, Rob Dougan, Furious Angels

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I owe

teleidoplex a post for the meme-type-thing she tapped me for, but that one will require a fair bit of thought and effort from me, so in the meantime, I'm going to do something frivolous. :-)

By way of yhlee on Dreamwidth: Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I'll give you one sentence from that story.

(Or possibly more.)

In the meantime, I'll be over here, figuring out how to arrange my novel to include a semi-kidnapping.

Via

alecaustin and

mrissa:

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.

I chose page 7 because page 77 happened to fall on a chapter break, and didn't have enough lines on it to suffice. Appropriately, the incident being related happened when the character was seven years old. From A Natural History of Dragons:

My curiosity soon drove me to an act which I blush to think upon today, not for the act itself (as I have done similar things many times since then, if in a more meticulous and scholarly fashion), but for the surreptitious and naive manner in which I carried it out.

In my wanderings one day, I found a dove which had fallen dead under a hedgerow. I immediately remembered what the cook had said, that all birds had wishbones. She had not named doves in her list, but doves were birds, were they not? Perhaps I might learn what they were for, as I could not learn when I watched the footman carve up a goose at the dinner table.

I took the dove's body and hid it behind the hayrick next to the barn, then stole inside and pinched a penknife from Andrew, the brother immediately senior to me, without him knowing. Once outside again, I settled down to my study of the dove.

. . . Isabella's sentences are on the long side. But I'd call that pretty representative of her story. (And yes, she is about to engage in amateur dissection.)

You know how I recently mentioned that my mental queue of Books I Could Write includes twenty-two entries in six series? It's more than that, really, when you count the standalones and the things I've already written but haven't sold and son on. Rather than do a first lines meme for short stories (which are kind of guilting me right now), I thought it might be fun to tally up all the openings for the novels. Note that most of these are currently laboring under working titles, and for shits and giggles I'll include some I think are dead in the water.

( A terrifyingly long list, really. And it doesn't even include sequels. )

And, just to tease you all, the opening paragraph of With Fate Conspire:

The lights hovered in mid-air, like a cloud of unearthly fireflies. The corners of the room lay in shadow; all illumination had drawn inward, to this spot before the empty hearth, and the woman who stood there in silence.

So this meme goes around, where you plug in a sample of text and it tells you who you write like.

I give it four selections from the prologue of Midnight Never Come and get four different results, ranging from Dan Brown to James Fenimore Cooper. I roll my eyes at the uselessness of the meme and move on.

Then

nojojojo links to this post, which points out that <sigh> yet again it's the same old carnival of white guys, with a tiny number of white women (and Jewish men) tossed in for "variety." Sure, it's a stupid meme, who really cares -- except some of us do care, because that's a problem that gets iterated over and over in other places, and it got old a long time ago. (Especially the responses the guy gave when called on the homogeneity of his list.)

THEN, just to thicken the plot, Jim MacDonald at Making Light points out that the meme results come with advertising for a well-known (and well-criticized) vanity press. Yes, folks, this appears to be a promotional tool for a scam.

So. What started out looking like a dumb meme turns out to be sketchy from several different directions, quite apart from its failure to carry out its supposed purpose in an effective way.

Meh. Give me more Old Spice riffs, please. This one was broken from the start.

Edit: It appears that the promotion of the vanity press came after the meme took off. Still. Not cool.

Now this? Is a meme I could actually get behind.

"Cirque du Soleil ( Varekai ) Kero Hireyo" (Watch on YouTube)

The Old Spice commercials are some of the only ads I've seen in . . . years, maybe, that genuinely entertain me, and not just on the first viewing. Of all the things that could turn into meme seeds, this is a lot better than most.

I mentioned several stories in my last post which are awaiting revision. I think what I'd like to do here is discuss two categories: stories which I'm not submitting anywhere, and stories I intend to submit once I get the damn things revised.

( First, the abandoned tales. )

And now the stories I am at least hoping to submit, if I ever get them into marketable shape.

( Read more... )

If I got all of the second category back out the door, I'd more than double the short fiction I've got in circulation right now. Not going to happen, but the takeaway point is still valid. It's long past time some of these got out and started trying to earn their keep.

It seems to be that time of year (or whatever cycle this is on), when writers on my flist do the "first lines" meme. As in, we post the opening lines of our various unfinished stories, sometimes with commentary, in the hopes of maybe prodding one of them forward. In celebration of the new short story, let me go over the stuff I've got sitting around. (Counting only stuff that has at least a fragment written down. If we included things that consist of titles and vague ideas, or vague ideas without titles, or titles without vague ideas, we'd be here all month.)

( It's quite a list, all the same. )

And now a separate listing for things I'm probably surrendering on, for one reason or another.

( A shorter list, but relevant. )

Here's the sad thing: I cut-and-pasted the list from the last time I did this meme, and added commentary. Only one thing got deleted, that being "Chrysalis" (which I wrote last year) -- two if you count "Princes of the Stone," which I didn't have on hand to quote when I posted before. (That turned into Deeds of Men.) And I've added two in their place -- four if you count the Alefan and Ennike fragments, but I omitted those last time because I'd already decided I wasn't going to write them. I'm not even managing to keep status quo; if you could see the full list, including things that don't have fragments written, you'd see that it just keeps getting longer and longer.

So what's the takeaway? That I need to bull my way past the problems slowing my short story production. The "thin" ones I can just write, and see if they're worth anything when I'm done. The research-intensive ones . . . <sigh> My best plan there is to get to a point where I'm not writing hugely research-intensive novels, too. Then maybe I can spare some processing cycles for the short fiction.

One way or another, I want to thin out this list.

Every so often a meme comes along that just amuses the hell out of you. So:

If I came with a warning label, what would it say?

Me or my writing, I suppose -- whichever springs to mind first.

You know what? I think my short-story-producing brain needs a kick in the rump. So I'm going to meme for the first time in a while, with something I picked up by way of

yhlee and

mrissa.

Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got submitted to magazines, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

(Incorporated Mris' edit -- the original phrasing had to do with "posting" stories, because it seems to have started among fanficcers. Also, as per Mris, I make no promises that these won't turn into real stories. In fact, I'm kind of hoping they will.)

-Describe me in one word- just one single word. Positive or negative.

-Leave your word in a comment, before looking at what words others have used.

-Copy and paste the meme to your journal to find out how people describe you when limited to one word.

I expected jet lag to wake me up at about 9 a.m., since I'd been sleeping until noon in Boston. Instead, I woke up at about noon. Now there is Christmas music on the stereo (since the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas season begins for me), and in a little while I will clean this place up so I can think about decorating it, and in the meantime I will do a meme that practically every writer on my friends list is doing. I think it originated somewhere in the vicinity of

autopope, but I could be wrong.

* Age when I decided I wanted to be a writer: Certainly by 9 or so. Maybe sooner; I have a crap memory for my childhood. I remember a turning point at that age, though.
* Age when I got my hands on a typewriter and taught myself to use it: Typewriter? I was using a computer by the age of 9, and never looked back.
* Age when I wrote my first short story: This is tough because I have to decide what to count as a short story. I know I wrote something for school when I was in second grade, and other things after that which I completed at a word count that would probably qualify them. I was 18 when I first wrote something I recognized as a short story.
* Age when I wrote my first novel: mostly 18; it was completed shortly after my 19th birthday.
* Novels written between age 30 and age 39: 0. This is where I grin and say "ask me again in twelve years," and other writers of my acquaintance throw things at me. ^_^
* Age when I first submitted a short story to a magazine: 20.
* Number of rejections prior to first story sale: Eg. Counting this up is slightly inconvenient. Call it 150 or so.
* Lifetime number of rejections: Over 700.
* Age when I sold my first short story: 23.
* Age when I wrote a saleable novel: 19. I believe that first one was saleable, even before I rewrote it; I've said before that completing things was the last basic skill I acquired. But if that one doesn't count, I also finished Doppelganger that year.
* Age when I sold that novel: 24. Submissions are sloooooooow.
* Novels written since age 40: Ask me again in -- <ducks>
* Total novels written: 10.
* Age now: 28.
* Age when the money coming in exceeded my statuory employment: 27. This was one of a number of factors contributing to the decision to leave graduate school. They say don't quit your day job until [insert equation here], but when your day job is providing you with an annual income in the four-digit range, the equation changes.
* Number of books sold: 4.
* Number of short stories sold: 24.
* Number of titles in print: 3.
* Number of titles in production or pre-production: 1. Though I'm working to get myself on a schedule of more than one book a year.

With "Once a Goddess" finally moved from the "unfinished" folder to the "finished" one, it's time for another roundup of story fragments.

[untitled fairy tale story]

"Two crowns says he doesn't make it past the blackberries."

[untitled quasi-superhero story]

They didn't call John in until the bullets had finished flying, until everyone who was going to surrender had surrendered and everyone who was going to die had died.

"Chrysalis" [same setting as "A Mask of Flesh"]

The new ground of the milpa showed like a scar in the forest it had been torn from.

[untitled story, same setting as "Such as Dreams Are Made Of"]

By day their scales glitter in the sun, winding sinuously through the cities of the world.

"The Unquiet Grave" [ballad-based]

Fever took my love from me.

"How They Fall"

He runs as fast as he can, until his lungs feel like lava and the impact of each step jolts him to his skull, until he is blind with exhaustion and terrified hope, but still he is too late.

[untitled Driftwood story, same setting as "A Heretic by Degrees"]

Only idiots bother trying to make maps of Driftwood.

"Mad Maudlin" [ballad-based]

Peter found her slippers just inside the room.

"Ink, Like Blood" [same setting as "A Mask of Flesh"]

I've seen the look on your face, when your granny starts telling the old stories.

"Xie Meng Lu Goes on Pilgrimage"

Treasured wife -- By now you will have heard the sorry tale of my disgrace at court.

[untitled Xochitlicacan story, same setting as "A Mask of Flesh"]

The tap of the workmen's chisels was a distant, dreamlike thing to Tlacuilo's ears, as if it came from another world.

[untitled Nine Lands story]

Having ink on your skin was an offense punishable by death.

[untitled Tam Lin story]

Faerie trouble never really goes away.

[untitled Driftwood story, same setting as "A Heretic by Degrees"]

Time's one of the most untrustworthy and useless concepts in all of Driftwood.

"Even in Decline"

The boar charged along the forest floor, feet pounding out a furious beat, tusks slicing at the air.

[untitled JB story, ballad-based]

Let me tell a tale of my father's kin, for his blood runs in me, and so to me falls this duty: to keep the knowledge, the past-thought, the shape of how it began, as my father gave it to me.

Aaaand I don't appear to have any copies of "Prince of the Stone" here with me, so no snippet from that one.

That's everything that has at least a bit written. Most of my titles, oddly enough, belong to stories I haven't started; most of my started stories have no titles. Of them all, I think I'm the most motivated to play with "Chrysalis" -- but the notes I have with me don't include the character names, so that may be problematic. We'll see. I know Konil, and I might be able to remember a few more. Or get by with placeholders.

Any preferences from the peanut gallery?

If you saw me in the back of a police car, what would you think I was there for?

Answer me, then post this in your own journal (or, you know, don’t) to see how many different crimes you get accused of committing.

(From

jaylake, who got it from

tbclone47.)

We'll only include novels for which either I have a fragment written, or they're connected to books that have at least a fragment written. So it's more an "unfinished and potential novel" meme.

( There are a lot of them . . . . )

Will all of those get written? No, probably not. And there are fragments of other things written that ultimately I decided to leave off this list, because honestly, they're never going anywhere -- or if they do, I'll be terribly surprised. Not every idea from my freshman year of college deserves to see completion.

Why is it that the odds of a project having a title form a bell-curve, with its center some distance out from the things I'm actually doing right now?

A variety of people are doing this as a quasi-meme thing, apropos of a discussion about writers selling or not selling their first novels, and which ones are the first ones to sell. So here's my own litany of the books I've written.

0. Attempted Vervain Novel -- this happened around 1996 or so, give or take a year. It's the first time I recall deciding I was going to finish a novel. I failed, for a variety of reasons, one of which was that I didn't realize the pace I had set for myself was way too high, and thus my non-outlining self wrote itself into a corner. The setting and characters, however, may still yet see the light of day . . . eventually.

1. The Novel Formerly Known as Shadow of the Sidhe -- currently languishing under the less-than-inspiring replacement title Emerald and Gold. Concept formed circa 1997; first draft completed October 1999. Substantially rewritten in fall 2001, maybe winter 2002. Near-future urban fantasy, set at college. I wrote it while at college, but the setting actually came to me in high school, for which I blame Pamela Dean's Tam Lin. Unsold, but I have every intention of seeing it in print someday, along with the two sequels I want to write.

2. Doppelganger -- soon to be retitled Warrior. Concept formed circa 1997 (around the same time as #1); first draft completed August 2000. My first novel sold, in 2004, as a part of a two-book deal with the then-untitled Warrior and Witch. Published April 2006. I conciously conceived of it as my attempt at a more complex plot, hence the two-protagonist structure (which has ended up a pattern with me). Written as stand-alone, but since both this and #1 end with a major change in the world, it wasn't hard to spin out consequences for a sequel.

3. The Kestori Hawks -- concept formed circa 1998 or 1999, I think; first draft completed Feb. 2001. The base idea was supposed to be Robin Hood, but that kind of fell apart due to the main character's complete reluctance to act in a heroic or even proactive fashion. It was supposed to be my attempt at more complex characterization, but unfortunately this led to Leonard drowning in his own trauma. I should have realized, when Eleanor and Luke started hijacking the plot for its own good, that the book needed a good re-thinking. Currently trunked, and likely to stay that way.

4. Sunlight and Storm -- concept formed summer 2000; first draft completed August 2001. Fantasy western. My initial attempt was a flaming disaster, so I rewrote it practically from scratch in fall 2001 or winter 2002. (Basically I can't remember which I rewrote first, Novel #1 or this one.) Second draft is better, but I'd need to give it a third go before I try to sell it, this time with extra helpings of western research. I'd like to do that someday, but it won't be any time soon.

5. The Vengeance of Trees -- idea staged a mental coup d'etat March 2002; first draft completed May 2002. I was supposed to be writing Novel #6, not a quasi-Italian renaissance theatre fantasy. Apparently my subconscious had other plans. Unsold, but I really want to see this one in print eventually.

6. The Waking of Angantyr -- concept formed fall 2001; first draft completed July 2003. The bastard child of my senior thesis on Viking weapons, this is a big ol' revenge epic with berserkers and ghosts and blood magic and all that good stuff. As with #5, unsold, but I hope that will change.

7. Warrior and Witch -- sold in 2004 with its prequel Doppelganger; first draft completed August 2005. Published October 2006. This was my first experience in selling a novel before it was written.

8. Midnight Never Come -- contract signed in spring of 2006, but we didn't settle on this being my next book until March 2007, at which point I cranked out a first draft by August. Elizabethan faerie spy fantasy, due out in June. The concept dates back to June 2006, when I ran my RPG Memento.

9. Super-Sekrit Projekt CHS -- YA urban fantasy, currently being shopped around. First draft completed Feb. 2008.

Future stuff:

10. And Ashes Lie -- second book for the 2006 contract, and a seventeenth-century sequel to MNC. English Civil War and Great Fire of London.

11. SSPCHS #2
12. SSPCHS #3 -- ideally #9 will be sold as a trilogy, and then I can write the next two books.

13. Onyx Court #3
14. Onyx Court #4
15. Onyx Court #5 -- I have potential ideas for three more Onyx Court books, though they are at present unsold. I'll keep you updated on that.

For a while there during college I was averaging more than a book a year; if you count in the two rewrites, I think it goes up to about 1.7 a year. Which is encouraging, given my plans for my future. If I can manage that while joint-concentrating at Harvard, I can manage this, right?

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
Her Noble Excellency Swan the Lachrymose of Lower Slaughter
Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

Given how I tend to treat my characters in both games and stories? Yes.

This is going around as a meme for the contributors on

fangs_fur_fey, and I had fun writing it up. So I thought I'd cross-post it here, for the entertainment of those who know me and my writing. (Especially those of you who have seen the unpublished stuff, as you have a broader sample in which to see patterns.)

Top ten signs a story was written by me . . . .

1. Names are somehow important. Seriously, I don't know if it's because my own legal name is so unmanageable or what, but it comes up again and again. Sometimes it's as small as a married woman who's left her husband choosing to abandon his surname; sometimes it's Blatantly Meaningful Nomenclature or somebody getting their name from a god. But names keep on being important, again and again.

2. So are siblings. Or quasi-sibling entities. I have a perfectly normal relationship with my own brother, so I have no idea where this comes from. Siblings, ~~evil~~ twins, or just really good friends who might as well be related.

3. Also religion. Which is so not a reflection of me. But fantasy deals with the supernatural, and I can't seem to think about the supernatural without the divine coming into it, too. And really, when you get down to it, most human societies in most time periods have believed in some manner of godlike being(s). So it's true of the worlds I build, too. (I'm probably the only person who thinks of Jacqueline Carey's work as "those books with all the neat religion stuff" instead of "those books with all the kinky sex.")

4. Characters surrender themselves to things. Sometimes the thing they're surrendering to is the divine. Other times it's fate, or their powers, or just The Inevitable, in whatever form it's taken. But I seem to have a thing for that moment of letting go, and having that be some kind of turning point.

5. If I'm making up the setting, the names look like they come from some real-world language. This is because it's an old trick of mine for creating the illusion of depth in my worldbuilding. If you look at Europe historically, you could generally tell Germans from Spaniards from Turks just based on their names; why shouldn't that be true in a fantasy setting, as well? So now it's become standard practice for me. (Though the practice was instituted after I'd written Doppelganger, so the only place you can clearly see it there is in the witches' names.)

6. Yay art! Singing. Dancing. I reeeeeally want to publish my novel about a playwright in a fantasy world. I just published a story about a minstrel in Intergalactic Medicine Show, and I have a half-finished story about a sculptor sitting on my computer. I gravitate more toward what I know (which is probably why the sculptor's story is floundering), but in general, I likes me some artistic expression. I like it even better when it has some magical component to it.

7. I'll never give anyone a Fate. I'm far more interested in people who choose to step up and do something, rather than being destined to do it. If there's a prophecy, it'll be more of a conditional statement: "if this happens, then this will happen," or "someday somebody will do this, but it isn't pre-determined who." There is one exception to this rule in the compost heap at the back of my head, but it's a story that is going to examine the entire concept of fate very directly.

8. Romance might happen, but it isn't guaranteed. Many of my characters are too busy to really think about that. Or so hung up on various issues that, while by the end of the story they may be ready to consider it, the actual lovey-dovey developments are more left to the reader's imagination than played out onstage. At most, it's a B plot trying to make space for itself in the A plot that's busy trying to kill everybody. I would make a terrible romance author . . . .

9. I know my folklore. Several of my published or soon-to-be-published short stories are built off fairy tales, ballads, or other traditional narratives. Bits and pieces also show up in things that aren't as directly related. It's an endless source of material for me.

10. You can always tell I'm an anthropologist. In fact, I even have a "Cultural Fantasy Manifesto" posted on my site. I like worldbuilding, and I like building worlds that do new and interesting things. And then my stories are always tied closely into their setting, with the culture shaping how the characters think and what choices they make, so that you couldn't possibly transplant them into a different world without the story just falling apart.

I don't seem to post about much other than writing these days. Maybe because writing is eating my head?

In an attempt to provide a pale shadow of variety, I give you . . . a meme about writing!

(From David Moles originally, by way of

anghara.)

Ten Things I Don't Know About Writing

How to describe people's faces.

How to create truly broken characters.

How to avoid the phrases "for a moment," "at last," "finally," and their near cousins.

How to really hack something up in revision.

How to write sex scenes.

How to outline.

Corollary: how to estimate length.

The Waking of Angantyr

Doppelganger

How to describe nature.

How to get really squicky.

How to describe my own writing.

A Song of Fire and Ice

How about you all? What don't you know? (Or any good tips on learning the things I don't know?)

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