Within Inclinations of Impishness?

Poor Imp · 2007-01-17T21:17:30Z

Any aspect of the impish puts a sort of whimsy to things - bitterly or flippantly - and little if anything I've written tends to find an end. But it ought to end. And the characters, for the most part, dislike the netherworld of half-present lack of point a story in limbo presents... Well, with a game of alternating literary posts with DD, I ought to get something finished. ^_~ What then, is Imp working on...preciesly? Or not so precisely. (The precision comes in diction and less in thought; possibly.) ..:: Vetren'iy ::.. (drafting...) kri'sha - a sketch This sits around, and steeps. It's still in sketches, but as to finish something one must write drafts rather than sketches, I've begun to draft the piece in chapters/inteludes by theme. Vetren'iy (in Russian 'inconsistency', 'flighty') is more on the novel scale - if short for that. Futuristic anarchy; nations collapsed and in their place something rather like the Italian city states dot the world - though even less in order than those. ..:: Presque Vu ::.. (revision and finish) draft - Presque Vu Short story on time. What if what hasn't happened is what you see, like memory, and what already has comes, at best, as illusory dreams? Do you have identity without memory? 'Tis posted (partly) in Science-Fiction...and it got short-shrifted on time and left, unrevised - despite numerous helpful critiques. Intent to be published on this. That's its current revision purpose. ..:: Sans Soleil ::.. (buried) Very short story, begun a year ago. A small girl wakes only at night, recalls the dawn...always sleeps before sunrise. Why? Ah well - that's the story's intent to tell. ..:: Zhaim ::.. (on hold?) Written on whim with one of those sudden strikes of sight (pardon the alliteration...), for the Fools' Duel. An exile on the sea, bitter and weary, Zhaim flees Sjever just as he longs to go back. ..:: Sankt Gorod ::.. (mostly in thought, yet) City of saints, less and more and a world in which words are a gift, can be sold. It's...very vague, as yet. Its beginning came of a late night reading Dostoyevksy and Nabokov short stories. -- I suppose that's an alcove in the corner now with Imp. ^_^

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Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:16 pm

Dream Deep says... · Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:16 pm

*tackles*

Vetren'iy chapters, you say? Here? On YWS?

... you know, I was all poised to be estatic, and then I realized that such a fit of posting would put me even further behind in the hailstone sequence of Shan and Tov. o.0

Ah well. That's what all-night writing sprees are for, da? ^_^ Looking forward to Vetren'iy with no patience whatsoever.

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Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:18 pm

Writersdomain says... · Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:18 pm

Imp! *hugs tightly* I'm sorry to hear about your blasted computer - that is awful. It's so frustrating - I remember losing a four page scene a while back and it was very aggravating. However, I'm glad you still have your printed versions and e-mailed versions. Tis a bit of a solace, I hope, and I'm sure whatever you write in place of what you lost will be wonderful.

I shall anticipate the arrival of Ventren'iy!

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Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:36 pm

Poor Imp says... · Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:36 pm

Sam -- Ha, yes - outlined, to an impish extent, finally. Cake's always brilliant for celebration. ^_^ And naturally, I'll toss you a PM or some such thing, if and when something's posted here.

DD -- Oy, well, Shan will catch up. Doubtless, Kasimovs and political gentlemen don't like being left in the dust by flippant, smart-mouth kids, da? ^_~

WD -- Thanks, WD. !_!' I've even had dreams about the things I've lost, thinking I've found them, rewriting - but the bloody dreams always fade by waking. Anyhow, not all was lost. Hopefully I will manage to write decently in the wake of things gone. ^_^

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Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:35 am

Poor Imp says... · Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:35 am

Vetren'iy ::..update 16 april 2008..::

Well, it is an update--to a slight extent. Though I didn't get much done in my absence, due doubtless to Tov's inept flippancy (and perhaps my own), the first half of Vetren'iy's first chapter is posted. 'Tis a prelude, so to speak. Not at all a prologue.

Rare Word, Refuge [1.1]

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