On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:14:49 -0500, MedCat7 at aol.com <MedCat7 at aol.com> wrote: > I just read chp 1 of John's _Sky Pirate_. I like it so far. If nobody read it yet, you should. I've been reading it at lunch, but I have nothing to do today at work, so I finished chp 1. Great job John! > -Crystal ^..^ Thanks, Crystal. I hope you like it (knowing that it's a very rough draft of a first novel written in thirty days in stolen moments). ; ) I'm at the stage where I am second-guessing myself about nearly every element of that manuscript, but I had a good time writing it, and I have a number of ideas what I'd do differently in retrospect. I'm considering reworking it to revisit my original idea (introducing an actual pirate in the cast as Capt. Cooper Flynn appears to be more Capt. Jack Aubrey than Capt. Jack Sparrow). With that said, what I'm doing with the novel right now is exactly nothing. I'm letting it sit for six weeks before picking it back up again (as suggested by Stephen King in his great little book _On Writing_). Deep Magic has a writing challenge for February that looks intriguing, telling the story of a romance from the perspective of the one hearing the tale being one of the two participants from long ago. It's of the thousand-word-or-less sort of challenge, and I have until Jan. 10th to turn it in. I'm going to take a whack at that and then will return to the novel with something close to fresh eyes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . johne cook wisconsin, usa johne.cook at gmail.com / jcook at apostate.com http://www.phywriter.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .