That's really all I'll say on it.
Writing has been going well. I'm in need of stretching my fingers a bit, however, as they are achy, even this morning. Also, I spent some time yesterday restructuring the series and it now looks like there'll be six books:
Book 1 - The Third Prince
Book 2 - Lord of Horses
Book 3 - Hunter
Book 4 - Overlord
Book 5 - Puppet Master
Book 6 - The Great Man
Do you like the titles?
I had been working on book 3, which was until yesterday called Overlord. I am currently working on Hunter, which is now book 3. So, really, almost nothing has changed except that I now have three unfinished manuscripts instead of just two.
Ah well, no one said this would be easy!
Onto today's Forgotten English word of the day!
Toozle: To pull about, especially applied to any rough dalliance with a female.
- John Brockett's Glossary of North Country Words, 1825
Touzly, ruffled, shaggy. In the phrase, "to touzle one's top," to make one's hair stand on end.
- Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905
2 comments:
Cool word, "toozle"!
The titles sound good...to me, a lot of them ("...Prince," "Lord...," "Overlord," "...Master,") connote control or authority. Shall be interesting to see how the titles relate to the works...
Btw, I have bought and begun to read The Dying God. The concept of the "wisps" in the story "Diary of a Veteran" is so cool and enchanting! Do they have any basis in any myths or folklore, or was it purely an imaginative invention?
Hi Swadhi!
Thanks for buying The Dying God! I do hope you enjoy it. It'd be interesting to see which is your favourite story. There is a battle between two of them for most people!
Wisps are indeed from mythology. Though I don't recall which region of the world the folklore comes from (I'm tempted to say European folklore (since that is what I studied primarily) in general, and German specifically).
I used 'wisp' as a derivation of Will-o'-Wisp, which is a mist-like character who led travellers astray in similar fashion to 'candlesticks' (mysterious lights that led travellers astray).
I wish I could say I own that idea completely, but that simply is not true.
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