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Wednesday is the new Saturday

17. February 201617. February 2016
by Cicilie

No really, it is. I swear. OK, so maybe it’s not, but it is the day I am posting this weeks Saturday Snippet, which I was gonna post three days ago, but then stuff happened, and I accidentally finished reading Broken Homes instead of writing or posting snippets.

SATURDAY SNIPPET: FEBRUARY 13TH
What’s this all about you ask? Saturday Snippet is a bi-monthly column run by Catrine, where you post a snipped from something you have written. It can be from your book, poem, or anything else you have written. Post it, link to it in her post, and check out what everyone else has posted!

My brain is having issues of the crackling kind. I think my internal microphone, or whatever the hell they put in there that make it possible for walking weapons of mass destruction to speak with me at will, is broken. Or, more broken, to be precise. I know it was broken days ago when the voices went away. But now it’s cracking about, being all kinds of annoying, and I think I may just need to hit myself over the head with something if this doesn’t stop soon. At least then I’ll be unconscious.

There we have it, what I was supposed to post on Sunday (because Saturday, the actual snippet day, I was pre-occupied with packing and Deadpool). This was also just written, because I’m on the wrong computer for my writing stuff, about to leave for work, and figured why the heck not.

Writing

Saturday Snippet: January 31st

31. January 201631. January 2016
by Cicilie

Saturday Snippet is a bi-monthly column run by Catrine, where you post a snipped from something you have written. It can be from your book, poem, or anything else you have written. Post it, link to it in her post, and check out what everyone else has posted!

It’s been forever since the last time I posted a snippet, but life kind of got in the way. Now, I had planned on posting something from Remnants, but instead I’m giving you another snippet form The Afterlife Occurrence. This is something I wrote only a few days ago, and it is both a part of the book, and set aside from it.

The thing about immortality is, just because you don’t stay dead, doesn’t mean you don’t die. And it definitely doesn’t mean you don’t feel pain. In fact, some would argue that the more you die, the more you feel the pain of actually dying.

Those people would be wrong of course. For to those who never stay dead, dying is a trivial thing, and often preferable to the pain mortal man must endure.

Writing

Saturday Snippet: October 17th

17. October 201518. October 2015
by Cicilie

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This weeks snippet comes from The Afterlife Occurrence, still on he first chapter, as that is as far as I’ve made it in the editing process. Now, if you’re thinking I’ve been on the first chapter for months, you’d be right. This is in fact the fourth or fifth edit of the first chapter. Or sixth.

Yes, I have a problem.

Now forget I ever admitted that, and read the snippet. Then check out Catrine’s blog for other snippets, and if you write, post and link you own. Even if it’s not in English, post it anyway.

At 28, Adrian Lynx Peterson was pretty happy about his life. He had a good job, rented a nice and clean apartment, and had just enough friends. He lived a normal, boring life, and everything about him was just the way he wanted it; one hundred percent ordinary. Of course, that was before the day he had a rather unfortunate and somewhat sudden encounter with a large moving vehicle, and died.

Writing

Saturday Snippet: September 26th

27. September 2015
by Cicilie

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Saturday Snipped is a bi-monthly column run by Catrine, where you post a snipped from something you have written. It can be from your book, poem, or anything else you have written. Post it, link to it in her post, and check out what everyone else has posted!

The snippet this weeks comes from a short drabble I posted to Wattpad a few weeks ago. And since I’m devious I’m not posting the entire thing here, and am instead sending you over there for the last half of the drabble. *insert evil laugh here*

There’s nothing on the radio but static.

The final transmission came five minutes ago, right on time, heard not only by a room full of scientists, but the entire world.

All according to plan.

Want to read the rest, head on over here. You may need to log in to view, which you can do using Facebook with just a click, so shouldn’t be a problem. Sometimes when logged out I can still read it though, so hopefully it won’t be too much of a hassle.

The drabble (100 words!) was written in reply to the Wattpad Sci Fi account’s Radio Transmission challenge. I plan on continuing to take part in their challenges, as a way to keep working on my writing. It’s also a lot of fun!

Writing

Saturday Snippet: September 12th

12. September 2015
by Cicilie

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This week’s snippet is from The Afterlife Occurrance again. From the very first chapter, second draft, but will be going through it again when editing the whole novel these next few months, as it still needs work.

Three hours and five customers later Jayden was still talking, having had to take breaks in his retelling of the most awesome weekend in Cabo ever whenever a new customer needed his attention. Adrian had been half paying attention, it did pass the time if nothing else, and was currently handing back copies of posters for ‘Free Kittens’ to a soccer mom with three surprisingly obedient and quiet children.

I can’t quite put my finger on what it is yet, but something doesn’t feel right with this paragraph yet. But hey, that’s why I’m editing, editing, and then editing some more. Yay!

Writing

Saturday Snippet: August 22th

22. August 2015
by Cicilie

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I’m currently at the local Starbucs again, trying to finish Memories, and enjoying my frappuccino. When thinking of the snippet I wanted to share this week, I ende up with the opening paragraph of The Afterlife Occurrence.

Death is final. For most of us, human or otherwise, it’s pretty much the end of the road. Weather or not you believe in the afterlife, your life on earth is over. For most people that is. For Adrian Lynx Peterson, a man who liked his middle name about as much as he liked spiders (that is to say, not at all), death was the end. Sort of.

This is the second draft opening, which is much improved from the first draft. Still not entirely happy with it, but then again, will I ever be?

Writing

Saturday Snippet: August 8th

8. August 2015
by Cicilie

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This weeks snippet comes from the fantasy series again. Second book, last chapter, and I’ve tried to keep it as spoiler free as possible. Though, as this is the rough draft, who knows what might get cut once I start rewriting this.

As their prey stood in a huddle looking at whatever had been retrieved from the opening in the stone, Oize raised his hand, and let fly a knife as he sprang from the shadows.

Short and sweet. Not quite happy with the opening in the stone part of it, but since something had in fact been retrieved from an opening in the stone, I’m just gonna keep it simple and say it as it is. In other words, I can fix it later.

I’ve gotten a lot of work done today on this last chapter as well. Got through the big fight, and now I only have the aftermath left to write. We’re still talking between 2000-5000 words, but the fight was the part I was having trouble with. With that done, I should have a much easier job finishing the rest of the chapter, and with that, the book.

Writing

Saturday Snippet: July 25th

25. July 2015
by Cicilie

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As I’ve spent the morning writing with Catrine at the local Starbucks, enjoying my caramel Frappe and writing close to a thousand words, I was planning on posting a snippet from that this week. But most of what I have written is pretty specific to the central plot in the book. And since Memories is the second book in my fantasy series, and I’m currently writing the last chapter, I figured it might be best to post from something else this week.

I decided on something I’ve been working on for the past few weeks. It’s not a new book, but more a writing exercise. I’m trying to get better at writing short stories. Or at the very least, shorter stories. I’m also writing in first person, which I normally never do. Remants is set in a post-apocalyptic science fiction universe, and this weeks snippet is from the first few paragraphs.

I have memories that aren’t my own. Of crimson rain, and burning skies. I have memories of her. With golden eyes and pitch black hair, standing at the edge, looking down onto the scorched earth. Gun in one hand, someone else’s blood running down the other. She stood then as she does now, looking at something beyond my own field of vision. Without saying a word.

I know the memories are real, but I never lived them myself. I know she didn’t just watch the chaos unfold, as an entire planet ripped itself apart, though that is in truth the only memory of it I have. I know she was the cause of the destruction, that she stayed only long enough to see the fruits of her labour before she left the planet. I know a lot of things that happened that day, despite the fact that I hadn’t even been born yet when she destroyed Cretario.

If that peaked your interest (fingers crossed) you’ll be glad to hear I am planning on posting this to Wattpad at some point this year.

Writing

Saturday Snippet: July 18th

18. July 201518. July 2015
by Cicilie

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Saturday Snipped is a new bi-monthly column run by Catrine, where you post a snipped from something you are currently working on. It can be from your book, poem, or anything else you have written.

For this first time, my snippet comes from the end of the second book in the fantasy series. And it is, to my knowledge, probably the first time I am sharing anything from this book.

A comfortable silence fell over them as they walked. Aydan caught himself looking around him at the buildings that lined the road, empty and dark, abandoned for centuries.

I’m not going to share much about who else is there, where they are, or what is going on. Mostly because that would spoil about two books. But I will say that I am getting closer to the end on this book, and by the end of the month, I hope to have the final chapter over and done with. Out of my head and down on a digital page at last.

To check out other snippets, or link to your own, head on over to Catrine’s blog.

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