I’ve been working on my book most of the morning and I started writing a quick update for my patrons, but there are only two of those currently and one is a close relation, so I thought I might as well share it here. The text is still a bit too draft-y for me to share any substantial paragraphs in case I change them further along, but I realise I’ve been telling everyone I’ve been writing a book and refusing to say anything else, which is not conducive to people’s support of said book. So here are ten things I can confirm about dragonnovel!
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I recently Googled ‘constitutional monarchy’ for fact-checking
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Someone wears a pink dress
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The book passes the Bechdel Test (I mean I’m at 17k words, the text should be able to pass a driving test by now)
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Stained glass windows feature heavily
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There is definitely a dragon
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I have counted one (1) joke about a hangover
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I have counted two-three (2-3) jokes about posh people
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One paragraph includes the word ‘cerulean’
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I think I might have borrowed UKIP’s policies for a plot point
- A girl rows a boat
And, as a bonus:
- The dragon is not a metaphor.
As another bonus: this spectacular cave formation and cerulean sea in Zante is what I was thinking of when I wrote the scene with the girl rowing a boat:
I was aiming to get the final draft done before I go backpacking in the Ionian islands this August, but I think I might have to bring the trip forward. You know, for research.
If any of that picqued your interest, you can have a character named after your good self and read actual snippets of the story by supporting me on Patreon. Literally pledge a dollar and boom, a character bears your name. Or someone else’s name, I’m happy to leave that up to you. I’m basically offering you immortality. For about 74p! Cheaper than a past-it’s-best-before-date bagel.
Can you tell I’ve been editing?!
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