two percent possibility: half a start

Sunday, August 15, 2010

half a start

Attention: I have written half of the first sentence of Unnamed Companion to Thistleswitch. Be amazed. Be excited.

And, while I do mean for those commands to be taken sarcastically, I actually am amazed and excited. Half of a sentence may only be - well, half of a sentence - but it's still a start. Starting is half of the battle, my friends. Seeing as nothing I ever thought up seemed to be good enough to be the opener for a Thistleswitch book, a start that I'm happy with is fantastic.

Maybe I'll actually finish the sentence today! Wouldn't that be something?

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Thistleswitch

"No one understood why it happened, but it did, and what happened was this: something would change. It might be a very inconsequential something, such as the color of your shirt, or the exact number of freckles on your left arm. Or it might be a rather more consequential something, such as whether you had three brothers or two sisters, or whether your traveling companion was an amiable twenty-seven-year-old birdwatcher or a hungry crocodile. The time of day, the day of the week, the week of the month, the month of the year, and the year of the century might all alter sporadically, so that, though you had entered the forest at nine in the morning on a Thursday in June, you might suddenly find yourself at seven in the evening on a Saturday in February, three years before you were born."

- The Chapter In Which We Become Acquainted with a Number of Important Places and People, page one, Thistleswitch