Word count day 10

[essayel]

So pleased to have broken the 20K mark today.

To avoid being told off again by metallumai -

“Listen to him, squeak squeak squeak, like a boy with his beard just coming.” Wigram sniggered, his thumbs hooked into his belt. “Trying to convince us he’s a man. He’ll be telling us how many girls he’s had next.”
There was a murmur of laughter at that little sally but Kit noticed that not all the men were laughing and that some were edging away or were returning to what they had been doing before they sensed blood in the water. Kit had seen such reactions many times before, sometimes when he had come on deck and took the warning to heart.
Someone had arrived who outranked Wigram.
Kit swallowed his fury and continued in a more reasonable tone. “Do you have a cross staff or a quadrant. A astrolabe? How often have you tested your compass against the stars or the sun? It should be done – if you can’t rely on your compass in an overcast ...”
“That’s true, Wigram,” authority said, his voice a pleasant slightly accented rumble, and stepped past Kit whose lips tightened as he recognised the broad shoulders and long easy stride of the man who had split his lip on the Hypatia. He paused shoulder to shoulder with Wigram and turned his head to murmur to him, then turned fully to smile at Kit.
There was nothing in his attire to mark him out as any different from the rest of the crew. He wore the same loose linen shirt and breeches and carried a brace of pistols in a sash round his waist, as did most of the others. Most of the others had sun-browned skin, some were blond, the ends salt bleached, and a couple had clear grey eyes, but none of them had so far looked at Kit with such implacable hatred.

Comments

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

nnnnnggggggg i want this book finished and bound and e-formated and hey why don't you pull a copperbadge and have the savvys amogn your flist help with the edit and throw this out to the world afterwards? and i said the savvies among us because there are people who'll find bugs in this snippet whereas I woudl forget to beta and just munch on the stuff like it was chocolate. *applause*

[essayel.livejournal.com]

awww *hugs* but I'm no copperbadge. I have a couple of lovely people who are kind enough to beta for me, but this is very much a first draft and needs loads of tweaking. Once that's done and they make it so it doesn't make their eyes bleed then I'll put it somewhere accessible.

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

oh that's a good one. i agree with whoever said that it's amazign how wel lthis reads when you've merely typed it up at this rate, unless you're sekritly editing bits here and tere. also, it helps that i know nothingabout ships and/or the 18th? century so...

[essayel.livejournal.com]

This is pretty much how it arrives on the screen, though I check for typos before I post.

it helps that i know nothing about ships and/or the 18th? century

Neither do I, and yes it helps enormously. I'm making it up as I'm going along.