Weekend Writing Warriors: February 15, 2015

Welcome Warriors.  I hope everyone is warm and safe. Such a large area of the USA has lethal cold right now. 

   If you'd like to know about the Weekend Writing Warriors teeshirts,  please see note at the end.
        Weekend Writing Warriors is a weekly bloghop. Each week, participants sign up HERE at wewriwa.com, then post 8 sentences of their work, published or unpublished, to go live between noon, Saturday, and 9:00 AM Sunday EST. Then we visit each other and read, comment, critique, encourage--all those things that do a solitary writer's heart good. 
          Snippet Sunday group from facebook--not us, but many of our participants do both, can be found HERE   

This is Chapter 2 from my WIP, ATNS, called "The Hunter"  where we're introduced to the male main character, Cuylrh (rhymes with Tyler). They're preparing for a hunt on a remote world. Abraxum is Cuylrh's "first guard", a royal designation. He is a teacher, mentor, and bodyguard to Cuylrh.

Last week's 8 ended with this,  spoken by the old guard, Abraxum: 

“And do you recall the lessons on working the mind rather than the metal? That the former often serves better than the latter when facing responsibilities?”
We continue from there:

Cuylrh glanced at Abraxum, then looked at the ground while he spoke, “Everyone, you know your positions; get set, now. Abraxum, please stay,” After sheathing their weapons, the guards scattered up over rocks and boulders to their assigned places. Cuylrh continued in a low voice. “Your words carry your displeasure to my ears, most loyal guard. Would you speak what chafes you?”

Abraxum leaned close. “The hunt.”

           Hmmm, the hunt? A curious reaction...  :-)  That's it. What works. What doesn't? I'm grateful for every comment you leave. :-)

          On a personal note, this evening I watched my eight week old granddaughter, Dessie,  while her mom and dad went out for a Valentine's Day dinner. She smiled at me!  Now I'm given toward acting the complete fool to coax smiles out of her.
 
          I'm reposting the teeshirt info for anyone who missed it. 

Teespring, the company that prints the teeshirts operates in an unusual manner. When we launch a teeshirt drive, we have to set a "goal" number of shirts to sell. That number directly affects the price that teespring charges when shirts are sold. The higher the goal number, the lower the offering price. We didn't meet our goal. So, our campaign ended. We had the opportunity to reconfigure our goal number and relaunch the campaign. Unfortunately, by lowering the goal, the price is driven up. Not a lot, but it isn't anything we're in control of. As before, we're not making any profit on these shirts. We're just trying to give our wonderful, talented, family of writer/participants an opportunity to own a shirt that shows off something really neat. Something we're proud of. We're writers. :-)   Everything is handled through the company that prints the shirts. You choose style and color from available options, they take your information, and the payment doesn't go through unless we meet a minimum number of sales. If they print the shirts, they also ship directly to the buyers. If you'd like to pre-order one, or just see what's available, click HERE!   If you pre-ordered in the last drive, we're sorry, but you'll have to go through the process again.

Have a great week, all!