Weekend Writing Warriors: February 8, 2015

Welcome Warriors.  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 Each week, participants sign up HERE at wewriwa.com, then post 8 sentences of their work, published or unpublished, to go live between noon, Saturday, and 9:00 AM Sunday EST.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.

The last sentence last week was spoken by Cuylrh: 

“A well-kept blade will keep a man alive, be it used in defense or for putting food on a  table. "

We continue from there:

Hot wind swayed trees and shook brittle shrubs, drying the sweat on his forehead before it could trickle down his cheeks.     

His old guard, dressed in the same leathers, holding a sword even larger than his own, nodded in return. “Wise words, m’Lord, but there are times when a sword is a poor choice for either.”

The air grew soundless, save for the wind rattling by. “There are always exceptions, as you well know, Abraxum. You’ve counseled me on such matters.”

The old guard’s tone remained flat when he said, “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?”

 (Sorry for the font changes. Blogger is being wonky tonight)

That's it. What works. What doesn't? I'm grateful for every comment you leave. :-)

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. Unfortuantely, 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/particpants 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 avaialble, click HERE!   If you preordered in the last drive, we're sorry, but you'll have to go through the process again.

Have a great week, all!