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Sunday, July 30, 2017

Weekend Writing Warriors: July 30, 2017

Hello fellow Warriors (and Snippeteers). The last post of July! Can you believe it?
  It's time for snips and bits of amazing tales by talented writers! Weekend Writing Warriors is a weekly bloghop. Each week, participants sign up HERE at wewriwa.com, then post 8 to 10 sentences of their work, published or unpublished, on their own blog to go live by before 9:00 AM Sunday, EST. (We check signups to remove links when we don't find a wewriwa post--to save our participants from clicking on empty links--so please have it live by 9:00 Sunday morning--eastern USA). 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 week's snippet is from "The Sands of Dhor". Lily, abducted from Earth by alien slavers, is following Theusand--he's a different kind of alien. They've left the section of the ship where he and his Chays (monks) are quartered. It's the first time she's left that deck since Lord Sand rescued her from the slave fight ring in the belly of the ship.  They are having a discussion and the topic has turned to humans and a weakness.
  The last sentence posted from this scene was: Her mouth continued to move but no words would come.

Continuing from there...
Theusand filled the new silence. “Children are the exception. As a design of an advanced organism, young humans accept change as a survival tool likely because their existence at that stage is constant change. If they stressed over each change, they might not survive to adulthood.”
“You are full of…” Her words ceased—nothing would come; the bastard had cut her off again.
“I have assimilated the knowledge in your education books.”
Her voice returned,  and what he'd assimilated was the least of her thoughts. “How can we have an honest conversation when you repeatedly slap me with a mental gag order?” 

 What works and what doesn't? I'm grateful for every bit of feedback you share.
 It's good to be back. Last week's respite was a trip to the Twilight Zone of no phone, no internet (thank you, Consolidated Communications) and also a journey into the strange world the splicer created when he not only left the job incomplete, but somehow managed to splice our feed wire to the phone line of our neighbor--who was not happy when he came to tell us that our calls were going to his house. ~sigh~ Honestly, we did not request the reroute so he could act as our social secretary.
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17 comments:

  1. Missed you, Mrs. Happy you've returned to regale us with another snip of your fascinating tale. So scary, by the way.

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  2. Very intriguing! Though we all know books only tell part of the story, especially history books.

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  3. A mental gag order?! That would be annoying!

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  4. There's more than what's in books, though. And I love that last line.

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  5. She is absolutely correct - he's treating her like a child.

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  6. I'd say it's because he doesn't want a conversation--he wants her to listen and do what she's told. Not much chance of that, though!

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  7. How infuriating! Can she punch him? I want her to punch him.

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  8. Yikes! Bad enough to have a man cutting you off with his own words. Worse to have him render you mute! I don't like this at all.

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  9. I think that I am in the "Can she punch him?" camp. I hope she's able to get her own back. Sorry about the phone/internet problems.

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  10. His attitude is so infuriating, which means it's all very well written by you :) Another fascinating snippet today, hard to see how she'll ever win an argument with this guy.

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  11. I wish I had the power to turn off voices I don't want to hear...

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  12. I love the idea of a mental gag order. It sure would make talking with him annoying. It's bad enough when some ignores you, but this is worse. I hope she can convince to cool it.

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  13. Mental gag order? Say it isn't so. I'd punch him, too.

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  14. He's so full of himself isn't he! Great excerpt and you've done a really good job of making him v annoying! :)

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  15. I'm afraid I'm in the pointless violence camp. You've done a great job of stirring reader emotions!

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