Words are inadequate

Your suggestions were all appreciated, and based on those choices it looks like Anathem will be the next thing I read out of that particular set. However, uilos reminded me that I've a Susan Palwick book sitting unread on the shelf. So I was going to fix that particular problem.

But then I got home and there was a mysterious book-shaped package on my doorstep. "What the heck is that?" I asked (out loud, I think). "I haven't ordered anything."

Turns out sometimes things show up even when you don't order them.

Desired reading material: acquired.

Words: 301
Total words: 301
Neat things: Hey, this is set in the same world as that thing I'm not yet good enough to write! Great.

As noted by coffeeem and others, janni is having a sagafic contest to celebrate the impending release of her latest book. Something about the prompt "Three shells in return for my poem" spoke to me, and this is what started coming out.

I know the structure of the thing, and I've even got the ending already written. This is more like filling in what happens: almost more like creative revising than writing.

Of course, I know the structure of "Words," the related story that I'm not yet good enough to write, too. With any luck "Three Shells" will be more "practice for the kind of writing 'Words' wants' and less "another thing I'm not good enough to write."

Goal: complete draft by the end of the weekend, and finished and posted by, mm, by the CVS meeting on the 15th.