Two scenes, each 1000+ words!
I don’t know where the impetus came from, and that is nothing to be questioned, although two scenes, each with over 1000 words, is well outside my typical writing session achievement of a single scene in the 500 to 600 words range.
Today’s scenes are near or at the beginning of my “NovelTwo” (a placeholder title) novel.
The first scene, “The Wellingtons of Nottilham,” introduces the Wellington family. A close acquaintance of one of the main characters, Alex — the ranger that may be a mage.
Winter was just near enough to start thinking about stock-piling wood for the hearth and stove before the chill set into the nearby lands. Many a day would be spent collecting firewood to last a mild winter. If the winter were going to be a harsher one than anyone had seen in years, like old Matilda kept prophesying from her chair by the double-wide cooking fires of the Bull & Goose tavern, Alex would be doing more than wandering the woods with his best friend, Mitchell, the son of Stu the village bowyer and fletcher.
from the scene “The Wellingtons of Nottilham.”
The second scene, “The Secret Grove Trail,” has Mitchell Wellington and Alex on their way to a “magical” grove of trees to bring back lumber for the Wellington sawmill, the “Stave and Staff,” where most of the Wellington family works.
Alex stepped through the doorway of the Wellington kitchen and headed to the stables where the gizzards were kept. Gizzards are not meant to be ridden; they are bred purely as beasts of burden. Although Alex was one of the few that had managed to straddle a gizzard, let alone ride one, Gurty to be exact, very few had the nerve or the inclination. Most gizzards tended to be quite temperamental and have been known to shorten the fingers of those not paying attention well enough.
from the scene “The Secret Grove Trail.”
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