It’s WIP snippet day again! And I am just marching right along through the first draft of Facets of Glass, not worrying about spoiling anything for anybody. *g* This excerpt comes immediately after the one I gave you last week. Gaetano has reported back to the Evil Dowager Princess after delivering the glass apple to Minerva. Math today 11-3 = 8 for 8 short paragraphs — plus one, just because I want to give you Gaetano’s reaction to what the DP says:
Gaetano returned to the palazzo on the Grand Canal, confused, sad almost, and reported to the Dowager princess in her audience chamber.
“You delivered the gift successfully?” she asked.
“I did, Your Grace.”
“And?” she prompted. “How did Minerva like it?”
“I had no opportunity to ask her,” he said, watching the Dowager Princess carefully. “After she opened the package, she fainted. By the time I left, they still had not been able to revive her.”
There, the barest hint of a smile, a faint light in her eyes. If he had not been looking for it, he would have missed it. “How unfortunate,” she said. “I hope she is herself again soon.”
“I am sure she will be,” he lied. “Young women have a penchant for fainting.”
She nodded. “That they do, Gaetano. My physicians tell me it is because in their vanity, they truss their corsets too tight.”
Gaetano gazed at her perfectly preserved beauty, wondering how she could accuse others of vanity and exclude herself.
WIPpet Wednesday is the brain child of K. L. Schwengel. If you’d like to participate, post an excerpt from your WIP on your blog, something that relates to the date in some way. Then add your link here — where you can also read the other excerpts.
As to the weekly update, I’m quite happy with my progress. I finished the first chapter of the translation on Monday, and I rewarded myself with some extra time for my own projects. Tuesday I got another installment of “Starting Out as an Indie Author” written — and while doing so finally got the interior of Chameleon in a Mirror formatted for CreateSpace, seeing as that was the subject of the blog post. 🙂 I am also making steady progress on Shards of Glass. I’m still not sure how the big showdown will play out, but I am inexorably moving towards it!
I’m still giggling at the corset thing. His reaction is perfect to it.
PS, the link on the linky site isn’t right. It takes me to Amazon. =P
Yeah, I noticed. I deleted it and put the right one in. (It was the last link I used in this post. :/)
You go, Gaetano! I hope he is instrumental in taking the DP down. And oooh does she need it. He better be careful though. I’ve a feeling she could make mince-meat of him.
Nice progress for the week. 😀
I think I’m liking Gaetano more and more. And I’m glad you included that last line. 🙂
What a little minx the DP is? 🙂
Gaetano is brighter than I think the DP is giving him credit for – of course, it can be tricky to see others’ competence when you’re so busy admiring yourself…
You’ve mad some great strides this week, Ruth! Good on ya!
Ah ha! *little smug smile* I probably shouldn’t be so proud of myself, but i am. 😀 I love this. 🙂
Gaetano is just getting more and more appealing to me. I love how aware of things he is. And I really like the line about her excluding herself from the vain crowd.
The DP sounds like such a lovely woman… not. I hope she gets her just deserts very soon. And I hope Gaetano is instrumental in that.
Gaetano’s on to her now… I wonder what he’ll do about it, now he’s aware. I love that last line in particular!
Congratulations on your progress!
He’s so very observant. She’ll have to watch out! Great excerpt and great progress!
Good job at reading people, Gaetano! Love that last line.