9/12/05: Step by step the longest march

Sweet Kate made me sit down and write tonight. It's been some months since I did so with any regularity (basically, since I sent off the novel), but I have been picking away at a space opera folklore piece in odd hours here and there. I didn't get a lot of new words down but I think the piece is starting to take concrete shape. It's currently about 1500 words, all in the folklore part and none of the actual plot. The plot should come together around the folklore pretty easily, I think, though. It's going to cover over 100 years, five generations with about ten characters, in under 4000 words... maybe as little as 3000 if I can rein in my tendency to repeat myself.