Counting the days like this is really keeping me up to the mark.\u00a0\u00a0 I couldn’t resist starting yesterday though.\u00a0 It was what I call a mosaic-ing day.\u00a0 Bits of dialogue and stray scenes beg to be written down as they appear, fleshing out (yes, that!) the characters and causing things to happen. It’s a sort of pointillist exercise, creating the scene and who’s there.\u00a0 The alchemist has a name.\u00a0 He’s Hywel.\u00a0 His litle side-kick who may or may not live to see another day is Jankin, a gutter-kid with a lot of potential and no home.\u00a0 He’s wary of Hywel but slowly coming to rely on him.\u00a0 Hywel’s mind is on proto-science, alchemy, and he’ll give a lot to discover the answer to all his questions.\u00a0 But how much will he give? \u00a0 How far will he go?<\/p>\n
Hildegard is coming in tomorrow.\u00a0 I’m really looking forward to getting her and the brothers back into the action.\u00a0 When we left her at the end of The Scandal of the Skulls<\/em><\/strong> she, the abbot and his two militant monks were just leaving Salisbury to return north to the abbey of Meaux.\u00a0 It’s summer.\u00a0 They’re delighted to be going home.\u00a0 We’ll have to be quick to keep them in sight as their horses are fresh from the stables and raring to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Counting the days like this is really keeping me up to the mark.\u00a0\u00a0 I couldn’t resist starting yesterday though.\u00a0 It was what I call a mosaic-ing day.\u00a0 Bits of dialogue and stray scenes beg to be written down as they appear, fleshing out (yes, that!) the characters and causing things to happen. It’s a sort of pointillist exercise, creating the scene and who’s there.\u00a0 The alchemist has a name.\u00a0 He’s Hywel.\u00a0 His litle side-kick who may or may not live to see another day is Jankin, a gutter-kid with a lot of potential and no home.\u00a0 He’s wary of Hywel<\/p>\n[Read More...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}