Bits and bobs. Fun fact; my Open Office spell-checker doesn't recognise the word "popsicle".

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They get along beautifully, don't they? :P

Snips of the pants-dropping kind. Perfectly worksafe, I promise.

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More TWWD! Because I've finally wrapped up the third chapter, and it's Ivan's POV again and it's kind of funny and it's kind of wrapping-things-up and it's kind of, well, there.

.... Anyway.

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Yes. Seriously.

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This is slightly ruined by the fact that I can't reproduce the awesome fonts that the story-title and chapter-title is written in - it's gritty and type-writerly and very survival-horror-ish.

By popular demand - a TWWD snip!

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Ivan - coping mechanism: relentless focus on practicalities.
Sorelia - coping mechanism: cracking somewhat inappropriate jokes.

TWWD again.

( Sorelia meets Ivan, finally. )



Yes, that is Ivan cursing in Russian. To be specific, it means "damn". Russian is a very long-winded language.



( And here's a bit of chapter two... )



Ivan is the close-mouthed sort, but at least a part of his tacit behaviour is due to the fact that he isn't entirely confident about his English skills. Therefore (and I hope this shows up later, when I post Ivan-POV snips) he spends a lot more time thinking than he does talking. No rambling internal monologues, but still.

Sorelia is a Southern girl, and I'm trying to get that through in her speech patterns without falling entirely into caricature. I usually write her dialogue and italicised thoughts with a tab open on Wiki's article on Southern dialects, trying to keep in mind grammatical quirks and words typical of the dialect. Since she's from Somewhere-Imaginary, Georgia, I can't exactly settle on a specific regional dialect, but I'm doing my best.

One day I woke up and decided I wanted to do something crazy with my writing. So I made up an off-the-wall urban-fantasy-survival-horror thing which I've dubbed The Night The World Went Dark (or TWWD for short, because it'd be an awkward acronym otherwise.). I've only written a little bit so far, but I thought I'd put some snips up.

How my main characters are different when dealing with dead bodies:

( Sorelia goes first. Warning, this snip contains gore. )


And....

( Ivan goes second. Warning, this snip contains even more gore. )