Someday I Will Rule the World!

(But for now I'm just writing silly novels.)

Recent Entries

18th-Nov-2006 02:53 am - Chapter Nine

( Abandoned in the Forest -- A Medical Mystery -- The Shining Ship -- Frogs, Pastries, and Fish -- A Life of Luxury -- On Foreign Languages -- Martin Regrets Not Having Been on the Rowing Team -- Kanorayil )

16th-Nov-2006 11:11 pm - Chapter Eight

( A Nightmare -- Trouble At Sea -- Fire Out of the Sky -- On the Difficulties of Peacetime Battles -- The Woman With the Gun -- On Empire-Building and Fictitious Nations -- Martin Jumps Ship -- Ashore At Last -- Martin Meets the Natives )

13th-Nov-2006 11:14 pm - Chapter Seven

I've put up a short list of characters, here, for people who like to know more or less what the faces of my characters look like.
Chapter Six has been added to just after the cliffhangery bit; I came to the conclusion that that chapter was way, way too short.
thinkatory is writing an excerpt from Martin's favorite thrilling tale of the Icelandic undead, Fire & Ice, taking as her inspiration Varney the Vampire. Watch this space for the link.
If you know more about what I'm writing about than I do, by all means, tell me. I do very little research before writing these chapters, and even less editing. This is very unlike me, and I would appreciate it if people told me when I was wrong.
Despite the above sentence implying otherwise, voila! The Pastry War: Fact, Not Fiction.

( Dr. Umbo's Plans -- Aboard the Odysseus -- First Impressions -- Captain Fitzpatrick -- Tall Tales and the Truth -- Midshipmen -- The Pastry War )

11th-Nov-2006 08:25 pm - Chapter Six

( In the Tank -- A Painful Escape -- Dr. Umbo Returns -- Curiosity Kills the Clams -- A Strange Taxonomy -- Dr. Umbo's Story -- Professor Pikkonopos -- Illness and Shipwreck )

11th-Nov-2006 12:31 am - Chapter Five

( Martin the Mechanic -- Tea and Cats -- Dr. Umbo's Genius Plan -- And Then the World -- The Mysterious Door -- Things Man Was Not Meant To Know -- Things Dr. Umbo Does Not Want To Know -- Thoughts on Hypothetical Mad Wives )

8th-Nov-2006 12:02 am - Chapter Four

( The Icelandic Undead and Other Wastes of Time -- Martin Takes Matters Into His Own Hands -- The Suitability of Gills -- Dr. Umbo's Scallops -- The Air Pump -- The Other Doctor )

7th-Nov-2006 12:27 am - Chapter Three

( Martin Suffers from Writer's Block -- A Visitor -- Novels and the Behavior of Mad Doctors Therein -- A Modest Proposal -- An Empty Threat -- A Long Way Down -- The Sea -- Help Arrives and the Truth is Revealed )

5th-Nov-2006 10:52 pm - Chapter Two

( The Help Is Unhelpful -- An Awkward Reunion -- A Discussion of the Afterlife -- Martin Attempts To Lie -- Lobster Bisque )

5th-Nov-2006 12:09 am - Chapter One

( A Full Recovery -- Gills and Sleep-Aids -- Dr. Umbo's Great Feat -- A Frightening Apparatus -- Martin's Natural Curiosity Gets the Better of Him )

4th-Nov-2006 11:30 pm - Prologue

A note: Chapter titles/summaries don't count towards my word count. They're added later. I am cheaping out, yes, but not with chapter titles or summaries.

( Mozart Disagrees With Our Hero -- An Untimely Death -- The Mysterious Dr. Umbo )