I saw Whiteyote's journal and thought, 'Well. Something I might be able to fill out.' Most meme's are about drawing... I couldn't draw my way out of a paper bag - Hell, I can't draw a paper bag... Maybe a squashed one. But then it said - Post the title of your upcoming project, along with the first sentence(s).

Someone is laughing at me... I am not sure if they are Upstairs, or Down, but they are laughing. Understand, I have a bunch of little story-bits in my Work folder - But I have only 1 Project.

The Apprentice.

It started life as a 'Do 30 stories in 30 days' dare. That was back in 2007. Two major revisions and Eight re-writes later it sits and waits for it's next victim... It has turned into a version of The Ring - Every person but one brave soul (Who had to get an x-box to fight it off with), who has looked at it (Even just a piece of it), has vanished, never to be heard from again.

Over 900k of text in .rtf format, it resembles a used drop-cloth - Blue, red, fuchsia, green - Each color representing a change, a question, a comment. A certainty, an uncertainty... And still I can hear it's siren song -

'Come. Look me over again. I am sure there are parts that need tweaking. Ideas that need more detail to bring them to life. Holes that need to be filled with yet more text...' That will have to be edited and spell-checked and re-written yet again.

And just to crush any hope that might still linger... 'Don't forget - This is just the Eastern part of the Northern half of the continent. There is still the Frozen North, the Jungles to the West to be written about. And If you get done with that - There is the Entire Southern half to explore. The sun-kissed islands along the coast.'


So no, I don't think I will be adding myself to this 'list'. Perhaps the next one...