Home run, baby!

I’m planning to have 60k written by tomorrow night, nearly there.

Title: Cursed Legacy – Sorol
Words Written: 2364
Words Total: 59053
Hero Mood: Dead
Heroine Mood: Sick
Story Snippet:
    Whoever stood behind him pulled on his arms again, making him twist in the chair they’d put him in. He managed to hold back the scream this time. Over and over fists slammed into his head, breaking the skin, breaking bone. He couldn’t open his eyes anymore, they were both swollen completely shut.
    Another brutal hit made him black out, but a bucket of water brought him back to his senses.
    "None of that," he heard Acwellan say before a fist slammed into his jaw.
    Sorol gasped with the pain, breathing was close to impossible now. Someone hit him with what he assumed was a baseball bat, finally breaking his jaw. Blood exploded into his mouth and he tried to swallow, but the agony almost made him choke. Then the bat slammed into his chest, breaking ribs, driving one of them clean into his heart.
    "You fucking idiot! You killed him!"
    I wish, Sorol thought.
    "He deserves it," Cáel spat, hitting him again.
    The pain stopped and Sorol felt himself slide forward in the chair before everything went black.

Tags: Snippet, SoCNoC, Update, WIP, WIP's

I saw Amanda, one of my critique partners, blog about the Banshee.

It kind of made me remember a lot of the fairy folklore I used to read about.

There are several types of sídhe (shee)

All of them come from the Tuatha Dé Danann, which were the Gods originally, but are now known as the Sídhe, and within the structure, you get some really bad fairies, to be sure.

The Baen Sídhe, the Banshee. Everyone knows about that screeching woman, I think. If you hear her wail your name… Ah, well. Hope you had a nice life. ‘Cause it’s over now.
The others… people know a lot less about.
The Leanan Sídhe tends to go after mortal lovers. If the guy consents, then he’s doomed. He’ll be her slave and the fairy will suck his life out of him until they waste away. (I can already hear the guys go ‘What a way to go’ heh.) Well, you’d think once they are dead, they’d be free, right? Not so. The only way you will leave a Leanan Sídhe is by finding someone else to take your place. However… If the man refuses to consent, then she becomes his slave. (I can see a terrific story there!)
The Daoine Sídhe are the most harmless of the lot. It more or less means "The Good Folk" or "The Gentry" and they are the most peaceful of the whole bunch.
The Sluagh Sídhe, the Fairy Host, are made up of restless spirits. As a whole, they are undead, or cursed, evil and nasty dead fairies.

Anyway, that’s a few of them.

Tags: Banshee, Fairies, Irish Folklore, Sidhe

This guy started out as a test render.
Then I started fiddling…
Then I started to draw hair.
And fiddled with brushes and color palettes… and more brushes…

Well. He looked like he dared me to post him. So I did.

I totally love how he came out. The hair, the expression, everything.
If you want to see the big (BIG!) version … click the pic.

Tags: Man Candy