I've been tagged in the writers Game of Sevens by Matthew Harffy, another Anglo Saxon writer. The rules are simple: Go to page 7 or 77 in your current manuscript and go to line 7, post the next 7 or so sentences - as they are and tag 7 people to do the same. Click on the link with Matthew's name to see his post.
Here are the 7 lines from page 77 from The Wolf Banner. This piece is from the part of the book where Tovi anxiously waits up late instead of going to bed, worried about his mother's apparent wanton behaviour when entertaining some guests from Normandy. The Wolf Banner is the sequel to Sons of the Wolf.
As he moved the pieces
absentmindedly on the board, he thought of his seax, the gift that the Earl of
Wessex had given to him when he had saved his daughter from drowning. He was
allowed to wear it now that he was in his twelfth year and it was a comfort to
know that it was with him, just in case he should have need of it. His mother,
it appeared, had imbibed far too much of the potent mead that she had provided
for their table and was behaving childishly, like a young girl, basking in male
flattery for the first time. She had been taught some of the Frankish language by
the nuns who had educated her as a girl growing up in a convent and the men
were light-heartedly correcting her efforts.
Now I would like to tag Louise Rule , Anna Belfrage, Simon Stirling, Debra Brown, Steven A McKay, David Pilling, Linda Root. Good Luck guys!
