A bit of “Morgan” Himani — June 6, 2008 at 4:00 pm   {} Category: Morgan, Writing Tags:

I did a writing exercise that I mentioned I’d be posting on Wynderlon.com. It’s a short short featuring Morgan and one of her many acquaintances, Seth. I don’t know yet if Seth will ever make an appearance in the series. Morgan knows a lot of different people through her years as an Adventurer. Since her field is pretty specialized — she mostly knows combat and export/import laws, since those are the two things she deals with — she makes contacts who know how to do other things. Seth is a tech-junkie and a very good hacker. I know I’ll be introducing another character in the first book, whose known for her ability to “acquire” anything. In fact, she and Morgan were partners for a little while.

The short short also includes some world building that I don’t know if it’ll ever get into the books I’m planning. I always seem to world build more than will probably be explored! It’s frustrating because some of the stuff about Morgan’s world is really neat, like the space program, the types of alternate energy, etc. This one is a mention of AmuTech, a pretty big conglomerate in Morgan’s world. They are best known for their computer and robotic work (they make individual parts, like Intel) but also have a car company called Coronado ( ) and a line of household appliances.

In the “Morgan” timeline, this piece of fiction is probably early on, before even book #1. I would say it would be two or three years after she left the corporation she used to work for (I don’t have my notes in front of me so I forget its name ). I didn’t mean for the ending to happen as it did, but it kind of happened that way. Seth probably should make another appearance sometime, he’s an interesting foil for Morgan’s out-spoken, emotional approach.

Anyway, the short fiction can be found here. Tell me what you think!

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