Project 10: Step two

    I sure hope this project works out for me. It's so cold in my living room that I have to warm my hands every few minutes just to type at the computer. We're trying to keep the furnace off for as long as possible to avoid the heating bill. Wherever the baby is, there's a space heater for her needs. I'll just muscle through somehow.
    The last time I wrote about step one, a one sentence summary of my story. "The heir to a broken empire survives a volcanic winter, and tries to rebuild his kingdom". The method I'm following guides me to use this sentence as the launch for step two. Writing a paragraph about the sentence. Here goes.
    9:16am 11/8/11
As before, I'll write whatever comes to me.
     "A civilization with advanced mathematics and science rules over all humankind, using steel, plumbing, and other innovations to maintain their grip on Man, while other races have barely begun using stone tools. This empire boasts the safest, and most fertile territory that history has ever recorded, and seems as though it will go on forever. Then, without warning, the skies darken, and against the advice of his only son, The Emperor closes the walls of the capitol city, and tells his people that the Gods have chosen the nobles to live, and..."
    Too wordy... The first line was ok
     "The Empire had ruled over Man for all of time, and The Emperor belived that his line would continue to rule forever. Then came a darkness that drove his people to turn against him, and he did not survive their wrath. His son, The Prince, fled the doomed city, and with few other choices, banded the survivors into a force capable of journeying through the Evernight, in hopes of finding warm and fertile lands that were free of the darkness and the cold. Even after the Evernight came to an end, and the sun returned, food remained scarce, and the winter persisted year round. The race of Man had iron weapons, and far more knowlege than the peoples whose lands The Prince travelled through, but the darkness had hurt these folk far worse than his people, and the way to warmer lands was full of danger. Once their journey reached the sea, The Prince, who was now a King in his own right, constructed a small fleet of ships, and sailed along the coast, finding an Isle with warm weather, plentiful food, and more than enough materials to rebuild his Empire. The Isle, however, was home to monsters The Prince could not have expected, and when they came crashing down on his people, they had no choice but to flee. Finally settling in lands only slightly warmer and safer than the lands they had fled, The King built a defensible fortress, and started to rebuild, and though much that had been known was lost in The Empire's fall, his people had survived the end of the world."
    The baby got up in the middle of this paragraph. That lengthened the time quite a bit. This is a good summary, but I was instructed to keep it to 5 sentances. I'll try again tomorrow to shorten my work. I think this paragraph says what it needs to. Most of the things with capitol letters will get really cool sounding proper names later.
     9:59am