Sammy And The Diggers

Novel writing month has started and while I cannot say I'm burning up the keyboard, I'm certainly holding my own. I'm writing about an orphan boy named Sammy who cannot sleep at night because of the sound of digging in the corner of his dorm room. Sammy is the only one of the six boys sleeping in the room to hear the noise and be bothered by it. The diggers finally break through the wall and urgently try to get Sammy to go with them. He decides he ought to because they need him so badly. The tunnel is sealed shut after he enters which means his decision is at this point irreversible. He must go forward. The diggers move through their world by worm. Think earthworm on a large, large scale. They travel in the chamber just behind the mouth which keeps them out of the way of any debris caused as the worm moves from place to place. As you can imagine, Sammy is pretty disgusted with this mode of travel and it takes some convincing to get him to enter the worm. Herbert, Hannah and Horace are the diggers who are brothers and their sister. Here is a short excerpt of my story:

Herbert walked gingerly through the teeth and onto the tongue and Hannah and Horace followed him. Sammy stood watching them but couldn’t make himself enter the mouth.
Herbert had reached the back of the mouth just where the throat would start when he turned to make sure they were all together and saw that Sammy was still standing outside. He stopped and so did the other two who had turned to look at Sammy as well.
"Come on, Sammy," Herbert said. "She won't hurt you as long as you do not hurt her. Be careful walking between the teeth and try not to kick one. She doesn’t like that. We need to have them cleaned and repaired the next time we are in the city so she is just a tiny bit sore."
"Great," Sammy mumbled to himself. "Don’t hurt her but she's sore so there isn't any way you're not going to hurt her. No pressure, Sammy."
"Just step between the teeth unless it looks red and sore," Hannah said helpfully. "It really isn’t difficult if you look where you're going."
Sammy took a deep breath and put his foot into the opening between two teeth. He could not believe he was doing this. He must have hit a tender spot because the worm rumbled and moved a little bit. Sammy quickly took another step and unfortunately landed on a red area he hadn't seen. This time there was no doubt he’d hurt the worm. She made an even louder noise which sent air blowing through her open mouth and moved her jaw which sent Sammy flying through the air to land in a heap at Herbert's feet.
Horace was laughing so hard he could barely stand. Even Hannah was laughing quietly to herself. Only Herbert looked concerned for Sammy and even his lips were twitching as he checked to make sure he was all right.

Remember, it's a very rough draft and there is much to be corrected before it is anywhere close to finished. Of the 50,000 words I am signed up to write this month, I have 5,500 written. I still have some little ways to go as you can see. Well, I hope you enjoyed the excerpt. I will try to check in occasionally and add a new piece every now and again.