Needed: a non-fatal sword wound

I’ve been writing like gangbusters and *if* I keep up my current productivity, I should finish this book either tomorrow or Thursday. After I wrote my chapter today, I’m leaning toward Thursday. I discovered that in the Dramatic Sword Fight at the end of the book, I need to hurt my hero. After all, to make the heroine’s day as lousy as possible, she needs her man to nearly die and it nearly be her fault. Don’t you just love story climaxes? Anyhoo, I am in need of a nearly-fatal sword wound?

My hero can be sliced, diced, or stabbed. It should look pretty bad but ultimately he needs to recover. He can bleed like a stuck pig, however (and just how much do stuck pigs bleed, I ask you??). Where should I stab him? Any thoughts?

The Great Ireland Itinerary is starting to come together. I nearly lost it when it came to Dublin arrangements. I can understand paying higher prices to be in the city. Really, I can. But when you ask me to pay $400 a night to stay in the Freaking Comfort Inn, I have a slight problem. :confused2: When a Bed and Breakfast charges you $70 PER PERSON, and there are 3 of us, I have a problem with that. No B&B is worth $210 a night. Sorry. Homey don’t play that.

So after becoming one with Orbitz, Hotels.com, and priceline, at last I decided that since I’d be paying $185 EUROS, not dollars, a night, I might as well spend it A) with all of us in one room so we can split the costs and B) in a castle. So I chose the Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel which is just outside of Dublin. So sue me. If I have to pay the price of a small country, I’d better get my money’s worth!

I wanted to stay in Ashford Castle, the spot where Pierce Brosnan got married, but for whatever reason, my darling husband would not let me drop $1500 a night. Gee, why not, honey? So I’ve informed him that we are definitely having dinner there. It may cost our children’s college education, but by golly, I want to see that castle!

But back to my main topic. Any thoughts on sword wounds?