Day Twenty-Two

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Please post today's updates/excerpts/thoughts/etc. in comments.

Here's today's daily prompt for your updates, excerpts, any thoughts, etc.

Yesterday's post: Day Twenty-One

Comments

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oof! It's finished! (Well, it's out for other eyes to peer at, and I'll give it a polish in a day or two.) Now for my other Pico-projects!



“The Men of Númenor sought to destroy death. That is how they were destroyed themselves. The Fate of all Men, perhaps – a brief spring of promise; the long fall into winter.”

So he tended to speak to her. Speak plainly! she thought. I care very little for riddles and for twisted talk! “That may be the tale of your people, sir,” she said, hotly. “But mine? We are a younger folk – and I have seen with my own eyes the shadow reversed and life restored.”

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[paranoidangel]

Well done!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[six-old-cars.livejournal.com]

Well done indeed. And a nice extract.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad to see this story completed, I'll feel I've achieved something on pico even if I don't get through my full list of things.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Well done! I do so love the differences between Tolkien's (wo)Men.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! You can see the finished version here (http://community.livejournal.com/edhellondawards/20123.html).

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Aha, pleased to note I didn't misread the voice in this snippet.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

So am I!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

:)

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

Yay for happy endings for writers!

(But not necessarily their characters.)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Certainly a happy ending for this writer: the story is a month overdue, thanks to a rotten cold last month when I had planned to write it. So I'd been feeling terribly guilty about the delay. About the characters - I shall keep this a spoiler-free comment! ;-)

[quietann.livejournal.com]

wonderful!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you!