Day Twenty-Eight

[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-Seven


Still time to make your views heard on the Pico-futures thread.

Comments

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oh... so close! But I came to a natural break in a scene with the last few hundred words still to go. I'll see what I can do with the start of the next scene.

But best of all, I have thrown down plot on Cold Heaven with exactly the kind of gay abandon that has been missing from eighteen months of slog and second-guessing. Hooray!



Because it's so expositional, I can't find an excerpt that isn't spoiler-filled, so here's an exchange between the heroine and the hero of my NaNo novel:

Kate: "This is turning into Educating Rita."
Elliot: "Am I Michael Caine or Julie Walters?"

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Well, no words today, but I have a glimmer of an idea for my yuletide story which I think might just fly.

[catskin.livejournal.com]

So close! Even if a lot of what I wrote today was nonsense about picking locks, at least I ... well ... I learned how to pick locks...

The first time I’d stolen this stupid Virgin statuette, I’d had to chloroform two cleaners.

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

::falls over::

I think I will take two days off to rest my brainz, and then on to Yuletide...

[six-old-cars.livejournal.com]

OK, my word count on chapter 5 has reached 5690 and I think, just maybe, that's where it ends and chapter 6 begins. Since chapter 4 was 6230 my total for the month (excluding the two stock-pile scenes) is around 11000. I think I shall declare myself satisfied with that, and maybe take a couple of days off before cleaning them up a little and then attacking chapter 6.

Excerpt:
As he sought to bring out all the nuances of the Vision's contemplation, Michael was struck by how ordinary and how pertinent it seemed. The names had changed, but the idea of interrogation was very topical, and hiding thoughts behind a mask had become an essential part of life for him. Perhaps, he mused, that was why the Fathers had given him this particular Vision. But if so, what did they want him to make of it? Was it a warning against the course he was on, or against the bishop's approach?