Pico day 27

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

Here is the post for any comments, snippets or thoughts.

May the magic be with us all!

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Woke up teeming with ideas, but have been busy most of the day and they've gone away again. Sigh. I did manage to take a stab at the mini-scene I needed to poke a new plot thread into this monster. That's spoilery, so have an excerpt from an earlier edited bit...

I leaned against the kitchen table and got myself a lungful of air that didn’t smell of the root more than a little, and then another one. The table bucked under my weight and the sword on top made a dive for freedom. I snatched the hilt out the air and waved the thing at the room’s solitary seat. Harebell ignored my stab at chivalry and parked her backside on the window ledge. It was a great choice from where I was sitting. The sunlight behind her erased her features like the incoming tide rewrote love letters inscribed in the sand.

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

I hope the ideas will return. I like the cynicism of both (one assumes) Harebell and the narrator here.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I think they come on purpose on the day when I really need to work. I don't think Harebell's as cynical, but she dislikes my narrator cordially & is indifferent to how attractive he finds her, which is a characteristic I like in a young woman.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The table bucked under my weight ...

Happens to me all the time. *g*

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Pesky Real Life scaring all your ideas away.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I've been so blocked for so long, it's nice even to lose the ideas...

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the ideas will come back after another night's sleep.

The sunlight behind her erased her features like the incoming tide rewrote love letters inscribed in the sand.

That's a great line. Whose features would the narrator prefer to see?

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I fear they are gone for good but I'm trying at least to remember the joy of feeling creatively energetic for once.

Thanks! He's still under the influence of the vamp, but I think he might be beginning to remember a past love. I realised a while ago that I've neglected to provide him with a love interest, beside the vamp, but I don't think Harebell is going to work out from either of their perspectives.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh, how I do know that feeling (I tell myself "I'll remember" and I never ever do...")

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I'm telling myself that our guests are leaving tomorrow so my muse had better get her act together, she has no more excuses!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Good luck getting the ideas back!

Great scene - very strong images!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I had to hack this paragraph around a lot from the first draft, so I'm glad it's reading ok.