July Pico, Day 11

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here is today's post for your progress report, snippets and thoughts.

May the magic be with us all!

Comments

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Trying to get back in the groove after a lazy weekend! Managed a little over 300 words before I was interrupted. No snippet because they're really first draft words mapping out a scene with bits of dialogue and bits of description. But I'm pleased enough to be feeling my way back into writing this piece.

I also need to spend time today to beta a story I was asked to look at. I agreed in a moment of high energy--I usually try to accommodate people who need betas but this is over twenty thousand words so it's really going to take some time and the energy seems to be fading as the story sits here before me ;)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That is a lot of work! Let's hope that the writing will continue apace.

You are very brave to accept such a monster story to beta!

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

Eek - sounds like a mammoth job! Good luck!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Yikes, 20,000 words? You are a brave and wonderful beta! *hugs*

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Good on you for agreeing to beta, it's often daunting... but so helpful.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Good progress, 300 words! I hope the beta-ing is going well - that's a long story - and that your energy level rises again as you get into the story!

A somewhat useless day

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I haven't done much writing today - just a single paragraph for my Victorian Sherlock story because it really annoys me that two chapters before the end I just can't kick the plot into moving. *sigh*

Also, I've just got back the next chapter of the Enterprise story from a very nice, helpful American lady who's offered to beta it. As a rule, I'm pathetically grateful when someone dares to brave my creative grammar. Still, when an eager and helpful beta sends back some stuff with grammatical, stylistical and God knows what other errors highlighted in different colours, I'm seriously tempted to give up. It seems I'll never figure out what makes the dratted English language tick. *is depressed*

RE: A somewhat useless day

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

Hey, a paragraph is a paragraph.

I know the feeling re. betas.

RE: A somewhat useless day

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Have you ever tried to write backwards? it sounds a bit odd, but I've used that to shake the Muse lose a time or two.

I can't believe that you aren't a native English speaker - seriously, you handle the language better than I do. perhaps she was being too helpful.

RE: A somewhat useless day

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

You have written. That is the main thing.

And i do understand about the feeling of seeing all the corrections... I consider my English good (have an honours degree in it) but the number of typos/spelling mistakes/grammar glitches/just plain stuff ups (and what a beta once called "impressionistic punctuation"...sometimes makes me wonder where my connection with the language went, if I ever had one...

RE: A somewhat useless day

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

The main thing is that you have done some writing. Keep kicking away at that plot! Something's going to give!

A mug of strong wine tea is in order before you tackle the multi-hued beta. Good luck!

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

Another three pages of longhand. I have a shedload to type up, but I've got a day off to do it in tomorrow.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Can't wait to read some of what you've written!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Don't I know the feeling...

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed... I haven't actually written in pen and ink for, oh ages (edited yes, but written? - and my handwriting is even worse than it was...)

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Excellent progress! Good for you! Happy typing:)

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I'm back, I'm back! Such an adventure. I can deal without electricity, but no having running water was tough. And I wrote! :D

4800 words or thereabouts - three stories and a long journal entry - life is good... especially after a hot shower.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Respekt, as the Germans would say!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

oh well done!!!

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Holy moley, that's awesome! Welcome back!

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

Excellent work! Hope you're enjoying being back in civilisation.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

400 words today, of the dialogue between White Collar's conman Neal Caffery and Stargate's Jack O'Neill...

"Remind me why I volunteered to be seen in public with what looks like an explosion in a 1980s Christmas kitsch store on my head?"

"Height of fashion among the aliens where we're goin'."

Neal sighed plaintively. "Then it is very clear that humans are the only race with what could be called taste in the entire galaxy. Some humans," he added, casting a jaundiced eye over O'Neill's ill-fitting jeans and yellow windbreaker. "Don't you have a linguist of two who could pretend to be - what did your P.R. inexpert call them? - 'The Evil Enslaver of the Galaxy' - for a day?"

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Neal is such a breezy guy! Although considering the hats he tends to wear in the series he shouldn't criticize the fashion sense of other people. Even if they are Goa'uld.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Started the day with some *cough, cough* research - watching an MFU episode! But really, it WAS research! Verifying a couple of story-related bits based on the episode!

I got a good amount of time in working on the story. One full hour, plus bits and more bits throughout the day.

One baby robin has flown the coop. One left. I predict tomorrow will be the day. It had better launch early morning, because tomorrow promises to be very hot.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Of course it's research {looks shifty at one's own eveningin front of the TV...}

[ylla.livejournal.com]

I've been away on holiday, and I haven't made any words at all (I made lots of knitting instead). I've got things to catch up on now, though, and I would like to write some fic this month...

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Good luck! I'm sure you will get some writing done!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Spent much of the day writing... umm, instructions to How To Do Stuff At Work :(

Oh, and helping a friend with her resume )mostly editing and thinking of extra achievements she can put on there without actually fibbing :)

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's not a bad way to spend the day. A woman does not live by play alone.