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!

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[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 ;)

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*

[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]

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.

[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?"

[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.

[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...

[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 :)