PicoWriMo

No advice, I'm afraid, but good luck!

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My only co-writing attempt failed spectacularly, so I am in no position to say anything useful. :(

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I've never co-written - I would drive the other writer mad, I'm sure - but a lot of folk do do it. Good luck!

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The weekend away was lovely, and I put in some good work. At least an hour each day. I'm working through pesky plot issues in the second half of the story, and all in all, I've come away each day feeling like I'm finally making progress. I only got in a half-hour this morning, but will work on it some more this evening if I'm in the mood.

We have a very busy week, so I have to stay organized and put my writing time in first. I had hopes of working on three different pieces during the July pico, but I'm such a slow worker, it will be all I can do to finish the IOU story.

Our grandsons, ages 5 and 8, are staying with us all week while their parents are taking a trip to Washington DC. Husband's siblings and spouses are gathering at our house on Thursday, we are doing yard work, house work, and will put on a dinner for 13. Grilled chicken and cod, pan seared fresh summer veggies, salad, fruit platter, black beans and rice with chopped tomatoes and jalapenos, and for dessert, I'm baking chocolate chip cookies and making brownie ice cream cake. Each dish is uncomplicated. Unfortunately it's going to be well over 90 degrees on Thursday, so grilling is going to be unpleasant, and we will have to stay in the air-conditioned house for the most part, because that's just too hot.

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That sounds like a very busy week! Hope you can steal a few moments to write in the midst of it all.

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Goodness, I get tired just from reading your to-do-list! Good luck!

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Eee, full and busy time there, and hot as well, so well done on getting the writing done!

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Checked and posted the Rodney and Reid dialogue, and started the next one, 300 words in :) Radek (my favourite SGA character) and Chris Larabee (Mag7)... and a bit of time travel, I think :)

"This is bad, this is very very bad."
"Oh I dunno," the blonde in black drawls, keeping his gun aimed firmly at Radek's head. "I c'd always shoot ya. That would be bad." He stretches a little, looking down at the contraption dumped in the middle of the floor of what looks to Radek too much like his babička's old farmstead kitchen... had babička lived in a 19th century living museum. An American one. Complete with 19th century gunslinger. Angry 19th century gunslinger.
Angry 19th century gunslinger is much of what what is very very bad, of course. Radek has seen enough borscht westerns - and repeats of Lemonade Joe - as a child to know that.

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I love the wry tone here!

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Radek is good at that... has to be, working with McKay :)

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Lemonade Joe! I loved that film as a young girl! That is one of the reasons I like writing Radek: we both gree up behind the Iron Courtain. I like to think that I understand him better than the American screenwriters.

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I admit, I just googled for what western might be one he recalled from his childhood :) The whole thing is on youtube, but not in English so I have no idea what is happening...

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Three pages and a bit on Wheels, not yet typed up. Nearly finished my walk report, of which you may have a snippet:

Now, when you're walking the Camino de Santiago, every bar, hostel and church will have a sello, or rubber stamp, and the prudent pilgrim will collect at least one every day. It's like collecting stamps in your passport to heaven. Anyone who has got this far in this account of this walk will not be surprised to hear that I didn't collect any along St James' Way.

But Winchester cathedral has a sello. Or so I was assured by the guidebook, before I threw it away in disgust at its sopping unreadability. I asked at the desk. No, they couldn't find it, but the vergers had one in their vestry. I should go in and look around, and see if I could find a verger.

I did that, wandering around and finding a more or less acceptable balance between the plaints of my knee, the desire to get my money's worth from my free entry, and the bliss of having finally got here, to a holy place. When I got tired of that I found a verger.

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That must have been amazing! I regret that none of my package holidays took me there.

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Sounds like a very interesting place :)

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There were no new words in the last couple of days; I spent all my time with posting some of my old stories to my AO3 account (http://archiveofourown.org/users/Soledad/works). Mostly Star Trek stuff, plus the Beautiful Minds series, and Travellers' Tales, in which Toshiko is the Ninth Doctor's companion. I was writing that one quite a few picos ago - it is the one taking place in medieval Japan. Posting to AO3 is very time-consuming, but I'm trying to put up my stories there, one by one, because it is the only other multifandom archive I know, and I can even post things I won't dare to post on FF.Net. Still, the fact that one can't upload stuff directly slows things down very much.

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Posting can be satisfying - I put some old stuff up the other days and got kudos for a couple of them :)

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