July Pico, day 20

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

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

May de magic be with us all!

Comments

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Another couple of hundred Two People words, rather sketchy because I found a problem (one of those "you never see it at the time of writing but it later jumps up and down and is MASSIVE and how the hell did you miss it in the first place?" ones in the earlier bit and need to think up an alternate sentence... and some time spent editing stuff.

Given all days was spent at work in mind-numbing meetings, that'll do (I tried to sit at the back so I could scribble what might look to other 'meeters' like Important Notes but which was actually... well, Important To Me But Nothing To Do With Work Notes, but due to a suspiciously high absentee count, there wasn't a back for me to hide at...)

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

You did more than I did today. I've been playing catch up since early this morning and I'm still not there yet. Real life just isn't fair some days. :P

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

How much better it would be if we could dictate real life the way we can fiction...

Although given my lack of way with plots, that would make my life even less driven and 'meaningful' than it is...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It's not nice from the others, not to provide you with the handy backs to hide at.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Absolutely - I mean, at least three of them were actually interested in what the meetings were about. I think :(

[ylla.livejournal.com]

I have written very odd things in meetings in my time :)

Mostly I just doodle, though. Especially if they're talking about things like recruiting half a chair!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Ouch, that sounds fascinating (and the sort of thing you can't exactly benefit from by writing into a story...)

[ylla.livejournal.com]

I don't think the academics ever stop to think that it sounds silly, but they always do talk about chairs rather than professors, and I always picture the upholstered kind :)

Another time they were having lots of platforms... I know there have been more, but I can't remember them now!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I suppose half a chair sounds a bit better than half a professor, though :)

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

That sort of meeting is very irritating - as is that sort of discovery. Hope you find an easy way to work it out!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

I had a LOT of those "how could you have missed those" that came up so I feel your pain, glad you got it fixed!

Congrats on being able to write in a meeting. The only thing they're bloody useful for, in my opinion.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

It's worse when you only find it umpteen thousand words in and can't fill it in....