March 2020 - Day 4

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!
May the magic be with us all!

A bit early today, as I'll be busy in the afternoon. Sorry for the irregular schedule.d

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I've finished typing up Chapter 9. If I manage to keep up this speed I might even transcript the whole story by the end of March. *fingers crossed*
Which would be a good thing as April promises to be a very busy month choir-wise. We'll have several concerts with both choirs, which means extra practice and lots of time devoted to singing.

Excerpt:

“I understand,” Uhura said; and she did, really. Despite the heroic achievements of several past generations, the Dairu could only hope to survive if their scientists remained one step ahead of the environmental changes all the time. “What I don’t understand is… what do you expect from us?”

“We ask you to help us win some time,” Kadre’el answered seriously. “If we could prevent a confrontation just a little longer, the new Eldest, the Queen predestined to take over Mer’s place, will emerge from the cocoon. Once she’s born, the Swarm will have to stay here for at least another generation. And then it will be already too late.”

“I’m afraid for us it already is too late,” Shhoiy’s grim voice said from the outside. The Honour Guard has just invoked the Vrek’kesht Emergency Protocol. We’re doomed.”

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

That sounds really interesting.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

This is quite the story! And you're on a roll, looking ahead to the possibility of getting it all transcribed.

[ylla.livejournal.com]

An Honour Guard is never a good thing, is it - you'd think the people who set them up would learn, and not set them up after all! ;)

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

You are really plugging along with this. Good job!

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Oh oh, sounds like trouble! You're working quickly now. (with the various cat and other issues I'm behind on the beta work btw, but will be able to get to it this weekend)

[missdiane.livejournal.com]

Doing research on 15th century Korea and the Silk Road. :)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Oh - that sounds interesting too - just in a different way to Wiseheart's entry.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Wow, that must be some interesting reading!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Ooh, exciting!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Interesting period in time.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Fun research! Are you able to find material written at the time (and translated I assume), or using mainly contemporary writings?

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

No worries for me. I finished off one egg and got another one started. So that's a little over 800 words for me today. :D

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Good going! And thank you for hatching multiple eggs!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Show off :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I know I'm outrageously ignorant, but what exactly is this Easter egg thing you folks are talking about?

Nice word count, BTW!

[elmey.livejournal.com]

You're outpacing the other egg writers, I'm pretty sure :) Outpoaching? outcoddling? it's all good :D

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Cat report: Max is home and he hates that cone so much, so much. And the other two cats are freaked out by it too, they're giving him the evil eye--and one of them is his brother! He also doesn't like his pills and is mad he can't go outside and and I can already see this plastic boondoggle isn't going to last the ten days he's supposed to wear it. I give it three before hes gotten it off. I've been googling other options to protect the wound--the only one I like is the cat onesie (https://www.chewy.com/suitical-recovery-suit-cats-black/dp/140899)--but I'd have to knock him out to get it on him so that's not gonna work either.

In any case, I managed 30 minutes on my story this morning. Basically playing around with the opening scene. I'm wondering if I can make it all dialogue but haven't decided yet if that's the way to go. I do like to write dialogue though :)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

susandennis had a similar problem and found a sort of padded collar (a bit like this one (https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/383303108679?chn=ps) only cat-sized and padded rather than inflatable), that seemed to be a lot more effective than the 'cone of shame'.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Poor Max. I hope he doesn't aggravate the wound. What an unhappy time for him. And for you as well, trying to keep him from hurting himself.

Good luck with the story! I like the idea of all dialogue!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Poor Max! I know you can get some kind of soft alternative, but it's harder to stop the cat from reaching around it, I think - it might be better than nothing, though.

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Something like 500 words on the old report and 150 on a new one, although a bit of that was written last night after I posted here. I've lost track of the numbers slightly due to editing.

New places often have a core of old houses, of course, but nothing about Ballingry had prepared me for an old stone church, or a gravestone dated 1753.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Oh I do like a good ancient graveyard!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I wrote a drabble at Tolkien Weekly (https://tolkien-weekly.livejournal.com/1262041.html). It is part of a series about Imrahil's children as they grew up in Dol Amroth; I am now four down, two to go for the set of prompts - I hope I can do the other two over the next couple of days, too.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Nice drabble! And a nod to Pico as well:) Good luck with the final two!

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

500 words tonight, after dinner. Busy day cooking, cleaning, laundry, blah blah blah

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Woo! Drive by hi. Had choir tonight, so home late. :)

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

See you tomorrow!