March 2020 - Day 9

[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!

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[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Another successful day spent at Millstone Manor. Close to 1,000 words accomplished this morning.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You officially rock!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm trying to take advantage of these quiet mornings.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Hooray!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

That's a terrific total!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I keep pugging away.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

A meagre page and a half today. But considering that I had Mum up to 2pm and had to cook lunch afterwards, it's not so bad, I think.

Excerpt:

“On which side do you stand in this conflict anyway?” The lady doctor asked.

“On the side of the larvae,” Vish replied dryly. “Many of them would die, should the Honour Guard manage to force this evacuation on us. It is dangerous to move the cocoon in the third phase of incubation. Especially so close to the Second Birth.”

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Hey, you were busy and creative - the best of all worlds.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

I think that's a good number.

Interesting...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Insectoid species usually are. At least the fictional ones. ;))

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

:)

[ylla.livejournal.com]

I knew I was right to mistrust an Honour Guard!

Good going :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

They mean it well. They just can't imagine that there are other, perhaps better solutions.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Well-meaning people (or aliens) are good for doing fictional damage, especially those with no imagination or only fixed ideas instead of imagination.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It is an interesting constant in sci-fi that insectoid cultures are generally seen as fairly rigid and very structured. I might have bought into a cliché with that, but they were fun to write.
The funniest thing is that the unused story idea (for Original Star Trek) featured a human colony that was hell-bent to refuse evacuation, despite the threatening results of a nearby (in cosmic sense) supernova explosion. I found that a bit unlikely, so I made the colonists an insectoid species.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Unlikely but not impossible, there have been cases of people refusing to leave their homes in the face of absolute devastation - volcano, fire, whatever. With people, of course, logic rarely comes into it.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

A page and a half is good! I got nowhere and not even fast...

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

We checking this morning, and I have the flu. I took the new Xolair, but it may have been 3 days since it started. Not really sure. We'll see what happens.

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Oh no - I hope you feel better soon!

(This is a hygienic hug!)

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

lol Thanks!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Ugh, that flu is vicious, too. Feel better soon and get some rest!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Thanks. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Get better, soon! Doctors are always at a much greater risk when some bug goes around. (Bugs as germs, not as my imaginary characters. ;))

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

lol Yes, doctors and nurses are definitely at risk.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Virtual hugs are not infectious or painful, so have several...

Hope you are better soon.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

[ylla.livejournal.com]

After being useless for most of the evening, I managed to write ~115 words of the thing I was supposed to be working on, in the hope of convincing myself that a tiny amount of progress was better than none! Nothing very exciting happening yet...

From Plymouth they sailed to Madeira and Cape Town, then to a point where the French navigator Bouvet claimed to have sighted land in 1739, finding nothing

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Progress is progress. Getting the words down is just the first step (says she who didn't manage much of the 9th at all)

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[akane42me.livejournal.com]

I'm back home after being away for a few days. No writing during that time, no matter my high-minded intentions. Yesterday (post-dating this) I worked on my story long enough to read through what I've done so far and then chop off another branch. No new words, just a sense of relief that I eliminated a useless side-branch!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Negative words :) But as long as the story is moving forwards!

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

That's a good way of putting it! I like that!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

As long as there's still something left, it's a good thing to get rid of unnecessary ballast.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

That made me laugh:) Rest assured, there is something left! I am glad I left those unnecessary parts behind.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Chopping is tough but sounds like it was for the best, your relief comes across loud and clear :)

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

I had several half-imagined scenes that, as time went on, I realized were distracting me from the main idea of the story, so I really am relieved to put them aside!