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!

Comments

[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.