March 2020, day 23

[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!

Internet is being whacky today, so I thought I 'd put up the daily post earlier, jusz in case...

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[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

No worries. I've had a very productive morning so far. I collected about a dozen prompts from the challenge request I put up and nearly 800 words into the first one. Now, onto work!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Thanks. And I finished! :D

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I can't wait for the results!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Especially, since I started with yours!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'm honoured!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh well done! Bet you feel accomplished :)

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was fun!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Now that the transcribing work of Hell has been finished, I've started on the translating work of Purgatory, aka the next story in the "Lost Years" series. Basically, it's my version of the never-filmed second going of Original Trek, with a side dish of some Original BSG - commonly known as a crossover, or as I call it, "if classics collide". *g*

Excerpt:

Doctor Leonard McCoy, chief medical officer of the Enterprise, stepped out of the turbolift cabin just in time to witness his best friend’s moment of uncharacteristic depth and approached the captain’s chair with the well-founded wariness of a psychiatrist who had good reason to fear that his patient might attack him in an unexpected moment.

“Are you all right, Jim? What ails you?”

“The captain is merely troubled by the loneliness of the human condition, Doctor,“ replied Xon, who had shortly before returned from the surface of Antar Beta II to correlate the collected data, with scientific detachment.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

You are kicking ass and taking names. Well done!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm trying to do my best.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Good. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you. ;)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Hee! I like that description - I never saw Star Trek but we had some of the James Blish novelisations in the house when I was a kid and of course I read them. Vague memories....

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I have some of the Blish novelisations in German. They are quite good. You should give Classic Trek a try, though. The effects and the costumes are a bit funny for the modern eye, but the stories and the acting are great.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

500 words, a fairly promising start (or maybe precis, depending how things go) for the flower alien thing... he's the start. I'm sort of dithering whether the MC will be writing "for the future", or just in a diary for herself, the latter is what I'd do but still...

Thing is - and this is strictly between me and whoever reads this one day in the future, if anyone does - we didn't expect Evil Overlords from Space at all. That was strictly fiction, bad fiction, and best left there too.

(And of you, future whoever you may be, is now asking "what is fiction? The Overlords don't have it on the approved list", all I can say is I'm glad I'm not there to hear you.)

But if we were going to get Overlords, Evil or Not, we expected them to be... impressive. Sinister or benign, beautiful or hideous, humanoid or animalistic or insectoidish or whatever... we expected Overlords to be, well, Overlordly.

We didn't expect small, smiley, sunshine-coloured little creatures like little flying gnomes made of petals with pointed little heads like flower heads and bright, bright buggy dots for eyes, and voices - if they were voices, we never could work out anything that sounded like words, even alien ones - like the neverending flow and glassy rustle of wind through tiny, faraway bells.

And when we got... well, the smiley, sunshiny, sweet little things floating down in their millions from huge ships we never even got to see, we didn't expect them to be anything but smiley and sunshiny and sweet, and therefore... friends.

But they're anything but, aren't they?

We learned that fast enough.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And now you've made me really curious. :)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Aaaaand run into a problem (if they only speak in glassy rustle, how the hell do they give out orders? Will have to think about it)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

What about telepathic suggestions transferred by floral scent? Just an idea. *g*

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Sounds like something I could work with, thank you!!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Ha! This is sort of in line with Day of the Triffids. :D I love it.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Cute and funny looking Triffids... {g}

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

True. Much cuter than triffids...

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

ooohhh...

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[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Got some good progress today. Maybe two paragraphs. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You rock!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

That's good!