July 2020 - Day 1

[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

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I've cobbled together Chapter 12 of Magic Mirror - my Camelot/Merlin BBC x-over - from previously written parts. I'm quite content with the outcome.

Excerpt:

Merlin(*) freezes. “I can’t allow Arthur to be killed!”

“Then you must come to the castle with me and keep an eye on him,” says Gaius. “I’m too old and too slow to deal with assassins.”

“I can’t!” protests Merlin, frustrated. “Lord Agravaine would recognize me; and so would some of the guards.”

“Not if we get you other clothes and a decent bath,” says Gaius. “A proper shave won’t harm, either. We can use walnut oil to make your skin look darker, and if anyone asks, I’ll tell them you’re a travelling herb-master from al-Andalus. Which will also explain your strange way to speak. No-one expects a Saracen to speak the same way we do; and Zulfiya will see that you look like one.”



(*) This is the Merlin from the Camelot series.

[ylla.livejournal.com]

I have been to Andalusia, and they do speak very strangely there!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I've never seen Camelot... but a crossover sounds like a good idea :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It was a promising series - if only they had left out all that gratutious nekkiidness and half of the totally unnecessary sex scenes - but it was cancelled after just one season. It seems that sex doesn't always sells alone, after all. Some of the lead characters were either insipid or hard to identify with, and not even Eva Green's boobs can make up for the lack of good characters, I guess.

The premise of my story is that Merlin, Arthur and Lancelot from the BBC series are swapping places with Merlin, Arthur and Leontes from "Camelot", and need to survive in that totally different environment (not an easy task) as well as find way back (not an easy task, either).

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

I never saw Camelot either, but that sounds like a really intriguing premise.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

That looks really interesting.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I hope I'll be able to finish this story, if not during this pico session, then in the next one.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

It seems like you are getting a lot more writing done these days. Good for you!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It is the lack of crafting projects at the moment. *g*

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen that walnut oil wrinkle plotted in years, great to see it in use again :0)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Ummm... I'm not sure I understand. I actually borrowed the idea from "Uncle Tom's Cabin", TBH.

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

Apols, that's what I meant - the idea or trick (wrinkle) of staining someone's skin with walnut oil, it's an idea I haven't seen in a modern work - but it fits perfectly with the timeframe of your story.

I think the last thing I saw it used in was Kizzy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizzy_(TV_series)), which was based on a book published in 1972, and harked back to much older ways.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Good going! A great start for your pico writing?