July 2020 - Day 19

[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

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Story is back and it's on to the betaing and editing. :DD

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Great! Go you!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Very good.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

No new words, due to a craft project that proved harder to get done than expected. But I've transcribed the last scene of Chapter 15.

Excerpt:

“This must have been a glorious place in its heyday,” says Merlin, amazed; because not even the Camelot he knows can come close. “I wonder who the people were who originally lived here.”

Vivian shrugs. “Who knows? For the next two days, though, it belongs to us,” she takes his hand and leads him towards what once must have been the royal bedchamber, if the enormous, four-poster bed with its brocaded curtains is any indication. It seems firmly existent, too, unlike the rest of the castle. “Shall we follow Lord Herne’s advice?”

Merlin feels his ears burn. “I… I wouldn’t know how,” he admits. The only woman he’s ever been drawn to was Freya, and she was killed ere they could have gone beyond kissing.

“Don’t worry,” says Vivian gently. “I shall teach you.”

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I like that - I can see it.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Camelot's Vivian is such a wonderfully understated character, and we know practically nothing about her, so it's easy to play with her.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Good.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you approve. *g* After all, you are one of my oldest readers who still cares.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I finished the chapter. It only took about 200 words to wrap it up.

Then I (literally) passed it over to my beta to have a look at and he discovered, to his amusement, the 'read out loud' facility on Word; for some reason he has never noticed it on his own computer! It copes remarkably well with the Tolkien stuff, and has a slightly Welsh accent :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

There is a 'read out loud' facility? I never knew it!
Congratulations to finishing the chapter. I very much envy you for having a live-in beta.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It is in the Review tab - over on the left somewhere. I hadn't realised either until he decided to see how it worked!

He can e very useful :)

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Yay!
I had no idea there was a read out loud.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Neither had I until he found it! It is not too bad, either, if I ever need such a thing.

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

Oh cool! I might have to check out that feature.

Congrats on wrapping up the chapter!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you - and it was remarkably neat to hear my story read out loud by the computer :)

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

More clinic notes for me. :)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Writing is writing - and getting them done is a necessary achievement.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Words are words, and clinic notes are important.

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I lost track of how many words I wrote today but it was well over 2k. I only have three scenes left to add to at this point - so close!

Today, the biggest challenge was tackling a scene where a character deals with their depression via drinking heavily - not something I have much experience in myself. But after thinking through different approaches over the last week, I'm finally happy with what I've got down, where the character indulges, does something stupid, but then realizes his mistake and vows to do better. All this over the course of a lot of hurt feelings on all sides, but they get there in the end. :)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

2k is fantastic - well done you! It sounds like quite difficult content, too.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Apparently, you are on the roll. Hammer that iron while it is still hot, as we say here in Hungary. *g*