November 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

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

500 words of the WIP - and I think they are working well, even though it is mostly a conversation to explain a major plot point.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Very good progress! Way to go!

Using dialogue to explain plot points is a very handy technique!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Good number.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Well done!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

I think it's fine as long as the characters are doing the telling! :D Good progress.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Another good day. I finished one story and toyed with the other. Also made fruitcakes and took a nice nap.

Illya grinned at that and dropped his Russian accent. “I speak a handful myself and I never heard Russian called easy. What sort of texts?”

“After some of the languages I’d studied, it was. Believe me, ancient Sumerian isn’t to be sneezed at, believe me. They were about Baba Yaga.”

Illya raised his nearly empty glass. “There is a woman you don’t want to trifle with.” Illya drank and then gave Giles a sly smile. “All those stories are true, by the way.” The drinks arrived as did a dish of potato chips. “I miss crisps,” Illya said as he attacked one, chewing happily. “The ones in America taste different.”

“You are a paradox. You are Russian, but you live in America, but obviously have British ties.”

“Went to school here. It was easier to learn the language with immersion. I did the same thing in France when I went to school there.”

“You get around.”

“I do. I’m one of the lucky few.” Illya frowned. “I think I need something more than crisps. Mr. Giles, are you doing anything for dinner?”

“Why, Mr. Kuryakin, I do believe I have an opening.”

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Way to go on the Christmas story projects! Woo hoo, congrats on finishing another one!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Wow, go you!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Go you! (Although, with my beta head on, can I just point out the two 'believe me's in the second line of the snippet?)

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Busy day! Proper christmas fruitcake, or a more edible kind?

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

540 words into my draft, and another little exercise which I think I might be able to keep and rusttle up into something longer yesterday.

For me, that's a good day.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

That is indeed a good day!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

That is definitely a good day.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Well done. I do believe you are having too much fun!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good day to me!

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Writing time: one hour. Words: like pulling teeth today. Sigh. But Progress Was Made.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Some progress is still progress!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Some days are like that. But hurrah for the progress!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

As long as progress was made. :D

[ylla.livejournal.com]

It's probably good for your brain too, keeping going when you feel like giving up. Well done :)

[ylla.livejournal.com]

I was tired of not having any walk reports to write, so today I deliberately went and did a walk I would want to write up, taking in a bit of a long-distance path which runs locally. 131 words.

I meant to do more tonight, but I was talking to a friend for his birthday, and that went on longer than expected. Nice, though.

The path here is the old Innocent Railway, which linked Dalkeith and Edinburgh with horse-drawn wagons - innocent probably just because it was rather unsophisticated by later standards, although I like the alternative explanation that it was because they never issued tickets to passengers (explaining that it was because the passengers often hadn't made up their minds where they were going).

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

That is a lovely snippet! I love your idea of choosing a walk you would want to write about!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Decided on a topic, and printed out some references. Good enough for me for one day. lol

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Sounds like good work done!

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

I finished my last holiday exchange draft! Well, the last one that I was officially signed up for, anyway. Now I'm free to treat for exchanges and as gifts - and I have a long list of ideas there. 1,813 words written today!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Oh well done!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Workshop piece (1st and incomplete draft of what will be my 2nd assignment, the 1sy is due this coming Wednesday so I'll have to hoe in this weekend) has been sent off to my tutor. I'm wibbling, as she reads them out loud, records and posts them for everyone to listen as well as read the text, and my early drafts tend to be like a plate of demented spagetti....

I also commented on this week's workshop pieces by others, with a serious effort to stay somewhere inbetween my usual academic critique (which is to put it mildlu, usually unkind even to Great Writers) and the encouragement I give socially. Because these folk, they are going to be commenting on meeeeeeeeeee...............

[ylla.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit worried now that you're going to write a story about demented spaghetti... :D

(It's ok really, because I don't like to eat it much anyway - it's too difficult to catch.)

Sounds like good progress, even if a bit scary.