ext_472 ([identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] picowrimo2009-11-29 08:31 pm
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Day 29

Here's today's prompt for you to post your updates and any excerpts and thoughts etc in comments.

[identity profile] azdak.livejournal.com 2009-11-29 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! You've hit your Pico target splat in the bullseye, and with two days still to go! I see you managed to keep it under 10,000 words, as well.

I suspect the "wend of the month" is a typo, but it sounds like a wonderfully medieval expression for the turning of one month into another and I wish it was in widespread use.

[identity profile] azdak.livejournal.com 2009-11-29 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
I've had another go at the heist scene. We're getting there...

"It's his art collection they're after, the driver said so," opined a more informed individual, nodding in the direction of the van. The word spread instantly.
"... a whole house full of valuables. Paintings and statues and whatnot..."
"... degenerate? I should say so!..."
"... shouldn't be allowed...."
"... always thought that it was an unfortunate policy to allow so many important works of art to be concentrated in the hands of Jewish...."
"... some remarkably fine pieces..."
"... makes you sick just to look at that stuff ..."
"... years of investment in the arts..."
"... whole rooms with nothing but statues of naked ladies..."
"... worth a small fortune, I should think..."
"... millions of shillings..."
"... a king's ransom..."
Having had their hopes raised to such a pitch, the crowd was disappointed when two of the Goldberg servants came tottering through the front door, carrying only a single painting. It was swaddled in blankets for protection, and Mr Goldberg hovered over it in an agony of concern, like a mountainous mother hen.

[identity profile] kalinda001.livejournal.com 2009-11-29 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
That's great! Can't wait to read it.

[identity profile] kalinda001.livejournal.com 2009-11-29 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
Crowds...bleah.

Very nice commentary scene showing the prejudices of the crowd and nice contrast at the end when it finally comes out.

[identity profile] kalinda001.livejournal.com 2009-11-29 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
Finished the scene between Adrian, the Admiral and Chell. Here's the final version.
Adrian and Kali, Part 15 (http://kalinda001.livejournal.com/327417.html?#cutid1)

Working on the aftermath.
Edited 2009-11-29 08:01 (UTC)

[identity profile] azdak.livejournal.com 2009-11-29 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
It's an awfully tough deal to negotiate, given that neither side really has anything to offer that can't be instantly withdrawn.

[identity profile] kalinda001.livejournal.com 2009-11-29 08:28 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, it's one based solely on trust, something both of them find difficult to do.

[identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com 2009-11-29 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
Well done! (I assume your idiosyncratic target was a words-per-day calculation?)

[identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com 2009-11-29 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
Am envious... you managed more words than I did, but then you posted more days than me.

Congrats!!

[identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com 2009-11-29 10:06 am (UTC)(link)
That's very well done, managing to get a lot of atmosphere and tension through the scraps and torn bits of dialogue.

And I love the image "like a mountainous mother hen." :)

Did a meme today...

[identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com 2009-11-29 10:09 am (UTC)(link)
Ten micro ficlets, 132 words in all...

They're here (http://sallymn.livejournal.com/438276.html)

[identity profile] emerald-happy.livejournal.com 2009-11-29 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
It is! It is! *glomps* Well done for finishing it!

[identity profile] emerald-happy.livejournal.com 2009-11-29 10:16 am (UTC)(link)
Awww.

[identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com 2009-11-29 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I'm going to try and keep up... well, not the same amount, but a higher output than before, now I've shown myself that I can :)

[identity profile] azdak.livejournal.com 2009-11-29 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't it amazing that I hit the target to the exact word!

Ah, see that's because a good writer like you can use structural limitaions as a challenge. Some people write drabbles, you write exactly 9265-word short stories.

[identity profile] azdak.livejournal.com 2009-11-29 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
He doesn't have to fake concern for the painting! The histrionics he leaves to Trina. (Although having said that, I have been toying with a possible plot twist that it is an entirely different painting under that blanket... It depends which version pays off better further down the line).

[identity profile] azdak.livejournal.com 2009-11-29 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Crowds are scary. This is a nice well-behaved crowd, possibly because it's not very big.

Re: Did a meme today...

[identity profile] azdak.livejournal.com 2009-11-29 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Those are hilarious! And it's amazing how much story can be extracted from so few words. Most of the time you didn't need anything like 15!

[identity profile] azdak.livejournal.com 2009-11-29 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I'm not completely happy with it yet, but it's an awful lot better - and shorter - than it was.

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