Day Two

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Please post today's updates/excerpts/thoughts/etc. in comments.

Here's today's daily prompt for your updates, excerpts, any thoughts, and so on.

Posting in comments to the daily mod post will help us keep track of how we're all doing and mean less traffic on people's friends lists.

Apologies that I missed posting yesterday (long day from 7am-11pm): if I miss a morning again, forodwaith or quietann will step in - thank you both.

Comments

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I haven't done that much--my writing depends on how many ideas I have for scenes--but at least I've started.

Excerpt:

The whole place gave Vila the creeps. They'd blown up the thing in the cellar, but that didn't mean it was dead, did it? In the quiet of the night, he could hear creaks, whispers, faint footsteps, or imagined that he did.

[six-old-cars.livejournal.com]

OK, I'll post my progress for the day later on (when day two is nearing completion, rather than just started). But right now I will note that after posting my progress yesterday I managed a little more, so my overnight word count stands at 344, making 190 new words - nicely on target at the moment

[six-old-cars.livejournal.com]

OK, word count now stands at 630, somewhat ahead of target. Which is nice. Now, to find a bit of today's text that's good enough to admit to...

Michael turned away from Fiona and curled up under the covers. The course he was contemplating was a dangerous one, especially with the bishop's current mood. But he was becoming convinced it was necessary, and even more certain that it was urgent. He could not delay his decision or he would be forced to choose between futility and inaction.

[tianaluthien.livejournal.com]

I'm not using the fancy little word meter, but I'm keeping track of it on my pages (I'm writing longhand, here)...but I just need to say that yesterday I wrote 170 words - my first step towards my goal of 5000! :D Given that I've been *not* writing for months, this is *huge* for me - more progress when I have more...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

That is brilliant, Ti, well done on breaking through the block :-)

[missiondoll.livejournal.com]

Yay! That must feel amazing.

[tianaluthien.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the words of encouragement, everyone - it does feel amazing!

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Is that as in Stargate Atlantis? Fanfic? Tell!

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Ahh, so I just made myself look a really colossal nerd then :) Ah well never mind. Plato fanfic is a kinda cool thing to be writing though!

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis is a late-breaking spinoff series; it branches off from SG-1 in about season 8 I think, but you don't *really* need much SG-1 context to enjoy it on its own merits. It has lots of pretty and interesting male characters and the writing (not to mention the chemistry between the male and the female characters) is sufficiently imperfect that the slash community is *huge*. And there's actually a lot of really enjoyable material out there.

because I was so angry at the author *g*

A lot of me thinks that's why Harry Potter fanfic is such an enormous phenomenon...

[six-old-cars.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis is a typical syndicated attempt at squeezing yet more money out of a life-expired series by spinning off something not nearly well enough written and without the bits that made the original worth watching.

As you can guess, I'm rather of the opinion that lark_ascending's "sufficiently imperfect" comment is a hugely generous description.

Day Two.

[missiondoll.livejournal.com]

Excerpt:

But, there's this door. The walls move down here, they do, she's almost watched it happen. This wall's structural. It's not going anywhere. But, it's a door. Michael's voice in her head, amused, drawling, "Oh, look at it. How sweet, it's an Elephant's Child." Her own answer, quick, too quick, "Better than a cuckoo's child any day."

Only two paragraphs, and Michael's already a very different character than I thought he was. :)

Re: Day Two.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Elliot has been doing that different person thing to me... :-)

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Today's PicoWriMo project word count: 0.

Because I have in fact wasted every geniune creative writing moment I had today on constructing a ridiculously huge post lampooning the latest episode of Torchwood in the style of LJ's very own "Movies in 15 Minutes (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Movies-Fifteen-Minutes-Biggest-Bothered/dp/0575076879/sr=8-1/qid=1162503955/ref=sr_1_1/202-3579609-9175816?ie=UTF8&s=books)". In order to publicly shame myself for this monstrous deviation from my goals, I've made the post public for you all to hoot like gibbons at, here (http://lark-ascending.livejournal.com/887993.html). Torchwood fans or completists may also enjoy serenading my redaction of the first two episodes (available here (http://lark-ascending.livejournal.com/884431.html)) with assorted farmyard impersonations.

So, in recognition that I have actualy written in the last 24 hours, today's life-devouring metafanfic LJ post of DEATH word count is 1377, which brings our total so far up to:



So, I can count taking the piss out of Torchwood as an extra Pico project, right? Right? *looks shifty*

[six-old-cars.livejournal.com]

Well, somebody did say something about "there are no rules"...

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Today's word count: 271. (Not helped by the fact that I had to write most of it twice, as the laptop I'm using managed to crash just as I was trying to print the version I was happy with and wrote garbage all over the file.)

Had Mr Ringwood been of a bookish disposition, he might have likened his grandmother’s commission to capturing the three-headed dog of the Underworld, or some similar fancy. As his time at Eton had been spent more in the contemplation of shooting dogs than supernatural ones, such notions failed to enter his head.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

the laptop I'm using managed to crash just as I was trying to print

Argh! Argh!

his time at Eton had been spent more in the contemplation of shooting dogs than supernatural ones

:-D

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Mr EA didn't believe that the Word default in a crash is to spew garbage characters all over the open file.

[six-old-cars.livejournal.com]

Normally it isn't, but sometimes...

Well done for staying on target despite the actions of the electronic enemy.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It might not look like much but I've already written more this month than the rest of the year put together, so this challenge is really working out for me.

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

Today's count: 281.

Total so far:


I'm just happy to have kept pecking away at it despite all kinds of RL mayhem.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's a good target, isn't it? 5000 words is a really solid story /chapter, yet 167 is achievable even when not all goes well.