Day 3 (Team July)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here is the post to update with any extracts, thoughts, or comments you might have for today.

Keep the fires burning!

(Considering the temperatures we're currently having over here, I expect spontaneous self-combusting on my part. *sighs*)

Comments

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I seldom have trouble with openings, its the stuff that comes after...

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it works, that was the idea :)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Slow progress to report, but progress! After much to-ing & fro-ing, I think I've found a compromise which adapts the first part of my overly long outline as a separate piece, with a few key changes. Not certain quite how it plays out yet, but I think it will work out. I've also reread my source novel taking character notes, and even started to put a few rough scribbles down on paper (not yet typed up) for the opening scene.

Going to bed now. Will try to catch up with other people's progress tomorrow.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm glad someone spotted that bit.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Not sure I like Moira...

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Definitely progress. Hopefully it's heading in the right direction too.

[saki101.livejournal.com]

That sounds like excellent progress to me. Brilliant that the long outline is being put to immediate use, too. The rest may well be the stuff of sequels.

[saki101.livejournal.com]

That's a bit of a leap from waiting a while to mourn and being better off without. I'm experiencing a very uncharitable desire to see zombie cat sort Moira out.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much, mrs. Means a lot to hear. I wrote past the inner critic for the moment anyway and got to 1000 words and then went to bed cos it was late. He is still hovering about but I think I have him in hand.

[saki101.livejournal.com]

I like how Maurice's self-critique is mixed with his critique of the poet as poet, as man and as social tool and how the frame of the observations about Lucia eating gives the timeframe (I'm thinking all that passed through Maurice's mind between bites). His ruminations convey so much information about Maurice and his society so succinctly!

[saki101.livejournal.com]

The challenge will be to hold that until the end of the scene, then. It's close to the end, but not quite there.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

He's frigging cute, isn't he? (Well, Santiago Cabrera is.)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

He does have his lofty ideals - alas, reality doesn't always follow them.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

This is going to be so agonizingly beautiful when it's all put together. Poor John.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Great progress, and a very nice temple description, with the prayer peddlers and the banners.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Rock and a hard place. He knows it would be wrong to continue with her, but he does have a duty to the child.
Really like that last line there.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Thank you (it is a great show - and Psi Corps are really interesting)

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Yay progress! Good luck with the planning and writing! :)

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

That's great, that crack on the window bringing Illya out of it. And whatever he's remembering from the Volksoper, that sounds intriguing. I love the detail of brushing at his damp jacket, and the agitated sweep of the violins. Excellent description.

Writing out of sequence, dealing with a big lumpy mess... we are cut of the same cloth.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Eeep. Watch out, Napoleon. Don't want to hurt your, um...

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Hee!

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Precious parts in pickly peril!