Day 8 (Team July)

[elmey.livejournal.com]

wiseheart is off carousing (I hope) on a well deserved vacation, and I'll be leaving the prompt posts for the next week.

So here's today's prompt for your updates and any extracts, thoughts, or comments you might have.

Comments

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I'm still poking along at half speed today; I was trying to do some research and I don't understand why people can't put up pictures of exactly what I'm looking for on the intertubes. Now I'll have to make something up.

I did a little more work on the Napoleon/Lermontov conversation. Napoleon hears a name that sounds familiar:

Ah...Illya had used the name in Vienna, afterwards. Napoleon remembered a body; the face barely glimpsed. Three shots, a triangle of blood spreading across a man's back. Not the first man he'd killed without knowing his name, nor the last whose face he'd forget.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Ah, that age-old problem of research not turning up exactly what's required. I get that all the time.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Irritating isn't it :) This is something that I doubt anyone would ever notice, but still... I know when I run across anachronisms or half baked research in others' stories it can take me right out of them.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

My biggest problem at the moment is finding 1960s details relating to places that exist now but have either closed down for periods or moved premises more than once (The Ace Cafe, Norland College, MI5, etc).

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Those are chilling lines!

Three shots, a triangle of blood spreading across a man's back.

Succinct, vivid and sooo cold. Brilliant.

Good luck with the image hunt.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Well the man had a gun on Illya and was about to pull the trigger when Napoleon shot him, so Napoleon has no regrets. But I think in some ways the two of them have to be somewhat cold about death considering their jobs.

I was looking for pictures of the pool's locker room, I figured it was unlikely I'd find anything. Though these pics have a better view of the passageway from the changing room to the pool. And there's some sort of a structure underneath the diving board too. I'm sure I can come up with something ;)

http://ussr-swimming.ru/history/swimpool-moscow.htm

[saki101.livejournal.com]

They would have to be cold and that's what came across in that image, the total professional detachment.

That is another amazing photo. If one takes away some of the peripheral images of cars and winter trees, doesn't it look like something that should be in a sci-fi cityscape? You may need to take some poetic licence with the internal architecture, although I can see why you would love to have had some interior shots to use.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Research is good :)

Great detail in this - it says a lot about the character.